Valar Rereadis: AGOT - Part 8/11 (livestream)
Added 2019-08-02 22:09:31 +0000 UTCThis Sunday at 3 Eastern, some huge moments in this batch, we're getting close to the end of Book 1...
Sansa III - The One Where Sansa Yells That Joff is not Like Robert aka the Gang Gets Sent Back to Winterfell
Eddard XII - The One Where Cersei Says “You Win or You Die” aka the Gang Figures Out About All The Incest
Daenerys V - The One Where Dany Eats a Horse Heart aka The Gang Crowns Viserys
Eddard XIII - The One Where Robert Dies aka the Gang Tweaks the Royal Will
Jon VI - The Gang Swears their Night’s Watch Vows aka The One Where Ghost Finds Benjen’s Men
Eddard XIV - The Gang Usurps Robert’s Will aka the One Where Littlefinger Did Warn Ned Not To Trust Him, You Know
Arya IV - The One where the First Sword of Braavos Doesn’t Run aka the Gang Escapes the Red Keep
Comments
This is my first re-read and I've been wondering about Dany's attitude to slavery this early on (since later this becomes one of her defining characteristics). She seems to accept slavery as a fact and routinely accepts or even comes to expect being served by them (bathing her, raising her tent, even small things such as handing the reins of her horse over to them. I have not spotted a single remark in her POV chapters so far that this would bother her, or even make her question the institution. Is this because of Viserys' influence, the cultural heritage of Valyria, the fact that her husband is a slaver, or simply because she's still so young and learning? But then, wouldn't her time spent in Braavos inspire her otherwise?
Lady K'lara
2019-08-04 15:16:10 +0000 UTCI think Arya’s story foreshadows Lyanna being the Knight of the Laughing Tree. When the stableboy comes after Arya, he calls her “wolf girl.” When Meera Reed tells Bran the story of the Tourney at Harrenhall, she calls Lyanna the “she-wolf.” Arya fights the stableboy off with her sword; Lyanna fights off the squires attacking the cranogman with a tourney sword. Lyanna’s immediate results are less lethal, but the long-term results are far bloodier. In later chapters, The Hound calls Arya “wolf girl,” as well. These nicknames, “wolf girl” and “she-wolf” are one more example of the parallels drawn between Arya and Lyanna that help us understand more about who Lyanna really was.
Archmaester Renny
2019-08-03 20:53:34 +0000 UTC
