Howland Reed is Meera's father, Meera being the girl who is helping Bran. Howland Reed was at the Tower of Joy with Ned Stark. He's the one who stabbed the guy in the back to save Ned, making them the only two to survive the fight. If he's still alive today then he may be one of two people in the world, including Bran, who knows Jon's true lineage.
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Game of Thrones *NO BOOK SPOILERS* |OT PART 2| Season 6 - [Read the OP]
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Howland Reed is Meera's father, Meera being the girl who is helping Bran. Howland Reed was at the Tower of Joy with Ned Stark. He's the one who stabbed the guy in the back to save Ned, making them the only two to survive the fight. If he's still alive today then he may be one of two people in the world, including Bran, who knows Jon's true lineage.
Howland Reed is also also Meera and Jojen's father, the two people who helped Bran get North.
This is what Jojen had to say about his father and Ned's relationship.
This is a man who won't tell the world about Jon's father because of how much he loves Ned.
This is what Jojen had to say about his father and Ned's relationship.
This is a man who won't tell the world about Jon's father because of how much he loves Ned.
also the father of Bran's travelling companions Jojen (RIP) and Meera (only current companion)
Stevetopsy
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So the question i'm asking myself after watching the High Sparrow do his thing for the past couple seasons until his end last night is... was he really a true believer through and through, a pure fanatic? Or was he just in it for power and using faith as a front, a tool to play the game of thrones? Or maybe a bit of both?
For me, it seemed like he was definitely more on the true believer end of the spectrum. The part that highlighted it for me was when he is so blinded by all of his religious nonsense and going on about "gods this and gods that" until he is told by Margaery to "forget the gods and listen to what i'm telling you!" If he really was most interested in playing the game and out-maneuvering people, aka survival... he really seemed to have dropped the ball in a major way there. Especially when he is being told point blank by Margaery and seeing her shed her calm, saintly demeanor as she clearly panics and fears for her and her families lives. There never really was a scene where the High Sparrow dropped the act, or acted any differently aside from a few glances you could read into which could just as easily be nothing.
I feel like the gaining of more and more power was just a happy side effect of his extreme fundamentalism and he took advantage of a perfect time in King's Landing to push his agenda. He might have enjoyed the power he amassed on some level, but only because it enabled him to bring more and more into the light of the seven and more swiftly than he could've otherwise.
For me, it seemed like he was definitely more on the true believer end of the spectrum. The part that highlighted it for me was when he is so blinded by all of his religious nonsense and going on about "gods this and gods that" until he is told by Margaery to "forget the gods and listen to what i'm telling you!" If he really was most interested in playing the game and out-maneuvering people, aka survival... he really seemed to have dropped the ball in a major way there. Especially when he is being told point blank by Margaery and seeing her shed her calm, saintly demeanor as she clearly panics and fears for her and her families lives. There never really was a scene where the High Sparrow dropped the act, or acted any differently aside from a few glances you could read into which could just as easily be nothing.
I feel like the gaining of more and more power was just a happy side effect of his extreme fundamentalism and he took advantage of a perfect time in King's Landing to push his agenda. He might have enjoyed the power he amassed on some level, but only because it enabled him to bring more and more into the light of the seven and more swiftly than he could've otherwise.
The season 6 soundtrack is available. It's on Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, Amazon, etc.
Yeah, the music this episode was really good. Much better than the previous episodes (I thought it was getting a bit "boring" most of the time).
I want a library like that!
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Nameless
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I don't mourn for the Tyrells and count every second Cersei rules a blessing, but Mace's reaction to Loras being marked was heart breaking.
Olenna led her family into the slaughter. Cersei admitted she was wrong and asked for her help and Olenna took it as an opportunity to run her into the ground and boast about how screwed she was.
Olenna led her family into the slaughter. Cersei admitted she was wrong and asked for her help and Olenna took it as an opportunity to run her into the ground and boast about how screwed she was.
Oh cheers, why haven't i thought of checking Spotify first jeez
Great performance there.
Mace might have been a goofball and everyone kinda thought he was a joke but the man truly loved his family and he never did anything 'evil', he was too good for this world.
Yup, thank you!
Sho_Nuff82
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Rhaegar was already married. Pretty sure Jon is still a bastard. And even if he wasn't, Robert was still alive when Ned made that decision. A living Targ heir is not something he would have allowed, even living in his best friend's house. Too many people (especially the Dornish and Iron Islands) salty about the last two wars to allow a kid like that to be used as political motivation. Which is why Robert kept tabs on Dany and Viserys their entire young lives.
Edit: Ned also saw joining the night's watch as a totally honorable profession. His own brother was a member after all. Up until the week before Robert had his accident, he was under the impression that Joff/Tommen/Myrcella were the rightful heirs, and then Joff/Sansa's kids, etc, and that was that.
To be fair my brothers and I all look very different from each other, so much that people have asked if we are adopted. Not too surprising that they do not look alike.
Shotgun Kiss
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Yeah, the music this episode was really good. Much better than the previous episodes (I thought it was getting a bit "boring" most of the time).
I want a library like that!
Did anybody else get major Dark Souls 3 vibes from that library? It reminds me of Grand Archives.
Orochinagis
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I want a library like that!
Got a Dark Souls vibe when he reached the fire tower and I was like "hey thats Heides tower"
The receptionist area looked a lot of the undead church from dark souls 1 and the libary , the Duke archives
Shotgun Kiss
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If you squinted, you could see him in the background of the final shot, still rowing away.
The person who would've sent them that info is dead, it's not like they're getting ravens from across the world telling them info about The Night's Watch.
Just finished watching the episode, it was the best one I can remember. So many great moments and twists, many things moving forward and all the main players are finally set in a collision course. God tier music. Lady Mormont is my favorite character tied with Tyrion. BTW, it was great seeing Tyrion finally getting some recognition. Also, him kneeling before Danny and aknowledging her as someone worthy of following hyped her on a level no speech riding a dragon before an army had done before to me.
Hop John and Dany can reach an agreement and I fear what dirty trick Littlefinger will play on the Starks.
Awesome episode.
Edit: How could I forget, Arya was great, finally she did something! And it was very cool!
Hop John and Dany can reach an agreement and I fear what dirty trick Littlefinger will play on the Starks.
Awesome episode.
Edit: How could I forget, Arya was great, finally she did something! And it was very cool!
But every single other person in the series somehow knows about it.
So here is a list of almost all tracks that played during ep 10:
3. Light of the Seven (Opening Scene)
11. Maester (Sam arrives to the Citadel)
17. Winter Has Come (Jon and Sansa + King in the North)
18. Hear Me Roar (Cersei's Coronation)
23. The Tower (Tower of Joy flashback pt 2)
19. The Winds of Winter (Closing Scene+ Credits)
3. Light of the Seven (Opening Scene)
11. Maester (Sam arrives to the Citadel)
17. Winter Has Come (Jon and Sansa + King in the North)
18. Hear Me Roar (Cersei's Coronation)
23. The Tower (Tower of Joy flashback pt 2)
19. The Winds of Winter (Closing Scene+ Credits)
Elysium-777
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I wonder who ends up on Cersei's small council. Qyburn is guaranteed to be Master of Whispers, but everything else including Hand of the King is up in the air.
Those people are in the North, the happenings of the North are important to them. Old Town is way down South near Dorne, they only get their info from what other Maesters tell them and the one at The Wall died before he could tell them anything. How are they to know something if no one ever tells them?
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they must have gotten those records on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
Nameless
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Qyburn is Hand of the Queen, he was wearing the pin during her coronation. I think she'll keep things small. Her,Qyburn, and Jaime. Maybe Bronn gets in on the war prep.
Same! I immediately had to think of the Grand Archives as well.
Also, those lamp thingies hanging there seem to be the same as those things from the intro:
Well not 100% I suppose. But it's a nice nod.
If I remember correctly Sansa looks a lot like her mother, or essentially looked like a Tully. Arya supposedly looks similar to Ned's sister Lyanna, so she has Stark features.
Arianne?
Season 6 was the season of the Starks aka, bad fortune ahead for them courtesy of little finger.
Euron still lurking, he may be minor in the scheme of things, but he's going to cause some problems.
Sho_Nuff82
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Also, those lamp thingies hanging there seem to be the same as those things from the intro:
Way back when they came up with the opening credits, they envisioned that a mad monk was in a tower, keeping tabs on what was going on and building little automatons to bring it to life. Stands to reason that mad monk was a maester and the tower was the Citadel in Oldtown.
Another link on the credits:
Same! I immediately had to think of the Grand Archives as well.
Also, those lamp thingies hanging there seem to be the same as those things from the intro:
Well not 100% I suppose. But it's a nice nod.
Is it also this thing?
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/whats-new/game-of-thrones-astrolabe-collectors-edition-book-set/
That's Ellaria Sand.
Oh, my bad. I thought that was her name.
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Qybern is Hand of the Queen. He's wearing the pin at the coronation.
He's smart enough to connect the dots though
He knows that:
- the kidnap story is bs
- that Ned was there at the tower of joy when Lyanna died
- that Ned came back with a baby after that
- that the 3 best kingsguards defended the princes mistress instead of fighting with their King/Prince
- and that Ned's honour would never allow him to cheat on his wife
I expect a guy of Littlefingers smarts to put two and two together given what he knows.
I mean he basically knew the same things the book readers knew, who had it figured out years ago.
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Oh my god it's a pop up book too!!!!
Elysium-777
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Nice, didn't notice that.
I don't see Bronn getting into politics though, I'd rather he didn't anyway since anyone close to Cersei is liable to get killed these days.
Can't really tell what Jaime will do though, I'm looking forward to how he reacts to everything next season.
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