That casting would be unreasonable for a major studio tentpole motion picture.

Here is a theory of mine... not sure if anyone has thought about it, and I have not seen it posted on Westeros before.

Victarion's dusky woman on the ship... The dusky woman was given to Victarion by Euron. I have a feeling the dusky woman is a warlock, possibly Pyat Pree. Euron apparently intercepted four warlocks from Qarth that were on the way to Dany. One threatened Euron so he killed it and fed it to the three remaining warlocks.

It makes sense that Euron would eff with Vicarion even moreso after the whole wife thing, and he would want a spy to ensure V brings Dany back to the Iron Islands. Also, Pyat Pree is still pissed at Dany so it stands to reason he would REALLY want to be on a ship bound for Meereen.

However, one reason this may not be true: Moqorro. He has not seen anything in his fires about the dusky woman.

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orlando bloom as rhaegar was my least favorite

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Don't know about reddit or what is depicted in the HBO series, but there are some abuse backstories and parallel stories in the books. Some are explicit while others are merely alluded to.

Probably the most obvious abusive character is Joffrey. Sansa is ridiculed by Joff who, at one point in King's Landing, has one of his knights rip her dress and beat her in the castle courtyard. Joff also takes her up on the battlements to show her tarred heads on spikes, one of them being that of her own father.

Sandor Clegane was intentionally beaten and badly burned by his brother Gregor while they were children.

Brienne of Tarth is subjected to ridicule and a plot/bet from various knights as well as continual verbal abuse from Jaime Lannister. She is ridiculed behind her back for her unrequited juvenile affection for Renly.

When it comes to sexual abuse, there are plenty of instances. When it comes to siblings, the Lannisters aren't about to be shown up - Cersei abused Tyrion while he was an infant.

It should be plain that Varys is a eunuch but how he came to that condition is explicit in the books.

I don't know which book mentions this, but Craster supposedly sacrifices any male newborn in/at weirwood tree(s) to keep the Others/wights away from his keep. If you consider incest to be sexual abuse, Craster and Jaime are both pushing for first place in GoT.

One of the books goes in to why Tywin holds Tyrion in disdain - he thinks Tyrion caused his mother's death during childbirth. Tywin fails to see the shortcomings of Cersei and how Tyrion helped ensure that King's Landing would not fall to Stannis.

Speaking of Stannis, he mutilated Davos' hand. While this was done in the name of justice, we would label it cruel and unusual. He, based on Melisandre's fiery influence, wants to put to people to the flame for various reasons at various times.

There are numerous slights, neglects, abuses, manipulations and injuries in the books in greater or lesser degrees. It was medieval times.

Who thinks this stuff up? I think at some point the abuse themes in GoT is art imitating life.

Just moving this to the top, so I don't have to go digging for it later. After seeing the Red Wedding on television, I decided I couldn't wait to see how it all unfolds and read all five books consecutively. I'm going to catch up on all of this discussion.

^ What's taking you so long. I want to discuss things since I have no other GoT fix.

I am about 300 pages into book five. The story in this book is really pretty boring. I flew through the other four books this summer, but this story is dragging. I really find myself losing interest in Dany and her ridiculous choices. The whole Aegon story is a bit confusing too.

I won't spoil anything for you, but I definitely think Book 5 gets better as you go on. Fight the good fight oh loyal reader.

Book 5 is pretty solid outside of Dany's storyline. Some tough sledding in there.