Who killed Jon Arryn, and why?
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@DmitriVanderbilt 2 місяці тому
Calling Jon Arryn "Catelyn's brother in law" sounds weird af despite it being totally factual
@Wolfeson28 2 місяці тому
Also sort of Catelyn's father-in-law, given that he fostered and largely raised Ned.
@TAMThomasTAM 2 місяці тому
On top of that, I think Jon Arryn is technically Ned's brother-in-law twice (or at least brother-in-law-in-law), which sounds weird since that means Ned was fostered and raised by his brother-in-law, or, put another way, he married his foster-aunt-in-law. They're like the Targaryens of technicalities.
@stingerjohnny9951 2 місяці тому
Welcome to Royal families
@schmittiTV 2 місяці тому
@@Wolfeson28that doesn't make him her father in law
@Wolfeson28 2 місяці тому
@@stingerjohnny9951 Jon = Ned's foster father, therefore Jon is in a sense the father of Catelyn's husband, which is what a father-in-law is. Not in the usual sense, obviously, but in-laws aren't blood relatives anyway (at least in *most* family trees).
@8Hshan 2 місяці тому
Martin was so cheeky with this... Explicitly saying the name of the poison was "tears of Lys", while also telling the reader that his wife was the only character named Lysa - an unstable woman overly attached to her son, whom would be separated from her, thus very likely causing her to produce lots of... tears of Lysa. He could have named the poison literally whatever, or even omit it name completely, but he chose specifically that wordplay, excellent.
@thisistherevolt Місяць тому
Even if you miss that connection, the way he presents that particular syllable, lys, it's always at least a little sinister and meant to misdirect not foster trust.
@dreamingwolf8382 2 місяці тому
Literally any time there's a question of "who killed them" in any of the books, my first thought is always Little Finger, even if it doesn't seem even remotely possible.
@HumbleGaijin 2 місяці тому
Everything can be blamed on Littlefinger or Bloodraven.
@ThommyofThenn 2 місяці тому
ESPECIALLY if it's not even possible
@MusMasi Місяць тому
doesny lysa admit it was her at little fingers urging
@sevenpolar3483 Місяць тому
who killed Kevan Lannister?
@rumpelstilzz Місяць тому
@@MusMasiyes she does
@osirisrexx2336 2 місяці тому
People always get Ned so wrong. He didn't warn Cersei because it was honourable. The honourable thing according to Westerosi customs would have been to deliver her to the king straight away for committing treason--there's no honour in helping a traitor escape. He did it to save her children from Robert's wrath. As he tried to save Dany when Robert ordered her assassination, and as he saved Jon. He has a clear trauma from seeing the Targaryen children after the sack of King's Landing and hates the idea of killing children. Stannis or Jon Arryn would have satisfied honour and delivered Cersei to Robert, but Ned chose mercy over honour. He never was the stickler for honour he and others claimed him to be, not in his actions. He elegantly leveraged that reputation to sell a life lie (Jon being his bastard), but whenever he is actually faced with choosing honour over another good (mercy, his family, saving someone innocent), he chooses against honour.
@Manudyne Місяць тому
that's why when I rewatched his execution I was surprised because I could swear he didn't lie to say he was a traitor who wanted to seize the throne for himself (what Sansa and Cersei wanted so he could live) but he actually did. I remembered he refused to lie and said Joffrey was a bastard and died defending the truth but I was wrong. And he should've done that since he dies anyway si at least he could've gone with a badass line about the king being born of incest and the queen being a snake or something like that.
@Jen7867 Місяць тому
Well said. ❤
@Jen7867 Місяць тому
@@ManudyneWow, that's interesting!!! It's funny when our memories are proven to be false, isn't it? It happens to all of us. True, Ned could have chosen to defiantly tell the truth of Cersei's children's parentage. I guess Ned must have believed that he would be spared, as he was promised. Apparently he didn't forsee the possibility of Joffery calling for his death regardless.
@Manudyne Місяць тому
yeah Ned was not expecting that. Joffrey was quite often unpredictable@@Jen7867
@jamesbowden4871 27 днів тому
Well said. And what Ned said in season 1 supports your argument. When Varys asked Ned what madness drove him to tell Cersei that he had discovered the truth of the twincest a d bastardy, he replies, "The madness of mercy."
@Blake_Stone 2 місяці тому
It's such a great reveal in the books when Lysa lets the truth slip in A Storm of Swords, after the mystery has dragged on for so many pages and you'd thought it solved and unsolved so many times, and starting to think you'd never get the truth. One of those moments when you drop the book and yell "motherfucker!" and everyone looks at you strangely.
@WarKrieg 2 місяці тому
Was it a mystery? Pretty sure most readers thought it was Cersei, having been directed there by the text since early in the saga. At the time of this reveal, no one out there was wondering who killed Jon Arryn. We all thought we knew. That's what makes this reveal so brilliant: the best twists provide answers to questions you didn't know you had. The Sixth Sense is a perfect example of that.
@MusMasi Місяць тому
@@WarKrieg I suspected lysa more and more when her links to little finger were exposed more as the story went on.
@ShadeoftheEvening Місяць тому
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@ShadeoftheEvening Місяць тому
@MusMasi me too. Maybe Cersei/Jaime were involved, but I don't think so. Someone did "advise" Pycele to let him die. He even got rid of the maester taking care of Jon. And Littlefinger really had no reason to help. He just loves to start shit. Maybe he did have a plan to go for Lysa, marriage, at some point, but I think most of it was her doing because she didn't want Robin to be fostered with Tywin. Or anyone. Thanks for reminding me which book. As many times as I've read them, I SHOULD remember🙋🏽♀️✌️
@frefai 2 місяці тому
I always wondered why Arryn's last words were "the seed is strong". I figure if he were dying anyway, wouldn't he save a lot of time and headache and just straight said that Cersie is having an affair with Jamie and her kids are bastards?
@tomasdavid7829 2 місяці тому
yeah mumbling of old dying man would definitely persuade someone
@astrinymris9953 2 місяці тому
You'd think! But maybe he was too delirious to do so. Or it could be that Lysa didn't relay his final words accurately, perhaps even at Littlefinger's behest. Remember, Baelish was setting up Cersei as his fall guy for Arryn's demise. Another possibility is that all Jon Arryn's research into hair colors raised some questions in his mind about Sweetrobin's paternity... and Lysa *definitely* wouldn't have revealed anything Arryn uttered on his deathbed in that regard.
@RollMeAFat1 2 місяці тому
He wasn’t in a very good state on his death bed, and it seems all he could manage was “Robert” and “the seed is strong” over and over again
@gerfv3940 2 місяці тому
It’s also referring to robin Arryn not being his son. (Arryns usually are very strong and blonde like harry the heir, and robin, well robin is little fingers son)
@adailtonpersegonha 2 місяці тому
yeah, but that would have spoiled the mystery, so..
@XVlTrey 2 місяці тому
this mystery plays better in text than live action because as you watch it, you wonder, how no one sees through little finger.
@MTGandP Місяць тому
I think the writing/direction for Littlefinger made him too obviously sneaky. In the books he was more friendly and likable.
@Gongall Місяць тому
@@MTGandP You actually trust book littlefinger at first, show littlefinger is just blatantly conniving at all times
@richardtabor8686 2 місяці тому
RIP Jon Arryn. Ty for the content!
@ThommyofThenn 2 місяці тому
Yes RIP Jon A. We hardly knew ya
@walterquick5829 2 місяці тому
How long have Littlefinger and Lysa been fooling around behind Jon Arryn's back, and is Robyn Arryn their bastard?
@alihijazi4451 2 місяці тому
It certainly would explain how frail and small he is for his age
@walterquick5829 2 місяці тому
@@alihijazi4451 Not that the show matters but they did a really good job of casting a kid who favored Aiden Gillen. Outside of Lysa's nose, that is.
@jf_kein_k8590 2 місяці тому
He might be, the way Harrold Hardyng is described to look like Jon Arryn when he was young, against how Robyn is described, kinda puts that into question.
@MariaVosa 2 місяці тому
Considering the fact that Jon Arryn hadn't been able to produce a single child until he married Lysa - and that Lysa had previously had a child by Petr - I'd say it's a 99,9% certainty Robin is Littlefinger's son.
@mr.e1026 2 місяці тому
Considering what a wimp Robyn is, and the overarcing theme of the Song of Ice And Fire books, I would not have been surprised.
@TravisBrady-wn8fr 2 місяці тому
Jon Aaron had a second helping of old nans kidney pie forgetting he was allergic to peas and onions
@ashleyofnaath 2 місяці тому
I thought there was more to the fostering conversation than Lysa just blindly acting out to keep Sweet Robin in her custody. Catelyn told Maester Coleman that Lysa believed Sweet Robin was definitively being sent to the Lannisters, and the maester, seemingly flabbergasted by the idea, corrected her and verified Jon had decided on Stannis. To me, this implied that Littlefinger exploited Lysa's mental illness and fears of the Lannisters by lying about what he'd heard Robert and Jon planned for Sweet Robin (who else would've given her the information), to get her desperate enough to muder Jon. Rather than her acting to prevent any fostering at all, it seemed very Lannister-specific. It just felt more sinister in my estimation but I could be wrong. On a seperate note, if Pycelle was truly a Lannister man, why did he give Ned the book which led Ned to intel that could collapse the Lannister dynasty? Always wondered about that. Nice job!
@mattmazzullo2194 2 місяці тому
Good points! My suspicion about Pycelle handing over the book so easily is that he was simply ignorant of the truth, perhaps willfully so. Dunno what evidence is actually in the text, but I can see him dismissing all the “rumors” of the twincest out of sheer blind love for the Lannisters.
@aprilmae274 2 місяці тому
Robert tells Ned that Robert Arryn is to be fostered with Tywin at Casterly and that Tywin will be deeply offended if he changes his mind. Pycelle says that Jon is sending Robert to Dragonstone. Hmmmmm
@Kubinda12345 2 місяці тому
In Deep Geek made a video about this. It seems that Jon wanted to send Robyn to Stannis but Cersei persuaded Robert to send the boy to Tywin Lannister.
@ashleyofnaath 2 місяці тому
@@aprilmae274 In addition to Jon Arryn's own maester saying the boy would be fostered with Stannis. This is really interesting.
@aprilmae274 2 місяці тому
@@ashleyofnaath Yes. Pycelle should NOT know that Jon was sending Robert Arryn to Stannis instead of Tywin. It IS weird that Pycelle says this to Tyrion. NOW imagine Tyrion is replaced by Ned...and Pycelle says this shit to Ned. How does THAT conversation now change?
@oscardinogetti3824 2 місяці тому
I am so glad I found this channel. Well done! 👍
@mikeraycroft9568 2 місяці тому
Love your breakdowns. Since Greenhand had their baby you have filled a major gap that they left off. Thanks again for the great content
@jf_kein_k8590 2 місяці тому
Then there are also the Royce who are suspcious of "Alayne", having likely deduced that she isn't a bastard, but a highborn. (That being about Lysas death more than anything) Depending on how that goes, Sansa might confess to them about the whole thing
@ariannevenancio8994 2 місяці тому
That would be a very dangerous thing for Sansa to do, even if she had all the best intentions. She's already accused of killing the King, if she admits that she saw Petyr kill her aunt and didn't say anything that might do more harm than good for her
@moldyketchuphead 2 місяці тому
This is one of your best videos to date. Thank you!
@dYrOiUs 2 місяці тому
Yet another amazing video! Keep up the good work, I'm lovin it! (the asoiaf videos are my fav)
@earlgrey8611 2 місяці тому
Excellent synopsis as always.
@nicolelehar6066 2 місяці тому
I really like these videos! Thanks for posting!!
@AndrewK23777 2 місяці тому
Great vid IDG , sometimes when not thinking about LF as much for a time can briefly lose focus on how influential he was to the events that gets this whole series going. LF is extremely adept at what he does , causing chaos , confusion and carnage - deflecting blame onto others , often layers covering his own tracks and creating tension and conflict between others. All of which to his advantage that he makes sure to capitalize on. Manipulating Lysa into poisoning Jon Arryn very much part of that and the early catalyst that drives the start of ASoIaF & many events going forward. Can't wait for LF to meet his end ; of course not how GoT did it but i do like the idea that his scheming will eventually backfire when knowingly or unknowingly he is no longer in total control and most likely not on his home turf. As the vid suggested would be fitting if his being outed for his role with Jon Arryn's death is at least part of that. LF is clearly an (insert appropriate expletive) but credit where credit is due , he is so good at what he does , causing chaos and thriving in it. It will be very satisfying when LF finally gets whats coming to him.
@xina968 23 дні тому
I am quite new to your channel and I'm absolutely loving it! Thank you ❤
@FeanorToro 2 місяці тому
Thanks Robert for all your videos 🎉😊
@josephlongbone4255 2 місяці тому
Cersie (In her POV chapters) wonders who killed him, and while she is a few marbles short and definitely capable of murder; I don't think she's quite loopy enough to gaslight herself into forgetting such a thing?
@PiotrDzialak 2 місяці тому
who counts them corpses, I might have forgotten a couple.
@jacobenke7936 Місяць тому
Cat managed to forget Lysa's miscarriage. Anyone can forget anything.
@LiterallyCanada666 2 місяці тому
jon arryns murder is actually hilarious littlefinger manipulates his side hoe into murdering her husband just for shits and giggles, meanwhile jon’s investigating the queen and the fact she’s fucking her brother and that her kids are bastards of incest, the fact that he gets poisoned leads pycelle to assume cerci did it so they don’t save his life and try to cover up his death it’s this clusterfuck of different plots that all intertwine and a great writing from george
@SelphieTheNutter 2 місяці тому
Nice video, as usual, thank you Robert
@ShadeoftheEvening Місяць тому
Great topic choice!!
@ellaphx 2 місяці тому
That's so weird, I was just thinking about this today, because it's clearly spelled out in the show but I couldn't remember whether it was definite in the books.
@pyrho1 2 місяці тому
Excellent! Wonderful! Stupendous! Outstanding! Thank you!
@7ItalianStallion Місяць тому
Excellent video!
@JLchevz 2 місяці тому
I thought it was pretty clear it was Lysa at LF´s behest lol
@lyarrastark6254 2 місяці тому
I agree. Thank you, Robert.
@NYCfrankie 2 місяці тому
Lysa arryn killed him she admitted it
@brandonbradley7060 2 місяці тому
I thought Lysa did it after little finger played on her fears for her son but can't remember where I read it. It's been a long time. She was a pawn in little fingers game to shake things up iirc.
@andrewjohnston9115 2 місяці тому
But at the behest of Littlefinger, she was merely the Lee Harvey Oswald of Westeros, Littlefinger was actually the murderer.
@thing_under_the_stairs 2 місяці тому
@@andrewjohnston9115I sprayed Diet Coke out my nose at "Lee Harvey Oswald of Westeros". It stung. Thanks!
@BillyBasd 2 місяці тому
@@brandonbradley7060Lysa confessed to Sansa before Littlefinget threw Lisa out the Moon Door
@alpacapines8553 2 місяці тому
@thing_under_the_stairs it was good... just made me laugh mid sneeze
@kerrirae 2 місяці тому
Lysa and littlefinger plotted but Pycelle was surely in on it. Maybe even Varys... Starting video now, I'm excited to hear your analysis 😊
@FlyWithMe_666 2 місяці тому
Samwell Tarly killed him. Think about it, it makes perfect sense and all the evidence is right there in the books.
@thing_under_the_stairs 2 місяці тому
Don't be silly. It was Strong Belwas.
@TheIvasyl 2 місяці тому
@@thing_under_the_stairs i think you're a bit confused. Strong Belwas killed a different hand of the king -- Tywin Lanister. Evidence: Tywin smelled like shit and thats definitely the style of Strong Belwas.
@d26k164 2 місяці тому
@@TheIvasyl Tywin is still alive he is disguised as the dusky woman aboard Victarion's ship
@nicknumber1512 2 місяці тому
An intriguing theory, but I think we all know it was Ser Pounce.
@gamer2101 2 місяці тому
@@nicknumber1512ser pounce is the real mastermind. He brings the chaos!!
@Life-Glug 2 місяці тому
Great video. Please could you do one for who sent the assassin to kill Bran after his fall
@gamer2101 2 місяці тому
I would like that video as well.
@bmobmo6438 2 місяці тому
That was Littlefinger setting the stage for the war of five kings
@Life-Glug 2 місяці тому
@@bmobmo6438 I think he is too far away to arrange that. Although he does lie about the dagger to Caitlin for the reason you mentioned. Some people think it's Joffery, by a process of elimination.
@cardenuovo 2 місяці тому
I always assumed it was Jaime? At least in the show
@jkelsey555 2 місяці тому
Curious that you used a picture of Tyland Lannister when mentioning Ser Hugh
@docmitchell4658 2 місяці тому
It was the same actor who played both roles. Funny Easter egg I suppose
@thing_under_the_stairs 2 місяці тому
@@docmitchell4658Cool, I never knew that!
@jkelsey555 2 місяці тому
@@docmitchell4658 yeah I was just joking, technically he plays 3 roles
@origami83 2 місяці тому
So the lannisters were involved afterall!
@noogleful 2 місяці тому
Hey! I have no idea if you read comments but i hope you see this. I got my urge to rewatch "a travelers guide" again but all those videos, besides the westerlands one, arent available any more. I have really been wondering what happened to them, did they get struck by youtube? did you just private them? Really dying to know.
@nman8158 2 місяці тому
Hold on. One of the most suspicious things Catelyn does is she reads the note in supposedly written in code and then burns it before anyone can even look at it. It was supposedly written in code that only she and Lysa can read. If that's the case she wouldn't need to burn it. She doesn't even show it to Ned.
@mistyaqua 2 місяці тому
I also always found this suspicious, especially after we get to know Cat more and see how many poor decisions she makes!
@Manudyne Місяць тому
that's exactly why she immediately burns it. if someone finds it they can't read it but since it was delivered to Cat they would know she is involved and the writer is someone very close to her therefore it could arise suspicion about herself too.
@earthknight60 2 місяці тому
LIttlefinger is such a great character. I really hope that if GRR Martin ever gets around to finishing the books Littlefinger's eventual demise is handled better than the infantile crap they pulled with the TV series.
@tessdurberville711 2 місяці тому
Who better to settle the score than the Stark children? Who had more right? Lord Baelish thought he was invincible and found out he was not. It was beautiful. He (and we) never saw it coming😊.
@jacobenke7936 Місяць тому
@@tessdurberville711 The way that it's handled, though, with Arya essentially ignoring everything Sansa had been complicit in, was in no way in keeping with Arya's character. The way it worked out, Arya had always loved Sansa more than Jon and her assassin training was pointless. I do agree that his own hubris will be what gets him killed, but not in a way that really makes so little sense.
@MegaPrincessbear 2 місяці тому
Ned confronting Cersei is easily in the top 10 scenes for both show and book!
@TheFlashman 2 місяці тому
Do you have your content in podcast form? I'd like to listen to it without a UKposts video running and TBH I don't want to pay for UKposts premium to get running on lock screen
@magnushoumann-hammer3558 2 місяці тому
You should do audio books
@kristymckinney7564 2 місяці тому
Why did you take down your Traveler’s Guide to Essos videos? They’re your best ones.
@desMachina 2 місяці тому
Very good video thanks.
@WAVm2011 2 місяці тому
Yall r actually good no book and the show mixed up
@WAVm2011 2 місяці тому
WHO KILLED JON 👆🏿
@jeancaron9325 5 днів тому
What if 129 ac,s Dragostone and Driftmark are isot to 282ac will Ned,Robert and Jon Arryn support Rhaenyra over Aerys2?
@larryhinkle9390 2 місяці тому
We all know Cersai couldn't pull off a plot. Why does everyone in book act like she's a player.
@user-ez5nh3yz1u 2 місяці тому
All I know is it wasn't me. Everyone needs to stop spreading rumors.
@wutzibu 2 місяці тому
Before we start. Lysa and littlefinger killed him. He was about to send Robert to be fostered away from his mother. And he might have realized that his son is not his son.
@Landfish100 2 місяці тому
It was Euron/Daario
@sackal86 2 місяці тому
good analysis as always. but i think, up to some point little finger and varys have acted together. they had seperate goals of course but both of them desperately sought chaos for their plans. and in the first book when varys visited ned in the dungeon he refered to little finger as second most evil man in kingslanding and claimed that he fed little finger with the informations he choose and let little finger think varys was in his hands. also when arya was practising syrio's homework with the cats, she witnessed illyrio and varys's dialog which illyrio said to varys "if one hand can die why not a second, you have done this dance before my friend." which he refered to the killing of jon aryn was actually varys's job. i think Varys analyzing people into the their deeps (perhaps with the help of magic) and knowing how to manipulate them without leaving any trace. perhaps little finger might have awared the situation but ignored as long as it is beneficial to act together.
@Astromamut 2 місяці тому
Jon Arryn pulled a "Slobodan Praljak" maneuver when he realized he married Lysa Tully.
@clownpendotfart 2 місяці тому
No, Tyrion didn't figure out who killed Jon Arryn. We have his POV, and he never accuses any of the actual conspirators in his thoughts, even as he thinks about LF lying about the dagger.
@CJ_F0x 2 місяці тому
Man... I really wish you were the narrator of the aSoIaF series on audible
@awesomehpt8938 2 місяці тому
It was sir pounce!
@chrismorin7652 9 днів тому
“Ned would BE HEADING to King’s Landing” 😏
@Cyballistic 2 місяці тому
Would love to see Wheel of Time added
@barryhercules7588 2 місяці тому
If in doubt blame Littlefinger merch incoming
@1003JustinLaw Місяць тому
Lysa accusing Tyrion is just the most common tactics used by panicking killers, even now IRL. Suspects under interrogation for murder will literally point the finger at anyone and everyone, and is one of the things detectives watch for when questioning suspects. The suspect that starts to recall what they did when the murder happened usually isn’t involved, while the suspect that starts throwing out wild theories and bringing up people that had beef with the victim is probably the one to examine more deeply. Basically, it’s like throwing pocket sand, distractions to take eyes off of herself.
@StormcastMarine 2 місяці тому
We need some dune goodness from you Robert
@cardenuovo 2 місяці тому
Great video. Suggestion: Who sent the assassin to kill Bran with the Valyrian steel blade? Jaime or Littlefinger? I always thought it was Jaime but perhaps I’m wrong.
@awcxy 2 місяці тому
it was jeoffrey. it is stated pretty obviously in the books.
@cardenuovo 2 місяці тому
@@awcxy But how? Jeoffery was still only prince and on the Kingsroad down to King’s Landing. Maybe it’s a small detail but I kinda consider it a rather important detail. Are the books really that different from the show? The first 3-4 seasons I’m referring to, I’ve discredited the latter half of the show.
@awcxy 2 місяці тому
@@cardenuovo jeoffrey heard robert say that it would be kinder to put bran out of his misery and since jeoff always wanted to impress his "father" he stole the dagger from him and gave it to the assassin before leaving for King`s Landing. The assassin hid for a few days in the stables before attempting to kill bran. Up to season 4 the series is pretty faithful to the books, But I guess they forgot to solve the mistery in the series.
@tessdurberville711 2 місяці тому
@@awcxySo is the spelling of his name 🤦🏼♀️.
@Tepidsoup42 Місяць тому
Jon Arryn with the stones over his eyes was my discord picture for ever 😂😂
@duolingo0552 2 місяці тому
It wasn’t me!
@thehonestaspy102 2 місяці тому
When in doubt, blame Bloodraven!
@dyne313 2 місяці тому
Let me quote a different Snow (Coriolanus Snow from the Hunger Games). "It's the things we love most that destroy us."
@DutchDread 24 дні тому
Easy to forget how good this story was until you get a video like this
@Manofthewhiteknife 2 місяці тому
What happened Gemma's channel? Secrets of the citadel??
@CosmicCorviknight 2 місяці тому
It's weird to think that before the events of AGOT Jon Arryn, Lysa and Sweetrobin presumably all lived at court for years and would have regularly interacted with characters like the Lannisters at court but POV characters never really acknowledge this period or the relationships they had with those characters
@TheFirebrandJuggalo 2 місяці тому
Ironic that Cat taking Tyrion prisoner was just as hare-brained as Lysa accusing him of Jon's murder.
@tessdurberville711 2 місяці тому
It was ridiculous.
@MP-uw1qc 2 місяці тому
@@tessdurberville711The Tully’s are not the brightest!
@chuckschultz1745 2 місяці тому
How many are dead because of these two gossipy rumor mongers
@anoushkawilliam Місяць тому
@@MP-uw1qcw😊
@BadAxeEntertainment 2 місяці тому
I always thought Littlefinger had him killed.
@anitareasontobelieve378 27 днів тому
Petyr put Lysa up to it and she did admit it and played the naive Ned and Catelyn.
@jaynguin Місяць тому
Lyssa's whole connection to Littlefinger almost makes me wonder is Robin is Jon's or Littlefinger's
@woodyhorton8537 2 місяці тому
I thought Lysa did it to get her kid away from Tywin/stannis cuz he was going to be fostered and also was doing it for peter
@Leo_ofRedKeep 22 дні тому
Varys "knowing" that a poison was used that leaves no trace places him firmly on the side of the poisoners or at the very least in the position of a spy who saw them planning it. He remained inactive then silent, therefore complicit. In any case he tells Ned only half the truth, not disclosing who poisoned Jon. And Dumbned doesn't ask, nor does he even notice he is being fooled. So Varys was involved, not just Littlefinger. As to why it all happened, Varys tells us that too. "Jon Arryn started asking questions". Varys was the first to know, the same way he already knew what Jon was going to find but it was all too early for that destabilising secret to be revealed, as Viserys and Drogo were not ready to invade. At this point I believe GRRM had not yet thought of the Young Griff plot and had Varys and Illyrio sincerely support the Dothraki plan, which is why they invested invaluable dragon eggs, be they a portable fortune or symbols of legitimacy, into it. So Varys provided information about Jon Arryn investigating, Littlefinger arranged the poisoning and maybe Pycelle provided the poison too, only lying to Tyrion about it later. We may wonder if Littlefinger hoped to be made Hand himself instead of Ned. The letter to Cat' would have been meant to intimidate her instead, so she would keep Ned in Winterfell. This is probably what Lysa thought Cat' would do. Once Ned was there, Littlefinger's offer to him was to help him rule under Joffrey, silently preparing to push Ned to lose his head later for the same crime of knowing Joffrey's secret whenever the time was right to be named in his stead.
@Commander_Ray 2 місяці тому
I killer Jon Arryn, yes I know quite the plot twist
@Chris-ut6eq 2 місяці тому
word of the day, twincest!
@neaspirea3125 2 місяці тому
great video but why have you given all the images such a crusty filter :( it looks terrible
@peugeot120 Місяць тому
Uhhhh, Littlefinger convinced Lysa to do it.
@erlandnettum6680 2 місяці тому
So classic who dunnit they way you tell the story.
@vidarfe Місяць тому
When in doubt, blame Littlefinger!
@frederiknrgaardhansen4638 2 місяці тому
I always disliked this part in game of thrones personally. The whole 'little finger was the real master mind' feels like something that had been added to the script much later in the story, rather than planned from the start. It fits far better that cercei was behind it, with a clear motive of not wanting to have her incest story discovered, rather than little finger playing 5d chess. We are shown the lannister willingness to kill to keep their secret when Jaime pushes Bran out the window. We essentially are given all the building blocks, with Bran and Jon Arryn for the big discovery that the heir to the throne is not legitimate, and thus the necessary clash of stark vs lannister has to follow. When it turns out Cercei is not behind the killing of Jon Arryn, then it basically just says it is pure luck she is not caught before the book even starts, and that completely diminishes the build-up we see in book one in my opinion. It takes her from being a person with an active agency in her own story to one without much agency, just for the sake of "little finger likes chaos"
@dmc009 2 місяці тому
"Its my land when I'm standing on it."
@paulsarnik8506 2 місяці тому
If Ser Hugh didn't play Sir Haughty to Jory ( in the show) the secrect might have come out sooner. 🤷🏼♂️🤓😎
@RoadKamelot2nd 2 місяці тому
It was Lysa herself, it's written in Sansa's final chapter in "A storm of swords" book two. Littlefinger told her to poison him using the Tears of Lys and she obliged.
@siriusczech Місяць тому
maybe watching the video first and then commenting would be a better order of actions next time?
@RoadKamelot2nd Місяць тому
@@siriusczech Why? Lysa confessed that she did it. Why spend time on some wild theory when it was written clearly? GRRM put the very confession into Lysa's mouth, this isn't a case of interpretation. Her words were not particularly veiled or implicit.
@siriusczech Місяць тому
@@RoadKamelot2nd but there is no need for commenting a thing already told in the video. So either do it "my guess/I remember..., going to watch the vid to confirm" or even better - come back after watching and stating "edit: after watching I am glad you have it right as well". The current form is simply in tone of "I know, won't watch, but still wanna shove my knowledge/opinions everywhere including comment sections of vids I do not intent to even watch. And I think Robert here deserves better
@danielhogan6255 Місяць тому
@@siriusczech or better yet, discuss how lysa arryn getting laid good and proper at any point prior to the poisoning of jon arryn could of prevented the entirety of the northern rebellion..
@SHARKVADERS 2 місяці тому
I D G !!!!!
@aprilmae274 2 місяці тому
Robert tells Ned that Lysa ran off to the Eyrie and took her son-who was supposed to be fostered at Casterly Rock with Tywin. What Pycelle says here regarding the fostering is important. Robert made the fostering deal with Tywin...and Jon changed it. Imagine if Tyrion was Ned-and Pycelle says this to Ned about Robert Arryn being fostered at Dragonstone. How does the questioning go then? Jon Arryn helped Tywin during Robert's Rebellion. There is NO way Aerys sent a demand to Jon Arryn to kill Robert and Ned via a bird. NOT unless Aerys also sends men...and also sends for the other Baratheon brothers and Benjen. Either Jon lied about that order from Aerys or Pycelle sent a fake demand from Aerys. This means that Tywin sent it, basically.
@Luinedhel Місяць тому
12:00 So Littlefinger is planning to marry Sansa to Thor. Interesting, thus the Long Night could be turned into Ragnarök.
@justdirt 2 місяці тому
I am on the Jon Arryn hate train personally. Maybe the man nearing 50 shouldn't have forcibly married a teenage girl and forced sex on her. He had it coming tbh. I feel similarly about Lysa when Littlefinger kills her, btw. She raped Petyr, and Petyr killed like how Jon Arryn raped Lysa and Lysa killed him. It's actually a common trope in George's writing. Victim's having a hand, whether direct or indirect in their abusers death. Jon and Ygritte, Dany and Drogo, Tyrion and Tywin, Sansa and Joffrey (still theory in the books, but with show you can add Sansa with Ramsay). In the books, Theon and Jeyne Pool will likely be a key in Ramsay's defeat. Cercei kills Robert, Oberyn kills the Mountain for Ellia, Arya gets over a dozen people killed who had victimized those near her and treated her horribly. Characters like Petyr, Euron, and Ramsay have a 0% chance to live to the end. I doubt Tyrion will make it to the end with the path he is going down, same with Jorah.
@Joshtow167 Місяць тому
How come stansa disnt swing the sword on littlefinger.
@eric2500 2 місяці тому
British History Fun - Visiting York a few years ago I went to a certain musuem - a book on the way out asked you to write who you think killed the Princes in the Tower. *Favorite answer was "Margaret Thatcher"*😁
@michael198427 2 місяці тому
🤣🤣🤣
@songsayswhat 2 місяці тому
? This was talked about both on the show and in the books. We know who and why and how.
@aegorbittersteel2154 2 місяці тому
Bloodraven everything is his fault.
@thing_under_the_stairs 2 місяці тому
Of course it was him! Who else?
@gratefulguy4130 2 місяці тому
You're gonna have to let that go
@aegorbittersteel2154 2 місяці тому
@@gratefulguy4130 never
@PintoRagazzo 2 місяці тому
0:38 Is that Nigel Farage?
@scottturner3831 2 місяці тому
Faramir did it.
@johntorres2565 2 місяці тому
Lisa Arryn. Because with war most likely coming over the incest plot, many different houses were trying to foster Robert Arryn in order to have control of the vale forces. Catelyn hears about Tywin trying to foster him but Maester of the eyrie heard Stannis was trying to foster him at dragonstone. Then Catelyn tried to foster him at winterfell. Lisa didn’t want to lose her son so he poisoned Jon Arryn before he could tell the king about the incest and then went back to the eyrie where she would not lose her son to fostering and where he couldn’t be a pawn in a war. This is in the book. Are we running out of things to talk about?
@PatrickGuerrisi 26 днів тому
Wasn't it little finger?
@TheJCJexe 2 місяці тому
Wow, after all these years I just found out who did it. (I haven't read the books). I am shocked but not surprised, smh.
@stefankatsarov5806 2 місяці тому
They mentioned it in the show tho.
@georgeprchal3924 29 днів тому
Lysa admitted to it.
@Raz.C 2 місяці тому
This is all overtly explained in the show, isn't it? Lysa killed him, at the request of Stinky Finger, so that the Lannisters might be blamed and so that friction might arise between the two great houses of Stark and Lannister.
@danielhogan6255 Місяць тому
if dude had stinky fingers westeros would be in this mess... Dude edged that woman to insanity...poor girl.
@poopiefartgaming 2 місяці тому
It was Mord
@made-line7627 Місяць тому
Why am i laughing at "Good old Jon Arryn" 😅
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