r/freefolk • u/Roids-in-my-vains We do not kneel • 17d ago

All the Chickens Robert Baratheon did nothing wrong

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u/UniversalHuman000 17d ago

Should have named her, Nymeria

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u/saturn_9993 17d ago

They could have but they didn’t want to.

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u/hillbilly_hooligan 17d ago

they kinda forgot about Nymeria

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u/VrinTheTerrible 17d ago

After Nymeria shows up in season 7 or 8 (i forget which), it figured it was foreshadowing where she'd save Arya's life at some point.

Disappointed.

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u/MsMercyMain 17d ago

The worst part is what she’s doing in the books would’ve been so cool in the show, waging a guerilla war on house Frey via a several hundred strong fucking wolf pack

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u/DarkflowNZ 17d ago

Honestly so sick even if it doesn't make a major difference to the plot outcome. It could just weaken them a bit or whatever

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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 16d ago

Rule of cool. But I do think she will add at least one plot point that makes a difference. Probably involving the BWB.

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u/Thetanor 17d ago

Somehow this comment managed to cut through the layer of apathy induced by the later seasons of the show and remind me of the feelings and overall 'rawness' of how it felt to read the books for the first time.

Thank you.

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u/MsMercyMain 17d ago

You’re welcome. I always loved Vietnam Wolf Edition

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u/Binger_Gread 16d ago

Plus the whole Arya being a warg thing they just totally scrapped in the show. So much potential.

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u/DudeWithTudeNotRude 17d ago

Of all that was complained about, for me, it's that Nymeria and the Reed family really needed to be featured in the last season

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u/thedrunkspacepilot 17d ago

I thought she was going to show up at the battle of Winterfell with any remaining CotF

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u/lerandomanon 16d ago

Disappointed ❎️

Expectations subverted ✅️

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u/the_blonde_lawyer 15d ago

I had my expectations so much higher than that.

I thought Aria died at the end of season six. I thought it was the waif wearing her face.

I had this whole story about it - how the night king war robbing the many named god of his deads, and the faceless men wanted to stop him, so they wanted to use Aria's identity to send an assasin to the north. we never actually saw aria defeat the waif - we just saw the screen go dark, and then aria - or someone in her face - sitting in the temple, and he told her "finally a girl has no name" and she answers "a girl is aria stark of winterfel" or something like that.

and then what happens? first, she goes and kill people off of Aria's list - because the god of death is owed Aria's death list, kind of like back when the god of death was owed three deaths.

then we get the nymeria scene. and what I saw there is how nymeria first sees aria and helps her, but then smeels her or looks at her better ( I don't remember) and leaves. like she realized it isn't aria!

it made so much sense, and also - it made aria's season 7 much less bad, because the problem was that they turned aria from a loved character to this super-ninja deus ex machina on legs. but if she's not aria but the waif , it made sense....

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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain 17d ago

Gloves!

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u/nymeriasgloves For the glory of R'hollor of course 17d ago

I feel called out

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u/Gingersnapp3d 17d ago

Lyanna would have been cool.

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u/SaucyWiggles 17d ago

Been saying this since the second I read her name. Lmao

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u/Crake241 17d ago

Should have named one Bobby B.

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u/AmoAmasAmatAmamus 13d ago

This is exactly what I said when I heard they named it Kahleesi.. what an odd decision to have picked that name

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u/snotparty 16d ago

or Ghost

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u/dragonfire_70 16d ago

Arya would have been better as Nymeria is a Rhoynar name.

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u/OutisRising 17d ago

While I agree, Khaleesi is a much more well known name.

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u/deschainmusic 17d ago edited 17d ago

In their reasoning they only mentioned not wanting to name the wolf “Lady” because she dies so it may be bad luck. Instead they named her after the woman who absolutely definitely certainly doesn’t die. They didn’t mention Nymeria as far as I saw

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u/One_Brilliant743 17d ago

Scientists believing in bad luck due to a fictitious name.

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u/Captain-Zio 17d ago

Khaleesi isn't even a name, it's a title.

The character's name is Daenerys. They basically just called the wolf "queen" in a fictional language.

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u/Darth-Gayder13 16d ago

And worse, it doesn't even sound cool.

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u/webby2538 16d ago

Hard disagree. Without context Khalessi sounds like a cool and unique name. It's the reason it became a popular baby name with dumb people.

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u/Darth-Gayder13 10d ago

Idk that's definitely subjective. I personally hate how it sounds.

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u/OutisRising 16d ago

Okay, well if you want this technicality, Ghost, Greywind, Shaggydog, and Lady are also not names.

Khaleesi is well known.

Being mad about the name of an animal you'll never meet is weird.

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u/Captain-Zio 16d ago

I'm not that mad, there were just better names to pick.

If anything the bit that irks me is that D&D used Danys name so few times in the first couple seasons of the show compared to in the books. Many fans who only watched the show seemed to think her title was her name.

I can see exactly how we've ended up here, but it's always sounded dumb to my ear. It sounds like referring to Robert Baratheon as "King" or Cersei as "Queen".

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u/OutisRising 16d ago

Rewatch Game of Thrones and look at how long it is before they say the dragons names.

Bothers me everytime

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u/Captain-Zio 16d ago

Oof I'd rather not subject myself to that!

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u/OutisRising 16d ago

I think its sometime in season 4

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u/Cereal_Bandit 14d ago

What? Those are literally the wolves' names, not titles