mance my hero
I'm adding another character to my top 5.
Mance Rayder.
Ummm.... at the moment he's topping my list if soley based on the events in Winterfell.
I knew Mance had gone south to find Arya and then the murders started happening. At first I thought maybe it was Bran. I knew he'd been looking through the weirwoods, watching Theon, calling his name like some creepy ghost. Side note, I thought they couldn't hear him? Anyway, I thought maybe he was making them crazy or something but he's a warg and a greenseer, not a poltergeist. So I considered any other human being in all of Winterfell who could be behind the murders. Not Jeyne. She's a poor pathetic weeping mess. Not a real ghost. Martin hasn't quite entered that territory. Then I thought of the washwomen, the ones that keep talking to Theon. Why would they take an interest in such a horrid creature? There are better looking men to want to bed, even the ugly ones. And then I thought of the singer and the singer made me think of Mance who'd stolen into Winterfell before to watch Robert treat with Ned.
Then I had it. The singer was Mance and the women were the spearwives he'd brought with him and then suddenly I was ridiculously excited.
I realized Mance Rayder is one of the best things ever.
Unfortunately he's trapped in the castle with everyone else and the snow would kill them if they ventured out, if Ramsay didn't first, but a master of disguise he is. It all came together. The missing swords in the crypt. The deaths. All of it. The first sword I attributed to the one Hodor had stolen earlier on in Feast of Crows but then all the other missing swords got me to thinking.
Although I'm growing increasingly fearful that Mance may not escape Winterfell unflayed. Sometimes Martin makes me weep. I don't want him tortured the way Theon did. It would be so sad. But he did pull a fast one with Davos. ::sigh::
Also, poor Theon. Martin wont let him die yet though. There's still a lot more to his story, I know it.
Lastly, all those reviewers who bitched about the book be unsatisfying or uneventful or anything else can go fuck themselves. I have my favorite characters too and wish more had happened to them but holy hell does Martin know how to keep you on your toes. I guess no BIG things happen in a sense. Like so far it's sailing and freezing to death in snow and the like but all the little things that keep happening. The ghost in Winterfell, the creeping paranoia that grips people as they're about the starve to death, the madness that falls after the paranoia, it's a powder keg of insanity. People who only focus on one story in the books aren't doing this series justice. It's one giant arc that encompasses two continents and each story is valuable or should be paid attention to. To simply dismiss one chunk as useless or boring or unimportant is foolish. I personally love all of it. Even the boring bits with Brianne. I just like spending time in Westeros and across the Narrow Sea, brutal and horrible as it may be.
Mance Rayder.
Ummm.... at the moment he's topping my list if soley based on the events in Winterfell.
I knew Mance had gone south to find Arya and then the murders started happening. At first I thought maybe it was Bran. I knew he'd been looking through the weirwoods, watching Theon, calling his name like some creepy ghost. Side note, I thought they couldn't hear him? Anyway, I thought maybe he was making them crazy or something but he's a warg and a greenseer, not a poltergeist. So I considered any other human being in all of Winterfell who could be behind the murders. Not Jeyne. She's a poor pathetic weeping mess. Not a real ghost. Martin hasn't quite entered that territory. Then I thought of the washwomen, the ones that keep talking to Theon. Why would they take an interest in such a horrid creature? There are better looking men to want to bed, even the ugly ones. And then I thought of the singer and the singer made me think of Mance who'd stolen into Winterfell before to watch Robert treat with Ned.
Then I had it. The singer was Mance and the women were the spearwives he'd brought with him and then suddenly I was ridiculously excited.
I realized Mance Rayder is one of the best things ever.
Unfortunately he's trapped in the castle with everyone else and the snow would kill them if they ventured out, if Ramsay didn't first, but a master of disguise he is. It all came together. The missing swords in the crypt. The deaths. All of it. The first sword I attributed to the one Hodor had stolen earlier on in Feast of Crows but then all the other missing swords got me to thinking.
Although I'm growing increasingly fearful that Mance may not escape Winterfell unflayed. Sometimes Martin makes me weep. I don't want him tortured the way Theon did. It would be so sad. But he did pull a fast one with Davos. ::sigh::
Also, poor Theon. Martin wont let him die yet though. There's still a lot more to his story, I know it.
Lastly, all those reviewers who bitched about the book be unsatisfying or uneventful or anything else can go fuck themselves. I have my favorite characters too and wish more had happened to them but holy hell does Martin know how to keep you on your toes. I guess no BIG things happen in a sense. Like so far it's sailing and freezing to death in snow and the like but all the little things that keep happening. The ghost in Winterfell, the creeping paranoia that grips people as they're about the starve to death, the madness that falls after the paranoia, it's a powder keg of insanity. People who only focus on one story in the books aren't doing this series justice. It's one giant arc that encompasses two continents and each story is valuable or should be paid attention to. To simply dismiss one chunk as useless or boring or unimportant is foolish. I personally love all of it. Even the boring bits with Brianne. I just like spending time in Westeros and across the Narrow Sea, brutal and horrible as it may be.