All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
Not only that...but the show and books both started out with minimal fantasy elements. A lot of the early core stories surrounded grit, meaningful character development and realistic consequences. Unfortunately the later seasons have moved away from that in many cases.
Modern gaming apologist: I once tasted diarrhea so shit is fine.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an excercise of power, are barbarians" - George Lucas 1988
How is Rickon's beeline for safety NOT realistic?
He's a child that's never been in a situation like this before, hell he knew no conflict at all since realm's been at peace since before he was born.
He knows nothing of Ramsay's prowess with bow (neither does Jon for that matter).
His older brother, whom he always felt safe with, is running towards him, he's got the choice of either zigzagging or reaching Jon asap.
Add adrenaline into the mix, and top it off with Ramsay's feints, from his POV he has a good chance to reach Jon unharmed if he gives it his all to run.
Jon surviving volley after volley is unrealistic, Rickon's decision is not.
Then why run at all?
You have to do what you can to survive as it comes. Zig zagging would have prevented Ramsay from killing him with his arrows. By forcing Ramsay to unleash a volley of arrows you would call into question his own marksmanship in front of his army. He would look foolish.
Last edited by Jotaux; 2016-06-24 at 04:50 PM.
Wrong. Zigzagging was useless in his situation as he was too far away from Ramsey for it to have any effect.
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To live a bit longer and have a bit higher chance of not dying as compared to not run at all and die right there with a 100% certainty.
And yet it's Rickon who was stupid...
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
Why would a 12 year old kid who has been kept captive for we don't even know how long behave strategically with the kind of knowledge and foresight that you'd expect from a battle-hardened warrior? Hell, Jon's reaction was dumb for a supposed warrior and commander, so why are people focusing on how a scared kid ran?
The point of zig zagging is to keep from being predictable, the more predictable you are the easier it is to shoot you with an arrow from afar.
I don't know why you have to resort to insults just because you are wrong.
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Because when watching you know the way to survive would be a zig zag.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
Modern gaming apologist: I once tasted diarrhea so shit is fine.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an excercise of power, are barbarians" - George Lucas 1988
The arrow will be released when you are not looking, duh. And no you cannot look back and run forward all the time. You can try of course but you won't see shit.
Zigzagging slows you down (not to mention looking back). The best chance of survival for Rickon was to run straight as fast as he can to Jon and he almost made it, but Ramsey was too good of a shot.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
Have you even read the last few pages? o.O People basically complain how its bad writing, how the show has degradeted and its one of the proofs, how its not realistic etc.
To take your comparison to the movie... its as if you just went all the way to the screen and shouted to all the people in here how the girl is dumb and retarded, interrupting the movie... you have a different opinion? thats fine. dont drag it all the way through 20 pages tho...