2) The girl actually is Jeyne Westerling. in the books, Jeyne's mother is from the Free Cities (not Volantis that I remember though) and she could well have a different appearance because of that. She's joined the Lannister war effort as a healer/battlefield nurse as a volunteer (which may actually be something that's normal in Westeros, or it may be down to her wilfulness; she may even have sneaked off under an alias).
A more Machivellian possibility is that she's deliberately been planted to catch Robb's eye, but that seems highly implausible, given the Starks staged a surprise attack and secured a totally unpredictable victory that could not have been foreseen.
The unforeseeable circumstances of her being there for Robb are not so much, if a bit advanced. Stafford's host was raised in light of Robb holding Riverrun, athwart the Lannisters' lines of communication with their own lands, so their goal was to move east and threaten or attack Robb at some point. Since Tywin would prefer to converge on the Starks with his own force and the new one, an encounter between Robb & Stafford's forces would almost certainly be to the Lannisters' disadvantage, with Jeyne being a good fallback if Robb was getting too powerful.
The only problem with this scenario is it requires a lot more cooperation on her part than seems to have existed in Sybelle Westerling's plot in the books, and is a bit of a risky gamble to ensnare a would-be king, with much greater risks to Jeyne's virtue and whatnot. If she does turn out to be Jeyne, it would be entirely in keeping with the PC tropes I disparaged above for her to have run away to join the army as a medic and "do some good." I confess I had forgotten the specifics of her maternal ancestry which might support her having medical knowledge, as the books made no suggestion Sybelle had passed on her pharmacological expertise (tricking Jeyne into taking contraceptives would be a lot harder, for one thing). Though Jeyne was mentioned tending to the wound Robb took in the attack on the castle, I kind of glossed over that part, assuming it was teenage hormones exaggerating what was nothing more than sitting by his side and holding a cup for him to drink or putting cloths on his forehead and the other stuff people do to pretend they are helping an invalid. In hindsight, she very probably could have had the knowledge and whatnot to provide real treatment.
agreed that it would make it hard to believe the way we are told the plot actually played out later. I was wondering if people were forgetting that she actually WAS used to catch Robb's eye in the books...
Game of Thrones 2.04 Garden of Bones: OF COURSE SHE HAS TO HAVE A JOB!
23/04/2012 04:14:01 PM
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Yeah, don't know where they're going with the Robb Stark love interest
23/04/2012 06:14:16 PM
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Fairly sure they cast Oona Chaplin as Jeyne EDIT
23/04/2012 07:17:18 PM
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Or they dropped the character all together, as they seem wont to do *NM*
23/04/2012 09:21:08 PM
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There's some confusion here.
23/04/2012 10:37:56 PM
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Nice theory with number 2
24/04/2012 12:02:17 AM
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Re: Nice theory with number 2
24/04/2012 05:16:49 AM
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I'm guessing no.
23/04/2012 07:50:57 PM
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Re: I'm guessing no.
24/04/2012 05:23:01 AM
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It's not love for the system - it's an explanation that the system works
24/04/2012 02:30:58 PM
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Re: It's not love for the system - it's an explanation that the system works
01/05/2012 01:01:14 AM
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Oh, I agree. An aristocratic system mostly precludes equality before the law, a basic requirement
03/05/2012 08:29:08 PM
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interesting and surprisingly thought provoking. Enjoying talking governemtal theory here
09/05/2012 11:28:45 AM
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Re: interesting and surprisingly thought provoking. Enjoying talking governemtal theory here
10/05/2012 12:09:46 AM
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Re: interesting and surprisingly thought provoking. Enjoying talking governemtal theory here
18/05/2012 06:04:18 AM
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Re: interesting and surprisingly thought provoking. Enjoying talking governemtal theory here
12/05/2012 02:02:49 AM
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Re: interesting and surprisingly thought provoking. Enjoying talking governemtal theory here
18/05/2012 06:08:20 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones 2.04 Garden of Bones: OF COURSE SHE HAS TO HAVE A JOB!
24/04/2012 05:13:02 AM
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09/05/2012 11:35:29 AM
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Yeah I dunno what to make of that either
24/04/2012 09:28:48 AM
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To be fair, non-readers come away with a different experience.
24/04/2012 02:19:01 PM
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