Winter is Coming, again.
May. 3rd, 2011 03:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
netgirl_y2k-I have said it before, and I will say it again, the Stark women are the best ones ever.
-Ned's relationship with his daughters, with all his kids, really, is what transforms his fate from a bit sad into utterly, utterly tragic. "War was easier than daughters." Oh, Ned.
-Ned giving Sansa a doll. It's so quietly tragic because, well, it's not that he loves Arya more, maybe he understands her more, but he loves all his kids beyond the telling of it. It's why his death is so awful and still so quietly noble, he's given the choice between Sansa's head and his own and it isn't even a question.
-Speaking of Ned being a brilliant father, his reaction to Arya having a sword, "Well, if you've got the bloody thing may as well learn to use it." Plus, his hiring a tutor skilled in the sort of fighting best served by being skilled and slight rather than being a big strapping lad. Well done, Ned Stark. Plus, Arya obviously knew how to shoot prior to leaving Winterfell so her parents were obviously already granting her a certain leeway in her whole "I want to be Jon when I grow up" thing.
-Okay, I love Jon Snow. I adore him. I so feel for him in his "I am the most Stark-like of the Stark kids and it is incredibly sad how I can't inherit. Oh, woe is me," but in this, he was kind of an arse. You've basically joined the French Foreign Legion, mate, who your daddy was doesn't matter.
-Is it just me or have they softened the Nights Watch recruits from the books? Orphans and starving sisters? I seem to remember them mostly being rapists?
-They also seemed to have speeded up Jaime's redemption "what he'd been saying for hours: burn them all", I can only approve. Now if only we had a Brienne.
-I completely adored Cersei's instructing Joffrey on how the North couldn't be held. Mainly because Cersei's political incompetence was something that bothered me in the later books. She's been holding the kingdom for her son with a husband that can't be bothered for years, surely she's learned something.
-But, mainly, ARYA!
-Ned's relationship with his daughters, with all his kids, really, is what transforms his fate from a bit sad into utterly, utterly tragic. "War was easier than daughters." Oh, Ned.
-Ned giving Sansa a doll. It's so quietly tragic because, well, it's not that he loves Arya more, maybe he understands her more, but he loves all his kids beyond the telling of it. It's why his death is so awful and still so quietly noble, he's given the choice between Sansa's head and his own and it isn't even a question.
-Speaking of Ned being a brilliant father, his reaction to Arya having a sword, "Well, if you've got the bloody thing may as well learn to use it." Plus, his hiring a tutor skilled in the sort of fighting best served by being skilled and slight rather than being a big strapping lad. Well done, Ned Stark. Plus, Arya obviously knew how to shoot prior to leaving Winterfell so her parents were obviously already granting her a certain leeway in her whole "I want to be Jon when I grow up" thing.
-Okay, I love Jon Snow. I adore him. I so feel for him in his "I am the most Stark-like of the Stark kids and it is incredibly sad how I can't inherit. Oh, woe is me," but in this, he was kind of an arse. You've basically joined the French Foreign Legion, mate, who your daddy was doesn't matter.
-Is it just me or have they softened the Nights Watch recruits from the books? Orphans and starving sisters? I seem to remember them mostly being rapists?
-They also seemed to have speeded up Jaime's redemption "what he'd been saying for hours: burn them all", I can only approve. Now if only we had a Brienne.
-I completely adored Cersei's instructing Joffrey on how the North couldn't be held. Mainly because Cersei's political incompetence was something that bothered me in the later books. She's been holding the kingdom for her son with a husband that can't be bothered for years, surely she's learned something.
-But, mainly, ARYA!