Trial by combat was illegal at this point, thanks to Tommen and Cersei. They would have needed to get it reinstated first somehow, by Bran I guess.
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But yeah, the fact that Grey Worm (a foreign invader who slaughtered hundreds and left immediately after with no plans to ever return) got a say in Jon's fate felt rather ridiculous. Or at least the way they presented it did.
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Edited because my phone changed Cersei to Jersey and I didn't notice
You mean the military that left with him? And as mentioned, he had just instigated a wholesale slaughter of pretty much an entire city AFTER they had laid down arms and surrendered. This was after he and his queen had vowed multiple times that if the bells wrung they would honor the surrender. That's pretty much war crimes right there. Not to mention Hilter...ahem Dany's rallying speech where she promised to go slaughtering the rest of the known world...for their own good of course. The entire trial concept was ludicrous and poorly contrived.
@garlog I understand Grey Worm had the unsullied and they work very hard to make us believe that, despite being free men who had already been forced to kill children once in their lives, they all operate under a single hive mind and none of them would ever dream of hesitating or defecting if their chosen leader demanded once again that they perpetrate those same sorts of crimes.
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Even if we choose to believe this to be true, iirc there were admittedly more Northerners than Unsullied. On top of which the Unsullied's queen had conveniently just laid waste to what was likely the entire supply of food, shelter, and water in King's Landing. The ONLY leverage they had was Jon, Tyrion, and the fact that the Northerners were battle-weary (though the Unsullied would also be at this point).
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Not to mention the Unsullied have literally no allies, and suddenly a GREAT deal more enemies than they'd ever had before in their lives.
The leverage they had was effective because nobody wanted to keep fighting. The Unsullied would have likely lost any conflict that came of that, but nobody wanted to start that fight in the first place, so they compromised with Jon.
They didn't really have to keep fighting. Three weeks went by. The northerners could easily have just kept the unsullied under siege, starving. Any that attempted to leave would be fairly straightforward to slaughter
Yes. The point is they didn't want anyone to starve or be slaughtered, so they chose a compromise that no one really liked, but didn't do those things.
Wouldn't anything be better than how they actually finished it....... I was Like oh no, what's the fallout going to be like now Jon killed her, fade to black and fast forward 3 weeks where everyone is all diplomatic. WTF
It just came off incredibly rushed and haphazard, even more than the rest of the season (and to a less egregious degree last season) it was worse than the hurried pacing, it completely lacked the nuanced and intricately woven storylines the series was famous for. It more resembled a romanticized fanfiction.
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But yeah, the fact that Grey Worm (a foreign invader who slaughtered hundreds and left immediately after with no plans to ever return) got a say in Jon's fate felt rather ridiculous. Or at least the way they presented it did.
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Edited because my phone changed Cersei to Jersey and I didn't notice
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Even if we choose to believe this to be true, iirc there were admittedly more Northerners than Unsullied. On top of which the Unsullied's queen had conveniently just laid waste to what was likely the entire supply of food, shelter, and water in King's Landing. The ONLY leverage they had was Jon, Tyrion, and the fact that the Northerners were battle-weary (though the Unsullied would also be at this point).
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Not to mention the Unsullied have literally no allies, and suddenly a GREAT deal more enemies than they'd ever had before in their lives.