Some look like actual, normal names, but spelled by a person who has just tumbled down a hill.
They usually sound sort of Scottish or Irish or Welsh or Russian, or at least like somebody is gargling mouthwash while saying them. The names attempt but rarely achieve whimsy, instead landing somewhere between nonsensical dullness and chaos. Vowels and consonants appear either too sparingly, or in confusing abundance. They usually include one random additional letter, if not more. But the best names on Game of Thrones do, in fact, have a few common threads.
Martin himself) induce a stroke, and then, whatever comes out of their mouths in the aftermath, they turn into a character name. This is for several reasons: (1) The show is inscrutable from a narrative perspective (2) everyone is a scraggly white man who looks the exact same as every other scraggly white man standing around him, with one or two exceptions (3) everyone’s name is totally insane.įrom a psychic raven’s three-eyed perspective, it might seem like the Game of Thrones writers (or, since most of these names come from the books, George R.R. However, if you held a scythe to my neck and asked me to explain one single thing about this show’s plot, I would be decapitated in seconds. I even recapped the show for a season, and will be doing so again here at Vulture for its final round. Like all of you, I have been watching Game of Thrones for a very long time, since I was born.
