re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

6,000th post in this thread!!!

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The whole scene with the butchers boy and Sansa's wolf cast Cercsi as bad for me and I can't buy into any attempts to soften her in the later books. I still don't like to watch that early episode of the show for some reason. It pisses me off.

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Agree 100%

Seeing Ned forced into killing Lady is really my most painful scene in the series.

It's just wrong on so many levels. Lost all respect for Robert in that scene. He should have count punted Cersei on the spot for even suggesting it. Joff had a little scratch on his arm. GTFO.

I posted this quote earlier in this thread :


"So he listened, and she told it all.....And when she was done, Eddard Stark sat dazed besides the table, the dagger in his hand. Bran's wolf had saved the boys life....What was it that Jon had said when they found the pups in the snow? Your children were meant to have these pups, my lord. And he had killed Sansa's.....If the gods had sent these wolves, what folly had he done?"


That last line strikes me as truly important, and a real tragedy. Ned's honor led him to carry out the king's order himself because he felt Lady was "of the North" and deserved better than "a butcher" like Payne, and that may have been the act that took him out of the gods' favor in his mind. Just frustrating. Lady did deserve better than Payne, and certainly so did Eddard Stark.