A Clash of Kings Entry 7

I did not get a chance to read much but as to what I did read, I have quite a bit to say. Theme for the day: More incest and incestuous overtones. Sigh.
CB Note: More incest?!
JN Note: sigh?! I believe you are overreacting. I will detail below.
RK Note: George R.R. Martin LOVES incest.

I started with Catelyn meeting with Renley. Essentially, they are at loggerheads because Renley wants Robb to acknowledge his claim and will not accept Robb's proposal for a divided kingdom. He mentions something about allowing Rob to call himself King in the North as long as he still acknowledges Renley's superior claim. Not gonna happen. As the chapter closes we hear word that Stannis has arrived with his host. Brother against brother! Civil War is trying!
CB Note: Everybody wants to be the king and no one wants to work together!!! Pretty dumb, says I.
JN Note: Renly*. These stupid kings. They need to realize they gotta unite and kill the evil Lannister twins!!! come on!!! Civil War is ohnoes, but maybe after they will emancipate the peasants, after the General's March to Storm's End... (i was going for a Sherman's march to the sea reference, but it was hard to do :( )
RK Note: Thus we have ourselves... a clash of kings

Next to Jon at the wall. They arrive at some creepy wilding dude who Mormont says is a friend. They are allowed to stay the night. Dude is creeeeeeeeeeeepy and he has tons of wives, many of whom are his daughters. Father-daughter incest now. Ew. Ew. Ewwww. One of the girls comes to Jon and asks him to save her because she is pregnant with a boy and apparently dude sacrifices the boys to the cold gods...the Others. Apparently they come into the village with their creepy dead blue eyes and he gives them the boys to appease them. Jon declines to help her but there is hint that they will pick her up on the way back to the wall. Well let's hope they manage to get back to the wall at all! Turns out that Mance Rayder (name?) is amassing an army. With all the armies in the south busy fighting each other, everyone is vulnerable.
CB Note: Ohhh yeaaaaa...Craster! By far the grossest incest! Blehhhhhhhhh. I dont even know how all these daughter don't end up all effed up genetically. Mance Rayder is correct :)
JN Note: Craster is the ewwww! But he's a friend of the Watch! and he told them how to find Mance! pretty creepy with all that sacrificing to Others though. Jon better not help, the Old Bear gave clear orders - no talking to Craster's wives! seriously though, as to the icky incesting, this scene displays the different types of incest, contrasting Craster's terribleness with Jaime and Cersei's consensual lovin'...
RK Note: OMG EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW to Craster, how awful awful awful, and KILLING the boy babies as sacrifices to the Others... EW EW EW EW EW EW... And the Old Bear knew and hasn't done anything to stop it!!! Mance Rayder will soon march and the South will not be defended properly and the Wall doesn't have enough men to defend it... But where do these Others fit in? These "wights" scare me...

Now to the coup de grace. Theon. At the waterfront. Starts hitting on this chick. She is all sorts of saucy and he likes her. He "convinces" her to ride to the castle with him and essentially tells her alllll his secrets. Well, turns out it's his sister. She was completely playing him the whole time. EW EW EW she touched him...and ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. We also learn that Theon's dad has plans to march north on Winterfell. With Robb down south it is very vulnerable. This is no good ladies and gents. No good.
CB Note: Haha, more incestuous undertones! What is up with this author?? Anyway, I totally didnt see that coming. His sister! She's super trixxy, as J would say.
JN Note: cou de grace indeed! i can't believe you didn't like this scene. i thought it was LOL fo sho. Asha was funny, and totally played theon. he was being all horny and dumb, and she made him feel like a momo in teh end. which is good, b/c he's failing Robb, esp if Balon attacks Winterfell!!! Robb argued to Catelyn to send Theon, he better not betray!
RK Note: I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED this!! I guessed she was NOT Sigrid's wife and something tricky was going on, but I didn't nut that she was ASHA right away. I LOVE Asha, I thought this was such a great scene.