#the dorne plot

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Top uses of rule of 3s in asoiaf?

Personally I’m interested in the 3 targ-martell marriages the first worked , the second was doomed/ruined and the third is yet to be seen but if arianne survives I’ll be happy lol

GIRL NO 😭😭 if Arianne dies we ride at dawn 😭

I mean, if an Aegon-Arianne betrothal does happen, I think Aegon VI being doomed is enough to doom their marriage. Arianne doesn’t necessarily have to die for it for fall apart and fulfill GRRM’s rule of threes. More than that, Arianne’s plot has a little too many points that set her up as the future ruler of Dorne. Especially her TWOW chapters.

On the other hand, I don’t know if I believe that an Aegon-Arianne match will happen because Aegon already has the Dornish support through his mother, Elia Martell. If Doran was so willing to put Viserys on the throne just to avenge his sister, I don’t think he will feel the need to secure an alliance with Aegon VI through a marriage with Arianne. Although, there may be some plot points that crop up in TWOW that will require Arianne to be married to Aegon VI but I can’t think of them right now lol.

My favourite rule of threes is the Starks and Petyr Baelish. Brandon Stark beat Petyr up for challenging him for Catelyn’s hand in marriage. He only stopped and didn’t kill Baelish because Catelyn begged him to spare Petyr. Then Ned choked the hell out of Baelish in Kings Landing, only to leave that task incomplete. The one to complete this will be a maid with purple serpents in her hair who will slay a giant in a castle made of snow and I for one cannot wait :) Sansa will finish what Brandon started, thereby ending the whole cycle of political anguish that the Starks had to suffer since AGOT.

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The outrage over season 8 actually pisses me off so much because it wasn’t the first time D&D fucked characters over, and the previous times they did that actually went against the books.

There was Stannis, who they wrote as burning Shireen and dying after failing to beat Ramsay. It’s physically impossible for him to burn Shireen in the books (she’s at the Wall and he’s dealing with Ramsay near Winterfell.) and he’s still alive, and the far likelier victor than Ramsay. They also removed the scenes where he grieved over Renly and other moments that really humanised Stannis.

There was the entirety of Dorne. In the books, Ellaria decries the idea of getting revenge for Oberyn because she doesn’t want to perpetuate the cycle of revenge. The show has her wanting revenge. The Sand Snakes are close to and protective of their cousins in the book, but in the show they kill Trystane. They’re also just much better characters in the book.

There was Euron. In the books, he’s a chillingly evil psychopath who abused his brothers when they were children, tortures multiple people and is just generally a terrifying person. Not the goofy, ridiculous pirate man he is in the show. I hate this one the most. Book!Euron is a despicable person but he, and his overall plan, are fascinating.

But there was only mild anger at these, not the vitriolic fury there was when the show had Daenerys do the same thing she’d been doing for seven seasons prior. I guess it doesn’t matter unless it’s the white saviour imperialist favourite.