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Seems kinda strange that Sandor told Sansa about his face, since if he heard people talking about it he would kill them, so it seems like he would never voluntarily just tell someone the story. Also why did Robb refuse to trade Jaime for Arya and Sansa, the Lannisters definitely would have made the trade as Cersei, Tywin, and Tyrion all want Jaime back and Tywin wants him back because he still believes Jaime will inherit the Rock and Robb also wants his sisters back so why not trade and then continue the war cuz it sounds like "they killed my father" makes it so hostilities will cease after the trade. Or is it a point system where the sisters are not worth the same as Jaime in value to even trade?
Sandor is so beautifully complex and he is so overlooked, it makes me so sad :,( These types of analysis make me crave Sandor as a POV character SOO much. I have a mighty need to know what the hell is going through his head.
He is such a beautiful, tragic character; everything that the poor man has been through starting at just 6 years old makes you want to just hold the poor man. In an epic, emotionally charged Sandor/Sansa fanfiction story I'm writing, I delve into his personal history and really tap into his internal monologue. I sincerely love writing his POV and most of my readers feel I've managed to portray him accurately compared to GRRM's scenes of him.
"Some dumb cunts gag down their shitty food at the table across the inn. Will probably have to kill them later. Might just kill them now if they got the chicken."
Another line that always hit me was Sandor telling Sansa that "Dogs can smell lies." I always thought that was a very strange thing for him to say, I believe that he has been warging all if his life and felt more kinship with dogs than he ever did with people, they gave him all of the tools he needed to survive among liars and sneaks.
It suggests to me that someone is finally beginning to identify skinchanging, as opposed to warging direwolves, which we attribute to starks. Part of me asks"how does he even know he can, as opposed to the dogs and stranger." I would probably think the horse was skinchanging me. Until arya.
@@bridge4 Arya Stark has been no one... And a Girl will be be no one again... But the dog will always be hers. Thanks for the reply and acknowledgment. You have a new subscriber in me.
@@mydudeleakytiki3261 regardless of the dog dream part, I see sandor joining that mix with LSH But if I'm right, and he literally had a dog dream, that would be nuuuuts!!
Obviously he is some sort of warg his grandsire became a lord by training dogs almost like he was a person who was able to share a special bond with canines surely its not a cooincidence that dogs are the easiest animal to warg they are all probably low class wargs~
im with ya. i never thought about this until a coiuple weeks ago. but now it seems like there's a chance that there are more wargs out there than i previously realized (many of whom dont realize they are wargs)
I have always thought of the Wolves representing the Starks. Such a strong natural connection. Like you said with little Rickon and Shaggydog. But also Nymeria with Arya. Nimerya had to leave, to go off on her own because of the Lannister’s; so did Arya. And as well as those examples, we also have the fact that Shaggydog, Summer and Robb’s Wolf all died. So did Rickon, Brann (now the three eyed Raven) and Robb. Which leads me to believe that Sansa will die, even though her Direwolf died so long ago.
In book 5 they Say that 1 in 10.000 can warg a animal, that's a Lot of people actually. So, makes sense If we think that many people don't realize that they can do that, and do It without knowin
It says 1 in 1000 are wargs, doesn't it? My take on the story is that 1000 out of 1000 could be. But since "all sorcery comes at a cost" only 1 out of 1000 do it But even 1 out of 1000 is a lotttt of people like you said. Very few realize they are wargs even though they are part of that 1 in 1000 That's a great point that I should've included. Thanks for sharing!
During medieval europe it was estimated that the population during that era was around 78.7 million and this divided by 10 000 is 7 870 so that is a lot of people and Sandor could very well be the on amongst the 7 870 wargs considering his ancestors probably were Wargs
I feel the Hound might be Azor Ahai. Born of ash and fire. I think of what his life would've been like if not for the Mountain. He might have led a quiet life with a wife and a family. A family with a little girl, who he would name Arya, the bravest little girl he had ever met.
ive been meaning to mention that about the silver filly for like 2 years i wanted to do a full video on it, but i couldnt resist adding it in here (i was hesitant, cause some people are going to get offended as if im trying to take something away from dany. which im not. i do believe she got a little power boost from the filly - the words heavily imply that - but her growth, sacfrices, and choices over in essos are no less heroic and selfless imo =))
The part with brienne not trusting men reminds me of how in the show, sansa is the same way. Its because almost every man she meets once she leaves winterfell is weird or cruel. She is skeptical and doesnt trust them until she meets back up with Jon and he restores her faith in men
I love the way you pay equal respect to the show-series and the books, and thus to fans of either or both, this avoids petty and fruitless squabbles and focuses on the overall importance of the narrative itself, and the genius of the details, commentaries and meanings expressed through it; subbing to this channel was an easy choice. Your insight and ability to see into, and through the prose, the way that you then present that and your theories, along with supporting evidence to us in an interesting yet clarified format in your videos makes me feel like I'm watching the show, or reading the books for the first time again and reliving the magic all over again - and I'm sure I'm not the only one?
I have the hardest CRUSH on The Hound . I just wanna spoon with that giant . He can stay grouchy whatever just stay close ! I just want him to live and have a happy ending...
@Stephanie Restless in Seattle I hear you. It took a while, but the Hound has really grown on me, and your comment really tickled me. My husband looked like Tom Selleck and was 6' 6"; I'm 5' 3" so you can imagine how funny we looked standing next to each other. So I have a pretty good idea of what spooning with the Hound would be like, LOL. (It would be as sweet as you imagined.) Sadlly, he passed away almost 4 years ago, and I miss him every day. Cheers.
@@ladydewynter674 that is so sweet to share Im so happy you had a great love. I hope your memories are bright and vivid. Lost love is so hard I wish happy days to you.
@@stephanierestlessinseattle5261 Bless you, sweetie. Yes, we had a fairytale romance and a marriage of hearts and souls. He's not lost; he's always with me, and we will be together again. So it's okay
Sandor Clegane is one of my favorite characters in The Song of Ice and Fire series thus far (going off of the show up to halfway through season 6 and currently reading the first book) and it's wonderful to see him not only get more recognition as well as to find this out about him. This video is very well made, well voiced, and well thought out with a feasible argument put together to support the claim. If it isn't revealed in the stories later on to be the case, it would be a tragic loss creatively speaking. Based on how Martin worded it all so carefully, I'm sure he fully intends to make it happen. The man may be often known for his knack of killing off characters, but I feel his careful wording in order to elude to other occurrences, as well as building them up, is a truly great talent he possesses that not many people seem to give him credit for. The man knows how to build tension and instill anticipation in his audience/readers, there's no doubt about that! Great work on this video! :D
I tjink hints of that were shown when she started to copy his moves, like wiping the blood off Needle on the clothing of her kill, and knocking out the man with the cart.
i started liking him a lot more once you informed me of SanSan. and when i made the "hound death explained" tribute video, i finally started truly appreciating him the way he deserves. i love that, when i set out to make something and learn way more than expected along the way =))
Treat a horse like a friend, and it will become your friend. You will develop a bond. That's not to say your horse will only need you. Horses need other horses to feel safe. It's a herd thing. But you can have a hell of a bond with a horse if you know how to treat them right, clean them, and scratch their itchy spots. It's obvious Sandor loves Stranger, and has a strong bond with him, and vice versa. I often wonder what became of the old boy. I haven't read the books yet.
Kind of unrelated, but: in the sixth episode of the sixth season, there's a scene in the beginning where Bran has a lot of visions, but the visions keep coming back to 1) the White Walkers and 2) the Mad King screaming "burn them all", and finally there's simply fotage of the White Walkers while you hear "burn them all" in the background, which led me to believe that the Mad King knew about the White Walkers somehow - maybe he had visions - and was talking about them. Has anyone heard any theories about this? Or does it say anything about it in the books?
There is a theory that Bran made him ho crazy in first place: he wanted to change the past, wanted Aerys to use his wildfire against the others. Bran over and over whispers to burn them all, Aerys goes crazy, like it happened with hodor. To me, the hole in that plot is that a) Bran already knew Aerys was mad, thus not a reliable ally, b) Why should he use him? Because of the wildfire he had? But the others were hidden far north by then, c) It would be too similar to the whole Hodor arc.
@@SophiaR-xp4rk Yeah, I agree with you about the plot holes - it doesn't seem very plausible. It's an interesting theory though. Thank you for telling me about it!
Or maybe imagine a smaller loop. If he stunted Hodor by viewing his past and linking present "hold the door" to the past causing a seizure... Wonder if maybe Bran looks into Jaime's past to see the truth of the Kingslayers namesake, and hears Jaime in the present "he said burn them all.. Burn them all... " then the mad king begins screaming in sync, " burn them all.. ". Maybe he we more susceptible to the craziness because as a targaryen, he saw himself go mad.
I love the detail you go into... I always saw the multiple God's, that all had magic as all Gods are real. And always loved how realistic RR Martin's fantastic characters seemed. The human relationship with a dog shares thoughts & wordless communication. That's why they are so easy to warg in the book.
The topic may have seemingly begun in a smaller fashion, but it bloomed into something truly important that will have quite an impact on several story lines in a way most of us haven't seen coming. Wonderful video, just brilliant, and great food for thought, especially if we ever get our hands on the Winds of Winter! Cheers, y'all.
Alright, im starting to get my jaw off the floor now. The hound is a skinchanger, u pulled a rabbit out of the hat right there, good catch. And that was one of your best vids ever, hard to deny that much canon, you nailed it. I seem to recall reading a passage about clegane keep that said that dogs would flee the sight of gregor, that may be supporting evidence as well. And i am fixated on that long stare, and nod.
haha i love your energy on back of this video it's definitely an interresting topic, and im eager to hear opinions. where the theory is most flawed and where it can be strengthened =) but i think we're on to something!
I always assume that he was really burned when he saw a vision and told his bully brother what he saw, so gregor pushed his face in a brazier...that a little female wolf would kill gregor. Idk for sure, but that long stare may have been him making sense of that vision or prophetic dream, which led to him saying"you know who's coming for u..." but that is just a tinfoil possibility. Or is it,lol.
Good call, i think it will be arya 4 sure tho, u proved that a while back and you still find more foreshadowing evidence. I like arya, she got put on a lonely, resentful path and she chose family over being no one. Wide arc for her and the sanman clegane
Holy f#%$ you just made my brain explode...what???!! You already mummified me in tinfoil, now i got a tin roof and a frey helmet made of tin! I for real gotta let this soak in, im f#$%ing in awe, bro.
Lol Note this. So let's say hound doesn't have a dog dream. Cause that's the most far reaching part of the video. Or a horse dream Even without that,I think the dog barking may have been a subtle clue that sandor is going to join that fight :)
I JUST watched your Sandor Clegane character arc video, and in need of more of The Hound I look at my recommended videos and you have MORE CONTENT? YES PLEASE. love your channel
Ok so you know the song the Ed Sheeran sings in Arya's scene? Well i'm not sure if you deciphered it but i think it's talking about Rhegar riding past Elia and going to Lyanna's side. Think about that and reread the lyrics: He rode through the streets of the city Down from his hill on high O'er the wynds and the steps and the cobble He rode to a woman's sigh For she was his secret treasure She was his shame and his bliss And a chain and a keep are nothing Compared to a woman's kiss
my understanding is that it was a song by symon silver tongue (in the books) as a threat to Tyrion (about outing him to Tywin for bringing Shae to the capital) so Tyrion had bronn kill the singer lol i like your take on it tho! =)
Perhaps by saying "dog belongs to no one.... yet" it's meant to reflect the hound not having loyalties to anyone even himself but he will find someone in the future someone
She still isn't owned even though no one can mean faceless men but it can also mean what we know it as in the real world as nothing; no person, creature, laws, rules, etc.
Speaking about warging ... I'm sure you recall Bran warging into Hodor. I'm curious if you think Bran might just do it again in S8. To me, it seems like Bran might need to find another strong human to protect him.
I don't thinkm he can warg hodor when hoot returns since hodoris dead. But their prior bond may alleviate that and allow him to take over wight hodor In terms of warning another human, I hope. CaUse iTS A FORM Of Slavery. :(
@@bridge4 I totally agree with the slavery comment ... but I wasn't questioning if he would warg Hodor. I am wondering if Bran will find another human to protect him via his warging abilities ... someone strong (like Sandor Clegane).
Yeh I know what u meant. I just wanted to address hodor anyway But let's say sandor...why would bran war him? The reason he warged hodor is bc hodor would always freeze in times of trouble. So bran would step in and utilize him Do u think sand freezes again in the face of fire (like against the bear)?
That's similar to real life! If I grow up with my dog, for example, we both adopt each other's characteristics at some point. Even if Rickon didn't have wolf blood, in real life, Shaggy would've still been aggressive and protective. It's all so complex and logical I love this
My Kiddo and the dog (an Irish Staffordshire Bull Terrier) that adopted her, throughout the years have taken on similar characteristics with confidence and courage.
Lol. This is why I never get done what I want to get done. Because I usually read about 8-30 chapters in the process of making a video. But as I do that, I see something new and fall down a rabbit hole I'm trying to stay focused and get 10 pet projects doNE before the hear ends. But we will see how many rabbit holes I fall down that delay those videos As an example,I outlined around 10 Jaime videos last December. And have only made 2 of them I think lol. Cause I just keep getting distracted
bridge4 well I for one love the rabbit holes you fall down but I totally understand the need to stay focused. Just know that whatever content you make, your fans and friends support you. You really are one of the best. Hands down. Keep it up Kevin!
I absolutely love you for paying attention to the pets/animals in this story (aside from the dragons and dire wolves-I adore them of course, but you paid attention to the horse belonging to Sandor!!) because they all are vital to the story. The show doesn't do the animals any justice. But the focus on the dire wolves, dragons, ravens, Varymir Six Skins, etc, shows how very important all ANIMALS are in relation to humans. The amount of warging is a signal from GRRM to pay close attention to all the creatures of ASOIAF. I always wondered about Sandor's horse, but thought I was seeing things everywhere that probably weren't there but you just confirmed that I wasn't! I'm a huge animal lover so I find all the animals in this story fascinating. Even the "monsters" in the story have human and animal components. The line between human and animal is extremely thin.
i definitely didnt confirm anything lol. but the stories live in our heads. so in your story and in mine (and i'd venture to say in "George's version), there connection between man and animal is much more common than it is in most =))
Kev another great video as always, but i have an idea to why Arya won’t die if she fights the night King, remember when she was training with Syrio, he asks her “ what do we say to the god of death, not today” and we never see her using that sentence through out the seasons, so i think if she ever gets a 1 on 1 with the night king i think she’ll be beaten at first and when it feels like she’s dying she’ll utter those words and gain enough strength to finish him (haven’t read the book)
bridge4 I thought so too after watching your video about the different colours of dragon-glass but in the end there may not be another choice, as you said the night king isn’t asking for help and he’s coming with an all-out kill or be killed war and we can see it in the scenes where john fought the white walkers maybe bran discovers all the truths hidden in Winterfell and sam discovers the healing traits of dragon-glass but it all may not play the way we want maybe in the end the only way to end the war and save the living would be to kill the night king
Maisie has used those two words responding to U.S. president's trademark misuse of "Winter is Coming" in a tweet though - give it a twist, you might be right (as the president was trying to impersonate the Night King). But not to kill him. To reveal him, and remake the pact the North has forgotten.
That is some Glenn Beck level of bending and stretching the story to make it fit your hypotheses. Not that I can complain, it was compelling enough to get me through all of the vid and if true adds yet another dimension to the character.
All men must....warg (My cat is as similar to me as any animal - even though she has lived with my family and I have been away from her for years. It's not that she is just a cat, she is as much a cat but also as much as any cat can be like me. And almost any animal that belonged to me, even roosters, would take up traits effectively so much others will notice. It was always a challenge to 'keep' those who I never bonded with. They would run away, they would fly away. The bonded ones, always sense you, and you do the same, if you know what I mean, animals adopting their humans' traits happen to a certain level in real life, GRRM has just turned it up to 11).
bridge4 oh! I just missed that little Sansa / Ramsay section...you think Ramsay warged too? And then Sansa warged his hounds? Ramsay's horse 'Blood' was like that...he took after Ramsay..and the hounds he named after wenches he killed...right? A little residue of the dead went into them...could it be all animals mentioned in the books have a purpose, Even the dog Sansa meets at the Vale...when she wishes to have her own 'dog'...would that be Sandor? Or Ramsay's hounds? Or both? My brain cells are popping grey matter rn :)))
@@bridge4 'Do you know what dogs to wolves'? That haunted Arya for a while, but what did he do was 'chasing her'. Dogs follow wolves. Wolves are their 'grand sires' afterall...Trying to make sense of all this animal talk in the books...
Thanks, joseph! I've never heard or thought it either until just now lol So admittedly, it hasn't been simmering for very long. I spent a few days thinking about it tho before publishing, so even if I'm off, I swear I gave it serious thought (sorry,it's late. My brains nit workning so im pribably not makihg sense. What i mean is i hope people knoe im not just throwing out craziness for the same of craziness. I spent many hours on this and I believe it...at least for now :)
Wow, what an insightful video! Thanks for pointing out all of the cryptic details. I would have never seen them without your videos. I'm soaking it all up!!
Something jumped out to me in one of the book quotes in this video, not about worging but about the Hound wrapping Arya in a cloak at night, "[...] and he no longer bound her up in a cloak at night". Could be something, could be nothing, but peaked my interest after reading the bloody cloak theory recently! Future cloaks video? 🤔 Lots of interesting material I bet! "All cloaks are grey by night"...
its an interesting dynamic since he cloaked sansa when joffrey was stripping her and now sansa is running around with his cloak (is that what you mean by the blood cloak, right?)
bridge4 Yes, there's a big piece of work on it on the Pawn to Player: Rethinking Sansa website that's pretty cool, you should check it out. I'd never noticed the Hound cloak anyone else though, although with Arya it's more of an un-cloaking, like he starts to trust her so takes his cloak away. With Sansa, he doesn't trust those around her so he leaves his cloak, his protection, with her. I'm just speculating though... There's so many ways to interpret things! 😁😁
It also makes a little more sense too as horses are beast's of burden and through that Sandor gained what would appear to be unending endurance never really giving up I mean he survived the fight with Brienne and doesn't really complain about anything he just suffers in silence
"The dog belongs to no one" aka Sandor belongs to Arya. Makes sense. They had a tremendous bond, especially after the Long Night. Arya is also the only one to ever call him Sandor, not Hound or Dog... his true name. Hopefully Winds of Winter will give us more about their complex relationship. I never thought Sansa was worthy of him, and Robert's comment "get her a dog, she'll be happier for it" obviously meant the dog she used to kill Ramsay. That ship has sailed anyway. Sandor's quote "I hate gingers" is a good indication of that.
This is a *good* one! Dany's Silver and Sandor's Stranger, I have notes on those four in my notebook for a while now and you found incidents with Sandor that I didn't. Put together perfectly, Kev! Although I think you could have included the ones with Sansa. I mean, ok, "Get her a dog, she’ll be happier for it" is a bit obvious, but your catch between Arya and the Hound in ASoS (must be Arya XII, chapter 66, I think) fits nicely with what happens three chapters later in Sansa VI: "It was eight long days until Lysa Arryn arrived. On five of them it rained, while Sansa sat bored and restless by the fire, *beside the old blind dog.* He was too sick and toothless to walk guard with Bryen anymore, and mostly all he did was sleep, but when she patted him he whined and licked her hand, and after that they were fast friends." "The memory of her own wedding night with Tyrion was much with her. _In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers,_ he had said. _I could be good to you._ But that was only another Lannister lie. _A dog can smell a lie, you know,_ the Hound had told her once. She could almost hear *the rough rasp of his voice* ." "Sansa found *Bryen’s old blind dog* in her little alcove beneath the steps, and lay down next to him. He woke and licked her face. “You sad old *hound* ,” she said, ruffling his fur. “Alayne.” Her aunt’s singer stood over her. “Sweet Alayne. I am Marillion. I saw you come in from the rain. The night is chill and wet. Let me warm you.” *The old dog raised his head and growled,* but the singer gave him a cuff and sent him slinking off, whimpering. [...] He put a hand on her breast, and squeezed. “Let’s get you out of these wet clothes. You wouldn’t want them ripped, I know. Come, sweet lady, heed your heart-” Sansa heard the soft sound of steel on leather. “Singer,” *a rough voice* said, “best go, if you want to sing again.” [...] It was Lothor Brune’s voice, she realized. *Not the Hound’s,* no, how could it be? Of course it had to be Lothor . . ." "And she dreamed of her wedding night too, of Tyrion’s eyes devouring her as she undressed. Only then he was bigger than Tyrion had any right to be, and when he climbed into the bed his face was scarred only on one side. “I’ll have a song from you,” he *rasped,* and Sansa woke and *found the old blind dog beside her once again* ." What if Arya's and Sansa's chapters took place at the same time and Sandor "dreamed" he was that old blind dog and put the puzzle pieces together (which he heard) and that's why he wanted to go to the Eyrie to ransom Arya? I know it sounds a little far fetched, but who knows... In Arya's POV there is this: "His dream of selling Arya to Lady Arryn died there in the hills, though. “There’s frost above us and snow in the high passes,” the village elder said. “If you don’t freeze or starve, the shadowcats will get you, or the cave bears. There’s the clans as well." But Sandor's dream did not just die: “We can rest up, maybe find a way to get a letter to your aunt.” I love thee, Mr. Martin. :D
@@bridge4 Sansa warg video sounds dope! :) And between now and February or March there is a lot more books to go through for me (I'm only on my first re-read) and there is also this little exhibition called Unseen Westeros in my hometown in the meantime (lucky me!). And thanks, the video is just as great!
@@bridge4 The event is on the 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th of January 2019. As far as I know there are no tickets available anymore, so you don't have to do the promo video. :)
I think a better unintentional blood magic example would be Daenerys sacrificing Khal Drogo (king's blood, still alive, in flames) to perform the ritual to bring back dragons from "stone" as explained so many times by Melisandre.
True true. She suffocated him first. But OPs main point still hold's. That's probably the best example of blood magic causing unintended results Grrm had an awesome offline quote about how he wanted the magic to be mysterious. Half instinctual She somewhat knew what she was doing tho, as she thanked mirri for her lessons about death paging fr life. And "I don't want yur screams. All I want is your life" lol. Savage!
Kev, This video shows how amazing GRRM is at writing, and this video shows how brilliant you are at interpreting. Great minds think alike man. Love the hound and I love this video.
Haha I'd agree with the former. Grrm is definitely a wizard I think this video is probably partially right. But even if it's 100% wrong, the fact there Georges wording and case precedents allows us to hypothesize such stuff speaks to his dense/awesome writing :)) Thank you BTW
Love it. Couldn’t make it through all the hundreds of comments so I don’t know if this has been said. So there’s a theory that during the Blackwater, Sansa unknowingly uses her Stark skinchanger ability to bond with Sandor, and in that moment she reads his desire to kiss her (or more, but she’s 12 and naive) and that’s why she thinks that he did, but is confused by if it happened. Have to reread ACOK because I can’t recall exactly what the book said in that scene. As far as all the Sandor/Brienne elements, I see it more that they are the “true knights” of the story although neither is one (him by choice, her because of her sex), so they have a lot of parallels. I’ll keep in mind what you said when I reread AFFC (I’m still only rereading the first book, so it’ll be a while). Sandor is likely my favorite character so I’m glad you do lots of vids on him! I never thought of him as a skinchanger before. (nitpick: Warging is a term specific to wolves, only powerful skinchangers can handle wolves) :) It’s very possible he has this ability, there’s evidence he has blood of the First Men from his appearance. I’ll be looking for even more clues to his abilities going forward. Great job with this! Don’t know how I missed it for so long.
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Seems kinda strange that Sandor told Sansa about his face, since if he heard people talking about it he would kill them, so it seems like he would never voluntarily just tell someone the story.
Also why did Robb refuse to trade Jaime for Arya and Sansa, the Lannisters definitely would have made the trade as Cersei, Tywin, and Tyrion all want Jaime back and Tywin wants him back because he still believes Jaime will inherit the Rock and Robb also wants his sisters back so why not trade and then continue the war cuz it sounds like "they killed my father" makes it so hostilities will cease after the trade. Or is it a point system where the sisters are not worth the same as Jaime in value to even trade?
"You're going to warg into a chicken?" ... "Someone is."
Lmfao. Well played
lmfao nice one
I’m dead 😂
so if the hound can warg into a dog i think it's safe to say that the mountain can warg into a mountain
The mountain is twyin lannisters dog too
But we'll played lol
Well his personality is a bit like a bunch of dirt now. ;)
He warged into the 14 flames and blew up Valyria - The Mountain caused The Doom confirmed.
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(mountains start moving)
Sandor: *loves his horse*
Gregor: *chops his horse's head off*
Sandor: 'Steals Gregor's hrosie
Gregor: Burns off Sandor's face.
@@nodiggity9472 sounds fair
Imagine during Cleganebowl Sandor's horse come and kill Gregor Clegane
Sandor is so beautifully complex and he is so overlooked, it makes me so sad :,(
These types of analysis make me crave Sandor as a POV character SOO much. I have a mighty need to know what the hell is going through his head.
Omg. I hope we get a sandor POV chapter :))
I have often thought the same
He is such a beautiful, tragic character; everything that the poor man has been through starting at just 6 years old makes you want to just hold the poor man. In an epic, emotionally charged Sandor/Sansa fanfiction story I'm writing, I delve into his personal history and really tap into his internal monologue. I sincerely love writing his POV and most of my readers feel I've managed to portray him accurately compared to GRRM's scenes of him.
"Some dumb cunts gag down their shitty food at the table across the inn. Will probably have to kill them later. Might just kill them now if they got the chicken."
There's a pretty large fan base for the Hound amongst book readers. Not sure if he's overlooked.
Another line that always hit me was Sandor telling Sansa that "Dogs can smell lies." I always thought that was a very strange thing for him to say, I believe that he has been warging all if his life and felt more kinship with dogs than he ever did with people, they gave him all of the tools he needed to survive among liars and sneaks.
I feel like this video blurs the line between warging and non magical animal bonding
for sure. only time will tell! =))
It suggests to me that someone is finally beginning to identify skinchanging, as opposed to warging direwolves, which we attribute to starks. Part of me asks"how does he even know he can, as opposed to the dogs and stranger." I would probably think the horse was skinchanging me. Until arya.
I totally agree.
Flint-Von-Lock all bonding with animals is pretty magical irl.
And dont forget the dragon dreams and wolf dreams! Beacause did they warg into the dragons or was it only the connection between dragon and rider?
A dog that belongs to no one.
And a girl is no one.
Aria and her Dog
:)) a girl is area stark, but I like where your heads at :))
@@bridge4 Arya Stark has been no one... And a Girl will be be no one again... But the dog will always be hers.
Thanks for the reply and acknowledgment.
You have a new subscriber in me.
@@charlesroywashingtoniii7242 ... IN you? Are... you being warged?
@@cheeseguy3412 and I thought Varamyr Sixskins was done with his tricks
Sandor hates that, being called dog.
The Hound is my favorite character in GOT
He my 2 now. But that may be my mistake. He's incredible, that's for sure!
Mine too!
He's funny as shit!
@@bridge4
Who is number 1? Arya? Pod? Gendry?
the hound has an almost identical accent to me. so love the guy.
Used to be davos. Now it's Jaime :)
Honestly the beauty and subtlety of grrm's characters and their journeys bring tears to my eyes, they're all so poetic. It's amazing
I like that animals do this in real life. They adopt the traits of whoever they spend the most time with.
for sure. it's pretty gnarly =))
It is true my cat who passed away at 19 last year was very like me in some ways , I certainly miss him .
True. Sometimes I say that if I was a dog, I would be my dog. Perhaps a little less fond of mud though 😅
Aye, the dogs that adopted me over last 20yrs, each have imprinted upon me. They choose me.
Normies:"Who's your favorite character"
Bridge4:"who's your favorite horse"
:-P
Clegane is a dark horse.
Ohhhh yeh! I dig the wordplay
Verily I say, you've a bit o' the Bard about you!
I concur
@gordon shaw Cheeky boots. Love it.
Hate him, love him.. But you can't ignore him.
Now that you've opened my eyes to Sandor's warging abilities, I don't know why I never saw it before. Thanks, Kev!
=)) i had literally never seen it before either. so im with ya
who knows if its true. but i cant unsee it now lol
@@bridge4 It has to be true ... why else would the Clegane's banner be 3 dogs looking back? Doesn't that imply waiting for direction?
@@mydudeleakytiki3261 regardless of the dog dream part, I see sandor joining that mix with LSH
But if I'm right, and he literally had a dog dream, that would be nuuuuts!!
Obviously he is some sort of warg his grandsire became a lord by training dogs almost like he was a person who was able to share a special bond with canines surely its not a cooincidence that dogs are the easiest animal to warg they are all probably low class wargs~
im with ya. i never thought about this until a coiuple weeks ago. but now it seems like there's a chance that there are more wargs out there than i previously realized (many of whom dont realize they are wargs)
I have always thought of the Wolves representing the Starks. Such a strong natural connection. Like you said with little Rickon and Shaggydog. But also Nymeria with Arya. Nimerya had to leave, to go off on her own because of the Lannister’s; so did Arya.
And as well as those examples, we also have the fact that Shaggydog, Summer and Robb’s Wolf all died. So did Rickon, Brann (now the three eyed Raven) and Robb. Which leads me to believe that Sansa will die, even though her Direwolf died so long ago.
In book 5 they Say that 1 in 10.000 can warg a animal, that's a Lot of people actually. So, makes sense If we think that many people don't realize that they can do that, and do It without knowin
It says 1 in 1000 are wargs, doesn't it? My take on the story is that 1000 out of 1000 could be. But since "all sorcery comes at a cost" only 1 out of 1000 do it
But even 1 out of 1000 is a lotttt of people like you said. Very few realize they are wargs even though they are part of that 1 in 1000
That's a great point that I should've included. Thanks for sharing!
“The dog belongs to no one” Arya Stark was known as “no one”
During medieval europe it was estimated that the population during that era was around 78.7 million and this divided by 10 000 is 7 870 so that is a lot of people and Sandor could very well be the on amongst the 7 870 wargs considering his ancestors probably were Wargs
I feel the Hound might be Azor Ahai. Born of ash and fire. I think of what his life would've been like if not for the Mountain. He might have led a quiet life with a wife and a family. A family with a little girl, who he would name Arya, the bravest little girl he had ever met.
This might be one of my favorite videos you've ever done. The part about Dani's silver made me teary. Thank you!
ive been meaning to mention that about the silver filly for like 2 years
i wanted to do a full video on it, but i couldnt resist adding it in here
(i was hesitant, cause some people are going to get offended as if im trying to take something away from dany. which im not. i do believe she got a little power boost from the filly - the words heavily imply that - but her growth, sacfrices, and choices over in essos are no less heroic and selfless imo =))
"Meribald lies to her" "No one more trustworthy than Meribald"
He doesn’t lie to her. The hound is dead. Sandor lives. Meribald says he died too! He awake naked and reborn!
The part with brienne not trusting men reminds me of how in the show, sansa is the same way. Its because almost every man she meets once she leaves winterfell is weird or cruel. She is skeptical and doesnt trust them until she meets back up with Jon and he restores her faith in men
I love the way you pay equal respect to the show-series and the books, and thus to fans of either or both, this avoids petty and fruitless squabbles and focuses on the overall importance of the narrative itself, and the genius of the details, commentaries and meanings expressed through it; subbing to this channel was an easy choice. Your insight and ability to see into, and through the prose, the way that you then present that and your theories, along with supporting evidence to us in an interesting yet clarified format in your videos makes me feel like I'm watching the show, or reading the books for the first time again and reliving the magic all over again - and I'm sure I'm not the only one?
Never thought of sandor having warg ability.
You learn of things every day ☺️
Open to interpretAtion. But that's how I now see it :)
I have the hardest CRUSH on The Hound . I just wanna spoon with that giant . He can stay grouchy whatever just stay close ! I just want him to live and have a happy ending...
Lol oo I'm officially going to bed now. That comment was priceless! My day is done :))
@Stephanie Restless in Seattle I hear you. It took a while, but the Hound has really grown on me, and your comment really tickled me. My husband looked like Tom Selleck and was 6' 6"; I'm 5' 3" so you can imagine how funny we looked standing next to each other. So I have a pretty good idea of what spooning with the Hound would be like, LOL. (It would be as sweet as you imagined.) Sadlly, he passed away almost 4 years ago, and I miss him every day. Cheers.
@@ladydewynter674 that is so sweet to share Im so happy you had a great love. I hope your memories are bright and vivid. Lost love is so hard I wish happy days to you.
My hearts always with you m'lady
@@stephanierestlessinseattle5261 Bless you, sweetie. Yes, we had a fairytale romance and a marriage of hearts and souls. He's not lost; he's always with me, and we will be together again. So it's okay
Sandor Clegane is one of my favorite characters in The Song of Ice and Fire series thus far (going off of the show up to halfway through season 6 and currently reading the first book) and it's wonderful to see him not only get more recognition as well as to find this out about him. This video is very well made, well voiced, and well thought out with a feasible argument put together to support the claim.
If it isn't revealed in the stories later on to be the case, it would be a tragic loss creatively speaking. Based on how Martin worded it all so carefully, I'm sure he fully intends to make it happen. The man may be often known for his knack of killing off characters, but I feel his careful wording in order to elude to other occurrences, as well as building them up, is a truly great talent he possesses that not many people seem to give him credit for. The man knows how to build tension and instill anticipation in his audience/readers, there's no doubt about that!
Great work on this video! :D
my instinct says that it will be left to interpretation (unlesss we finally get a Sandor P.O.V. =))))
Did you just say pee pee?
As I always say, we stick to official terms here :)
xd
George RR Martin describes it as a thick pink mast. -eek
Maybe Danny worged with her dragons and that's why she went batshit crazy
That won’t happen in the books
It’s no secret that Sandor will eat every fucking chicken in this room...
Such a beautiful theory.
Thanks :)
Look at you with 110 thousand subscribers! Proud to say "I subscribed way back when...." Congrats, brother! Well deserved.
Getting there! I'm hopino for 200k by the end of the season :))
Thanks for the support, kev!
@@bridge4 holy crap didn't realize u had so many. Also lowki saying i been around awhile. Congrats man
:))
Me too. We're thrilled to witness the evidence of such growing success. 200k coming soon. Cheers, y'all.
Woot woot. Hopefully :)
Drop everything! It's a Hound video. Kev, you spoil us. 😄
LOL, Sandor is incredible. i effin love that dude
no more videos this week, but a sandor video on 12/3 and 12/4 =))))
bridge4 he's definitely in my top 5 faves. Maybe even top 3. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
thanks, you too =))
Arya accidentally enherited traits from the hound over time
Could be!
They accidentally warged each other
I could see it :)
I tjink hints of that were shown when she started to copy his moves, like wiping the blood off Needle on the clothing of her kill, and knocking out the man with the cart.
The Hound has had my heart since day one. He is so very much. 💖
i started liking him a lot more once you informed me of SanSan. and when i made the "hound death explained" tribute video, i finally started truly appreciating him the way he deserves. i love that, when i set out to make something and learn way more than expected along the way =))
Treat a horse like a friend, and it will become your friend. You will develop a bond. That's not to say your horse will only need you. Horses need other horses to feel safe. It's a herd thing. But you can have a hell of a bond with a horse if you know how to treat them right, clean them, and scratch their itchy spots. It's obvious Sandor loves Stranger, and has a strong bond with him, and vice versa. I often wonder what became of the old boy. I haven't read the books yet.
Horses rock. For sure
great post btw
We are all wargs whether we realize it or not. Something is exchanged every time we interact with another. Very good video.
I dig it
Kind of unrelated, but: in the sixth episode of the sixth season, there's a scene in the beginning where Bran has a lot of visions, but the visions keep coming back to 1) the White Walkers and 2) the Mad King screaming "burn them all", and finally there's simply fotage of the White Walkers while you hear "burn them all" in the background, which led me to believe that the Mad King knew about the White Walkers somehow - maybe he had visions - and was talking about them. Has anyone heard any theories about this? Or does it say anything about it in the books?
There is a theory that Bran made him ho crazy in first place: he wanted to change the past, wanted Aerys to use his wildfire against the others. Bran over and over whispers to burn them all, Aerys goes crazy, like it happened with hodor.
To me, the hole in that plot is that a) Bran already knew Aerys was mad, thus not a reliable ally, b) Why should he use him? Because of the wildfire he had? But the others were hidden far north by then, c) It would be too similar to the whole Hodor arc.
@@SophiaR-xp4rk Yeah, I agree with you about the plot holes - it doesn't seem very plausible. It's an interesting theory though. Thank you for telling me about it!
Or maybe imagine a smaller loop. If he stunted Hodor by viewing his past and linking present "hold the door" to the past causing a seizure... Wonder if maybe Bran looks into Jaime's past to see the truth of the Kingslayers namesake, and hears Jaime in the present "he said burn them all.. Burn them all... " then the mad king begins screaming in sync, " burn them all.. ". Maybe he we more susceptible to the craziness because as a targaryen, he saw himself go mad.
A dog and a wolf can have pups....
i dig it
are you speaking about direwolves or SanSan?
Cynthia Marquez actually the hound’s secret is his massive crush on sansa
@@clarizzi Agreed!!
SanSan all the way!
This is quickly becoming one of my fav channels for GOT theories. Thanks for all of your well researched videos!!!
thanks, Fran :))
I love the detail you go into... I always saw the multiple God's, that all had magic as all Gods are real. And always loved how realistic RR Martin's fantastic characters seemed. The human relationship with a dog shares thoughts & wordless communication. That's why they are so easy to warg in the book.
thanks, Kelly =))
The topic may have seemingly begun in a smaller fashion, but it bloomed into something truly important that will have quite an impact on several story lines in a way most of us haven't seen coming. Wonderful video, just brilliant, and great food for thought, especially if we ever get our hands on the Winds of Winter! Cheers, y'all.
2019. I feel it! :))
Alright, im starting to get my jaw off the floor now. The hound is a skinchanger, u pulled a rabbit out of the hat right there, good catch. And that was one of your best vids ever, hard to deny that much canon, you nailed it. I seem to recall reading a passage about clegane keep that said that dogs would flee the sight of gregor, that may be supporting evidence as well. And i am fixated on that long stare, and nod.
haha i love your energy on back of this video
it's definitely an interresting topic, and im eager to hear opinions. where the theory is most flawed and where it can be strengthened =)
but i think we're on to something!
I always assume that he was really burned when he saw a vision and told his bully brother what he saw, so gregor pushed his face in a brazier...that a little female wolf would kill gregor. Idk for sure, but that long stare may have been him making sense of that vision or prophetic dream, which led to him saying"you know who's coming for u..." but that is just a tinfoil possibility. Or is it,lol.
I don't think that's possible. Because he looked genuinely shocked in s7, as if the fire vision was his first ever, no?
Good call, i think it will be arya 4 sure tho, u proved that a while back and you still find more foreshadowing evidence. I like arya, she got put on a lonely, resentful path and she chose family over being no one. Wide arc for her and the sanman clegane
I'd be shocked if it's not arya. But only time will tell :)
You are by far the most insightful GOT youtuber! Your voice is also the easiest to listen to. Thanks for pointing out all this great info.
you're too kind, for real. thanks though, Joey! =))
Holy f#%$ you just made my brain explode...what???!! You already mummified me in tinfoil, now i got a tin roof and a frey helmet made of tin! I for real gotta let this soak in, im f#$%ing in awe, bro.
Lol
Note this. So let's say hound doesn't have a dog dream. Cause that's the most far reaching part of the video. Or a horse dream
Even without that,I think the dog barking may have been a subtle clue that sandor is going to join that fight :)
I JUST watched your Sandor Clegane character arc video, and in need of more of The Hound I look at my recommended videos and you have MORE CONTENT? YES PLEASE.
love your channel
Lol thanks man. But all credit to George, rory mccan, and everyone involving in bring his character on screen :)
Arya= no one
Dog belongs to no one. Maybe a nod to Nymerias pack?
Great video! Logically presented and it would be tough to argue with! I have loved Sandor's story arc!!! He is truly an epic character!
Ok so you know the song the Ed Sheeran sings in Arya's scene? Well i'm not sure if you deciphered it but i think it's talking about Rhegar riding past Elia and going to Lyanna's side. Think about that and reread the lyrics:
He rode through the streets of the city
Down from his hill on high
O'er the wynds and the steps and the cobble
He rode to a woman's sigh
For she was his secret treasure
She was his shame and his bliss
And a chain and a keep are nothing
Compared to a woman's kiss
my understanding is that it was a song by symon silver tongue (in the books) as a threat to Tyrion (about outing him to Tywin for bringing Shae to the capital)
so Tyrion had bronn kill the singer lol
i like your take on it tho! =)
This song was definitely about Shae. It is clear in the books though not in the show.
I loved the caption, “The Dog belonged to no one.”
All I could think was, yep! He *had* belonged to No One... Arya.
Nice pun.
Perhaps by saying "dog belongs to no one.... yet" it's meant to reflect the hound not having loyalties to anyone even himself but he will find someone in the future someone
Holy cow! I never put that together! I have read the books 5 times!!!!!! Great job!
"Dog belongs to No One"
Whenever I hear wording like that, my mind instantly says "Arya?"
Though, I think that your theory is more on the mark.
the only probalem wih that interpretation is that Arya never became no one, thankfully =))
She still isn't owned even though no one can mean faceless men but it can also mean what we know it as in the real world as nothing; no person, creature, laws, rules, etc.
i hear you guys. she definitely comes close to losing her identity. so your interpretation works =))
Well done! Very believable theory. When you give the book pages and the TV scenes a second look, this does make sense. Thanks for the content!
The Hound will ride Rhaegal in Jon’s stead, confirmed. Now that would be terrifying.
lmao, if by terrifying you mean incredible, then im with ya!
Both. Both is good. Maybe he can ride and warg Dog while up there, giving Dog a Tactical advantage.
lol u crack me up. i mean, it makes sense. but i know you're being funny too
Ok. I'm using vacation time at work so I can take the day off for the first episode of GOT and the next so I can sit and ponder. Great video!!
Haha that's incredible. I like yyour style!
Speaking about warging ... I'm sure you recall Bran warging into Hodor. I'm curious if you think Bran might just do it again in S8. To me, it seems like Bran might need to find another strong human to protect him.
I don't thinkm he can warg hodor when hoot returns since hodoris dead. But their prior bond may alleviate that and allow him to take over wight hodor
In terms of warning another human, I hope. CaUse iTS A FORM Of Slavery. :(
@@bridge4 I totally agree with the slavery comment ... but I wasn't questioning if he would warg Hodor. I am wondering if Bran will find another human to protect him via his warging abilities ... someone strong (like Sandor Clegane).
Yeh I know what u meant. I just wanted to address hodor anyway
But let's say sandor...why would bran war him? The reason he warged hodor is bc hodor would always freeze in times of trouble. So bran would step in and utilize him
Do u think sand freezes again in the face of fire (like against the bear)?
That's similar to real life! If I grow up with my dog, for example, we both adopt each other's characteristics at some point.
Even if Rickon didn't have wolf blood, in real life, Shaggy would've still been aggressive and protective.
It's all so complex and logical I love this
My Kiddo and the dog (an Irish Staffordshire Bull Terrier) that adopted her, throughout the years have taken on similar characteristics with confidence and courage.
Seriously? Where do you come up with all of this? I think you have your own third eye. You never disappoint and always blow my mind! 🤯🙌🏽😊
Lol. This is why I never get done what I want to get done. Because I usually read about 8-30 chapters in the process of making a video. But as I do that, I see something new and fall down a rabbit hole
I'm trying to stay focused and get 10 pet projects doNE before the hear ends. But we will see how many rabbit holes I fall down that delay those videos
As an example,I outlined around 10 Jaime videos last December. And have only made 2 of them I think lol. Cause I just keep getting distracted
bridge4 well I for one love the rabbit holes you fall down but I totally understand the need to stay focused. Just know that whatever content you make, your fans and friends support you. You really are one of the best. Hands down. Keep it up Kevin!
I don't have any fans. I do hope some of you are my friends tho lol
bridge4 you can count me as one for sure. See you at Con in July? I’d love to get a drink with you and LMR.
Just found your channel recently and I am Loving your videos!
You're a talker.
Listening to talkers makes me thirsty.
And hungry.
I absolutely love you for paying attention to the pets/animals in this story (aside from the dragons and dire wolves-I adore them of course, but you paid attention to the horse belonging to Sandor!!) because they all are vital to the story. The show doesn't do the animals any justice. But the focus on the dire wolves, dragons, ravens, Varymir Six Skins, etc, shows how very important all ANIMALS are in relation to humans. The amount of warging is a signal from GRRM to pay close attention to all the creatures of ASOIAF. I always wondered about Sandor's horse, but thought I was seeing things everywhere that probably weren't there but you just confirmed that I wasn't!
I'm a huge animal lover so I find all the animals in this story fascinating. Even the "monsters" in the story have human and animal components. The line between human and animal is extremely thin.
i definitely didnt confirm anything lol. but the stories live in our heads. so in your story and in mine (and i'd venture to say in "George's version), there connection between man and animal is much more common than it is in most =))
Kev another great video as always, but i have an idea to why Arya won’t die if she fights the night King, remember when she was training with Syrio, he asks her “ what do we say to the god of death, not today” and we never see her using that sentence through out the seasons, so i think if she ever gets a 1 on 1 with the night king i think she’ll be beaten at first and when it feels like she’s dying she’ll utter those words and gain enough strength to finish him (haven’t read the book)
i like where your heads at with Arya. but i feel like they've got to heal the night king, not kill him =))
bridge4 I thought so too after watching your video about the different colours of dragon-glass but in the end there may not be another choice, as you said the night king isn’t asking for help and he’s coming with an all-out kill or be killed war and we can see it in the scenes where john fought the white walkers maybe bran discovers all the truths hidden in Winterfell and sam discovers the healing traits of dragon-glass but it all may not play the way we want maybe in the end the only way to end the war and save the living would be to kill the night king
Maisie has used those two words responding to U.S. president's trademark misuse of "Winter is Coming" in a tweet though - give it a twist, you might be right (as the president was trying to impersonate the Night King). But not to kill him. To reveal him, and remake the pact the North has forgotten.
Or to die healing him :-P
Great theory!
''I'll take two chickens'' Clegane! ALL THE FUNKEN CHICKEN YOU CAN IT!!
Totally agree with this video. Thanks for posting!
My bad. For some reason I didn't get a pop up for your response :(
Thank you! I have been wondering why no one has been curious about Sandors vision in the show. Awesome work as always my friend.
Thanks :))
I was surprised to find out that you only have 109k subs.
Embracing the grind :))
That is some Glenn Beck level of bending and stretching the story to make it fit your hypotheses. Not that I can complain, it was compelling enough to get me through all of the vid and if true adds yet another dimension to the character.
All men must....warg
(My cat is as similar to me as any animal - even though she has lived with my family and I have been away from her for years. It's not that she is just a cat, she is as much a cat but also as much as any cat can be like me. And almost any animal that belonged to me, even roosters, would take up traits effectively so much others will notice. It was always a challenge to 'keep' those who I never bonded with. They would run away, they would fly away. The bonded ones, always sense you, and you do the same, if you know what I mean, animals adopting their humans' traits happen to a certain level in real life, GRRM has just turned it up to 11).
11? more like a 111 lol
i hear ya though. it's pretty cool
@@bridge4 He himself says, 39. =))))
Lol
bridge4 oh! I just missed that little Sansa / Ramsay section...you think Ramsay warged too? And then Sansa warged his hounds?
Ramsay's horse 'Blood' was like that...he took after Ramsay..and the hounds he named after wenches he killed...right? A little residue of the dead went into them...could it be all animals mentioned in the books have a purpose,
Even the dog Sansa meets at the Vale...when she wishes to have her own 'dog'...would that be Sandor? Or Ramsay's hounds? Or both?
My brain cells are popping grey matter rn
:)))
@@bridge4 'Do you know what dogs to wolves'?
That haunted Arya for a while, but what did he do was 'chasing her'. Dogs follow wolves. Wolves are their 'grand sires' afterall...Trying to make sense of all this animal talk in the books...
Your channel is absolutely amazing!!!
Absolute fantastic theory Ive never heard!! Great job!
Thanks, joseph! I've never heard or thought it either until just now lol
So admittedly, it hasn't been simmering for very long. I spent a few days thinking about it tho before publishing, so even if I'm off, I swear I gave it serious thought (sorry,it's late. My brains nit workning so im pribably not makihg sense. What i mean is i hope people knoe im not just throwing out craziness for the same of craziness. I spent many hours on this and I believe it...at least for now :)
I agree,I do love me some hound!! I'm gonna cryyyyy next season. Let the tears begin!!!!!!!
I'll probably always call him the Hound. Same thing with Jon Snow. I just can't start calling him Aegon because he never really was Jon Snow.
In the books jon snow is not argon! I’m sorry he is Ned 2.0.
Wow, what an insightful video! Thanks for pointing out all of the cryptic details. I would have never seen them without your videos. I'm soaking it all up!!
thanks =))
Something jumped out to me in one of the book quotes in this video, not about worging but about the Hound wrapping Arya in a cloak at night, "[...] and he no longer bound her up in a cloak at night". Could be something, could be nothing, but peaked my interest after reading the bloody cloak theory recently! Future cloaks video? 🤔 Lots of interesting material I bet! "All cloaks are grey by night"...
its an interesting dynamic since he cloaked sansa when joffrey was stripping her and now sansa is running around with his cloak (is that what you mean by the blood cloak, right?)
bridge4 Yes, there's a big piece of work on it on the Pawn to Player: Rethinking Sansa website that's pretty cool, you should check it out. I'd never noticed the Hound cloak anyone else though, although with Arya it's more of an un-cloaking, like he starts to trust her so takes his cloak away. With Sansa, he doesn't trust those around her so he leaves his cloak, his protection, with her. I'm just speculating though... There's so many ways to interpret things! 😁😁
:))
Its Soo Amazing ... Its left me speechless as a Sandor Clegane's fan right from Season 1 !!
Think some of this might be close?
It also makes a little more sense too as horses are beast's of burden and through that Sandor gained what would appear to be unending endurance never really giving up I mean he survived the fight with Brienne and doesn't really complain about anything he just suffers in silence
I loved this video. You’ve renewed my interest in game of thrones.
New subscriber here. Your videos are awesome. I've been binge watching lol. Thank you!
That helps alot. Thanks, anna. Creatice sn btw :))
A great video straight to the point followed by an explanation instead of making us wait half the video
What a beauty, dawg!!
Haha, well played! And thank you :)
"The dog belongs to no one" aka Sandor belongs to Arya. Makes sense. They had a tremendous bond, especially after the Long Night. Arya is also the only one to ever call him Sandor, not Hound or Dog... his true name. Hopefully Winds of Winter will give us more about their complex relationship. I never thought Sansa was worthy of him, and Robert's comment "get her a dog, she'll be happier for it" obviously meant the dog she used to kill Ramsay. That ship has sailed anyway. Sandor's quote "I hate gingers" is a good indication of that.
Mary Coulston I’ve always loved their relationship
Just subscribed to your channel! Can't believe that I discovered your channel today
Thanks, Trishia. Look forward to chatting and brainstorming with ya :)
Great vid!!! Never saw Sandor like that lol
Thanks :)
I always thought the hound was warging with his horse. And... The dire wolves are dogs.
I wish you had told me. I had never seen it until now. And now I can't unsee it :)
Naw that's like saying a tiger is a house cat. Dire wolves are canines but they aren't dogs
Ttthhhhhat... Was awesome.. Great take on a very dynamic and beloved character.. Sandor has always been my favorite character.
What is the soundtrack you use in the background bro??
"winter is here", "home," "winter is here", "home" then "court and page"
The Hound, one of my favourite characters in the books and show !
I'm with ya
Notice riccon smashing nut shells repeatedly.....
Didn't tyrion have a nephew who smashed bugs?
Reminds me a bit of hodor,
Yeh, that's an interesting show only see check about orson. The beetle smasher. :)
Wow, this is honestly one of the best videos you've ever done. Well done good Ser.
Thanks, disney :))
Ps: Im no "ser" :-P
This is a *good* one! Dany's Silver and Sandor's Stranger, I have notes on those four in my notebook for a while now and you found incidents with Sandor that I didn't. Put together perfectly, Kev! Although I think you could have included the ones with Sansa. I mean, ok, "Get her a dog, she’ll be happier for it" is a bit obvious, but your catch between Arya and the Hound in ASoS (must be Arya XII, chapter 66, I think) fits nicely with what happens three chapters later in Sansa VI:
"It was eight long days until Lysa Arryn arrived. On five of them it rained, while Sansa sat bored and restless by the fire, *beside the old blind dog.* He was too sick and toothless to walk guard with Bryen anymore, and mostly all he did was sleep, but when she patted him he whined and licked her hand, and after that they were fast friends."
"The memory of her own wedding night with Tyrion was much with her. _In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers,_ he had said. _I could be good to you._ But that was only another Lannister lie. _A dog can smell a lie, you know,_ the Hound had told her once. She could almost hear *the rough rasp of his voice* ."
"Sansa found *Bryen’s old blind dog* in her little alcove beneath the steps, and lay down next to him. He woke and licked her face. “You sad old *hound* ,” she said, ruffling his fur.
“Alayne.” Her aunt’s singer stood over her. “Sweet Alayne. I am Marillion. I saw you come in from the rain. The night is chill and wet. Let me warm you.”
*The old dog raised his head and growled,* but the singer gave him a cuff and sent him slinking off, whimpering.
[...] He put a hand on her breast, and squeezed.
“Let’s get you out of these wet clothes. You wouldn’t want them ripped, I know. Come, sweet lady, heed your heart-”
Sansa heard the soft sound of steel on leather. “Singer,” *a rough voice* said, “best go, if you want to sing again.” [...] It was Lothor Brune’s voice, she realized. *Not the Hound’s,* no, how could it be? Of course it had to be Lothor . . ."
"And she dreamed of her wedding night too, of Tyrion’s eyes devouring her as she undressed. Only then he was bigger than Tyrion had any right to be, and when he climbed into the bed his face was scarred only on one side. “I’ll have a song from you,” he *rasped,* and Sansa woke and *found the old blind dog beside her once again* ."
What if Arya's and Sansa's chapters took place at the same time and Sandor "dreamed" he was that old blind dog and put the puzzle pieces together (which he heard) and that's why he wanted to go to the Eyrie to ransom Arya? I know it sounds a little far fetched, but who knows...
In Arya's POV there is this:
"His dream of selling Arya to Lady Arryn died there in the hills, though. “There’s frost above us and snow in the high passes,” the village elder said. “If you don’t freeze or starve, the shadowcats will get you, or the cave bears. There’s the clans as well."
But Sandor's dream did not just die:
“We can rest up, maybe find a way to get a letter to your aunt.”
I love thee, Mr. Martin. :D
My sansa warg video is in orocess, but not complete until February or March ufoetuately since I've got a lot ahead if it. I do it tho. Great post
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Sansa warg video sounds dope! :) And between now and February or March there is a lot more books to go through for me (I'm only on my first re-read) and there is also this little exhibition called Unseen Westeros in my hometown in the meantime (lucky me!). And thanks, the video is just as great!
I told them I'd make a promo video for them a few months ago. I'm jammed until january. When is the event? January 18th or something?
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The event is on the 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th of January 2019. As far as I know there are no tickets available anymore, so you don't have to do the promo video. :)
Oh it sold out! That's great news :))
Epic! Thank you, Kev.
Nah, thank YOU
I think a better unintentional blood magic example would be Daenerys sacrificing Khal Drogo (king's blood, still alive, in flames) to perform the ritual to bring back dragons from "stone" as explained so many times by Melisandre.
absoilutely!
No she suffocated him 1st
True true. She suffocated him first. But OPs main point still hold's. That's probably the best example of blood magic causing unintended results
Grrm had an awesome offline quote about how he wanted the magic to be mysterious. Half instinctual
She somewhat knew what she was doing tho, as she thanked mirri for her lessons about death paging fr life. And "I don't want yur screams. All I want is your life" lol. Savage!
I think its more basic like the death of her child paying for the life of her dragons
I'm still confused by blood magic and sacrificing in this setting. Stannis made many for zero gain.
I learn so much about the books from your videos. Great job as always.
Yo jerzy! long time. How you been man?
@@bridge4 long time but always watching lol I've been good. I hope all is well with you.
for sure. same to you, brotha!
Kev, This video shows how amazing GRRM is at writing, and this video shows how brilliant you are at interpreting. Great minds think alike man. Love the hound and I love this video.
Haha I'd agree with the former. Grrm is definitely a wizard
I think this video is probably partially right. But even if it's 100% wrong, the fact there Georges wording and case precedents allows us to hypothesize such stuff speaks to his dense/awesome writing :))
Thank you BTW
bridge4 you’re welcome
Absolutely love this! Bring on the Sandor content!!!
two more soon. one on 12/3 and one on 12/4 =)) get your tissues prepared tho :*(
Perhaps the Hound learned of loyalty from Stranger.
I dig it!
Top notch analysis, bravo sir. Your videos help me appreciate the books in a new way.
thank you, ser! =))
15 minutes of bliss. Great video!!! Your insight is first class.
thanks =))
Love it. Couldn’t make it through all the hundreds of comments so I don’t know if this has been said. So there’s a theory that during the Blackwater, Sansa unknowingly uses her Stark skinchanger ability to bond with Sandor, and in that moment she reads his desire to kiss her (or more, but she’s 12 and naive) and that’s why she thinks that he did, but is confused by if it happened. Have to reread ACOK because I can’t recall exactly what the book said in that scene.
As far as all the Sandor/Brienne elements, I see it more that they are the “true knights” of the story although neither is one (him by choice, her because of her sex), so they have a lot of parallels. I’ll keep in mind what you said when I reread AFFC (I’m still only rereading the first book, so it’ll be a while).
Sandor is likely my favorite character so I’m glad you do lots of vids on him! I never thought of him as a skinchanger before. (nitpick: Warging is a term specific to wolves, only powerful skinchangers can handle wolves) :) It’s very possible he has this ability, there’s evidence he has blood of the First Men from his appearance. I’ll be looking for even more clues to his abilities going forward.
Great job with this! Don’t know how I missed it for so long.
Stop with the awesome videos I need to sleep.
Lol thanks evan :)