Quote: (04-15-2014 05:13 PM)bojangles Wrote:
The Faceless Men are dangerous, I forgot what happens with the Iron Bank and the Kingdom's debt
On the show, they really just sped all of that up in the last episode. The iron bank agrees to lend stannis money for troops and an army and ships if he agrees to pay back the kingdom's debts after retaking the throne.
In the books, this has not even happened yet, but apparently it does in book 6.
I honestly thought he was going to ask for a loan, and the iron bank would refuse for now.
In the books, I thought it was jon snow's idea to have stannis borrow from the iron bank to retake the north and then kings landing, on the show, it is Davos' idea. Fine with me.
Not everything is adding up in terms of time(It seems like mance has been marching on castle black for years now, in the books, Stannis sails up to help beat them back, but right now he is on the other side of the world in bravos)
but I guess on the show they are basically make it sound like stannis has no army at this time, so he had to go to the iron bank to get the army to first beat mance, then fight ramsey and roose and then try to take kings landing.
The only problem with this, is that now that stannis has a big army on the show again, wouldn't he just try to attack kings landing again?
I guess Davos will basically have to sell him on the idea that in order to save the kingdoms, he needs to go north and help the nights watch rather than invade Kings landing again