The Official Nonsense Thread

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After what the Stark's direwolves did to Joffrey & Jon Umber (& the assassin after Bran), they must have realised that it was pretty doubtful anyone would let them cross their doorway, even if they did belong to the King of the North!

King Robert told Edd in the first series direwolves didn't make for good pets, suggesting it had been tried before & failed. They were also in little position to make demands of Frey at that time, having trodden on his toes enough.

Catelyn realised what was up & they were doomed once the musicians started playing The Rains Of Castermere, the Lannister's song. Trying to bargain Frey's wife's life for Robb's life was the only card she'd left to play, although with someone who had buried many wives before unlikely to work. Besides, after killing Robb's wife, Frey would have been crazy to let Robb leave alive - Robb would have devoted the rest of his days to avenging himself on the Freys for it, even if a destitute fugitive on the run from the Boltons & Lannisters.

Catelyn's obsession with her children's lives being her fatal flaw has been a running theme in the story. She took Tyrion prisoner on trumped up charges of having tried to murder Bran twice (at the very time he was investigating what he suspected was his siblings' handiwork), in doing so setting off the initial battle between the Lannisters & the Starks that went to full scale war when Edd was executed. Her letting Jaime go later - their only trump card - fatally split the Stark alliance in the silly hope it would see Sansa & Arya set free.

It's quite fun to think about each character's fatal flaw & how it may be their undoing.

Lannisters
Tywin's is protecting the Lannisters power at any cost, even if as Tyrion tells him it means no Lannister for a generation will be able to sleep in a bed without a guard outside their door for the rest of their lives if they make enemies of the whole world.

Cersei's is seeing everyone that isn't a Lannister as an enemy needing to be bribed, bullied, blackmailed or butchered. There's another reason she's screwed up as well, but I'll not mention that.

Tyrion's is - like Bran said in series 2 - being desperate to be loved even though he knows prejudice against dwarves means some will hate him no matter good what he does them. This despite his wise consel to Jon Snow in the very first episode.

Baratheons

Joffrey's is that he exists.

Stanis' is his obsession with the Red Priestess' jibber jabber & refusing to accept that plenty will back anyone else rather than someone worshipping a god into blood sacrifices & using the occult to kill opponents (think of Varys conversations with Tyrion)

Targarian

Daenys' is getting to the stage she thinks she knows better than her advisors because she's proved them wrong a few times (after falling on her small but perfectly formed bum through most of series 1 & 2). She's starting to take Ser Jorah in particular for granted because she knows he's got the hots for her. That's only going to last so long as she stays single.

She's also too obsessed with winning a throne in a land she has never lived in & hasn't a clue about out of a childish notion of "birthright" (think Bonnie Prince Charlie) when perhaps she should be conquoring Essos instead - richer pickings & a softer target. Her argument in the city of Quarth with the Spice King when he refuses to lend "my little princess" his ships ought to have been her wake up call that in Westeros the Targarian name is one now to live down, not live up to, & living in her ancestor's pasts may cost her any future.

The Greyjoys

Their whole "Ironborn way" bollards, little more than the false honour code of a bunch of pirates that saw them exiled back to the Iron Islands when every other house in Westeros sought their extermination as parasites.

If Yara (the only one with an IQ to the left of a decimal point) doesn't start changing their ways & making friends, it's pretty certain before the series is over they'll go the same way as the Reynes as too much trouble to be allowed to live.

The Boltons

Existing.

The Starks, Brienne of Tarth, Yara Greyjoy, any refugees from Winterfell, everyone in the north despised them long before they betrayed the Starks because of their pecadillo for torture & cruelty to anyone that isn't a Bolton for the fun of it. Like the Greyjoys, people will back anyone that will kill them, never a good position to be in.