Cartoon Accessories Who needs to watch cartoons on TV when you can buy some cartoon accessories Check out our cartoon games, tshirts, dresses, dolls and toys. Book Of Dragons Cartoon Rating' title='Book Of Dragons Cartoon Rating' />Mostly Game of Thrones Edition. Greetings, my Westerosi window envelopes As you can probably guess, last weeks episode of Game of Thronesand its increasing dominance over the pop culture landscapehas filled the ol postmans stolen mailbag to the brim. There are a few spoilers for last weeks episode, but more importantly, an answer to a question we should have been asking ourselves since the first episode Should we want Daenerys and Jon Snow to fuck Aunt, Man. Aaron W. So Ive been struggling with this question a lot Is it ok to ship JonDanyOn the con side, they are aunt and nephew, which is gross. On the pro side it would sidestep Dany needing Jon to bend the knee and is a solution that the northmen would probably accept it would be thematically consistent fireice and it would eliminate almost all of the tension for trying to root for two characters who are at odds with each other due to circumstances beyond their control and the expectations of their subjects. Given that, I still would come out on the con side, except that we already know that some degree of inbreeding e. Westeros and that the Targaryens in particular practiced an even more exclusive e. So the auntnephew dynamic is an absolute deal breaker to modern audiences, but maybe wouldnt be the worst thing in Westeros Lots of reasons it would be good, but one BIG reason it is unacceptable. Thoughts Shipping is shipping. Ive seen worse than aunt and nephew. Much worse. And the show is definitely presenting them as future romantic partnersfuckbuddies, which makes it as legitimate as these things get. Their familial relationship may freak you out, but thats sort of the point. GRRM wants to show a medieval, feudal type era with all the awfulness most fantasies skip over. The relentless sexism, the rape and torture, the horror that regular people could and did experience constantly as the result of what the nobility chose to doyou can absolutely complain about how omnipresent it is in his stories andor how its portrayed, but its not inaccurate to the source material of that reality. A description of tropes appearing in Dungeons Dragons. The original Tabletop RPG, Dungeons Dragons was first published in 1974 by TSR Tactical. And one part of that reality is medieval and certainly ancient nobilitys tendency toward incest, especially between uncles and niecesto the point where its got its own name, avunculate marriage. Free Download Frankenweenie Cartoon here. As you said, the booksshow have already shown that Targaryens have been more than willing to marry within the family in order to keep their bloodline pure, so theres a precedent for Jon and Dany starting a relationship. And since were talking about an aunt and nephew here since Jon is the son of Danys deceased brother Rhaegar and not uncleniece, a JonDany hook up would kind of strike a blow for Westerosi gender equality, in a tiny, messed up way. At any rate, as a Targaryen, Daenerys is obviously going to be down with getting down with Jon Snow, as it would be kind of meaningless to sieze the Iron Throne without leaving a new Targaryen line to carry on ruling. I am far more skeptical that Jon would be cool with sleeping with his aunt, given the rest of Westeros isnt nearly as cool with incest hence Cersei and Jaimes hiding of their sexual relationshipwell, until Cersei took the throne and decided that yes, in fact, as queen she gets to have sex with anyone she wants, and everyone else has to deal with it. Or be tortured and killed. But Jons problem is easily solved by keeping his parentage from him until after Ice and Fire have fucked each other. In fact, I suspect Bran is keepingwill keep the truth of Jons parentage from everyone until after Daenerys gets pregnant for that very reason. The Three Eyed Raven knows this has to happen, so mums the word for now Or GRRMor the show, for that matter, since we know its diverging from GRRMs plan in major wayscould just throw a curveball and have Dany marry Gendry, the closest thing King Robert had to a legitimate heir, combining the Targaryen and Baratheon lines to create a progeny whose claim to the throne is unassailable throughout Westeros. Actually, thats a pretty good ideaJaime in the Water. Book Learning. Sean P. Stephenson Ive been following the HBO version of GoT since the beginning, and have been toying with reading the books, but I had a multi. Brett H. I see people talking everywhere about how Jaime could possibly be alive, but how Hes way at the bottom of the lake and in full armor. No way Bronn can hold his breath long enough to get down there, cut all the straps to all the pieces of the armor, pull them off, and then also pull him to safety before they both drown. Im not going to say its unrealistic, since Jaime was pushed into the water to avoid a dragon, but the point of Game of Thrones is that it has fantasy elements but its still realistic in the basic laws of physics. So isnt Jaime getting rescued impossible You bring up a good point about fantasy, in that the best fantasy has a set of rules, even if the audience doesnt know them, and doesnt break them. Someone suddenly having a hoist person out of lake spell to save Jaime would be dumb. Tyrion running down the hell and begging Dany to have Drogon fish the dude who was about to kill her out of the lake is more realistic for Go. T, but implausible in terms of Danys character and the time it would take for Tyrion to get down to Dany and ask for her to save his brother. So that leaves Bronn. Heres one thing we all need to make our peace with first, right now Game of Thrones the TV show has begun playing fast and loose with strict reality in favor of presenting the most exciting story possible. This is how armies and fleets are moving gargantuan distances in between and sometimes even during episodes. Its why Tyrion can pick out Jaime from half a mile away amid a battlefield full of smoke and destruction. Its why Cersei and her allies can suddenly kick ass or all of Highgardens gold can get into Kings Landing with a mutter and a handwave. There are only nine episodes left, total, as of the time this mailbag hits the nerdernet. The show doesnt have any time to waste. Yes, part of the reason the books are so good is because they were sprawling and complicated in the way life is, and yes, the show is 1. But the choices were to either have the story on fast forward so it actually ends next year or for Daenerys to have her first battle with Cerseis forces in the season eight finale. So with all that said Since Game of Thrones has forgone its sense of realism a bit, I can see it having Bronn manage to dive down to Jaime, cutting him out of his armor, and dragging him to the surface before he fatally drowns. I also, as I mentioned in my recap this week, think it doesnt make any narrative sense for Bronn to push Jaime out of the way of a giant cone of dragon breath into a lake, only to have him immediately drownif Weiss and Benioff are going to kill the character, having Jaime get turned into cinders by Drogon is a much, much cooler death. So I think the show will forgo realism I mean, how was that lake at the side of that road a full 3. Bronn will cut Jaime out of his armor and drag him to the surface because Jaime is the one whos going to give him a castle, after all, and the Lannister will probably live to fight another day. And I also think hell be the one to perform those book spoilers valonqar duties, and obviously, he cant do that if hes dead. Last time I looked, I didnt see any friendly priests of Rhllor nearby. Where to even beginThe Spoils of War was the reason we watch Game of Thrones, one of thoseRead more Gone But Not Forgotten. Michael V. Postman,After re watching GOT from the beginning a few times, I believe that Ser Barristan Selmy is one character whose presence would enhance Season 7 while not distracting from the current main plots of the show. Ser Barristan would have been the most solid member of Daenerys Queensguard due to military and combat experience, but his relationship to Rhaegar is most interesting. When Dany tells Jon that everyone loves doing what theyre best at, Jon disagrees. Ser Barristan once told Dany a similar story about her brother Rhaegar preferring singing in the street to killing. How Will the Game of Thrones TV Show Affect the Books Greetings from the future Welcome to Postal Apocalypse, io. Rob Bricken. This week Ive got a lot of Defenders questions from one curious reader, a lot more Game of Thrones questions from many curious readers, and I explain why you should only be slightly worried about the Captain Marvel more right now. Book Learning. Sean P. Stephenson Ive been following the HBO version of Go. T since the beginning, and have been toying with reading the books, but I had a multi part question I feel only you can answer. When Go. T concludes next year on HBO, do you think GRRM will incorporate any of the premises presented that have been shown on the small screen that he didnt originally come up with, and do you think he will change anything he had already come up with because of what was already shown, as in I thought that was a good idea, but having seen it played out, lets go a different route. Its impossible to say. Sorry to defer the question, but George R. R. Martin is still writing The Winds of Winter, and has A Dream of Spring left to go if not moreI still believe hes going to end up writing three more books all told before hes done. What he has planned today may change tomorrow, or next year, or the year after that. Or the year after that or the year after that. You see where Im going with this. At some point, GRRM, David Benioff, and D. B. Weiss sat down to discuss the end of the story, both A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones. I sincerely doubt he told the showrunners everything he has planned, but there were definitely some story elements just too entrenched into the narrative for the show to skip, e. Hodors name. There may be a few others, but unless Weiss and Benioff fess up, we wont know for sure until the books are out. That said, the show will end up being vastly, vastly different from the books. Part of this is because the show has made its own changes to the narrative over its many years, which cant help but affect the ending part of it is because the series is ending in such a condensed timeframe only this Sundays season finale and six more episodes to go and part of it is likely Benioff and Weiss respect for GRRM, and their desire not to trample on what he has in mind for the books ending. But mostly because the books have so many more elements at play than the TV series the Fake Aegon, Lady Stoneheart, Victarion Greyjoy, Jeyne Poole whom Ramsay Bolton marries and claims is Arya, and more. Maybe Martin has something planned that the show is doing that, after seeing it, hell change his mind about. But we cant possibly know until he writes it. The Defense Rests. Jess D. Dear Postman, I have some Defenders questions. A lot of Defenders questions. Why is there the remains of a giant dragon underneath New York CityHow did the monks of Kun lun get over to North America to build a door that only the Iron Fist could open If the Substance was so dangerous, why not leave the door locked permanentlyOr better yet why not destroy it Why didnt the Hand just dig around the door There was a huge cavern down there. Couldnt they have dug to any other area and gotten in Why would removing the Substance destroy NYC If the Hand wanted to get back to Kun lun, like they said all the time, why did they only seem interested in getting to that underground place that we know wasnt Kun lun from Iron Fist I can give you answers to all of these, as long as you dont mind that The Defenders TV series in no way supports or confirms any of them. In ancient times giant dragons roamed the earth, and died like any other creature. The monks tasked themselves with protecting the Substance left behind by these dragons to prevent evil people from getting ahold of it. They traveled by boats to North America, and then used their mystical powers both to push the bones deep, deep underground and to create a magic shield all the way around the cavern that now housed them, leaving a door as the only access point. The monks did this instead of destroying the Substance, because they could foresee a time when they were so desperate they might need the Substance themselves, and thus made the key the Iron Fist, who would always be a protector of Kun Lun until Danny Rand fucked it up. Oh, and then the mystical energies of these dragons subconsciously led humans to build cities on top of them. Although, the Hand clearly got to the Substance under Pompeii and Chernobyl, because they said they destroyed them hmm the dragon under New York City was the biggest dragon and had the most substance, which made it the one that most needed to be denied to the Hand, and is why New York City is a much, much more major city than Chernobyl or Pompeii. More dragon, more mystical energy, more Substance, more city. And after so many millennia, the Substance became part of the essence of the Earth itselfmysticallyand thus removing would effectively cause a cataclysm in the location it was housed. As for your last question, its because uh by sealing the area off, the Monks effectively made it part of Kun Lun, even though it was thousands of miles from the actual mystical city. So Sigourney Weaver and the rest were speaking metaphorically. Yeah. The Jon Con. W I feel there hasnt been enough discussion about the legitimate reveal that Jon is in fact the legitimate son of Rhaegar and the entire dynamic this imposes on Jon Dany hook up believers. He is in the direct succession to the iron throne. I honestly cannot see how these two would work if this gets exposed to the whole world. Even if it is after she may or may not get pregnant with a mini incest royalty baby, I cannot visualize a way for the plot to just make this situation okay with Jon. I can realistically see Dany dying after all this simply because Jon will in fact always know nothing. Dany cannot possible just stop her quest for total dominance of Westeros just because Jon gets revealed to be the true heir at least lets hope the show writers dont take the easy way out. Its not going to get exposed to the whole world. When Jon finds outif Jon finds out, he could probably fulfill whatever prophecy Rhaegar heard that made him seek out Lyanna Stark and marry her and throw all of Westeros into civil war without ever knowinghes not going to broadcast it. Hell likely tell Dany, who also wont tell anybody, for obvious reasons. And Jon will be fine with that, because there is no one who wants to sit on the Iron Throne less than Jon Snow. Also Jon is absolutely not going to live through the series finale. The Lord of Light brought him back for a purpose when that purpose is fulfilled, he isnt going to be rewarded with a vacation. Thats not how the world of Westeros works. The End Is Not Nigh. James M. Game of Thrones has already surpassed its source material and will possibly finish the entire saga before we even get the penultimate volume in book form. Kingkiller Chronicles is already spinning off televison, movies and video games while we await the concluding volume with bated breath. Stormlight Archive has been greenlit for movie adaptions and realistically the series will not conclude for another 2. We have so many wonderful finished works that remain unadapted. Why are we rushing so much to make film and television of works in progress Because TV and movie studios need to make money constantly, and to do that they need to make content. They look for whats hot right now, not whats finished. Thats a problem for later, and its for the creators and directors and screenwriters and so forthnot the studios. This is true just about anywhere, to be clear. Anime does this a fair amount. Fullmetal Alchemist is the biggest example I can think ofit had a TV show long before the manga was finished, and then just made up its own ending, just like Game of Thrones.