Link: http://www.vulture.com/2016/06/hbo-releases-got-season-6-finale-title-runtime.html HBO has officially released the title for it season finale... Spoiler The Winds of Winter It's runtime will be 69 minutes making the longest GOT episode to date.
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I just rewatched the Red Wedding ep, yesterday. It reminded me of a European history question I had, but forgot to ask at the time of first airing. In the entire history of monarchies in Europe and Russia, has there ever been a case of one family openly killing the heads of another family while visiting or hosting them. Not as part of a siege or battle, but targeting just the family during some truce negotiations, ceremony, festival, etc as opposed to going to battle. Tywin actually said to Tyrion, "consider the lives we saved in battle [on both sides] by killing a few." Seems like that might be against codes of honor in medieval ages (and even before). This isn't meant as a criticism of historical realism of a fantasy book. I'm just curious if that has ever happened in the West....or Persia, China, Japan?
thx. Freaking Scots However, that appears to be a massacre after terms of surrender to end a siege. There are probably scores of such stories throughout the years. http://castletoward.tripod.com/ Certainly a massacre without honor to needlessly murder after surrender, but I was kinda looking for something other than post-battle, siege, surrender, etc. Hell, we probably massacred a lot of Indians that way after battles.
The Red Wedding combines two real events from Scottish history, according to GRRM. One of the events was called The Black Dinner. http://nerdist.com/george-r-r-martin-explains-the-red-weddings-historical-roots/
nerdist.com haha cool, thx. The Black Dinner was evil. I figured GRRM based it on actual less-than-honorable massacres of surprise on false pretenses of peace -- called "murder under trust" in this wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe Looks like the wiki hooroo posted meant the Glencoe Massacre...which came a little before the Dunoon Massacre (which was a post-siege massacre), by the same Campbell. The wiki of Dunoon seems to confuse it with Glencoe, as my link above mention Glencoe but says Dunoon was post-siege murder and plunder. Was Clan Lamont really the evil ones rather than Clan Campbell Curious though, this history of the Clan Lamont family (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Lamont">Clan Lamont</a>) says (together with the MacDonalds) wrecked havoc on the Campbells (who were called rebels by King Charles) prior to the Glencoe and Dunoon Massacre. I guess the Campbells struck back...with merciless vengeance. btw: Campbell was beheaded for treason 16 years after the massacres, but sounds like only because he was on the wrong side of the King. Is that a spoiler of what could happen to Walder Frey? Probably no one cares about the Starks anymore. I love this stuff.
I had no idea what I meant. All I know was the Campbells were involved, lol. I knew a Scot who often joked about this history to another friend whose surname was Campbell.
Spoiler Really thought they would show lady stone heart with the brother hood but alas..none of the arya theories were correct.. she really did get stabbed ..
Yeah, this episode was pretty bad. So, what's the whole point of this Blackfish thing anyways? Doesn't seem to progress the story in any way.
I am not the type to normally criticize TV shows, especially when its my favorite, but damn this episode was awful. The scene where Tyrion was telling "jokes" was lame as hell.
So that she could learn to fight and protect herself so that she'd be more useful than the little girl that was at the beginning of the story.
