(April 17, 2016 at 11:11 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: That's funny. You think Tyrion is the more obvious case. That's really funny, given the fact that by this point maybe 2 billion people heard of the fact that Snow is a Targaryen.
Oh, the irony.
Sure they've heard R+L=J because it's the most talked about and agreed upon fan theory. It's still not obvious in the books if you haven't heard of it.
The evidence for Tyrion being a Targaryen is laid out pretty bare in the books. It's almost hokey, he's got one Lannister eye, one Targaryen eye. He has many qualities of the Lannisters, he shares a love for the downtrodden like Dany.
To me, the evidence is too obvious, and having read the books, it seems like the kind of red herring GRRM would put out there to hook you so that when he goes in a different direction, it'll be that much more surprising.
A lot of people knowing about a different fan theory doesn't really have anything to do with it.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---