A Song of Ice and Fire (Original Book Series) [SPOILERS - BEWARE]

[TheMoa]

About Aegon, I can't see Danny helping him... he's a Varis' child, for all that Danny knows, Varis was the one puting ideas in her father's head.

I do think he(Aegon) would be a good king though. The guy was raised to be a ruler, with it being his duty, not his right(as danny thinks thanks(partly) of her mad brother).

I think Aegon's arrival to westeros is great, for the plot development. King's Landing will have to move(and the city is chaotic, with the sparrows, cersei's demise and Kevan's death), in the north the ice will be on fire with stannis/bolton clash, manderly's uprising and whatever news/people comes from greywatch tower; it'll be a great opportunity for the ironborn to move...
and I'm not even counting Danny, who will probably die of boreness on the other side of the sea...

[xi0]

The thing is that if she frees as many slaves as she can it might get her to the point when she'll have an enormously big army of slaves (even though I would call it more like a tribe or croud ), than she will need tons of food to feed them and also it will take her longer to travel as big armies can't travel fast and also she won't manage to travel by see if she would have had an oportunity to do it, because she won't manage to put all of them on the ships and also her Dragons are too big at this point. They need to be somewhere near land.

It would be damn interesting to see more from Moqorro and also from other important Rhglor's priests. I believe there are some of them who are considerably stronger than those we know now in terms of so-called magic and predictions.

Marwyn the Mage? I don't remember this one. Can you remind me about him?

Freeing slaves isn't a bad way to amass followers, Dany's done it already. I think we're assuming she'll form a Khalasar again, but going backward to go forward doesn't necessarily mean she'll be among the Dothraki again. She could even die technically from the bloody flux (if that's what it was and not her getting her period again...don't remember that part). We know that won't happen, but my point is that any number of things could occur. Marwyn could be among the Dothraki (unlikely)...no idea.

Marwyn the Mage is an archmaester from the Citadel. He talks with Samwell in AFFC and after hearing his story, he left to find Dany and nothing has been heard of him since. Maybe he was left out of the story in ADwD to make the Meerenese knot slightly less complicated than it was.

About Aegon, I can't see Danny helping him... he's a Varis' child, for all that Danny knows, Varis was the one puting ideas in her father's head.

I do think he(Aegon) would be a good king though. The guy was raised to be a ruler, with it being his duty, not his right(as danny thinks thanks(partly) of her mad brother).

I think Aegon's arrival to westeros is great, for the plot development. King's Landing will have to move(and the city is chaotic, with the sparrows, cersei's demise and Kevan's death), in the north the ice will be on fire with stannis/bolton clash, manderly's uprising and whatever news/people comes from greywatch tower; it'll be a great opportunity for the ironborn to move...
and I'm not even counting Danny, who will probably die of boreness on the other side of the sea...

Varys may have been doing that, but he's still more loyal to Targaryens than Lannisters or Baratheons, his actions prove it. He smuggled Aegon out of King's Landing and killed Kevan Lannister. It might be that Varys wants a Targaryen who could be molded to be put on the throne more than he wants Dany, and that only leads credence to the idea that Aegon might be an impostor. Still, he and Illyrio support Targs on the throne.

I have no idea what's going to happen in King's Landing. It might be reasonable to assume that the Faith could take it over, despite Mace Tyrell being Tommen's Hand, and Cersei still awaiting her trial-by-combat. With really only Tyrells in power in KL, I wander what will happen. I always thought Tyrells to be slightly less malignant Lannisters, only that we know less about them.

[Jorge D. Dragon]

xi0

Freeing slaves isn't a bad way to amass followers, Dany's done it already. I think we're assuming she'll form a Khalasar again, but going backward to go forward doesn't necessarily mean she'll be among the Dothraki again. She could even die technically from the bloody flux (if that's what it was and not her getting her period again...don't remember that part). We know that won't happen, but my point is that any number of things could occur. Marwyn could be among the Dothraki (unlikely)...no idea.

Yes, I totslly agree that freeing slaves is a good point in different ways: both as moral feat and as she gets followers. The thing is that there is no that much food around in Slave Cities now and they also have tons of diseased people who will spread it around, thus it will get tons of problems with her followers making each other diseased and hence she will be even slower than before. The thing is when thinking strategicaly - she will have tons of problems freeing slaves as she will have problems subdueing new cities as now Dragons don't obey her and not only the Black Dragon, but all three are flying free and killing people. And without her mightiest weapon (Dragons) she will loose tons of people freeing those slaves. And I don't think the slaves she'll free will contribute her in the sense that they will be just simple slaves, when in oder to free them she will loose tons of her slave-warriors.
And about Khalasar... I don't really get how she will form an actual Khalasar? I think she already has something close to it, though somewhat different, but still.

Marwyn the Mage is an archmaester from the Citadel. He talks with Samwell in AFFC and after hearing his story, he left to find Dany and nothing has been heard of him since. Maybe he was left out of the story in ADwD to make the Meerenese knot slightly less complicated than it was.

Thanks, now I remember him.
It might be interesting if he comes to Dany. He might be what she needs in order to get more logical, as now she doesn't have that many good chanselors to make good advice.

P.S. Also I believe that it might be interesting to see her getting Tyrion as one of her chanselors. What do you think about it?

[xi0]

I imagine that once Dany is healthy (assuming Jhaqo's people nurse her back to health) that she'll stay true to her word and bring Mago to justice for what he did to the slave Dany rescued back in book 1. If that's the case, she'll make an enemy of Jhaqo, have him killed as well and take over his Khalasar. How she'll attack and kill, I do not know. I'm assuming Drogon will be involved though.

Maybe she'll come upon a sellsword company while she's out there as well?

I think most people think it'll be natural to fit in with Dany's group. He's a persuasive guy, so maybe he can convince her to spare his life for being a Lannister

[goldb]

A friend of mine wrote this review after reading the first book of GoT:

This is book is not in a genre with which I am familiar, and indeed before it my forays into fantasy consisted of The Hobbit and one book of Lord of the Rings. I must therefore apologise if what I am criticising in the book are simply generic convention. If they are, I may have a battle with fantasy on my hands . . .

I could not believe that a book that so thinly veils its misogyny behind a smug farcical attempt to 'empower' women has not come under more criticism. The reason I begun this review by mentioning genre is that I can not think of any other where that would be so easily accepted. To have a rape-count as high as it does without making any attempt to really address the issue is to use rape as a cheap plot device. To have the killer of Khal Drogo's son explain her murderous acts as a reaction to her repeated rapes, and then to have our seeming heroine Danaerys burn her alive as punishment for her actions is surely questionable.

And though not a rape, the incident near the beginning where Dany is basically prostituted by her brother to Khal Drogo for an army is very dubious. A thirteen year old girl is terrified and about to have sex with a much older man who she has no interest in - but at the last minute she decides she really, really wants it, and her husband becomes one of the books heroes? Hmmm.

I did not intend to rant as much as I have - suffice it to say that the examples I have given are very few, and I have not even gotten on to the portrayal of domestic violence.

I don't get on my soapbox very often, and I really try to judge a book on its artistic merits and as a product of its cultural context. Game of Thrones, for me, though, was just too far.

Thoughts?

[xi0]

Does this person realize what medieval times were like?

Of course there's misogyny in the book, but conversely, some of the strongest characters in the books are women.

[goldb]

Yeah she does, I pointed it out to her as the reasons why I didn't agree with her.

[xi0]

Yeah she does, I pointed it out to her as the reasons why I didn't agree with her.

Weird. I know plenty of women who love the series, I'd be interested to get Darjaille and Farfalla's opinion on it.

[goldb]

Weird. I know plenty of women who love the series, I'd be interested to get Darjaille and Farfalla's opinion on it.

Oh don't get me wrong she loves the series but I think that's more of a personal opinion that anything. I've spoken to Nana about it and asked the same first question and had the same response that you gave

[xi0]

Adi and Tiff are also going to read the books, so I'm interested in their opinion too.

Naomi said she would as well, but who knows when she'll get to it with all her dorky experiments

[goldb]

Adi and Tiff are also going to read the books, so I'm interested in their opinion too.

Naomi said she would as well, but who knows when she'll get to it with all her dorky experiments

Gotta let that DB fly free, she'll read it when she lands back to earth

[xi0]

Gotta let that DB fly free, she'll read it when she lands back to earth

Well we made a deal that I had to read Harry Potter as well, but I haven't gotten to that either, so

Where are you now Bob?

[goldb]

*cough* not read it in a while, been too busy Gar....but I promise I'll read it this week, I'm still on chapter 8*cough*

[xi0]

That's unacceptable

You're going to have a heck of a time reading ACoK before season 2 starts.

[goldb]

That's unacceptable

You're going to have a heck of a time reading ACoK before season 2 starts.

I think what will most likely happen is that I'll be reading book 2 as season 2 goes.