Because Selyse ordered their executions not Melisandre, and however much he might not like her actions, Stannis tends to back up his wife.
Author: stevenattewell
Since it seems that as of Spiderman Homecoming, they’re setting up the Sinister Six (they’ve already got a few of the group), which other members do you think would work well in the MCU/they’ll choose to add? I think Doc Ock would fit, whereas someone like Sandman, not so much. What’re your thoughts?
Other than the Vulture, who in the Sinister Six do they have?
In your view, what would Lady Stoneheart do if she captured Olyvar and Perwyn Frey — the Freys whom she knows for a fact were not part of the Red Wedding (and probably would have opposed if it they could have)?
Catelyn Stark knows that, I don’t think LSH does, otherwise she wouldn’t be nearly as violent towards Brienne as she is.
Catelyn Stark is a reasonable, intelligent woman. LSH is Nemesis, and Nemesis is implacable, unrelenting, and without mercy.
If Daemon Blackfyre won the Rebellion and hired a blacksmith to forge a new crown, what do you think it would have looked like?
Assuming for the sake of argument that Daemon doesn’t go with Aegon IV’s crown, probably something like Maekar’s crown to emphasizes Blackfyre the sword and his own martial reputation.
Isn’t the whole “Build a wargalley in a Day” thing the Arsenal has going a bit impossible? Yes, the Venice Arsenal it is modeled after could produce a ship each day using the same techniques, but this was because its assembly line was stacked with ships being built. – Thank You, RSAFan.
The Braavosi Arsenal is basically a straight copy of the Venetian, so no I don’t think it’s impossible.
It seems strange to me that no one has thought to bring the Gulltown Arryns back into the fold. If people from all over the seven kingdoms are wiling to marry Walder Frey then why is no one willing to sully themselves with a lord turned merchant?
Because Vale nobility are snobbish even by the standards of the rest of Westerosi nobility.
Does the Reach have a mediterranean climate?
It’s based on southern France, so yes. Although does western southern France (i.e, Bordeaux, Bayonne) count as Mediterranean if it’s on the Atlantic coast?
what i meant was that there is no place you can land supplies where a exclusively land based army will not be able to prevent it. that being said, could you not simply solve this problem by building a wall directly south of the kings gate going from the city walls to the blackwater rush, thus giving the fishmarket a western protective wall a besieger has to break through? or am i missing something completely obvious here?
The stairs off the back of the Red Keep can’t be blocked by a land-based army.
But the real reason I had to chime in was that Steve Rogers is my favorite superhero. Why? Because unlike other patriotism-themed characters, Steve Rogers doesn’t represent a genericized America but rather a very specific time and place – 1930’s New York City. We know he was born July 4, 1920 (not kidding about the 4th of July) to a working-class family of Irish Catholic immigrants who lived in New York’s Lower East Side.[1] This biographical detail has political meaning: given the era he was born in and his class and religious/ethnic background, there is no way in hell Steve Rogers didn’t grow up as a Democrat, and a New Deal Democrat at that, complete with a picture of FDR on the wall.
Steve Rogers grew up poor in the Great Depression, the son of a single mother who insisted he stayed in school despite the trend of the time (his father died when he was a child; in some versions, his father is a brave WWI veteran, in others an alcoholic, either or both of which would be appropriate given what happened to WWI veterans in the Great Depression) and then orphaned in his late teens when his mother died of TB.[2] And he came of age in New York City at a time when the New Deal was in full swing, Fiorello LaGuardia was mayor, the American Labor Party was a major force in city politics, labor unions were on the move, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was organizing to fight fascism in Spain in the name of the Popular Front, and a militant anti-racist movement was growing that equated segregation at home with Nazism abroad that will eventually feed into the “Double V” campaign.
Then he became a fine arts student. To be an artist in New York City in the 1930s was to be surrounded by the “Cultural Front.” We’re talking the WPA Arts and Theater Projects, Diego Rivera painting socialist murals in Rockefeller Center, Orson Welles turning Julius Caesar into an anti-fascist play and running an all-black Macbeth and “The Cradle Will Rock,” Paul Robeson was a major star, and so on. You couldn’t really be an artist and have escaped left-wing politics. And if a poor kid like Steve Rogers was going to college as a fine arts student, odds are very good that he was going to the City College of New York at a time when an 80% Jewish student body is organizing student trade unions, anti-fascist rallies, and the “New York Intellectuals” were busily debating Trotskyism vs. Stalinism vs. Norman Thomas Socialism vs. the New Deal in the dining halls and study carrels.
Steven Attewell: Steve Rogers Isn’t Just Any Hero – Lawyers, Guns & Money
gotta love a well-researched takedown of such lazy, hoary tropes as “Captain America is a monolithic aryan crypto-fascist”
His Tumblr is @racefortheironthrone, and the #captain america tag has lots and lots more fantastic things about Steve (and how terrible this SE comics thing is).
Hey thanks!
Looking at kings landing in the books, i just realised you cant resupply it by sea during a siege. Isnt that a massive design flaw?
Well, it entirely depends where the siegeworks are, but you can potentially land supplies north of the city or at the docks or the hidden stairs off the back of the Red Keep.
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