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Re: Questions I have after finishing ADwD. Spoilers of course. Kotagg Send a noteboard - 18/08/2011 12:46:33 AM
1. People feel bad for Theon? THEON? Really?


Definitely! He was held as a prisoner and captive, without the freedom any person deserves, because of the crimes of his father? For his entire life? Then he fulfills his obligation to his family, which he places over his friend Robb (and most people would put family over friends), and is dismissed as nothing by his father. THEN, he's tortured and castrated, then force to live like a dog? He's not the purest of souls, but no one deserves the shit he's gone through.

2. Was Dany miscarrying at the end there with all the blood? Or was this a more positive sign of some sort? I really don't know yet how literally to take the maegi's words to her and after this book think it could be more prophecy than doom.


I think it was more like she was getting her moon blood back, which as I gather she has not had since the incident with Mirri Maz Duur. She is now able to conceive again, since the prophecy has been fulfilled.

3. I assumed Brienne's reappearance meant she had agreed to ZombieCat's terms and was luring Jaime back to ZombieCat to face her wrath. But I gather there are those who think Brienne did die and was brought back? I am disappointed not to have gotten more of that storyline (though I did like the Jaime progression in this book, and liked how neatly he managed to do his duty to his family/king without breaking his oath to not take up arms against the Starks or Tullys). I will be interested to see what happens with that.


I think it's most likely that she agreed to bring Jaime back to ZombieCat, but lied, breaking her oath and making her understand even further why Jaime slew the king he was sworn to protect. Brienne has found Jaime, informed him as to what's going on, and they're going back to free Podrick and maybe even destroy ZombieCat.

4. Do you think Stannis is dead? I'm going with no, since it seems like when we find out about 'offscreen' deaths like that they tend not to have happened. Does Ramsay actually have Mance? It seems horrible to me that we'd have gone through the Mance-isn't-really-dead switcheroo only to have that happen, and it is possible that one or more of his girls was captured and Ramsay knows he was there that way. I'm really leaning towards taking that letter to Jon as a bunch of angry rambling.


I don't think Stannis is dead, but I do think Mance is captured. We'll see what happens from there.

5. Speaking of Jon. Gah. GAH. I can't decide if I want him to be really most sincerely dead or not. Obviously prevailing opinion is that he's not. And yet. How much fun would that be?


He will either be healed or resurrected by Melisandre, and then it will begin to get fun. :)

6. Are we ever going to find out what happened to Benjen?
Benjen is Coldhands...I think that's been the concensus for a while, and it's really the only thing that makes sense and works well.
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