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0:09 >> Welcome back to the Greeblins YouTube
0:10 channel. Today's video, we're going to
0:13 be doing day 21 of 25 Days of Winds of
0:15 Winter Year 4. And in today's video,
0:17 we're going to be talking about Jenna
0:19 Lannister. She is one of those
0:22 characters that we have barely even seen
0:24 in the story, but when we do see her in
0:26 A Feast for Crows at the siege of
0:28 Riverrun, she's one of the most
0:31 entertaining characters of that entire
0:33 book. And she gives one of the best like
0:34 I don't know if I'd say speeches, but
0:36 conversations with Jaime where she
0:38 basically tell tells Jaime that Tyrion
0:41 is like Tywin's real son. He's the
0:44 closest to Tywin where Jaime has a
0:45 little bit of all of them in him, but
0:48 he's not like Tyrion is with Tywin. So,
0:49 you know, she's a great character and so
0:51 I did want to talk about her in this
0:52 event, especially when we're really
0:54 running low, especially as we're getting
0:55 towards the end of this event where I
0:56 feel like I was just pulling characters
0:59 out of a hat at some point. But I do
1:02 think Jenna Lannister is a fun character
1:04 to talk about, but the problem with
1:06 Jenna Lannister is for one, she's
1:09 married to a Frey. So Emman Frey is her
1:10 husband. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem
1:12 to be the most intelligent guy,
1:14 especially when you think about uh
1:16 during the siege of Riverrun, he's the
1:17 one basically saying, "I don't want a
1:19 siege. I don't want it to be assaulted.
1:21 I don't want my castle destroyed." All
1:23 that kind of stuff. And like, you can
1:25 understand that, but also from a
1:27 practical sense, how are you going to
1:29 take someone's castle if you're not
1:31 willing to, you know, throw anything at
1:32 them? You're not even willing to attack.
1:35 It just doesn't make a lot of sense. So,
1:37 as we go into the winds of winter, I've
1:38 talked about it throughout this entire
1:41 event. House Frey is on the decline and
1:43 that's just pretty clear to see in the
1:45 north. They're about to fight Stannis in
1:46 a battle that I think Stannis is easily
1:48 going to win in the Battle of Ice. Now,
1:51 is he going to win against the Boltons?
1:52 Who knows? But against that first
1:55 initial Frey force, he's going to win.
1:56 It's not going to be close, I don't
1:58 think. And so, I think the Freys are
2:00 going to lose a lot of their uh men that
2:01 they sent north. I think when you look
2:03 at their situation in the Riverlands
2:04 right now, they're being picked off one
2:07 by one by the uh Brotherhood Without
2:09 Banners who are who are only growing in
2:10 power and influence and they're being
2:12 able to infiltrate the Freys. And we see
2:15 that in A Feast for Crows. And so when
2:17 you have a situation where Emmen Frey
2:19 and Jenna are now in control of
2:21 Riverrun, the ancestral home of House Tully,
2:23 Tully,
2:25 it's not going to go well for you. I
2:27 mean, it just it it just isn't. And
2:28 whether that's they go to David
2:30 Lannister's wedding and they're killed
2:32 at this revenge red wedding, which I
2:33 talked about in the last video. So if
2:35 you want more information on that, check
2:38 out yesterday's video, or it's just the
2:40 idea that like you're in Riverrun, you
2:41 don't have the support of the
2:44 Riverlands. And if eventually House
2:47 Tully has like a resurgence, which I
2:49 believe we all think is going to happen,
2:50 they're not only going to be a sieged,
2:52 but then you also have the Tullies who
2:54 are going to know how to siege their own castle.
2:55 castle.
2:57 It's just not looking good. And for me
2:59 personally, I do like the idea of
3:01 General Answer just dying at the revenge
3:03 red wedding because it cleans up having
3:05 to have a whole another plotline of a
3:07 siege of Riveron and it condenses the
3:10 plot really well. So that's why I really
3:11 like the idea of a revenge red wedding
3:14 because it kind of does the same thing
3:16 that the show did with um Cersei's
3:18 wrapping up of the High Sparrow plot
3:20 where, you know, the show did it really
3:22 sloppily, but they put all the
3:23 characters together and they didn't just
3:25 had Cersei kill them all. So that way
3:27 all these like minor threads were kind
3:30 of wrapped up in that point. And in that
3:32 initial episode, it's not a bad thing
3:33 what they did. It's just in the
3:35 following two seasons, there was no
3:36 wrapping up of that. There was no
3:38 consequences to that. And so I think
3:39 that's going to be very different in the
3:41 book. Whereas the book, the revenge red
3:43 wedding I think will be able to do that.
3:44 Like it will be able to take out a lot
3:46 of these minor Freys m a lot of these
3:49 minor um loose ends that George still
3:51 has in the book. And it'll also allow
3:52 for a situation in which the Freys are
3:55 completely shattered. Their leadership
3:56 has been you know destroyed especially
3:59 if Lord Walder Frey is there. it will
4:00 put the phrase in either civil war and
4:02 conflict within each other or just
4:04 eradicated to the point that they're not
4:07 as powerful as they need to be to repel
4:09 um a totally uprising more or less. And
4:11 so Jenna, I think being a character
4:14 that's very likable, very similar. I I'd
4:16 even say more similar to David Lannister
4:18 in yesterday's video, she's a character
4:20 that I really enjoy reading. She kind of
4:22 reminds me of Elena in a lot of ways.
4:24 And so I don't want her to necessarily
4:27 die. But the fact is, if you're attached
4:29 to the phrase, if your name is a
4:31 Lannister, Lady Stoneheart is coming for
4:34 you. And that's kind of the point, like
4:35 that's the point that George is going to
4:38 have with a revenge red wedding is like,
4:39 if you're going to do an event like
4:41 that, the way George is going to write
4:43 it is it's going to be this brutal,
4:46 awful thing. I guarantee you if George
4:48 does do something like a revenge red
4:50 wedding, it will not have the undertones
4:53 of yes, all the phrase are dying and
4:55 we're rooting for it. It might start off
4:56 that way. It might start off that way.
4:58 Like say, you know, a couple phrase, we
5:00 don't like, you kill at the beginning,
5:01 but then things just start circling out
5:03 of control and, you know, the
5:05 Brotherhood are just killing random
5:07 servants or they're killing people that
5:09 are just not involved at all. And you're
5:11 seeing that whole theme of a feast for
5:13 crows come all the way back. What does
5:15 war do to people? What happens when you
5:18 put a sword in a man's hand and you give
5:20 him power over others? You know, a Clash
5:22 of Kings also delves into this. When you
5:24 think about some of the Sansa chapters
5:26 that she has spliced in between the
5:28 Battle of the Black Water with Cersei,
5:30 how Cersei talks about what a siege and
5:32 a sacking will do, all that is still
5:35 relevant here. And so I think that's the
5:37 point of it. I think that George, if he
5:38 writes this, it's going to start off
5:39 where we're like, "Yeah, we want the
5:42 phrase to finally get the justice they
5:43 deserve." And then it's going to turn
5:45 into something that's horrific to read
5:47 that is just horrible. where you feel
5:50 bad for the phrase. You feel bad for the
5:51 people that are being slaughtered at
5:54 this wedding in the name of, you know,
5:56 justice for the Red Wedding when this is
5:58 not justice anymore. I think that's the
6:00 point of it. And Jenna is going to be
6:02 used as that as a character that we like
6:04 that will be brutally killed at this
6:05 thing. That's what I think is going to
6:07 happen. And so I think that will be why
6:10 when we see Arya also like interplaced
6:12 into this plot as well. Again, I I think
6:14 there's a lot of undertones of if there
6:15 is a revenge red wedding that are going
6:17 to be paralleled by the Red Wedding. The
6:19 Red Wedding already happening. Arya
6:21 arrives, but she's not able to stop it.
6:23 Arya arrives, the revenge red wedding
6:25 again, and she's still not necessarily
6:28 able to maybe stop it, but she's able to
6:31 have an impact. She's able to save her
6:33 mother this time, whereas last time she
6:34 wasn't able to save her mother. She
6:36 couldn't get into the twins and, you
6:38 know, free her mother. But this time,
6:40 she can. You know, she can give her
6:42 mother peace. her mother has turned into
6:45 this zombie that is just hellbent on
6:48 revenge and vengeance and Arya can give
6:50 that mother's mercy that we've seen
6:52 already foreshadowed uh in the winds of
6:54 winter sample chapter with literally the
6:57 title being mercy. I think that was a
6:59 clear on the nose foreshadowing moment
7:01 to what we're going to see later on in
7:02 the story with Arya. Now this kind of
7:04 spiraled a little bit getting away from
7:06 Jenna and the reason that is is just
7:07 there's not a lot to talk about with
7:09 Jenna. Jenna is a character that we've
7:13 had basically one chapter with. And so
7:14 you're look, you're sitting here going,
7:16 we don't have enough to go off of on her
7:18 character outside of what's happening
7:20 around the character. You know, the Frey
7:22 decline, the rise of the Brotherhood,
7:24 and the Riverlands revoling against the
7:27 Lannister Frey control. All of that is
7:29 becoming very relevant. And so that is
7:30 kind of where I want to stop the video
7:32 because Jenna, unfortunately, I think is
7:34 going to meet her death with Emmen as
7:36 well. But I would love to hear you guys'
7:37 thoughts. Do you think something else
7:38 will happen? And do you think the
7:40 revenge red wedding will not happen? Let
7:42 me know down in the comments as we
7:44 continue on the last few videos of the
7:45 event. Thank you guys all for watching
7:46 and I'll see you guys in the next one.
