WTF thread -Book 3 spoilers

Discussion in 'Game of Thrones (ASOIAF)' started by Olmec, May 31, 2012.

  1. Lloyd Xmas

    Lloyd Xmas Don't you go dyin' on me

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    Somebody please explain the rains of castamere song at the end of the last tv episode and what it represents. I'm past the Edmure/Roslin marraige catastrophe in book 3, and could see that as what they're hinting towards, but didn't think they'd jump into the middle of book 3 with the finale of season 2.
     
  2. skiedfrillet

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    don't give in to their demands olmec.
     
  3. Keef

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    it's a way for them to introduce the song and it's meaning before the red wedding, so that when the wedding scene happens the same type of "oh shit" moment can happen for the astute viewer that happened in the book before all the shit breaks lose. If you had paid attention in the book you would have known something was up when the band starts playing the song right before the shit goes down.
     
  4. Lloyd Xmas

    Lloyd Xmas Don't you go dyin' on me

    Of course you knew something was happening in the book. But I thought people were talking about them setting up the song for the next episode.
     
  5. zeberdee

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    Rains of Castamere was a song written about a young Lord Tywin extinguishing the House Reynes after they rebelled against him. A few years later, another house threatened to rise against him and Tywin simply sent a singer to their castle to sing the song and the lord backed down. it's become an anthem for House Lannister.

    during the Red Wedding, the band played the song while they murdered all the Starks. that's what they're foreshadowing.
     
  6. zeberdee

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    no I can't imagine it having anything to do with the next episode.
     
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  7. Verbal Kint

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    Also its just a G'd up song that sounds ominous and is thus a great way to end that episode.
     
  8. Keef

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    essentially they just establishin the song as the Lannister theme music, so when it starts playing at the wedding people will be all like "WTF why is that song playing...oh shit now they killin errbody"
     
  9. Lloyd Xmas

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    Now it makes sense. I thought i read people were talking about it used in the next episode, and as I read that part of the book I was wondering how the fuck they're going to jump that far ahead in one episode.
     
  10. Houndster

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    You were blessed with the wits of Hodor.
     
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  11. Verbal Kint

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    I'm 95% sure (and 100% hopeful) that this starts playing and then we go to a slow motion montage of the massacre. I may cry. Don't judge me, you don't know what I've been through in my life.
     
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  12. Lloyd Xmas

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    Spoiler question #2- was the man that Bran/Hodor/Reeds came across in the mountain caves Jaqen H'gar?
     
  13. Keef

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    slow motion camera 360
     
  14. Verbal Kint

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    Jaqen is a faceless man aka a hired assassin. Why would he be up north helping Bran?
     
  15. Lloyd Xmas

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    Didn't he flee just like Arya and the rest? It's possible that he's on the run. Plus, it wasn't as if his goal was to help Bran, it just seemed like their paths crossed.
     
  16. zeberdee

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    no
     
  17. Jaqen H'ghar

    Jaqen H'ghar Valar Morghulis

    why hell no
     
  18. Jaqen H'ghar

    Jaqen H'ghar Valar Morghulis

    Jaqen H'ghar is not a real person, it's an assumed identity for the faceless man. Said faceless man has promises to keep, and miles to go before he sleeps. A man has better things to do than go north to help a halfwit, a cripple, and the frogeaters go find a deformed bird. It would, theoretically, be possible that another faceless man was the one you're speaking of, but not the one who was JH.
     
  19. GBG_24

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    No. You are only in book three, right? You should find out where Jaqen is in book 4.
     
  20. Lloyd Xmas

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    I figured as much, but JH is the only name I know to call him as of now.

    A man has questions.
     
  21. Lloyd Xmas

    Lloyd Xmas Don't you go dyin' on me

    Yeah book 3, been storming through the books but I'm realizing I'll be sad waiting for book 6.
     
  22. Jaqen H'ghar

    Jaqen H'ghar Valar Morghulis

    Ahh true. A man starts going by Mike in book 4.
     
  23. bryix

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