Game of Thrones fans, who would you follow

Started by Zoupa, May 30, 2011, 05:13:59 PM

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As a freerider at the outset of the War, who would you pledge your sword to?

Joffrey Baratheon
2 (7.1%)
Stannis Baratheon
3 (10.7%)
Renly Baratheon
4 (14.3%)
Robb Stark
7 (25%)
Balon Greyjoy
1 (3.6%)
Daenerys Targaryen
8 (28.6%)
Mance Rayder
3 (10.7%)

Total Members Voted: 28

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Viking

#15
May 30, 2011, 06:57:28 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 30, 2011, 06:54:50 PM
Quote from: Viking on May 30, 2011, 06:44:53 PM
Mance Rayder, I'm not much for bending any knee to any lordling, plus I suspect he might be Rhaegar in disguise.

You're getting dangerously into increasingly bizarre theories, you know.

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#16
May 30, 2011, 07:08:13 PM
Joffrey and Stannis couldn't rule if their lives depended on it. Danaeris and Greyjoy are overseas, hard to ride to their service, you know. Mance Rayder is a joke.

That leaves Robb and Renly. It would come down to where I lived, probably.

Habbaku

#17
May 30, 2011, 07:09:00 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 30, 2011, 05:28:52 PM
I must support Jon Snow and the Night Watch.

So an abstention, then.   :rolleyes:

Voted Stannis, as he is the rightful heir.
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Habbaku

#18
May 30, 2011, 07:10:37 PM
Actually, what are our motives, here?  Are we only supposed to be worried about money or lands?  Because if that's the case, obviously Joffrey or Renly are the best bet.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
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Razgovory

#19
May 30, 2011, 07:12:17 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 30, 2011, 06:22:13 PM
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Admiral Yi

#20
May 30, 2011, 07:17:22 PM
Not sure I've seen Stannis.  Is he the guy who protected the beautiful homoknight after the joust with the horse killer?

Zoupa

#21
May 30, 2011, 07:23:28 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on May 30, 2011, 07:10:37 PM
Actually, what are our motives, here?  Are we only supposed to be worried about money or lands?  Because if that's the case, obviously Joffrey or Renly are the best bet.

Hmmm, I put freerider instead of sellsword, so let's say honour and glory and all that stuff.

Faeelin

#22
May 30, 2011, 07:25:24 PM
I'm not sure why Stannis is considered a bad ruler, other than he doesn't throw parties.

Who does the watery tart with the scimitar support?

viper37

#23
May 30, 2011, 07:30:01 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on May 30, 2011, 05:13:59 PM
Just curious  :)

I'm torn between Stannis and Renly.
Jofrrey is a Lannister and the Lannisters are plotting as if they were in Dallas.
Stannis his apparently a younger image of his late brother. Inept king.
The gay dude is, well, gay, so no chance of founding a dynasty here.  Besides, he's power hungry.
Robb Stark would make a good ruler, but no one would respect him anymore than they did his father, and he's not as ruthless as the old Baratheon could have been.  No.
Balon Greyjoy is the father of the other Greyjoy, the one whom people here said was a traitor.  So, no.  Unfit to rule.
Don't know the Rayder guy, so no.

Wich leaves us with Daenarys.  She seems to be the only one sane enough to rule a country, so far.  She will eventually command dragons, they told us so many times and the eggs glow near the candles.  Besides, she's very pretty.  A pretty non mad-plotting queen is what Westeros needs.
Also, being away from Westheros, I suspect she'll be one of the few left alive by the end of the series :P
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#24
May 30, 2011, 07:32:57 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 30, 2011, 07:17:22 PM
Not sure I've seen Stannis.  Is he the guy who protected the beautiful homoknight after the joust with the horse killer?
I don't think we have seen him yet.  He is the late king younger brother (the eldest of his younger brothers).  He is away from King's Landing since Stark sent him a message.
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#25
May 30, 2011, 07:37:47 PM
Quote from: Faeelin on May 30, 2011, 07:25:24 PM
I'm not sure why Stannis is considered a bad ruler, other than he doesn't throw parties.

Who does the watery tart with the scimitar support?
Wasn't the one lobbing the scimitar a moistened bint?  :unsure:
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#26
May 30, 2011, 07:40:28 PM
The Martells.  I still love Oberyn.   :wub:

Eddie Teach

#27
May 30, 2011, 07:40:46 PM
Winter is Coming.
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#28
May 30, 2011, 07:44:21 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 30, 2011, 07:17:22 PM
Not sure I've seen Stannis.  Is he the guy who protected the beautiful homoknight after the joust with the horse killer?

No, he hasn't been introduced in the TV series aside from several comments made about him (and Ned's supporting him as the rightful king).

Stannis is very much a law and order type of guy and not what one would deem charismatic...
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Sophie Scholl

#29
May 30, 2011, 07:44:53 PM
The Starks of those listed, though the Night Watch would probably be my top choice.
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