I don't have any great love of book!Robb but I can sympathise with him. This young boy, under an outrageous amount of pressure, grieving for his brothers, trying to live up to an unrealistic standard of honour, decides to marry a girl he believes he's taken advantage of, sacrificing his own honour to save hers.
I can't quote everything or I'd be just highlighting all your paragraphs, but yes, this is everything I felt with all my feelings about book Robb and I was willing to give the show the benefit of the doubt, because the ages had changed, but they completely murdered his character. He was basically this great version of all the best and worst things about Cat and Ned, which is why the Jeyne situation happened and why he reacted so well to Cat's mistake, because he had enough self awareness to know he'd made one of his own.
And the show murdered it. Murdered all my love for Robb and made Jenye into an exotic girl who is "not like the other girls" who could lure him away from his duty. AADFSLKFJD Plus I think it's a POINT that they didn't get married in the light of the seven (plus doesn't Robb honor the Northern gods?)
but mostly because there was no lead up to it
Yes, exactly. Also she has no more handmaidens which means Emilia is never going to talk to women again in this show and it makes me furious. It was lazy. LAZY.
Also, agreed on the things you enjoyed. This episode was much like this season, moments of OMGWTF GLEE (like with Shae especially) and moments of just plain I want to punch them in the face.
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Date: 2012-06-05 08:18 pm (UTC)I can't quote everything or I'd be just highlighting all your paragraphs, but yes, this is everything I felt with all my feelings about book Robb and I was willing to give the show the benefit of the doubt, because the ages had changed, but they completely murdered his character. He was basically this great version of all the best and worst things about Cat and Ned, which is why the Jeyne situation happened and why he reacted so well to Cat's mistake, because he had enough self awareness to know he'd made one of his own.
And the show murdered it. Murdered all my love for Robb and made Jenye into an exotic girl who is "not like the other girls" who could lure him away from his duty. AADFSLKFJD Plus I think it's a POINT that they didn't get married in the light of the seven (plus doesn't Robb honor the Northern gods?)
but mostly because there was no lead up to it
Yes, exactly. Also she has no more handmaidens which means Emilia is never going to talk to women again in this show and it makes me furious. It was lazy. LAZY.
Also, agreed on the things you enjoyed. This episode was much like this season, moments of OMGWTF GLEE (like with Shae especially) and moments of just plain I want to punch them in the face.