wprager
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LeKing wrote: wprager wrote:Apparently in the books Dany was 13 at the start. Yikes! And Robb was something like 14.
Of course the life expectancy was probably around 40, so if you had not managed to become the Khaleesi or unite a couple of kingdoms to wage war on a much more powerful enemy by the time you were in your mid-teens then you were probably a stable hand.
Still, explains why she had so much trouble riding a horse after her wedding night.
yeah, and Sansa is 11, Arya is 8 etc...
Everyone is 3 years older on the show because they say sex scenes with 13 year old girls on TV would be kinda hardcore, HBO or not
BTW Brace yourselves people, the real season 4 begins this sunday. It's time to get serious. It's gonna be mind blowing for the last 5 episodes
Robb is way more than 3 years older. Sansa looks a little older than 14. Arts I'd believe is closer to 8 than 11. Basically they made the one who doing the more adult stuff older relative to the other characters.
Don't think it takes away from the story. But when you think of Robert (still think of him as Roland from A Night's Tale) ordering the execution of a 14 year old pregnant girl, whoa!
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