Don't believe the hype, here are 11 Game of Thrones characters that turned out to be pretty pointless.
Don't believe the hype, here are 11 Game of Thrones characters that turned out to be pretty pointless.
We see a young Ned Stark and Bran's uncle Benjen. They're sparring in the courtyard. "They were all so happy," says Bran, and of course they were—this was back before George R.R. Martin started writing about their lives. Arriving on horseback is a character we've never seen, but ...
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The garrison is under the command of Robb Stark's great-uncle Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully, and is the last bastion of Robb's short-lived independent kingdom that remains unconquered. Riverrun's garrison may be surrounded and alone, fighting for a dead king, but their defenses are ...
but smart and sly and strangely generous to others.) Significantly, Tyrion comes upon Jon Snow just after Jon has asked his Uncle Benjen to let him join the Night’s Watch, where no bastard is ever turned away. “You don’t understand what you’d be giving up,” Benjen says. “We ha...
asking him if Robb's war is really more important to the realm than their war with the Wildings and White Walkers. Jon agrees and we learn they're saddling up to take a group of Night's Watch beyond The Wall to do battle with whatever they find—and look for Jon's uncle Benjen ...
Season 2 and to a slightly lessor extent 3 suffer the most relative to the books. AClash of KingsandA Storm of Swordsare nearly as good asA Game of Thronesand yet much larger. Compressing these two chunks of the narrative into one season each, when it probably needed 2.5-3 total makes ...
Down in the Castle Black courtyard, someone’s caught the horse, and as Jon stride up to it he’s yelling, “Benjen’s horse! That’s my uncle’s horse!” He turns to the commander: “Where’s my uncle?” The commander doesn’t answer. ...
Essentially, it's fueled by the dream of watching the two most feared fighters in all of Westeros, the Hound and the Mountain (who are also brothers), face off in a fight to the death. SEE ALSO: Here's why Uncle Benjen's reunion with Jon Snow was so important in 'Game of Thrones...