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Whether they have pimps or not is immaterial to the fact that high class prostitutes are eponymously going to be catering to the high classes and will appear glamorous to be worth the money they are being paid.
Quite honestly, you actually sound kind of delusional if you think Benioff and Weiss are "glamorizing the trade" by depicting high class prostitutes as looking hot and tavern harlots as looking skanky. I say they're being accurate.
I also think your memory must be faulty or in severe decline if you think they depicted Littlefinger's prostitutes as "happy and content with their lot in life". Quite the opposite they were terrified of the man as I recall a scene in which he was coaching them to look and appear happy, eager, and satisfied. Any less was met with corporal punishment or getting rid of them as they weren't earning their keep by bringing in money he felt they could fetch. The prostitute with the biggest role in the series, Ros, was FAR from "happy and content with their lot in life". If you think otherwise, then I suggest you need a re-watch.
I disagree. Their livelihoods are dependent on how good they look and the prostitutes featured on the show cater to the nobles that pay in gold. Littlefinger is not going to be trafficking prostitutes that look like riff raff in his harem. His prostitutes are going to be the equivalent of high class call girls.
But the show has not shied away from showing less glamorous prostitutes either, like the one we see Theon bragging to in season one. She was clearly of a lower class plying her trade in a tavern brothel in Winterfell and one who you could easily imagine having lived a sad and pitiable life.
He was saying he doesn't care what they think. Being a snowflake would be letting what they thought melt him.
Is it a plot contrivance when very few of the northerners have actually seen the Night King's army? No one doubts everyone would recognize the high stakes once the undead turn up at their homes and start turning everyone in front of them into wights. Seeing is believing. The skepticism of the undead army being real by those that have yet to witness it themselves has been a consistent feature throughout. Jon's MO has been to try to convince everyone of the threat despite not having seen it with their own eyes. It required the capture of a wight to get the southerners to see it. Jon's logic only makes sense if one is convinced the threat is real.
I have to defer to Bran's judgement since he is the greenseer. He's been on the same page as Jon. He recognizes the immediacy of the threat and grew alarmed as he watched the unfolding drama between Dany and Sansa over Jon bending the knee, interjecting that they didn't have time for that soap opera. I assume he urged Sam to divulge Jon's secret to him now for the very same reasons. His motive was to get everyone on the same page to fight the Night King and he felt the best way to do that was for Jon to know who he was and make his birthright known.
If Bran thought that would be counterproductive by causing even more drama to getting everyone unified to fight the threat then I don't see him doing it. But he is the Three-Eyed Raven, if anyone would have an accurate premonition on the best path forward, it would be him.
He wasn't reacting to any specific criticism.
Good for him. He's not a snowflake.
I don't think you've been paying attention if you think Sansa and Arya are so superficial they'd look at him like a "stranger".
Thanks.
I'm going to check it out.
I figure there had to be a reason the writers included a scene like that. Checkov's gun et al.
Yara's fleet was almost entirely wiped out by Euron when she was captured last season. I say "almost" because there was the Yara-loyalist ironborn ship that rescued Theon. But we're led to believe that ship was the last of the Yara-loyalists who were ready to go retire on some island somewhere after massacring all the men and taking the women. That was when Theon asserted himself over the crew by giving the captain a beat down and embarking on their nighttime guerilla ambush of Euron's ship to rescue Yara.
Yara explained Euron left no one to guard the Iron Islands so no conquering is needed. She can just go there with her remaining loyalists and fortify.
But when faced with the existential choice last season of recovering his fallen bag of gold or swooping Jaime from his suicidal matador run at a dragon, Bronn turned his back on the gold to save Jaime's hide.
I don't get the whole obsession with tramp stamps. It never made sense to me why any actress would devalue their marketability with a ton of body tats.
Arrrgh! That's such a disappointment. Figures that body last season looked too good to be hers at her age.
Yeah I agree completely on her overall lack of professionalism with Flynn makes her a cunt. But was it from 2002 or were they dating some time in the show's first couple seasons? Or was it an on and off thing since 2002?
Whatever it was it's pretty weak how they have to jump through hoops this season to ensure they avoid sharing screen time despite Bronn taking command of her character's army.
Ah. I see what you mean. I didn't think about the foreshadowing bit, but you're right that scene wouldn't have them talking about what they thought would be best if it didn't foreshadow a breakup.
She was way hotter when the show began 8 years ago.
Lena Headey was smoking in 300. But that was in 2006.
She's looking more haggard these days with short hair, but that full frontal and rear shot of her last season (assuming that wasn't a body double) when she got up after having sex with Jaime shows she's still got a super tight bod at 46.
Why wouldn't "the show" allow it?
It's GRRM's creation, the show is an adaptation of his vision. If his vision is that they marry the show isn't going to go in a different because of modern taboos today against incest.
He's not a Stark. He's Aegon Targaryen.
Yara tells Theon that Euron couldn't defend the Iron Islands with all his men and ships in King's Landing so she was going to take the Iron Islands. So I assume that implies Euron's fleet stayed behind.
I sure hope you're right. I'll be bitterly disappointed if Bronn goes to the dark side.
The only thing that gives me pause is a comment Jerome Flynn made expressing concern that his character wasn't going to be universally loved anymore after the season, but that could have been a giant head fake/misdirection by him.
I thought the whole point was so Cersei could claim Jaime's baby was in fact Euron's so she could rest assured of Euron's continuing loyalty to her and be confident he won't bail at the first sign of trouble.