Game of Thrones season 3 speculation, including BOOK 3 SPOILERS
I’m doing a rewatch of Game of Thrones s2 in ~preparation~ for the new season and I realized something.
Talisa really is a secret Lannister stooge, isn’t she? :(
I only just caught the fact that, early on in s2, Robb and Talisa have a really anvilicious conversation where she coyly says something like, “I could be lying to you…” And Robb’s all, “OMG LOL, but you’re not ‘cause you’re so pretty.”
This change to the canon irritates me not because I’m a book purist (there have been plenty of changes that I’ve really liked - such as Joffrey’s overt sadism), but because it renders the storyline so neat. And it makes the Lannisters seem a lot smarter than they are.
The original Robb/Jeyne storyline in the book worked so masterfully because it took Robb’s nobility and used it to skewer him.
In the book, Robb marries Jeyne after a one night stand because he feels guilty about rendering her damaged goods. Then he feels just as guilty about breaking his promise to the Freys, so he walks into an ambush at the Twins and dies. It’s damning mixture of nobility, naivete and bad luck that echoes Ned’s demise.
In the TV show, Robb marries not!Jeyne because he loooooves her. If my speculation is correct, she’s a bad evil Lannister stooge sent to trick him. And when Robb goes to his death at the Twins, it’s as part of an elaborate Lannister plot.
This casts the storyline with an idiotic “he died for loooove!” glaze, and puts way too much power in the Lannister court. It also undermines the thing I really like about warfare in GRRM’s universe: that it’s chaotic, and things are unplanned, and losing often comes down to lapses in judgement and bad luck.
Talisa really is a secret Lannister stooge, isn’t she? :(
I only just caught the fact that, early on in s2, Robb and Talisa have a really anvilicious conversation where she coyly says something like, “I could be lying to you…” And Robb’s all, “OMG LOL, but you’re not ‘cause you’re so pretty.”
This change to the canon irritates me not because I’m a book purist (there have been plenty of changes that I’ve really liked - such as Joffrey’s overt sadism), but because it renders the storyline so neat. And it makes the Lannisters seem a lot smarter than they are.
The original Robb/Jeyne storyline in the book worked so masterfully because it took Robb’s nobility and used it to skewer him.
In the book, Robb marries Jeyne after a one night stand because he feels guilty about rendering her damaged goods. Then he feels just as guilty about breaking his promise to the Freys, so he walks into an ambush at the Twins and dies. It’s damning mixture of nobility, naivete and bad luck that echoes Ned’s demise.
In the TV show, Robb marries not!Jeyne because he loooooves her. If my speculation is correct, she’s a bad evil Lannister stooge sent to trick him. And when Robb goes to his death at the Twins, it’s as part of an elaborate Lannister plot.
This casts the storyline with an idiotic “he died for loooove!” glaze, and puts way too much power in the Lannister court. It also undermines the thing I really like about warfare in GRRM’s universe: that it’s chaotic, and things are unplanned, and losing often comes down to lapses in judgement and bad luck.