History Headscratchers / GameOfThrones

** I think it's a combination of many of these answers: Tywin does think Tyrion can succeed at the job, but if he fails then he has a despied son to blame rather than himself. He keeps a son that he doesn't like, doesn't want in power, and is known for discovering informationaway from Casterly Rock. Should Tyrion be there, he would be in charge by rule of primogeniture and by force of personality. He might then discover Tywin's big secret: the Lannister mines have run dry.

** Also a case of RealityIsUnrealistic, in real life artificial respiration does not bring people back to life, specially not in a medieval setting. What it does it’s in some cases keep the oxygen flow to the brain until appropriate medical care can be perform thus avoiding brain damage. No one just wakes ups and spits water after CPR as in the movies.

** I think it's a combination of many of these answers: Tywin does think Tyrion can succeed at the job, but if he fails then he has a despied son to blame rather than himself. He keeps a son that he doesn't like, doesn't want in power, and is known for discovering informationaway from Casterly Rock. Should Tyrion be there, he would be in charge by rule of primogeniture and by force of personality. He might then discover Tywin's big secret: [[spoiler:the Lannister mines have run dry.]]

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** As Tyrion puts it in Season 2 after Joffrey's reaction to getting hit with a cow-pat is to order his men to KillEmAll, sparking a riot -- "We've had vicious Kings, and we've had idiot Kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a ''[[TheCaligula vicious idiot]]'' for a King!"

** According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki they call him that in reference to his Westerosi origins. So yeah, as far as the Dothraki (or at least Khal Drogo) are concerned "Westerosi" and "Andal" are virtually synonymous. I would guess Jorah decided it wasn't worth having an argument with Drogo about a silly nickname.

** [[FridgeBrilliance In fact]], that's something he shares with Varys. You know how people in the Night's Watch and Kingsguard vow to "father no children and hold no lands" in order to render themselves aristocratically harmless? Varys exploits the fact that "entire" men don't feel threatened by eunuchs, and Littlefinger is similarly "harmless" due to holding no lands (except, eventually, the indefensible white elephant that is Harrenhal -- but no-one grants him any ''useful'' lands). [[/folder]]

[[folder: Cast billing order, title sequence and credits]]
* How is it decided for the order of the cast in the TitleSequence? I know the cast changes line-up every other season or so, but will this show ever do a ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' or ''Series/TheCatch'' and stick to one title sequence (since those shows very rarely if ever had a SpecialEditionTitle). Since the show had over 100 characters, how was it decided on? Aren't there SAG rules about crediting?
** Also... and this borders on WildMassGuessing here, but would they ever try a simpler, ''PersonOfInterest''-style TitleSequence (without the narration as it's out-of-genre, for a future season or would that be an AudienceAlienatingPremise?
** Billing order is decided by behind the scenes negotiations and contracts. It's all business.
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* How is it decided for the order of the cast in the TitleSequence? I know the cast changes line-up every other season or so, but will this show ever do a ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' or ''Series/TheCatch'' and stick to one title sequence (since those shows very rarely if ever had a SpecialEditionTitle). [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Since the show had over 100 characters]], how was it decided on? Aren't there SAG rules about crediting?

** Because IAmNotShazam. Throughout the show fandom's initial struggle with the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters in Season 1, Dany was only occasionally referred to by name but Jorah constantly called her by her title, making it by far the more memorable moniker, especially for casual fans, and mondegreens like "Caliese" abounded. From there it became a FandomEnragingMisconception in some quarters and sort of meta term-of-endearment or inside joke in others. (Also, I'm sure Cersei was just "the Queen" to many fans until Jaime finally said her name in Episode 3.)

[[folder:Jaime and Bran]]
* Why, Jaime, oh why? Why didn't you invite Bran into your den of iniquity so you could have snapped his neck, [[InThatOrder THEN]] throw him down? I seriously can't understand that. You had time, you had strength, you had the perfect opportunity? There were no coroners back then.
** I always assumed, he wasn't sure, he would be able to do it. Jaime is a horrible person at this point, but he is not a sociopath. He does have qualms about killing a child, he just ignores them for Cersei's sake. So, in my opinion, he kills him in a way that requires as little actual involvement as possible. Note, how he doesn't even look at Bran the moment he pushes him, as if distancing himself from his own deed. Inviting the kid in and snapping his neck would not allow Jaime psychologically downplay the fact that he is personally and willingly murdering a child.
** Or they could do an examination of the body, if Bran died, and found out that he didn't die from the fall.
** Even without coroners, a master would be able to tell the difference between "killed by fall" and "neck snapped". Considering Bran survived the fall in the first place, it probably wouldn't be high enough to cause injuries that would cover up the specific injuries caused by grabbing someone's neck and breaking it.
** Although Cersei didn't actually want him to kill Bran, in the book at least. She mentions at one point that her idea would have been to intimidate him into keeping quiet, but Jaime acted rashly.
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* OK, so this is a pretty trivial Just Bugs Me, but if Varys is a 'spider', and his spies are his 'little birds', [[MixedMetaphor shouldn't they be eating him?]] Or at the very least, not sharing their flies with him...

[[folder:Where are ''any'' of Catelyn's guards?]]
* Catelyn appears to arrive at Renly's camp with precisely no guards or entourage at all, and leaves with no guards as well, save for Brienne. So the mother of the self proclaimed King in the North is prancing around Westeros with no protection on the road whatsoever?
** There are two guards with her when she arrived. You can tell they're Northmen by their plain style of armor in contrast to the soldiers gathered at Storm's End. Presumably there were more guards waiting on the outskirts of the camp just Catelyn Stark got separated during the chaos that occurred.
** I would assume that Renly's people weren't about to escort a large group of armed and armored men, from one of the opposing armies, right up in front of their king. Even if they were supposed to be there for a "peace envoy." [[/folder]]

[[folder:The not-rotted bodies...]]
* Okay, so the bodies the Night Watch bring in from beyond the Wall haven't rotted, so Samwell correctly assumes foul play. Do these men not understand the concept of freezing things to keep them from rotting? Especially in an area so far removed from civilization, you'd think they would freeze their meat to keep it fresh. Or do they just think that it doesn't apply to humans?
** In the novel, it's clearer that bodies do not rot even when they're removed from the ice.
** The Wall Weeps, it's not Winter yet and the bodies were in the open. They also do store meat in the Wall.
** Just because it's cold up there north of the Wall doesn't mean it's cold enough to preserve a body indefinitely. The cold would reduce the rot but the body should still smell.[[/folder]]

** Also the show establish that Tyrion’s penis is of normal size [[BiggusDickus or more]] (both because that’s what he says and also one of his lovers says it to Jaime), which is not uncommon, dwarfism generally does not affects the head and the genitals that tend to be of normal adult size (and Dwarf porn exists in case you want to check it out, I personally pass).

** Honestly, this is Vargo we're talking about. He probably either doesn't know or just doesn't care that urine is toxic and thought the idea of a high and mighty Kingslayer drinking piss would make a good laugh.

** [[FridgeBrilliance In fact]], that's something [[NotSoDifferent he shares with Varys]]. You know how people in the Night's Watch and Kingsguard vow to "father no children and hold no lands" in order to render themselves aristocratically harmless? Varys exploits the fact that "entire" men don't feel threatened by eunuchs, and Littlefinger is similarly "harmless" due to holding no lands (except, eventually, the indefensible white elephant that is Harrenhal -- but no-one grants him any ''useful'' lands). [[/folder]]

* Think about it, The FounderOfTheKingdom and his heirs during a 300 year long dynasty was exclusively marrying their heir to his sister in order to keep the bloodline pure. 300 years of living in the royal court and try to elevate yourself and your family would have been dependent of you being willing to ignore the fact that The King and His Queen is siblings. Shouldn't this StepfordSmiler {{Masquerade}} have tickled down to the common folks world-view so that the spawn of a BrotherSisterIncest shouldn't be a automatic death sentence?

** Assuming they decide to follow the books on the boy's role, outlining what a monster he is, is pretty redundant. Considering almost everything he does later on is so ridiculously over the top it actually veers into being too hard to take seriously. His next exploits consist of having a woman raped by dogs and flaying a group the Not-Really-Vikings when using Theon as an ambassador. So, I'm not sure how you could say he takes a 'larger role' because he mostly existed in the books as a satellite to Theon's ad Roose's stories. I'm not sure how good a reason that is.

** Assuming they decide to follow the books on the boy's role, outlining what a monster he is is pretty redundant. Considering almost everything he does later on is so ridiculously over the top it actually veers into being too hard to take seriously. His next exploits consist of having a woman raped by dogs and flaying a group the Not-Really-Vikings when using Theon as an ambassador. So, I'm not sure how you could say he takes a 'larger role' because he mostly existed in the books as a satellite to Theon's ad Roose's stories. I'm not sure how good a reason that is.

* His father and grandfather AND mother are at war with one of the most powerful houses in the land, and he goes and [has the patriarch of said family executed!? [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even CERSEI]] was screaming "WTF ARE YOU DOING!?" at him while his girlfriend was pleading at his side...and now his father has been captured by the Starks. Way to go, Joffrey, Jaime's about to be eye for an eye'd by Robb Stark!

** Given that Jon was revealed to not be Ned's son after all and actually the last Targaryen heir, it makes sense that Ned wouldn't legitimize him, since as a bastard, he wouldn't be expected to be with the nobles in formal gatherings and thus there wouldn't be any focus on him. Plus legitimization requires a decree from the king, and Robert is the absolute last person Ned would want to find out that Jon is Rhaegar and Lyanna's son, so he wouldn't give him a reason to look too closely into Jon.