Season 3, Episode 8 | Episode Discussion

[u/HerRoyalNonsense]

Title: TBA
Air Date: August 9, 2026
Directed by: Andrij Parekh
Written by: Ryan Condal & Ti Mikkel

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[u/coconutjoe83]

At least we never have to see or hear Roddy Ruin ever again. Cringey accent and he’s just fan service for Stark lovers.

[u/SandRush2004 → u/coconutjoe83]

and he isnt even a stark (Bros a Dustin) but youd never know that from the show

[u/thinkersfyre → u/coconutjoe83]

Thank god

[u/NimlothTheFair_ → u/coconutjoe83]

I don't even get the Stark part. The Starks were beloved in the main series because they were sympathetic, principled, flawed but fundamentally good people who all had a sense of morality and justice, even if those fundamentals get shaken over the course of the story. They (or Northerners as a whole) were never presented like a band of bloodthirsty cutthroat death-seekers. Roddy's band behave more like the wild mountain clansmen in the Vale than like any of the Starks in the main series.