Game Of Thrones: 18 Terrible Ideas That Were Great To Watch

9. Sacking WinterfellGame Of Thrones Theon Winterfell Here is a philosophical question for the ages: why rape, pillage, and plunder fishing villages along the coastline on the orders of your experienced father and for the good of a group of islands with order maintained only by naval supremacy when you can rape, pillage, and plunder the castle of a prominent family with thousands of loyal subjects hundreds of miles inland from the sea? The only thing better would be to decide to try to hold the castle with twenty men and rule it as prince, right? Well, Theon thought so. Why? I have no idea. Nothing about his plan sounded at all practical. As much as he may have wanted to be a Stark, he must have known that taking Winterfell by force and unleashing a band of savage seafaring warriors -over whom he had tenuous control at best - on the inhabitants wouldn't exactly endear him to the Northerners. Still, when Theon successfully leads his forces over the walls of the keep and orders Bran to yield the castle, Bran's confusion over Theon's treachery is heartbreaking, and for an instant, it looks as though Theon thinks so as well.

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