Game of Thrones Season 4 Q&A
Added 2025-09-19 18:31:11 +0000 UTCI did every question from the community post! It is a long video.
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Yeah there is no doubt in my mind it causes problems. The difficulty is finding any empirical evidence that has a causal effect rather than just correlate (because it so hard to remove any other variables especially regarding the environment, or nurture aspect).
Lenny
2025-09-20 16:37:01 +0000 UTCAbout incest: GRRM said many times that Jaime and Cersei are narcissists. I’d call it NPD, but he always used the word narcissists. In the books they look exactly alike, so it’s basically like they are sleeping with their own reflection 😂 He didn’t write it just for shock but to show their narcissism. I looked into incest long ago and it leaves heavy scars like depression, PTSD, shame, and problems with trust and identity. It is one of the most destructive forms of abuse because it breaks safety inside the family. That’s why GRRM used it to show how twisted their love really is I could write for hours about incest… stories I’ve read on the internet and also some very strange facts. Sometimes blood attracts, it’s rare but it happens when close relatives meet later in life. Science even has a name for it, genetic sexual attraction. It shows how deep and complicated this subject is. It’s rare but real, and it shows how complicated incest can be FYI in my early 20s I met someone and it was instant chemistry we started texting, thank god nothing kissy or sexual happened because we immediately found out we were cousins from my dad’s side lol 😅
eleana UwU ShadowWolf
2025-09-20 13:31:33 +0000 UTCI am continuing on that tangent: Quoting the book on the words of Eddard Stark ;-): "The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die." and later: Ned had heard enough. "You send hired knives to kill a fourteen-year-old girl and still quibble about honor?" He pushed back his chair and stood. "Do it yourself, Robert. The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." This was the first book, and the first HBO season, the one that kept closest to the book. If I remember it right, both quotes were part of the show. The first is early when Bran has to witness the beheading of the Night's watch man who ran after seeing the horrors of the White Walkers, and the second is when Queen Cersei demands the head of Sansa's Direwolf and Robert hasn't got the backbone to deny that to her.
Sören aka Jon Weirgaryen
2025-09-20 12:05:17 +0000 UTC"Who's your Vander, don't say Ned" ... how about Roose Bolton? Just kidding. Heartfelt thanks for answering my too-many-too-long questions in depth! I just learned something that I had not spotted about Arya refusing The Hound's style of Mercy to The Hound: She is dispensing Stark Justice (not my pun either). Ned says: The man who passes the sentence shall also swing the sword, but before he does, he should listen to the condemned man's last words while looking him into the eyes. If he then finds he can't carry out the sentence, that man probably did not deserve that sentence. (paraphrasing here) Arya has The Hound on her kill list, so she has spoken the sentence, and now Sandor is asking for his brand-of-Mercy. Arya looks him into the eye, listens to his last words, then says st. like "you don't deserve mercy" (again me paraphrasing). Ned Stark's style of justice being dispensed.
Sören aka Jon Weirgaryen
2025-09-20 11:51:48 +0000 UTC
