[ SECRET POST #2383 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2383 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.









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[Hannibal; moving gif]


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02. [SPOILERS for Hawaii Five-O]



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03. [SPOILERS for Ashes to Ashes/Life on Mars]



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04. [SPOILERS for A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones]



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05. [WARNING for rape]

[Russell Brand]


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06. [WARNING for sexual assault]



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07. [WARNING for chan/shota]



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08. [WARNING for emotional abuse]



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09. [WARNING for rape/dub-con]



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10. [WARNING for incest]

[Fosters]


















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Comments

[fscom]

04. [SPOILERS for A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones]
http://i.imgur.com/ZYW2yzZ.jpg

[fauxkaren]

Ned was a good man, but he lacked the political acumen to be aa good king.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. That's one of the interesting themes of the series, imo. Good people are not always good rulers, no matter how much we might wish they were. And good rulers are not always people we would find likable.

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't that pretty much why he (and hell, anybody going for the throne) died?

[(Anonymous)]

Really? Of all the characters, Ned Stark reminds me most of Stannis. He lived in a world of black-and-white uncompromising morality. That might be admirable in a man, but it would be fatal in a ruler.

[lex_antonia]

Really? In my opinion, it's the other way around. Fatal in a man, admirable in a ruler.

I think Stannis would be a good king if it weren't for the whole One True God business, and Ned ruled the North very well.

[(Anonymous)]

The likes of Ned and Stannis would be fine as rulers so long as no crises came along that challenged their morals - but considering the times they're living in, that's very unlikely. When you step back and think about it...the long summer' of peace in Westeros was really nothing more than a pause for breath in the turbulent civil war that resulted from the toppling of the Targaryen dynasty. Read a bit of real-world history and you'll see the same pattern repeat itself. Such times do not lend themselves to rigidly moral rulers.

Ned ruled the North very well.

I agree. But the South is not the North, and being a good Lord of Winterfell does not translate to becoming a successful King of Westeros. The Starks were respected in the North, and were raised into Northern traditions in which honour played a large part. But similar relationships did not exist between Stark and the Southern houses, and Ned Stark in his naivety seemed to believe that honour alone would win him the allies he needed (or even that he did not need allies, though such naivety is hard to believe). When it came down to it, Ned Stark was either unable or unwilling to do what was necessary to survive the politics of Kings Landing, and as such he could never have been a good King.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see the Lannisters doing any better, tbqh.

[lunabee34]

I agree with you completely.

I think Ned would've made a better king than Stannis, but he couldn't play the political game necessary to keep the Iron Throne. Ned was an excellent lord; as a ruler on a smaller scale, he's probably the most successful example in the whole series. I think it helps that Winterfell and the surrounding areas seem filled with people who are cut from the same cloth Ned is. In King's Landing where he has to deal with Littlefinger and the Lannisters and Varys, Ned is lost. And every time he finds out that one more little piece of his soul is required to make the realm run smoothly, he despairs.

[miss_yuka]

I don't necessarily want him to be king but I do miss him just because he's such a nice guy and it makes me sad that he died so soon :(

[(Anonymous)]

You know nothing, Anon Snow.

[lex_antonia]

He's still my favourite character, after all this time, lol.

People keep saying how stupid he was, but you know what? The South lost practically its entire last harvest over power games. Once they're all starving to death 'Winter is Coming' will turn out to be the smartest things anyone's ever said in the whole of Westeros.

[(Anonymous)]

He was too idealistic for the realities of politics in the south and elsewhere, but he was clearly a competent ruler in the north which tends to be forgotten by those who call him stupid. He was pretty smart to catch onto a pattern, a motive why Aryn was murdered, so smart that someone decided he needed to die.

spoilers for A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones

[transcriptanon]

spoilers for the book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" and its TV show adaptation, "Game of Thrones"

[Picture is Eddard "Ned" Stark from the TV show "Game of Thrones". He is a middle-aged man with pale skin, medium-length brown hair, a short beard and mustache. He is clutching the hilt of something (a sword, maybe?) with a glove hand, and is wearing a fur-lined coat.]

I'm still bummed out that he died. I think he would've made an awesome king! [angry face emoticon]

[lovelycudy]

I have to disagree. He was a good man, but a good ruler needs more flexibility. Also, I think the best thing that can happen to Westeros is transition from fragmented power (what the North represents) to a centralised, Modern monarchy.

[togekiss]

he'd make a good king in a disney movie :(

[(Anonymous)]

He would make a fantastic king if he had a competent loyal Hand, and trustworthy savvy advisors that he would listen to for the practical political advice. But Westoros is never that idealistic.

[(Anonymous)]

...he was played by Sean Bean.

did you actually think for even a minute that he would live?

[lady_songsmith]

Surely he must have survived something he was in?

[(Anonymous)]

He has played characters that survived -- National Treasure is one off the top of my head where his character is arrested at the end. I believe his characters in Troy, North Country, Black Beauty and Missing (with Ashley Judd)lived to the credits too.

[wauwy]

Odysseus cannot be killed. it is known.

[lex_antonia]

There's one weird movie in which everyone dies except Sean Bean. It felt like an elaborate in-joke.

[(Anonymous)]

Just because he's dead doesn't mean he can't be king. Sheesh.

[dragonimp]

Did his characterization/storyline come out differently in the HBO series than the book? Because when he died in the book I was utterly unsurprised.

[gabzillaz]

He would have been a terrible king.