So..... anybody cheering for Stannis now? Just wondering.
BTW, was the uncle of the *****, who literally went to take a **** just before the fun started, in on it, just like the other guy who married one of the ugly ********* for her weight in silver?
No. They just elected to remove the Blackfish from the hall to explain why he too didn't get ****ed. In the book, he didn't even
go to The Twins to begin with, which is a much better explanation as to how he avoided being ****ed, I thought.
I'm not a book reader but I think he did it because he knew Robb was going to lose the war, so he placed his bets with the Freys/Lannisters, plus he would have died in the slaughter if he stood by Robb don't you think?
Basically. As in turn Catelyn turned Jaime loose, Robb broke his oath to the Freys, and then lost the Karstarks, "the King that lost the North" started to sound true to Bolton, and he decided not to bet on the losing team and do what was best for his house. I don't know if they'll bother with this detail in the show (probably not) but with the death of (they think) the last male heir to Winterfell, Tywin rewards Bolton for his part in The Red Wedding by naming him Warden of the North.
I thought they did a good job with it, overall. Some details they skimmed over, changed or neglected altogether, such as I don't think enough was made of "guestright" and just what a slight to their Gods that harming your guests actually is in Westeros - the name of Frey is basically cursed forever now. Also it would have been nice as we went along if we'd met Smalljon Umber and Dacey Mormont (and retained the Greatjon). One of the most poignant moments for me is Catelyn seeing the Northmen in their pelts enter the hall and think for a second that they're being rescued before one of Bolton's men takes the Smalljon's head off with his axe. But in a way the horror of the secondary characters we had come to like being ****ed was substituted for the rather vicious addition of slaying Robb's mrs - who in the book a) never went to The Twins and b) wasn't pregnant. In fact the Lannisters had bribed/threatened Lady Westerling to make Jeyne ***** a "fertility" potion that actually would work
against her conceiving.
But yeah... as soon as the show indicated that Talisa was going to The Twins, I thought "that's so they can **** her too" and when she told Robb she was pregnant, "that's so it's extra sad when they **** her." I won't lie, I was barely affected by the ****** of Queen Plot Device. Much like Ros before her, she's never been "real" to me. But I was still shell-shocked by Robb's demise, even though I knew it was coming. Hopefully now people will start to understand how annoying it was to we book people when they fucked with Robb's arc so much in respect to his marriage, making him dumber, less vulnerable and more "listening to his cock" and thus harder to feel sorry for when he was rewarded for his impetuousness with a ***** through the heart. The Young Wolf - never lost a battle, lost the war because of a misguided shag.
My only real gripe? Bolton's line of "The Lannisters send their regards" was too vague. The line in the book is :
"Jaime Lannister sends his regards."
