re: Game of Thrones Spin -Offs I would watch

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Am I mixing up events? Which is the tourney where Barriston falls for a Dornish lady and Lyanna Stark dressed as a knight to stand up for Howland Reed? It seems like 50 different things occur during that tourney.

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From the top of my head, here's what happens:

1) The Tourney starts off with Jaime being annointed a member of the Kingsguard, and is commanded to go back.
2) Tywin resigns and takes Cersei back with him.
3) The dinner that night, where Rhaegar plays for everyone, and everyone dances.
4) The Freys bully Howland Reed, and Lyanna sticks up for him.
5) The Knight of the Laughing Tree enters the ranks, and Aerys sends Rhaegar after him.
6) Rhaegar beats Barristan in the tourney and gives Lyanna the bed of roses.

I don't see how you can fill out an entire miniseries with this. It would be the first two episodes of a Robert's Rebellion miniseries. Just shorten the time a bit between Harrenhall and Lyanna's kidnapping.

I wrote this a few years back on what I thought a good Robert's Rebellion miniseries would be:

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Episode 1: The Tourney at Harrenhall- Basically the things that happen shortly before Harrenhall, as well as the melee that Robert wins and the dinner where everyone socializes. Also have Cersei's seduction of Jaime to join the Kingsguard in this episode, and end it with Aerys accepting Jaime to the Kingsguard, and immediately sending him back to King's Landing.

Episode 2: The Knight of the Laughing Tree- Start it off with the Knight of the Laughing Tree plot, with Rhaegar meeting Lyanna in the Woods. Add some more scenes in Harrenhall, and end it with Rhaegar winning the tourney and giving Lyanna the blue roses. Also Tywin leaves his post as Hand of the King.

Episode 3: The Wolfs Blood- Brandon vs Littlefinger duel, Lyanna leaves with Rhaegar, Ned and Robert return to the Vale, Littlefinger knocks up Lysa, and Jon Connington is appointed the New Hand.

Episode 4: Waking the Dragon- Brandon arrives in King's Landing and is arrested, Rickard comes down and is burned alive, Aerys sends word to Jon Arryn to send him Ned and Robert's heads. Aerys also rapes his wife. LF is sent back to the Vale and Lysa has a forced abortion.

Episode 5: Raising of the Banners- Ned heads North to rally his bannermen, while Robert heads South to rally his. Lyanna and Rhaegar arrive at the Tower of Joy, marry, and then consummate their marriage.

Episode 6: Summerhall- Robert wins Summerhall, Ned and Jon Arryn marry Catelyn and Lysa Tully respectively. Before leaving, Lyanna tells Rhaegar she is pregnant. Rhaegar then arrives back in King's Landing to get chewed out by his wife. Aerys commands Connington to take out Robert Baratheon.

Episode 7: The Battle of the Bells- Ned and Jon Arryn save Robert from Connington. Rhaegar meets with his father and then marches north to meet Robert after telling Jaime he was going to change some things once he returned. Ser Arthur Dayne returns to Starfall to get a wet nurse for Lyanna. Aerys also begins to rig King's Landing to blow.

Episode 8: The Trident- The infamous battle itself. Aerys will also light another Hand on fire for the hell of it, as well as send his wife and Viserys off to Dragonstone.

Episode 9: Burn Them All- Start with the aftermath of the Trident Ned marches south. Arthur Dayne returns to the Tower of Joy to tell Lyanna of her husband's fate. The Lannisters unexpectedly arrive in King's Landing. Aerys lets them in, and they start sacking the city. Episode ends with Jaime slaying Aerys, his own Lannister men marching in, and Jaime sitting on top of the Iron Throne.

Episode 10: Dragonspawn- Episode starts with Ned and his army coming over the hill and seeing King's Landing being sacked. Elia and her children are then raped and killed by the Mountain. Ned marches into the throne room to see Jaime sitting on the throne. Robert arrives with actual joy at the sight of the destruction of King's Landing, pardons Jaime Lannister when Tywin lays the corpses of the children at his feet. Robert calls them dragonspawn, and Ned out of protest takes his northern troops and march on the Tyrells to the South.

Episode 11: The Onion Knight- Davos enters Storm's End unseen, and gets Stannis his onions, only to have the top of his fingers chopped off for smuggling. Ned comes in to lift the siege. Tywin tells Robert that if Lyanna should die, that he has his daughter Cersei to ensure the union of the realm. Ashara Dayne sends Ned a message about the location of her brother.

Episode 12: The Promise- Robert is crowned, and Jon Arryn becomes his Hand. Stannis lays siege to Dragonstone, and Ned and his Northern Lords come upon the Tower of Joy and fight the Kingsguard located there. Lyanna gives birth to Jon, making Ned promise to not tell Robert and to claim that he is his own bastard. Once she gets her promise from him, Lyanna dies. Simultaneously, Rhaella and Viserys escape, and she gives birth to Dany and also passes.

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Damn OML, that would make for an epic season of TV, I have to give you that.

"I'm your host, Hot Pie, and you're watching 'Taverns, Dragons, and Dives'"!

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Plot centering around the exploits of the Red Viper

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I think someone already said Back Dorne Sluts 9

Uncle Daddy- Cersei and Jaime have a baby boy and the awkwardness of the situation makes for a barrel of laughs. As Jaime tries to teach what it means to be a lannister. Then the adolescent son cornholes Tommen and has a 3way marriage with Maergery.

Nothing too complex.