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Post by alienarea on May 31, 2016 5:58:55 GMT
I think pandering to the masses and fanservice may fall into play here.If they do show a Lyanna with a stab wound a certain thread is going to lose their shit and i will dance not because its confirmed but because it was shown to be possible.I think everything you said is point on and i will add i think the entire bed of blood/bloody bed= chldbirth "only" is a mistake indeed. Whatever D&D are doing is certainly contradicting book canon, or at least popular interpretation of book canon (childbed fever and all that). First, that still above shows FRESH blood - if Lyanna had given birth 7-10 days earlier and was dying of infection as is commonly believed, the only way Ned would have fresh blood on his hands is if he literally reached under the covers and stuck his hand in her wahoo. Ergo, it's a new wound. Next, book canon tells us that Lyanna DID die of a fever, having lost all her strength and her voice as weak as a whisper. However, the show has a woman screaming loudly enough to be heard outside of a tower. Ergo, the screaming woman in the tower was a) not dying of a fever right then, or b) not Lyanna. Popular interpretation of book canon is overrated.
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Post by freyfamilyreunion on May 31, 2016 14:39:53 GMT
Whatever D&D are doing is certainly contradicting book canon, or at least popular interpretation of book canon (childbed fever and all that). First, that still above shows FRESH blood - if Lyanna had given birth 7-10 days earlier and was dying of infection as is commonly believed, the only way Ned would have fresh blood on his hands is if he literally reached under the covers and stuck his hand in her wahoo. Ergo, it's a new wound. Next, book canon tells us that Lyanna DID die of a fever, having lost all her strength and her voice as weak as a whisper. However, the show has a woman screaming loudly enough to be heard outside of a tower. Ergo, the screaming woman in the tower was a) not dying of a fever right then, or b) not Lyanna. Popular interpretation of book canon is overrated. Agreed. I'm still a tad suspicious that it was Lyanna in the TOJ. The only "evidence" that tends to support this is the chronology of Eddard's dream which links Lyanna's death bed to his dream about his confrontation with the three kingsguards. That's it as far as I know. One thing that makes me a tad suspicious of the chronology is Eddard's thoughts about the price he paid to fulfill the promises he made to Lyanna. His fostering of Jon, in my mind, wasn't that much of a price paid by Eddard. As far as I can tell, if Eddard was in fact in love with Ashara, then the biggest price he paid during the war was having to kill Ashara's brother, Arthur Dayne. Which makes me think that one of the promises he made to Lyanna brought Eddard to the TOJ.
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Post by Weasel Pie on May 31, 2016 20:41:00 GMT
Popular interpretation of book canon is overrated. Agreed. I'm still a tad suspicious that it was Lyanna in the TOJ. The only "evidence" that tends to support this is the chronology of Eddard's dream which links Lyanna's death bed to his dream about his confrontation with the three kingsguards. That's it as far as I know. One thing that makes me a tad suspicious of the chronology is Eddard's thoughts about the price he paid to fulfill the promises he made to Lyanna. His fostering of Jon, in my mind, wasn't that much of a price paid by Eddard. As far as I can tell, if Eddard was in fact in love with Ashara, then the biggest price he paid during the war was having to kill Ashara's brother, Arthur Dayne. Which makes me think that one of the promises he made to Lyanna brought Eddard to the TOJ. Some Pig No Doubt has just posted a timeline for discussion, apropos to this. My take on his "price" has always been that his child with Ashara was killed. Or, they believed he/she was killed...possibly in place of Aegon. If that were the case, it explains a lot.
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