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Dance Around this May Poll

  • Ned Stark (his Neducation in the Vale, being in Brandon's shadow) 85
  • Cersei & Jaime Lannister (Tywin, Joanna, being twins yet treated differently) 12
  • Sam Tarly (A square peg that wouldn't fit in a round hole, effectively disinherited) 11
  • Theon Greyjoy (raised in two households, torn between two worlds) 13
  • Arianne Martell (female heirs aren't passed over in Dorne, but she thought she was an exception) 22
  • 2023-05-11
  • —2023-05-19
  • 143 votes
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This will either be the May 28th or June 4th episode. We have something in mind for May 28th, but it's currently TBD. There will be episodes both Sundays, to be clear. We will clarify as we get closer!

We talk about the importance of childhood quite a lot on our show, and of course it's a huge part of ASOIAF/HotD in general.  So let's look at the upbringing of one of these POV characters:

Comments

Lomas Knightrider, Survivor of the Yeen Sleepover

If the theme is how an upbringing profoundly shaped a character, a character it’s Theon or Sam hands down. Ned’s seems to actually be the most mundane IMO. But still worth a deep dive.