Sweet! A new point of view and it's Melisandre. It's awesome that we finally get to see things from her view because she's always been a black box. She says and does things and we never know whether she's legit or not. Well, we definitely learn that she is for real. At the very least, she has real faith. We see that she does have powers that are not mere parlor tricks and she really does believe in R'hollor.
I liked watching her as she examined the flames for visions. It was interesting that her visions can be wrong because it is a skill that she has developed over time. For instance, we know that the girl she sees can't be Arya, but she seems to believe it is. It's easy to gloss over the fact that she sees a girl at all, which I think will turn out to be true. We find out that Melisandre also believes that Stannis the true warrior of R'hollor. I never knew whether she honestly believed it or if she was using Stannis for some other means.
When Jon arrived at the end, we finally receive the truth about "Rattleshirt" who turns out to be a disguised Mance Rayder. That wasn't something I expected. Again, we see the kind of deep power that Melisandre possesses. It makes sense though because I could not believe that someone like Rattleshirt would come over to the same faith as Melisandre. So now Mance is headed out to find this girl who Melisandre says is Arya. Who will he find when he heads out?
The vision of the wooden face and the wolf boy was interesting as well. Was the wooden face Coldhands? The wolf boy is probably Bran. What does that say about Bran and the company he is keeping? Is Bran being misled by the enemy? Or is just Melisandre's enemy?
Did you find it weird that there was all this talk about visions being wrong, and then she was all of a sudden like "oh yes, my vision is of East Watch getting attacked (even though I have been there and it didnt look like that...but you know....visions are weird like that)". I am totally thinking the attack will be somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteAlso she had a vision of something like shadow dragons from the sea. Made me think she was going to create shadows off of the stone dragons at dragon stone, esp since she said something like "imagine the shadow I could create here at the wall, it would be really fearsome".