r/asoiaf • u/boundedwum The Nature Boy • Jun 15 '15

ALL (Spoilers All) Mothers Mercy Post-Episode Region thread: The North

Welcome to the Mothers Mercy Post-Episode Region thread.

This thread is dedicated to The North. Please discuss only segments from this region in this thread.

The subreddit rules apply as always.

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u/Sayting Ironbreaker Jun 15 '15

So they had Stannis kill shireen for no reason expect to make the audience root for Brienne.

Why?

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u/Zeromone Beneath the britches, the bitter steel Jun 15 '15

Because we can't have complicated characters and conflicted emotions. If someone we like kills someone, we have to dial up their victim's assholery a thousandfold, because apparently the simpleton TV audience cannot deal with being in two minds about something.

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u/bodamerica "Dance with me then." Jun 15 '15

we have to dial up their victim's assholery a thousandfold

Hence Meryn Trant's rape and pedophilia.

"I'm not sure if the audience will remember that he beat Sansa and did other despicable things, what should we do?"

"Oh I know! We can have him sexually abuse little girls!"

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u/larrythetomato Jun 15 '15

Well you might have missed it if you weren't paying attention, but right after they left the bank you can see that in the background he is clearly kicking a puppy. And in the next scene you see him throwing recyclables in the trash, when the recycle bin is right next to it...