If he purposefully would not admit his folly would you think Cercei would let him live. Would you purposefully let a defiant man who knew a secret that could endanger your safety, a man who wishes you dead, would you let him live.
If Ned didn't retrack his claims he would have been killed. If he did retrack his claims he would have been probably been killed (short term their would be benefits for not killing him, but as you said long term he was still a threat to Joffrey's survival.)
Ned was a dead man as soon as he was captured, nothing was going to change the fact he was going to die. He was going to retrack his claims about Joffrey for he was a good solider about to die, and he was trying to save his daughter's life.
If Ned didn't retrack his claims he would have been killed. If he did retrack his claims he would have been probably been killed (short term their would be benefits for not killing him, but as you said long term he was still a threat to Joffrey's survival.)
Ned was a dead man as soon as he was captured, nothing was going to change the fact he was going to die. He was going to retrack his claims about Joffrey for he was a good solider about to die, and he was trying to save his daughter's life.
interesting thread over on tv guide...cannoli will hate it.
- 13/06/2011 05:14:48 AM
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He was going to put aside his principles and say, 'I betrayed my country and my king and my people'.
- 13/06/2011 05:55:39 AM
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I am sorry but that is a bunch of BS
- 13/06/2011 12:01:18 PM
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*NM*
Even if I concede he was dead from the moment he was captured, that leaves HOW he died to determine.
- 13/06/2011 04:14:44 PM
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Ned is a northerner, and well aware of the good he could have done on the Wall.
- 13/06/2011 05:49:40 PM
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That was not the clincher though. What good he could do on the Wall is nothing next to a usurper
- 17/06/2011 08:47:06 PM
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Look up the concept of hostages sometime. Plus, Varys was playing Ned.
- 17/06/2011 09:15:02 PM
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So what should have Ned done, once he was in that cell? *NM*
- 18/06/2011 04:50:27 AM
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Stick to his guns and not agree to take the Black or recant his actions against Joffrey
- 04/07/2011 03:29:23 PM
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I'd pick family over honour.
- 13/06/2011 10:05:46 PM
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Cersie is the one who says "love is poison" in the second book to Sansa.
- 15/06/2011 06:54:21 PM
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And some day, when your kid needed people to trust you, you'd be screwed.
- 17/06/2011 09:37:25 PM
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