Game of Thrones - Raines of Castamere...

[shadowkat]

Eh believe it or not, this scene was far gorier in the books. Sort of glad they didn't go there.

But in both cases it upset me, because of Arya mostly...and the fact that Robb and Catlynn had finally grown on me. It also deadened me to anything that could happen afterwards.

Weird that his wife was there and pregnant. She wasn't in the books. But I now know why - to explain why Robb is rendered defenseless and doesn't run.

Forgot the Blackfish was there...thought he wasn't. And they didn't do the scene with Edmund Tully in the bath with his new wife, who warns him when the song begins. Did it here - with Catelynn recognizing the song and seeing Lord Bolton's expression and the closing of the gates.

Oh well at least Theon wasn't on. But I missed the Lannisters quite a bit. Even though it's made clear by Lord Bolton that Tywin Lannister was behind it - when he says, "The Lannisters send their regards" - when he stabs Robb through the back.



ETA:..there be spoilage in the comments thread.

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[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

And his army is with him because he wants to go directly towards Casterly Rock from the Twins and invade. In the books, he takes his army in part, because he's uncertain of House Frey. HE's not quite as stupid and arrogant in the books as he is here - if memory serves.

Oh, Robb was never going to Casterly Rock at all in the books; he was headed back north to retake Winterfell and the northern lands from the Greyjoys. And they needed to cross at the Twins to GO North, which is why he had most of his army with him (he left some people at Riverrun to defend it, and he left his wife there because the insult to the Freys in bringing her would have been monumental, and he didn't want HER to be insulted by Walder Frey either.) But in the books, also remember that Jeyne Westerling's family were in cahoots with Tywin Lannister (though Jeyne herself was not) and she thus probably wouldn't have been killed even if she HAD gone to the Red Wedding.

And yes, fifteen-year-old book Robb is less of an arrogant dumbass than eighteen-looks-like-he's-twenty-six year old Show !Robb :P