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[Betty]

Yeah..."dick"

Get it?

It's another word that was never used that way in medieval Europe.

Neither were dragons.

 

[Gigglepoo]

Preston Jacobs has an interest two-part series on who wanted to kill Bran. Good stuff!

https://youtu.be/5MgJb_wh-K0

 

[Speevy]

Y'all are missing my point. There are certain anachronisms that add flavor to a work, but when you just throw in a cheap joke it detracts from it.

 

[rashbeep]

Love how we can have dickon and rickon but not Osha and asha, but can have Arya and Yara. Ok show.

my parents managed to confuse tarley and tully so who knows

 

[Faddy]

Y'all are missing my point. There are certain anachronisms that add flavor to a work, but when you just throw in a cheap joke it detracts from it.

Go complain to George on his live journal. Dick jokes are an essential part of the books.

 

[carlsojo]

In the books Bronn was given a wife to inherit a castle, I could have sworn he was also paired up on the show a few seasons ago just before he left for Dorne?

Probably doesn't want to inherit a castle, or just a regular castle either. He wants a CASTLE.

 

[Speevy]

Go complain to George on his live journal. Dick jokes are an essential part of the books.

I wonder if George knows about the bad pussy line.

 

[Faddy]

I wonder if George knows about the bad pussy line.

Probably wrote it himself as feedback when reviewing the Shae casting tapes.

 

[elrechazado]

Y'all are missing my point. There are certain anachronisms that add flavor to a work, but when you just throw in a cheap joke it detracts from it.

Fat pink mast
Myrish swamp

 

[Slater]

I wonder if George knows about the bad pussy line.

Myrish swamp is just bad pussy for fancy folks

 

[Sean C]

Y'all are missing my point. There are certain anachronisms that add flavor to a work, but when you just throw in a cheap joke it detracts from it.

GRRM introduced a character named "Dickon Manwoody" in the books.

 

[Burt]

If you think the show would be better without Bronn laughing at the name Dickon

You're wrong

Spoiler

Besides, beyond the obvious (good) choice to not adhere to ye olde English in general, "you fucking idiot" was more out of place and justified itself less

 

[Vyer]

Y'all are missing my point. There are certain anachronisms that add flavor to a work, but when you just throw in a cheap joke it detracts from it.

lol.

Poor George

 

[Gigglepoo]

Go complain to George on his live journal. Dick jokes are an essential part of the books.

Essential? The only reference I could find to dick meaning penis was in Dance when Yellow Dick is murdered at Winterfell and his dick was shoved in his mouth.

 

[Faddy]

Essential? The only reference I could find to dick meaning penis was in Dance when Yellow Dick is murdered at Winterfell and his dick was shoved in his mouth.

Nimble Dick was definitely named without even a thought about the humourous meaning... Just coincidence.

 

[isaacnukem]

Cersei is still alive. Hope for myrish swamp?

 

[Gigglepoo]

Nimble Dick was definitely named without even a thought about the humourous meaning... Just coincidence.

None of the characters laugh or reference the double meaning. It doesn't come up. Same with Dickon until last night.

There's a difference between something a reader might laugh at and something characters laugh at.

 

[Speevy]

Joffrey is an incredibly stupid name. I'd have made fun of that in private.

 

[elrechazado]

None of the characters laugh or reference the double meaning. It doesn't come up. Same with Dickon until last night.

There's a difference between something a reader might laugh at and something characters laugh at.

So you're cool with the thousand cock references, but dick is a bridge too far?

 

[Gigglepoo]

So you're cool with the thousand cock references, but dick is a bridge too far?

I'm fine with either. I even laughed at Bronn's smirk last night. Just thought it was weird hearing dick jokes called an essential part of ASoIaF.

 

[Speevy]

We are quickly redefining what is the definitive ASOAF experience.

 

[Speevy]

I wonder if Jaime (or anyone) charges at Dany in the books.

That's too cool an idea to be D and D.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Dany chose the wrong Greyjoys.

Yeah kind of weird she couldn't roll with Euron's crew but she's cool with the dothraki who literally have thousands of years of history of raping and pillaging.

 

[duckroll]

If you think the show would be better without Bronn laughing at the name Dickon

You're wrong

It is known.

 

[Speevy]

It's funnier that D and D actually watched the masterful conversation between Jaime and Robert Baratheon in season 1 and wrote "People shit themselves when they die. They didn't teach you that at fancy lad school?"

It's like the epitome of this season's trip down memory lane.

 

[Gigglepoo]

If Dany captures Jamie, Tyrion will have a purpose again. Yay!

 

[Speevy]

All meeting Dany would do is make Jaime turn on his sister. I think he has to do that on his own.

 

[Spooky Scary Skeleton]

This story changes every time someone else tells it.


The gold arrived safely through the gate. The Lannister forces however were put into an awkward position, having spread too thin.

So to hear the show tell it, that's why the force was significantly smaller than what you saw marching on Highgarden.

This serves two purposes. One, it makes for fewer soldiers for Dany to kill and saves some effects time. Two, it gives Cersei a Lannister army once they it to either strike back at or join Dany.

Randyll Tarly specifically told Jamie that the "tail" section of the army are responsible for gathering the food and made sure to move quickly just in case if the "head" section of the army is ambushed.

 

[jett]

I wonder if George knows about the bad pussy line.

He spends more time watching reruns of the show than writing his own books.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

If Dany captures Jamie, Tyrion will have a purpose again. Yay!

That is a good point.

Cersei is in her little crazy queen arc. Give Jaime to Tyrion

 

[jett]

So why does everyone know that the big bad's name is The Night King.

When did he introduce himself, exactly.

Honestly I just find it funny how Jon namedrops him and everyone just instantly is supposed to know what the hell he's talking about.

 

[Mr Git]

Whoa wait we talkin' bout etymology

Neither were dragons.

Dragon comes directly from Medieval Europe. It's Old French.. for dragon.

Spoiler

There's a Kung Pow reference to be made in here somewhere

 

[Speevy]

So why does everyone know that the big bad's name is The Night King.

When did he introduce himself, exactly.

Honestly I just find it funny how Jon namedrops him and everyone just instantly is supposed to know what the hell he's talking about.

Send word to this "Night King". He must bend the knee or be branded an enemy of the crown.

 

[NandoGip]

Bend the knee thing is totally foreshadowing a marriage

Makes sense I guess, incest is a Targaryen tradition

If it does happen somehow before the show ends, I wonder if Jon will find out he's a Targ

So why does everyone know that the big bad's name is The Night King.

When did he introduce himself, exactly.

Honestly I just find it funny how Jon namedrops him and everyone just instantly is supposed to know what the hell he's talking about.

Folklore?

 

[Mr Git]

So why does everyone know that the big bad's name is The Night King.

When did he introduce himself, exactly.

Honestly I just find it funny how Jon namedrops him and everyone just instantly is supposed to know what the hell he's talking about.

Send word to this "Night King". He must bend the knee or be branded an enemy of the crown.

He could have called him anything getting naming rights in Westeros.
I would've gone for Shite King to hurt his icy feelings.

 

[Turin]

So why does everyone know that the big bad's name is The Night King.

When did he introduce himself, exactly.

Honestly I just find it funny how Jon namedrops him and everyone just instantly is supposed to know what the hell he's talking about.

I guess they're playing it like the Night King is a well known legend as apposed to just some fringe folklore some Northerners know of.

Still wouldn't explain how Jon would know he specifically was the Night King. I don't even think GRRM gave him a physical description. We have some idea what his Queen looked like. Fair guess I suppose.

 

[Speevy]

Jon hasn't been furnished with "children of the forest" or any of this other knowledge.

 

[Apt101]

Jon hasn't been furnished with "children of the forest" or any of this other knowledge.

Maybe in his dreams. Maybe who cares really (not trying to be combative). Just finish this thing already.

 

[demosthenes]

Hasn't Jon been told of the Long Night coming that the others / white walkers are going to bring? Thus, Night King?

 

[darkwing-buck]

Hey book-readers, was curious but was it ever explained why valyrian steel can kill WW?

 

[Gigglepoo]

Hasn't Jon been told of the Long Night coming that the others / white walkers are going to bring? Thus, Night King?

Old Nan must have told all the kids, right?

Hey book-readers, was curious but was it ever explained why valyrian steel can kill WW?

We don't know if Valyrian Steel can kill White Walkers. Yet.

 

[duckroll]

Jon hasn't been furnished with "children of the forest" or any of this other knowledge.

He has. After their encounters with White Walkers, Sam went through all the books at the Wall. He learned about the Children of the Forest and dragonglass weapons. He told Stannis about it, so presumably Jon would have been detailed on it too.

Hey book-readers, was curious but was it ever explained why valyrian steel can kill WW?

I don't think there has ever been a WW encounter in the books where someone fights and kills one, much less with Valyrian steel. It's action added for the show so far.

 

[demosthenes]

Old Nan must have told all the kids, right?

Just thinking that Mel must have said something on the show but I can't recall.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Hasn't Jon been told of the Long Night coming that the others / white walkers are going to bring? Thus, Night King?

Yeah. And I'm sure being in the Night Watch, he's heard of the CHildren of the Forest, that or through his nan.

 

[KahooTs]

Hey book-readers, was curious but was it ever explained why valyrian steel can kill WW?

Books haven't explained that VS can kill Others. Show only thing as of yet.

 

[Atraveller]

Jon hasn't been furnished with "children of the forest" or any of this other knowledge.

To be fair, if you see paintings of small people and large people, right next to very detailed drawings of white walkers, somehow much more detailed than previous two peoples, you can tell it was the Children and First Men by context.

 

[Will the Thrill]

Hey book-readers, was curious but was it ever explained why valyrian steel can kill WW?

I'm pretty sure the books don't have any official confirmation that Valyrian steel kills walkers/others. Just a mention of it being a possibility, where as the show finally revealed that it's true. And based off the show it's probably 100% because it's steel made with dragon fire (Right?) so it's magical to a degree. Fire against Ice.

 

[Ocarina_117]

Would the children of the forest have had any reason to go to Dragonstone in the first place?

 

[Speevy]

Would the children of the forest have had any reason to go to Dragonstone in the first place?

It was unguarded.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Would the children of the forest have had any reason to go to Dragonstone in the first place?

Presumably to meet up with the First Men to create weapons to fight the white walkers?