I'm rewatching season 1 at the same time, which is an interesting excercise. When they brought up blood scares him I remember thinking "wait, isn't he a badass?"
My impression was that he never acquitted himself particularly well at tourneys, and he had no battlefield experience either. Renly was skilled more as a courtier/politician.
I haven't read far enough to know for sure, but I think they only do that when a significant amount of time has passed since the previous chapter or the last time we saw the POV character. There's no such message at the beginning of Catelyn I, unless I missed it.
I don't remember that. That Donal Noye quote about the Baratheon brothers, I thought, got to the nature of Renly's character:
Not gonna lie, that went could completely over my head for nearly a decade until you just said it
Yes, this is hypothetical from me, since I had seen the first two seasons before starting the books. But I imagine I could miss the references if I weren't reading closely.
Agreed. I actually have no issues with 4 and 5 at all. I think the actual writing is better, even if they don't feel as propulsive as the first three. I like to just soak in the language and details. And all of that time world building is going to make the payoff so much more fulfilling
Same, even martin's biggest tome is a matter of days for me. That being said, I'm here for the discussion.... And the Robert Baratheon quotes
Agree completely. On a semi related point, that helm that Loras wore in the Hand's tourney. 7 hells, what was that? I assume it was just for tourneys, still hideous by any measure
It went over my head too until some previously mentioned dialogue in ASoS, that symbol has such real-world meaning that I didn't take it at face value in this world when reading it.
Agree completely. On a semi related point, that helm that Loras wore in the Hand's tourney. 7 hells, what was that? I assume it was just for tourneys, still hideous by any measure
