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06-08-2015 09:26 AM |
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Originally Posted by Amnorix
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I agree with this, philosophically.
Yes, and yet when they had the perfect opportunity to do that -- in an alley with harpies on both sides -- they failured to form a shield/spear wall and instead got ****ed up, with Selmy dead and Grey Worm seriously wounded. Ugh.
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To reference the Dungeons and Dragons comment from last week... I would refer to this as "Poor DM-ing." The "DMs" of the show (the writers) are pulling their badasses' punches. I agree that the alley fight should have gone very differently: Three-wide, three deep shield wall with the inner ranks back-to-back would have taken care of that in short order, no matter the numbers of the Sons of the Harpy.
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Originally Posted by Amnorix
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Oh, and why don't they have short swords? They spent 10 years training with NOTHING but spears? Really...? Polearms are great, but they aren't exactly the most versatile.
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See my comment above - bad DMing. The Unsullied are the first spear-based soldiers in history to be equipped only with spears. Martin doesn't get very detailed with their equipment in the books (only mentioning that they are spear masters). The show writers boffed this detail, I think.
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Originally Posted by Amnorix
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Which raises the question, doesn't it? Can she warg? Can she summon? How was Drogon so close? Doubt we'll get answers to any of these soon.
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Drogon being close is convenient, but I can buy him being attracted by the crowd/noise/etc.
I don't know if she can warg or if that's what they were implying (it seems unlikely she can, since warging is a gift of the First Men, who really only are strong in the Northern houses these days, and there is no Northern blood in Dany, as far as we know). But if you read the Dance of Dragons or other things about the Targaryens and dragons, a few things become apparent. First: 1 rider for 1 dragon (there are no examples of a Targ having multiple mounts at the same time). Second, they were never in complete control of them, dragons being dragons and all. But there's some sort of rider-mount thing going on there.
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Originally Posted by Amnorix
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Makes sense, though her "control" of Drogon until last night was anything but, and Drogon took long enough to recognize her in the midst of the action.
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Part of that is boldness and respect, it seems. Only the strong-willed and bold were able to claim dragons in Martin's backstories. Dany has been kind of wimping around that sort of thing.
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