Post by Weasel Pie on May 2, 2016 11:11:23 GMT
The show is killing off direct heirs, houses and names. Ep 2 drove it home. This could (and should) have huge repercussions for events in the books as a pattern.
Major houses are essentially wiped out unless there are more legitimate offspring or legitimization of bastards. I'm not an expert on the finer points of the laws of inheritance in Westeros, but it should be obvious the show is trying to drive this point home.
In the show, who would inherit the vacant lordships? No one we care or know about, unless they pull some surprises.
Baratheon: Robert's bastards and Shireen dead. Only the bastard Gendry lives in the show. No legitimate Baratheon heir (unless Stannis lives? but he'd have to have more kids anyway). So who in the show gets the lordships of Dragonstone and Storm's End?
Bolton: Roose and baby dead. There is only the legitimized bastard Ramsay as Bolton heir in the show.
Lannister: Tommen seems doomed and is a bastard anyway. Unless Cersei/Jaime/Tyrion have more kids, that's the end of Tywin's line.
Martell: Doran and Trystan dead. None of the bastard Sand Snakes are legitimized. End of Martell name in the show.
Arryn: Sweetrobin is alive for now.
Tyrell: Marg and Loras imprisoned. Willas and Garlan don't exist in the show.
Targaryen: Until Dany can bear children again, she's the only "legitimate" living heir.
Frey: Are fine. For now.
Greyjoy: Fine, though no children in the next generation. Kingsmoot anyway.
Tully: Edmure probably has a baby on the way.
Stark: By comparison to the other Great Houses, they're doing well!
Major houses are essentially wiped out unless there are more legitimate offspring or legitimization of bastards. I'm not an expert on the finer points of the laws of inheritance in Westeros, but it should be obvious the show is trying to drive this point home.
In the show, who would inherit the vacant lordships? No one we care or know about, unless they pull some surprises.
Baratheon: Robert's bastards and Shireen dead. Only the bastard Gendry lives in the show. No legitimate Baratheon heir (unless Stannis lives? but he'd have to have more kids anyway). So who in the show gets the lordships of Dragonstone and Storm's End?
Bolton: Roose and baby dead. There is only the legitimized bastard Ramsay as Bolton heir in the show.
Lannister: Tommen seems doomed and is a bastard anyway. Unless Cersei/Jaime/Tyrion have more kids, that's the end of Tywin's line.
Martell: Doran and Trystan dead. None of the bastard Sand Snakes are legitimized. End of Martell name in the show.
Arryn: Sweetrobin is alive for now.
Tyrell: Marg and Loras imprisoned. Willas and Garlan don't exist in the show.
Targaryen: Until Dany can bear children again, she's the only "legitimate" living heir.
Frey: Are fine. For now.
Greyjoy: Fine, though no children in the next generation. Kingsmoot anyway.
Tully: Edmure probably has a baby on the way.
Stark: By comparison to the other Great Houses, they're doing well!
