Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Charisma on Command" channel.

  1. Arya learned the most. She survived because she was fresh from the lessons of Syrio Forel. He taught her the two most important lessons. To see the things as they are, not as you expect, or hope, them to be, and to adapt to the situation (that's MUCH more evident in the books). Not by chance she's the only Stark that survives thanks to her own strenght (Sansa survives only because she's valuable).
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  2. Ned failed to discern friends from foes since the moment he left the north. He didn't even really need the golden cloacks, Renly, knowing perfectly what Cersei would have done, offered him his own troops in exchange of nothing but he refused, because he didn't want to desecrate Rob's final moments. Robb's not killing Jamie had been honorable (and the Karstarks would have probably understood that, had not Catelyn freed him without consequences), he not keeping his word with the Frey had been not. It costed him half of his army when he was winning, and ultimately costed him his life. John Snow simply didn't understand how fragile his position as Lord Commander of the Nightwatch was.
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  3. Roose Bolton is a northerner. Is he trustworty? Ned, on the other hand didn't even grew up in the north. He had been raised in the Vale, and the lords of the Vale are no less scheming than the ones of King's Landing. Ned already played that game. He fought and won a war where the lines of loyalty were blurred. Yet, since the moment he left Winterfell, he spectacularly failed to discern friends from foes, and that led to his demise. That's because his grasp on the north was based on personal relationships. He knew any of his bannermen, paid frequent visits to them, and so he knew what to expect from any of them. He had not that kind of relationships in the south, and had not time to build them, so he made his biggest mistake HE SELECTED HIS POTENTIAL ALLIES BASED ON HOW MUCH HE FELT THEY WERE SIMILAR TO HIM. Varys could have been a powerful ally. Their goals were very compatible, but he never trusted him, because Varys was very different form him. Renly was the best player around (not by chance, he's the only one that had been killed by a supernatural being, his position was too strong for him to loose otherwise) and offered him his alliance for nothing. Ned refused, because the flashy and vacuous Renly was very different from him. Littlefinger instead was austere, he grew up in an environment similar to that of Ned (even geographically close). He knew both ned's brother and wife, so Ned thought he was SIMILAR TO HIM. And that had been his mistake.
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  4. Roose Bolton is from the north too, and is a treacherous bastard, not to say of his son.
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  5.  @ms.smccreath5176  Thamk you! :)
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  6. Roose Bolton is a northerner. Is he trustworty? Ned, on the other hand didn't even grew up in the north. He had been raised in the Vale, and the lords of the Vale are no less scheming than the ones of King's Landing. Ned already played that game. He fought and won a war where the lines of loyalty were blurred. Yet, since the moment he left Winterfell, he spectacularly failed to discern friends from foes, and that led to his demise. That's because his grasp on the north was based on personal relationships. He knew any of his bannermen, paid frequent visits to them, and so he knew what to expect from any of them. He had not that kind of relationships in the south, and had not time to build them, so he made his biggest mistake HE SELECTED HIS POTENTIAL ALLIES BASED ON HOW MUCH HE FELT THEY WERE SIMILAR TO HIM. Varys could have been a powerful ally. Their goals were very compatible, but he never trusted him, because Varys was very different form him. Renly was the best player around (not by chance, he's the only one that had been killed by a supernatural being, his position was too strong for him to loose otherwise) and offered him his alliance for nothing. Ned refused, because the flashy and vacuous Renly was very different from him. Littlefinger instead was austere, he grew up in an environment similar to that of Ned (even geographically close). He knew both ned's brother and wife, so Ned thought he was SIMILAR TO HIM. And that had been his mistake.
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