Lady Mormont.
How awesome is she? She seems smarter than all but a handful of characters. Jon should make her his hand.
shareHopefully they will give her more screen time. She's more fun to watch than so many characters.
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Every time she opens her mouth, I am cheering. Just like every time Sansa opens her mouth, I'm moved to say "Oh shut up Sansa"
Anyone for a Lady Mormont spin-off?
I almost wonder if she is going to end up on the throne somehow.
shareI like her. Her actor does a good job at playing that part. If the kid was no good she would not come off as convincing and the whole thing would feel like some bring your kid to work prank.
On the other hand, I feel that as Emilia Clarkes role as Daenerys became more powerful, her acting became less convincing. Emilia Clarke was better in the first two seasons before she had an army, when she was just a girl playing at being a queen. Once she became a real queen her acting felt less authentic, because she isn't convincing at being authoritative and in command. Maybe you could say that Daenerys pretending to be a strong ruler is part of her character, but now in season 7 when she is no longer playing the part but living it she still seems kinda stiff in her acting.
Emilia Clarke is a good actress, but the role was stretched too far away from where she was at her best. On the other hand, Lyanna Mormont's actor plays the role of a young girl thrust into leadership with absolute conviction. You don't for a moment think she is playing at being tough, she IS tough.
Very well said. You put the finger on a couple things I didn't know how to express.
shareYou're right about Clarke, but then she has a role but that's almost impossible for an actor to play. They had to hire a young women who was good at looking sweet, vulnerable, and put-upon for the first season, and hope she could morph into this badass woman-warrior fantasy from the depths of GRRM's libido, and if the result isn't 100% successful I put more blame on GRRM's libido than Emilia Clarke.
And yes, the kid who's playing Lyanna Mormont is as good as one could hope, she's always a delight! And while I *want* to see more of her, I also hope the writers don't overuse her. That would be easy.
She's a headstrong little lady, who had to grow up a lot faster than she was meant to. I applaud her enthusiasm for the King in the North and knowing the true threat is the White Walkers north of the wall.
shareSmart and self-assured for sure. Not keen on her tendency to harry or bully people she finds objectionable in some way, eg. her grumpiness when Jon sought her support against Ramsay; or at the council meeting, her dressing-down of the guy who said he would not arm women when Jon said they needed to arm men, women and children in the fight against the White Walkers.
shareWell, she is a young girl who's been put in a position where she has to represent her house and stand equal to the lords of Westeros. It's only natural she has to be forceful and assertive. Someone in her circumstances isn't going to get respect unless she commands it.
sharekeithmovies, she's acquired a LOT of adult skills in a remarkably short time; but she literally has not had the time to gain an equal amount of adult experience. She is a genius in some respects, and gifted young people don't understand, at the visceral level, why everybody else doesn't see the world the same way the young prodigy does, and become frustrated with the other people very quickly. Her snappishness with others gives her character verisimilitude. It humanizes her. She is not perfect. She is perfectly human. She will learn diplomacy and temperance in time.
And she fucking rocks 🎸
That guy needed dressing down. That guy was Lord Glover who refused the call to arms, then made a big show of apologizing and declaring Jon as King, and yet looked like he was already starting to waver in his obedience to what was an obviously logical command.
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