This analysis speculates on the fate of the character Jenna Lannister within the context of the declining House Frey and the potential for a "revenge Red Wedding" event in George R.R. Martin's Winds of Winter, suggesting her death as a means to resolve plotlines.
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>> Welcome back to the Greeblins YouTube
channel. Today's video, we're going to
be doing day 21 of 25 Days of Winds of
Winter Year 4. And in today's video,
we're going to be talking about Jenna
Lannister. She is one of those
characters that we have barely even seen
in the story, but when we do see her in
A Feast for Crows at the siege of
Riverrun, she's one of the most
entertaining characters of that entire
book. And she gives one of the best like
I don't know if I'd say speeches, but
conversations with Jaime where she
basically tell tells Jaime that Tyrion
is like Tywin's real son. He's the
closest to Tywin where Jaime has a
little bit of all of them in him, but
he's not like Tyrion is with Tywin. So,
you know, she's a great character and so
I did want to talk about her in this
event, especially when we're really
running low, especially as we're getting
towards the end of this event where I
feel like I was just pulling characters
out of a hat at some point. But I do
think Jenna Lannister is a fun character
to talk about, but the problem with
Jenna Lannister is for one, she's
married to a Frey. So Emman Frey is her
husband. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem
to be the most intelligent guy,
especially when you think about uh
during the siege of Riverrun, he's the
one basically saying, "I don't want a
siege. I don't want it to be assaulted.
I don't want my castle destroyed." All
that kind of stuff. And like, you can
understand that, but also from a
practical sense, how are you going to
take someone's castle if you're not
willing to, you know, throw anything at
them? You're not even willing to attack.
It just doesn't make a lot of sense. So,
as we go into the winds of winter, I've
talked about it throughout this entire
event. House Frey is on the decline and
that's just pretty clear to see in the
north. They're about to fight Stannis in
a battle that I think Stannis is easily
going to win in the Battle of Ice. Now,
is he going to win against the Boltons?
Who knows? But against that first
initial Frey force, he's going to win.
It's not going to be close, I don't
think. And so, I think the Freys are
going to lose a lot of their uh men that
they sent north. I think when you look
at their situation in the Riverlands
right now, they're being picked off one
by one by the uh Brotherhood Without
Banners who are who are only growing in
power and influence and they're being
able to infiltrate the Freys. And we see
that in A Feast for Crows. And so when
you have a situation where Emmen Frey
and Jenna are now in control of
Riverrun, the ancestral home of House Tully,
Tully,
it's not going to go well for you. I
mean, it just it it just isn't. And
whether that's they go to David
Lannister's wedding and they're killed
at this revenge red wedding, which I
talked about in the last video. So if
you want more information on that, check
out yesterday's video, or it's just the
idea that like you're in Riverrun, you
don't have the support of the
Riverlands. And if eventually House
Tully has like a resurgence, which I
believe we all think is going to happen,
they're not only going to be a sieged,
but then you also have the Tullies who
are going to know how to siege their own castle.
castle.
It's just not looking good. And for me
personally, I do like the idea of
General Answer just dying at the revenge
red wedding because it cleans up having
to have a whole another plotline of a
siege of Riveron and it condenses the
plot really well. So that's why I really
like the idea of a revenge red wedding
because it kind of does the same thing
that the show did with um Cersei's
wrapping up of the High Sparrow plot
where, you know, the show did it really
sloppily, but they put all the
characters together and they didn't just
had Cersei kill them all. So that way
all these like minor threads were kind
of wrapped up in that point. And in that
initial episode, it's not a bad thing
what they did. It's just in the
following two seasons, there was no
wrapping up of that. There was no
consequences to that. And so I think
that's going to be very different in the
book. Whereas the book, the revenge red
wedding I think will be able to do that.
Like it will be able to take out a lot
of these minor Freys m a lot of these
minor um loose ends that George still
has in the book. And it'll also allow
for a situation in which the Freys are
completely shattered. Their leadership
has been you know destroyed especially
if Lord Walder Frey is there. it will
put the phrase in either civil war and
conflict within each other or just
eradicated to the point that they're not
as powerful as they need to be to repel
um a totally uprising more or less. And
so Jenna, I think being a character
that's very likable, very similar. I I'd
even say more similar to David Lannister
in yesterday's video, she's a character
that I really enjoy reading. She kind of
reminds me of Elena in a lot of ways.
And so I don't want her to necessarily
die. But the fact is, if you're attached
to the phrase, if your name is a
Lannister, Lady Stoneheart is coming for
you. And that's kind of the point, like
that's the point that George is going to
have with a revenge red wedding is like,
if you're going to do an event like
that, the way George is going to write
it is it's going to be this brutal,
awful thing. I guarantee you if George
does do something like a revenge red
wedding, it will not have the undertones
of yes, all the phrase are dying and
we're rooting for it. It might start off
that way. It might start off that way.
Like say, you know, a couple phrase, we
don't like, you kill at the beginning,
but then things just start circling out
of control and, you know, the
Brotherhood are just killing random
servants or they're killing people that
are just not involved at all. And you're
seeing that whole theme of a feast for
crows come all the way back. What does
war do to people? What happens when you
put a sword in a man's hand and you give
him power over others? You know, a Clash
of Kings also delves into this. When you
think about some of the Sansa chapters
that she has spliced in between the
Battle of the Black Water with Cersei,
how Cersei talks about what a siege and
a sacking will do, all that is still
relevant here. And so I think that's the
point of it. I think that George, if he
writes this, it's going to start off
where we're like, "Yeah, we want the
phrase to finally get the justice they
deserve." And then it's going to turn
into something that's horrific to read
that is just horrible. where you feel
bad for the phrase. You feel bad for the
people that are being slaughtered at
this wedding in the name of, you know,
justice for the Red Wedding when this is
not justice anymore. I think that's the
point of it. And Jenna is going to be
used as that as a character that we like
that will be brutally killed at this
thing. That's what I think is going to
happen. And so I think that will be why
when we see Arya also like interplaced
into this plot as well. Again, I I think
there's a lot of undertones of if there
is a revenge red wedding that are going
to be paralleled by the Red Wedding. The
Red Wedding already happening. Arya
arrives, but she's not able to stop it.
Arya arrives, the revenge red wedding
again, and she's still not necessarily
able to maybe stop it, but she's able to
have an impact. She's able to save her
mother this time, whereas last time she
wasn't able to save her mother. She
couldn't get into the twins and, you
know, free her mother. But this time,
she can. You know, she can give her
mother peace. her mother has turned into
this zombie that is just hellbent on
revenge and vengeance and Arya can give
that mother's mercy that we've seen
already foreshadowed uh in the winds of
winter sample chapter with literally the
title being mercy. I think that was a
clear on the nose foreshadowing moment
to what we're going to see later on in
the story with Arya. Now this kind of
spiraled a little bit getting away from
Jenna and the reason that is is just
there's not a lot to talk about with
Jenna. Jenna is a character that we've
had basically one chapter with. And so
you're look, you're sitting here going,
we don't have enough to go off of on her
character outside of what's happening
around the character. You know, the Frey
decline, the rise of the Brotherhood,
and the Riverlands revoling against the
Lannister Frey control. All of that is
becoming very relevant. And so that is
kind of where I want to stop the video
because Jenna, unfortunately, I think is
going to meet her death with Emmen as
well. But I would love to hear you guys'
thoughts. Do you think something else
will happen? And do you think the
revenge red wedding will not happen? Let
me know down in the comments as we
continue on the last few videos of the
event. Thank you guys all for watching
and I'll see you guys in the next one.
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