Going Over Bran II, A Game of Thrones

Rereading A Game of Thrones. Here's me going over Bran II, AGoT

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Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on the fantasy novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. A Game of Thrones is one of the most successful television series to ever made and continues to captivate audiences all over the world. The series is set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, and interweaves several plot lines with a large ensemble cast. The first narrative arc follows a civil war among several noble houses for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms; the second covers the attempts to reclaim the throne by the exiled last scion of the realm's deposed ruling dynasty; the third chronicles the rising threat of the impending winter and the legendary creatures and fierce peoples of the North.
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[Smile.]

He isn't giving reasons they didn't go on the hunt, it's reasons Bran isn't hanging out with them.

[robertmauck]

3:40 the way I had always read it was Bran going through his options of who to hang out with while the older men are out hunting. He didn't want to be with Rickon, since he is the baby. He didn't want to be with his sisters, because they're girls. And he couldn't hang out with Jon, because he couldn't find him (but he didn't look that hard).

[corbinskywalker]

Robb wasn't allowed to go hunting if he didn’t finish his daily knitting.

[LazyBazooka]

the dead sea scrolls say that preston will have gone over every asoiaf chapter ever released and winds still won't be out

[coreyander]

The elaborate mapping out of Winterfell reminds me of Catelyn's hike up to the Eyrie, how much description was devoted to the defenses, Stone, Snow, and Sky, how impossible it would be to scale in winter. I thought for sure it was foreshadowing an important battle there once winter arrived, maybe involving the Others, but that doesn't seem on the horizon at all.

I figure Bran's knowledge of Winterfell's layout is just characterization, showing his adventurousness, his active lifestyle he's about to lose, how Winterfell is home to him. Not everything is lore or battle foreshadowing.

[Mj_Jetson]

"His wife is Lady Arryn's sister. It's a wonder Lysa was not here to greet us with her accusations."... it does kinda fit for the accusation to be about twincest? They're assuming that Jon Arryn told Lysa everything - "That frightened cow shared Jon Arryn's bed." Cersei did know that Jon Arryn was figuring out the twincest: "Jon Arryn put Robert Baratheon in her bed, and before he died he'd begun sniffing about her and Jaime as well." (Cersei I AFfC)

[wyattblaine]

“Corn” in asoiaf is actual corn, maize. Medieval accounts referencing corn are talking about grain, but GRRM has stated that his corn is corn.

[maxwell_j_R]

The man in the glass gardens = the hooded man CONFIRMED?!

[bryansales]

I am pretty sure GRRM just meant who Bran had to hang out with lol.

[WheresPoochie]

My favorite detail here is how Jaime initially helps Bran back up to the window. It is only after Cersei panics that he decides to give Bran a shove.

It makes perfect sense that it is only when Jaime is separated from Cersei that he properly grows a (relative) moral conscience in the books.

[EasternStandardTim]

49:38 poor bran, not only pushed from the tower, but trampled by cows looking for corn

[AnaatthiGozo]

More often than not Preston seems to underestimate the human element within all the lies and schemes. Or you apply it to one thing but not to another. If Lysa blames the Lannisters for the murder, you claim they should just say "I didn't do it.", and then immediately you move on to say that "I didn't do it" won't work if it's about the incest. And even then, half a book later, Tyrion is going to get thrown down the Moon Door no matter how much he claims he didn't do anything.

[Mj_Jetson]

Why do only 3 kingsguard come north? Then entire royal family came north - shouldn't Robert have brought most or all of them?

[steveandortudge]

Really enjoying these, thank you... Padding it might be, but the start of this chapter is so moving to me on the reread. Bran made the most of his able body while he had it and even in his own POV he's so darn likeable. We are with him for weeks and months afterward in his mourning, such that reliving his last moments of joy is heartbreaking. I think the extra paragraphs spent here with him climbing are needed for our investment, to appeeciate current-Bran with enough context to not lose sense of who he was before

[Mj_Jetson]

With divorce/annulment, I think GRRM changed his mind on how easy it is to break a marriage? I guess it probably relates to Rhaegar and Lyanna... originally, he was going to have Rhaegar divorce Elia and secretly marry Lyanna, like in the show? Then he changed his mind, and added the Conquerors' polygamy in later AGoT drafts, then changed his mind again, and made it really really difficult to break a marriage, and added a lot of nuance about the role and ambiguity of marriage and bastards.

[ND]

I think Cersei’s paranoia towards Lysa is from the fact that she fled Kingslanding. She probably assumes she must know something, why else immediately flee after Jon dies.

[emmaswift]

Cersei being worried that Robert will “set her aside” is so batshit and considers no consequences. It’s just so Cersei and clearly just her projecting her insanity onto Robert. I will choose to read it as subtle characterization.

[jwc]

"This doesn't make sense unless Cersei is paranoid and unstable"

Well... Yeah.

[lnjwqnh]

When he calls Bran a squirrel and then later the children of the forest say they were referred to as squirrel children, I believe

[justin.channels]

Even if Winterell geography does not come back (I think originally it would have in a battle, with passages used for assassination or espionage--lost in the gardening), it shows us what Bran thinks as he explores. Remember being a child and looking for secret passages or the next club house? It is characterization of Bran's childhood.

Nice analysis! I really enjoy the breakdowns whether serious or no. Sometimes i am more likely to think a cigar is just a cigar.