Game of Thrones

[Amrun]

Oh, right. I don't believe the Ashara one because of

what the old knight said about her to Dany

. The Wylla one is meh. Too boring - I think it's what Eddard wants people to believe.

[Iecerint]

Rhaegar + Lyanna is the most obvious choice, and one of the less boring ones IMPO.

[Sudo_Nym]

Rhaegar+Lyanna is so heavily foreshadowed that there has to be a twist.

[Ser Arthur Dayne]

Rhaegar+Lyanna is so heavily foreshadowed that there has to be a twist.

[bv310]

Rhaegar+Lyanna is so heavily foreshadowed that there has to be a twist.

It's actually Rhaegar/Catelyn's, obv.

[Staeg]

It's actually Rhaegar/Catelyn's, obv

~~~no~~~

[Iecerint]

Rhaegar+Lyanna is so heavily foreshadowed that there has to be a twist.

[Faraday]

Rhaegar+Lyanna is so heavily foreshadowed that there has to be a twist.

'promise me ned'

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

Eddard + Lyanna
OR
Eddard + Rhaegar

[Claus]

J = E + R! Because the closet is dark and full of terrors!

[Amrun]

Eddard + Lyanna

o.O

[Iecerint]

Some of the heavy R+L foreshadowing is only heavy because of internet communities. For example, I doubt a normal reader would make the connection that because Jon looks like Arya, Lyanna is his mother.

[Iecerint]

Also, we're using the GoT thread again. ^^~

[Amrun]

Okay, there's controversy that one of the severed heads looks like George Bush... It's on Fox News. -.-

[Sudo_Nym]

Some of the heavy R+L foreshadowing is only heavy because of internet communities. For example, I doubt a normal reader would make the connection that because Jon looks like Arya, Lyanna is his mother.

Except Arya is never really said to look much like Lyanna. She's always said to look like Eddard, which requires no explanation. In fact, in one of Jon's POV chapters, he remarks that he thinks on of the reasons Catelyn dislikes him so much is because Jon looks far more like Eddard than Robb, Bran, or Rickon do.

[Yosarian2]

A friend of mine had a theory that Jon was actually the son of Benjen Stark, and that Ned was keeping that secret since men of the night watch aren't supposed to have kids and all that. I could kind of see that, seeing how Benjen and Jon interacted and all that, but it doesn't seem all that likely to me.

[Iecerint]

Some of the heavy R+L foreshadowing is only heavy because of internet communities. For example, I doubt a normal reader would make the connection that because Jon looks like Arya, Lyanna is his mother.

Except Arya is never really said to look much like Lyanna. She's always said to look like Eddard, which requires no explanation. In fact, in one of Jon's POV chapters, he remarks that he thinks on of the reasons Catelyn dislikes him so much is because Jon looks far more like Eddard than Robb, Bran, or Rickon do.

Your first sentence is incorrect, though I don't doubt that she also is said to look like Ned. Here's a quote (found on a R+L tumblr via google):

“Ah, Arya. You have a wildness in you, child. ‘The wolf blood,’ my father used to call it. Lyanna had a touch of it, and my brother Brandon more than a touch. It brought them both to an early grave.”

Arya heard sadness in his voice; he did not often speak of his father, or of the brother and sister who had died before she was born. “Lyanna might have carried a sword, if my lord father had allowed it. You remind me of her sometimes.

You even look like her

.”

“Lyanna was beautiful,” Arya said, startled. Everybody said so. It was not a thing that was ever said of Arya. “She was,” Eddard Stark agreed, “beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time.”-GRRM, A Game of Thrones

It makes sense that most other characters would focus on the Eddard resemblance over the Lyanna resemblance, being that Lyanna has been dead for 10+.

[Seacore]

Thanks Iec, I was going to have to go hunting for that quote.

[hasdgfas]

Okay, there's controversy that one of the severed heads looks like George Bush... It's on Fox News. -.-

One of the severed heads

is

George Bush though. The creators of the show confirmed it in one of the audio commentaries.

[Amrun]

Okay, there's controversy that one of the severed heads looks like George Bush... It's on Fox News. -.-

One of the severed heads

is

George Bush though. The creators of the show confirmed it in one of the audio commentaries.

Yes, I heard that. But people are really butthurt over it and it's giving the show bad press.

Also, I never heard why he did that. That's fucking asinine.

[Nikanor]

Theory: Jaqen H'ghar is actually Rhaegar in disguise, and the reason for why Jaqen is so nice to Arya is because she looks like Lyanna.

[Iecerint]

Jaqen is hot IMO. Too bad his face changed.

[Amrun]

Theory: Jaqen H'ghar is actually Rhaegar in disguise, and the reason for why Jaqen is so nice to Arya is because she looks like Lyanna.

Don't like. I like him as he is and being nice to Arya because she earned it.

But I read that as "Japan" somehow.

[Faraday]

I don't think Nikanor was proposing a serious theory <_< >_>

[Staeg]

I'm not sure how the Faceless Men work, but I'm gonna go ahead and agree with faraday