Robb presents himself to Walder Frey, and Edmure meets his bride. Jon faces his harshest test yet. Bran discovers a new gift. Daario and Jorah debate how to take Yunkai. House Frey joins with House Tully.
Robb presents himself to Walder Frey, and Edmure meets his bride. Jon faces his harshest test yet. Bran discovers a new gift. Daario and Jorah debate how to take Yunkai. House Frey joins with House Tully.
So yeah. It's definitely happening on Sunday. Prepare all of thy anuses.
Side note: saying RW is as far from a spoiler as possible.
Side note to your side note: I was concerned that you'd continue and *eventually* say something inappropriate. It's not like there isn't precedent for that.
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"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo.
"The game of thrones in general is a game of cronyism because it's all about forming political alliances, especially with people who can make you better off economically speaking," says Auburn University Economics Instructor Matthew McCaffrey.
McCaffrey has recently written about the economics involved in the popular Game of Thrones novels by George R.R. Martin as well as the HBO series based on the books. He sat down with ReasonTV's Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss the various economic concepts that develop alongside the character-driven plot line, such as sin taxes, coin clipping, and the ever-present cost of borrowing.
According to McCaffrey, Martin extensively researches historical economic systems to make "the Realm" as plausible as possible.
"As part of his process he ends up uncovering a lot of historical details that usually get lost in a fantasy book of this kind," says McCaffrey, "just practical difficulties of running a kingdom, how public finance works, how the game of thrones corrupts the people who play it and how it ends disastrously for the people who don't play it well."
Watched it with two friends who have read the books and one friend who hasn't. Was actually surprised that the one who hasn't read the books was utterly shocked. He somehow did not see the Red Wedding coming. Now he's all sullen and saying he's done with the show.