@@ingenuity8886 I just learned today that it was a running joke. Stannis says it twice to Davos when counting soldiers. And then Davos said it to Jon Snow in season 7 or 8 idk which, when they were at Dragonstone. But anyway, that clever stuff is so cool.
“Three lives I will give you, no more, no less. You need only say the names, and a man will do the rest.” “Joffrey Baratheon.” “Ok that was a good name, a man will give you that name for free.”
@Monirith Sethy Joffrey Lannister by birth. Joffrey Baratheon by name. who is to say there are not more Joffrey Lannisters in that twisted family tree. A man needs a specific target.
His character's rhetoric was off the charts for a fantasy to introduce something foreign and novel. That was some top tier writing. Then later, when Arya reaches the house of Black and White, you learn why they speak this way. They no longer have an identity, so he has no name, he is just "a man" and he treats Arya as "a girl." Also by using names, he can't be picked for assassination if he is "a man."
The first death was the tickler because she didn't know what Jaqen was capable of, so she just said the name of a person she hated The second name was that lannister general dude, because if he didn't die, her cover would have been blown (regardless of whether Tywin was alive or not) The third time she wanted to kill Tywin, but Jaqen wasn't there. Later I guess she wanted to get out of harrenhal more than directly kill anyone
@@youtubeviewer4472 Well if you think about it he's essentially like a genie granting wishes; only he doesn't have the limitation of not "wishing for more wishes", if she just kept naming him with her last 'wish' she could've had him slaughter anyone she wanted in order to un-name him lmao
I love visiting these old videos. Looking at old theory comments. How excited everyone was with the series,with each new episodes,each new season but it all ended So So Badly 😭😭😭
@@melaesther2527 I dislike that too but she's a woman that needs some boning by then sadly 😅. Any 🍆 would do. Gendry just happened to be at the right place at the right time (yes with doom looming in)
Same, i went on a nostalgic binging trip now and then and just...wish I was back to 2012-2016 where everyone was so excited about all manners of theory.
Yeah, after promising myself I’d never revisit GOT i kept getting recommended a load of old clips on UA-cam, currently on a binge. That last season was really such a let down, almost made me forget how damn good it was.
That's the way they speak in Lorath. It's polite to speak in 3rd person but it's not forbidden to use 1st person speech. It's just more offensive or intimate.
edoardo garosi And yet taking his life may have stopped the war. That is something for which a life, even a little girl's life, is worth risking, don't you agree?
The Drunk Knight It wouldn't have ended anything. In fact, killing Tywin would have caused more problems. Also Jaqen does not give set times to when he does anything. Considering Tywin and his family are constantly surrounded by guards are fortified rooms, methinks it would have took more planning then killing a few guards nobody liked anyway.
I never said it wouldn't stop the war. But now that I think about it, it REALLY wouldn't. If Tywin or his children were touched; then Harrenhal would explode, with people looking for the killer, who do you think, they will look for. Anyone who isn't a local to the Castle. Including everyone bought there. Arya would be imprisoned or killed, and Robb and his mother would go berserk. Making a worse war.
i really don't think jaqen was obliged to offer 3 deaths, but he rather wanted to recruit her and exercised a good show how facelessmen are able to kill any men with a name he knew how arya had a deathlist of her own and struck her weak spot . at the last scene with jaqen, he was so eager to offer companionship for arya to become a facelessmen. i don't think faceless men recruit cadets that easily. i think his whole mission was to influence arya to join their ranks.
Notice how he never mentions or alludes to the fact that she'll have to loose her identity to join. And the fact that he frames his abilities (to a young impressionable child) as "able to grant wishes"
His reappearance in the show was ok and good. Not bad. But his plotline in books is more interesting, after he change his face infront of arya. Apparently he went to old town to kill an novice named pete of the citidal and took his place. Pete has an unimportant position he was nothing more than a servant, but he is nurse/servant to old and senile archmaester walgrave, who speciallity is ravens, author of the book "dark wings, dark words" every arch maester carry some kind of master key which open the all doors in citidal or atleast the rooms which are restricted and contain dangerous knowledge in the eyes of maesters. Original deal was pete would provide him the key in exchange of gold coin. But when pete try to bite the gold cpin as he saw thats how merchants check its authenticity, he died as the coin was laced with poison. Of course it didnt said that the character of al chemist who gave pete coin was jaquen but the description of his features mathes the face that jaquen changed into before he departed from arya. And of course the way he killed pete speaks of methods of faceless men. And here is the final twist, despite being dead pete was found to be still alive somehow and veing part of maester mervyn who studies magic, and sam encountered him when he reache the citidal! Really excited for this story line.
Why would you think that? Because he had to sacrifice three people to the Red God due to the fact that Arya saved them? It's not paying her back, it's making something right.
@@eduardoprado0402 Let's see. I owned and ran a factory with 20 employees near Seattle, and now I'm a portrait photographer on a tiny island in the Caribbean.
Jaqen was one of my favorite character in the series...calm and professional... I hope I will see him again further since I only watched till half of the 4th season yet...
@@davidmendelsohn3013 By now I have completed 6 seasons and I agree first 4 seasons were the best. But the thing is Reading a bulky fictional book is boring that's why it's better option for me watch although if it's not as complete as it was in book.
@@RandomShorts007AP dont listen to him, why do some people want you to read a long ass book, this is all for entertainment after all. Watch it and enjoy.
@@donn.4766 the books are absolutely worth the time. But! Despite the show going downhill, I'd still recommend watching all of it. Even with the story sort of dripping along, season 7 and 8 have great visuals. Except for S8E3, which was just dark.
@@RandomShorts007AP I didn't want to read but I also didnt want to watch the show crash and burn either. So I did the next best thing. I hired some homeless people to act out the book in exchange for ham and cheese sandwiches.
There is a theory that the Faceless men were hired by Cersei or Tywin to kill Ned Stark if he was sent to the wall because he could have been a threat to Joffrey's rule but I heard that a long time ago so I don't remember the details
Arya is my favourite character now. In the sense that every time I see her I learn more about the faceless men(assassins), at the black and white house. The scene when she seen herself dead was very cool.
***** no but since the guy who supposedly killed syrio was alive untill recently when arya killed him. it makes sense, its kinda retarded to think jaqen is a famous swordsman when he is infact practicing being no one.
Makes sense that a faceless man, a person who changes his face, would find a girl who pretends to be someone else to be intriguing. Arya ticks a lot of boxes for potentially becoming a faceless man at this stage and this is probably some recruitment routine he does.
"Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three"
A great conspiracy theory is that rhaegar backwards sounds like H'ghar. Feel like that was just to mess with people since in the books faceless man is kindly man, and arya is suppose to look like lyanna. the silver hair could be because hes a decendent of the first faceless men in Valeria or he has some targarian the show is hinting. "The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl." R'hllor is the red god. In the books jaqen is also known as the alchemist and it was a trade rhaegar knew. I wonder if the show will not continue this story or drop it for time.
+TheSm1thers cersei has no power without powerful men to manipulate. waste of a kill. she'll die as easily as anyone beneath your sword when you take king's landing.
TheSm1thers not to mention if she had named Tywin...NO RED WEDDING!!!!!! Her mom and brother alive and well. Stannis would have Kings Landing. Joffrey and Cersi would be dead and all would be well. Damn you Arya!!!!!!!!
Look, a walking, talking, sexy Death Note. ^^ Jaqen really comes close to being a one-scene-wonder. Maybe four-scene-wonder in this case. Comparatively minor role, but leaving a huge impact and stealing the show!
+dibaterman her reasoning in the books at the time is pretty much that she is impatient, she want's immediate revenge on those around her like chiswyk, weese, the tickler, the mountain, ser amory etc joffrey and cersei are hundreds of miles away and she knows it would take a long time for jaqen to get to these people. Remember in the show it makes it look like she is in harrenhal for a short amount of time, whereas in the book she has been a prisoner there for some time and eventually is chosen to be a serving girl,they make her scrub the grime off the floors until her hands bleed, so you can understand that has given her time for her hatred of her captures to mature.
later on they talk about how he can indeed kill anyone but he doesn't know how much time does it take. he also says that "the man can't do that" when arya wants tywin to be killed immediately. so it's also just common sense. maybe he kills cersei or joffrey but if it takes years the war might just end by that time.
I guess this was the only chance that Arya had to save Robb from his death. Come on girl, just say Tywin lannister and he might be dead before he planned to kill Robb Stark in the Red Wedding.
Sun Moon The books have her realise this mistake, later on - Arya is a young girl who wasn't thinking clearly, she was mostly wanting those she more directly hated to die... And in the books Tywin was never on her list, being they never interacted unlike here - in the books, she serves Roose Bolton instead, after using Jaqen's name to overthrow Lannister control some time after her and Gregor Clegane and such have left; it's also under those circumstances that Amory Lorch died, unlike here where his role as the second name she uses is combined with a minor character, a cruel steward (I believe that was his job) of Harrenhal named Weese. The Tickler also didn't get named; a separate minor character was her first name, and the Tickler died in late Book 3 at her direct hands in the scene where in the show, she killed Polliver (Polliver himself was killed by the Hound in the same scene; furthering that, ANOTHER separate character was the one who killed Lommy Greenhands in the books, Polliver was just the guy who took Arya's sword but the roles were merged - thankfully, a leaked chapter of Book 6 shows Arya killing the man who murdered Lommy in Braavos, when she finds him there (a death in Season 5 is actually based on that one). Yeah... the books are complicated like that. You'd have to read them a dozen times or something to notice all the names and details and such...
Later he couldn't - because the Ty has left. But she knew beforehand who he was and that he was planning to fight her brother. She even pondered stabbing him. She just hesitated - maybe because he treated her humanely. With all my affection to the Starks - this is a continuous flaw by them: letting feelings override duty.
I would have given Joffrey Baratheon, Cersei and Roose Bolton. But when you think about it, he says it can take months for these lives to be taken. Maybe more. The names Arya gave to Jaqen were easy lives to take: closely located, almost unprotected. But maybe with those 3 names, the surviving chances would have been very low. He could have died on his first attempt for only the first name, one name, and after months to get to him.
The first death (Tickler) was Arya testing Jaquen. She didn't fully trust him so she just named a random person (that she hates). The second (Ser Amory Lorch) was necessary. She wanted Tywin to be the third but he'd gone before she reached Jaquen.
I've always wondered how Jaqen H'ghar got there. How did a Faceless Assassin get thrown into Kings Landing dungeons? Why didn't he escape since it's obvious he could at his leisure? Why did he choose to head to the Wall? What was he doing?
+FerretJohn I imagine this is a difficult question.. He might have been seeking an opportunity to offer many Free Folk and men of the Night's Watch to his god of Death, perhaps..
There's a really plausible theory out there I read years back that had him on a mission to obtain the key for opening something secured (a book? a candle? I forget now) at the Citadel. He obtained the key, but we don't find out what he used it for after that. He was simply biding his time while planning his journey. I'm unsure why he helped Arya. My theory is he knew an ancestor of hers a long time ago, so he bestows his gift upon his old friend's descendent.
The title of the video reminds me of the holy hand grenade scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
My theory is that Jaqen is actually the god of death/red god; I watched the whole series trying to disprove this gut feeling and only found more to support it 😅 I like to think the actual Game of Thrones was played by the gods, old and new, who actually walked and talked among the people as characters we never picked up on (except Jaqen).
"Three life I'll give you, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out".
+Sigurd Torvaldsson I think Joffrey and Tommen were actually hindering the Lannisters more than helping them. Tywin, Loras Tyrell and Tyrion would be better choices
"Three lives I'll give you, no more, no less"
"Fewer"--Stannis Baratheon
It would make sense that Stannis was the Grammar Nazi of Westeros
Less is correct this time say Stannis. ;-)
I somehow remember this quote but at the same time forget the context he said it in.
@@ingenuity8886 I just learned today that it was a running joke. Stannis says it twice to Davos when counting soldiers. And then Davos said it to Jon Snow in season 7 or 8 idk which, when they were at Dragonstone. But anyway, that clever stuff is so cool.
@@djjazzyjeff1232 Davos also corrected Bronn at the end of the final episode, who replied "Are you Master of Grammar now, too?"
Such a mysterious character. Like a whole series can be surrounded by him alone.
I concur
;DD
It would be crazy for the series to end without ever seeing him again. I wish GRRM would do a spinoff about him 😁
Cassie Names of Jaqen
@@hijack69 is that a request
Jaqen is such an interesting character
Read the books, he's much better. The show did him no justice. He was a badass for a few scenes and then he just wasn't.
He’s not a character. He’s no one.
@@BillyMinnow Jagger fun
Was*
@@BillyMinnow C´mon; he was great
“Three lives I will give you, no more, no less. You need only say the names, and a man will do the rest.”
“Joffrey Baratheon.”
“Ok that was a good name, a man will give you that name for free.”
seriously that would be dope af
@Monirith Sethy Joffrey Lannister by birth. Joffrey Baratheon by name. who is to say there are not more Joffrey Lannisters in that twisted family tree. A man needs a specific target.
@@nomadhakunamatata5793 'the king Joffrey Baratheon" if you can't figure it out a man needs a different line of work
@@nomadhakunamatata5793 joffrey waters by birth joffrey baratheon by name he's a bastard raised in the Crownlands
@@phantomguy1237 I had forgotten that
The Lannisters aren't the only ones who pay their debts.
Moe HSV No one does
A Lannister always pay their debts lol.
no one pay ther debts
I love Jaqen's voice! And the way he talks.
So do I
Who doesn't?
His character's rhetoric was off the charts for a fantasy to introduce something foreign and novel. That was some top tier writing. Then later, when Arya reaches the house of Black and White, you learn why they speak this way. They no longer have an identity, so he has no name, he is just "a man" and he treats Arya as "a girl." Also by using names, he can't be picked for assassination if he is "a man."
He whisper soo seductive ❤❤
The first death was the tickler because she didn't know what Jaqen was capable of, so she just said the name of a person she hated
The second name was that lannister general dude, because if he didn't die, her cover would have been blown (regardless of whether Tywin was alive or not)
The third time she wanted to kill Tywin, but Jaqen wasn't there. Later I guess she wanted to get out of harrenhal more than directly kill anyone
At least in the books she was mentally kicking herself for not naming Tywin, Cersei and Joffrey.
@@youtubeviewer4472 Well if you think about it he's essentially like a genie granting wishes; only he doesn't have the limitation of not "wishing for more wishes", if she just kept naming him with her last 'wish' she could've had him slaughter anyone she wanted in order to un-name him lmao
@@DrakeOola I feel like he'd figure that ploy out quickly. Also in the books he counts 'removing his face' as fulfilling her wish.
If she got rid of those three then it would be over. Kingdoms would be at peace permanently and may welcome independence or dany.
@@BlackDiamond2718 White Walkers!
Jaqen so fuckinnnnnnnggg smooth
He is :)
Amazing actor.
All of them really are amazing. I actually find the Tickler does a very convincing dead person.
Dani K Lol
And a pretty kind man, look at my pic i met him.
Handsome and brilliant. He actually played two completely different characters in one show.
Jaqen reminds me of a Khajiit.
May your path lead you to warm sands!
Jaqen knows many things, does many things too.
mattaddison19 May A MAN'S roads lead him to warm sands!
+Powrtoch Jaqen's tired. Go bother someone else.
Khajiit has wares if you have coin
I love visiting these old videos. Looking at old theory comments. How excited everyone was with the series,with each new episodes,each new season but it all ended So So Badly 😭😭😭
I hate the fact that Arya was with Gendry. 🤮
@@melaesther2527 I dislike that too but she's a woman that needs some boning by then sadly 😅. Any 🍆 would do. Gendry just happened to be at the right place at the right time (yes with doom looming in)
Same, i went on a nostalgic binging trip now and then and just...wish I was back to 2012-2016 where everyone was so excited about all manners of theory.
Yeah, after promising myself I’d never revisit GOT i kept getting recommended a load of old clips on UA-cam, currently on a binge. That last season was really such a let down, almost made me forget how damn good it was.
Lol it’s like a time capsule for simpler times. Feels like we’re in the bad timeline considering we just went through a world changing pandemic
-why is this right for you and wrong for "me"
-and "i" was always aware
why havnt anybody noticed Jaqen saying these????
Well, if he was also Syrio Forrell, then he used I and me many more times.
R GJ i dont think that he's Syrio
He was Jaqen H'ghar , It was before a girl named him . Now Jaquen H'ghar , a man is no one
That's the way they speak in Lorath. It's polite to speak in 3rd person but it's not forbidden to use 1st person speech. It's just more offensive or intimate.
I love Arya, but God she was so dumb for not picking Tywin
In the books, she was not Tywin's cupbearer. He was not even at Harrenhall, or at least he was not her lord.
edoardo garosi And yet taking his life may have stopped the war. That is something for which a life, even a little girl's life, is worth risking, don't you agree?
The Drunk Knight
It wouldn't have ended anything. In fact, killing Tywin would have caused more problems. Also Jaqen does not give set times to when he does anything. Considering Tywin and his family are constantly surrounded by guards are fortified rooms, methinks it would have took more planning then killing a few guards nobody liked anyway.
Killing the leader would not end anything? Well you're defenitely not good with psychology are you
I never said it wouldn't stop the war. But now that I think about it, it REALLY wouldn't. If Tywin or his children were touched; then Harrenhal would explode, with people looking for the killer, who do you think, they will look for. Anyone who isn't a local to the Castle. Including everyone bought there. Arya would be imprisoned or killed, and Robb and his mother would go berserk. Making a worse war.
Arya probably had the most badass company throughout her journey. Syrio forel, tywin Lannister, jaqen h'gar, the hound, and best of all, hot pie.
i would pay serious money to see, life story how Jaqen became faceless man
How the hell did he get captured in kings landing tho
She could have named cersei, joffrey, tywin. But, ended up naming local bullies. Later she blames Sansa for not killing joffrey and writing a letter
0:50 I'm stupid but the first time I understood "I was always a girl" - "and I was always a whale" o.o
+Krolockinchen Oh my god I heard the same thing. I was so confused.
I believe he said, "Always aware".
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i really don't think jaqen was obliged to offer 3 deaths, but he rather wanted to recruit her and exercised a good show how facelessmen are able to kill any men with a name he knew how arya had a deathlist of her own and struck her weak spot . at the last scene with jaqen, he was so eager to offer companionship for arya to become a facelessmen. i don't think faceless men recruit cadets that easily.
i think his whole mission was to influence arya to join their ranks.
That is a good insight
Notice how he never mentions or alludes to the fact that she'll have to loose her identity to join. And the fact that he frames his abilities (to a young impressionable child) as "able to grant wishes"
He has a very icey calm to him. Almost psychopathic
She's so god damn cute.
Jaqen is definitely my favorite character. I hope to see him again in the series, different face or not. I bet Braavos is really cool!
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a man is no stupid. he knows when to appear and when to not.
His reappearance in the show was ok and good. Not bad. But his plotline in books is more interesting, after he change his face infront of arya. Apparently he went to old town to kill an novice named pete of the citidal and took his place. Pete has an unimportant position he was nothing more than a servant, but he is nurse/servant to old and senile archmaester walgrave, who speciallity is ravens, author of the book "dark wings, dark words" every arch maester carry some kind of master key which open the all doors in citidal or atleast the rooms which are restricted and contain dangerous knowledge in the eyes of maesters. Original deal was pete would provide him the key in exchange of gold coin. But when pete try to bite the gold cpin as he saw thats how merchants check its authenticity, he died as the coin was laced with poison. Of course it didnt said that the character of al chemist who gave pete coin was jaquen but the description of his features mathes the face that jaquen changed into before he departed from arya. And of course the way he killed pete speaks of methods of faceless men. And here is the final twist, despite being dead pete was found to be still alive somehow and veing part of maester mervyn who studies magic, and sam encountered him when he reache the citidal! Really excited for this story line.
" a man pays his debts" Could Jaqen be a long lost relative of the Lanisters?
OOF THATS WILD
Why would you think that? Because he had to sacrifice three people to the Red God due to the fact that Arya saved them? It's not paying her back, it's making something right.
You have stolen sound from the Red God. The Red God must be repaid. Make 3 sounds, no less.
Bop, bang, splunk
@@joshuaproud4560 I had of course completely forgotten this comment. Thanks.
@@riparianlife97701 wow, you really came back after 7 years. I wonder how much your life has changed since your original post haha
@@eduardoprado0402 Let's see. I owned and ran a factory with 20 employees near Seattle, and now I'm a portrait photographer on a tiny island in the Caribbean.
@@riparianlife97701 Interesting life! Are you going to watch the new
GOT about House Targeryn in August?
I almost forgot how amazing the show was 😢 before the last season.
Season 7 was worse than season 8
Jaqen was one of my favorite character in the series...calm and professional... I hope I will see him again further since I only watched till half of the 4th season yet...
Do yourself a favour and stop at the end of season 4 and read onwards from the books. Trust me
@@davidmendelsohn3013 By now I have completed 6 seasons and I agree first 4 seasons were the best. But the thing is Reading a bulky fictional book is boring that's why it's better option for me watch although if it's not as complete as it was in book.
@@RandomShorts007AP dont listen to him, why do some people want you to read a long ass book, this is all for entertainment after all. Watch it and enjoy.
@@donn.4766 the books are absolutely worth the time.
But! Despite the show going downhill, I'd still recommend watching all of it. Even with the story sort of dripping along, season 7 and 8 have great visuals. Except for S8E3, which was just dark.
@@RandomShorts007AP I didn't want to read but I also didnt want to watch the show crash and burn either. So I did the next best thing. I hired some homeless people to act out the book in exchange for ham and cheese sandwiches.
I can't stop saying that for no apparent reason "Speak the names and the men will do the rest, three lifes I'll give you, no more, no less"
How does such a lethal character who can literally change faces get captured by low level men who got slaughtered is my only question..
He did it deliberately. I think he was eyeing Arya to join the cult.
There is a theory that the Faceless men were hired by Cersei or Tywin to kill Ned Stark if he was sent to the wall because he could have been a threat to Joffrey's rule but I heard that a long time ago so I don't remember the details
He wanted to be captured.
Any word this man pronounces with an S in it is a massage to the ears
Jaquen H'ghar would make a great Gambit in an X-Men movie.
I thought I was the only one!! Dude screams Gambit
oo yess i thought that too
Great minds
i want to marry him
I want to marry him too. And the Hound.
+UnderUriel Nah, apparently, he has his fair share of fangirls too :3 ! I just wish he could see how popular he is !
Ikr Jaqen is the hottest guy in the show
This show was so damn good back then
Full of mystery
Love him !!!!! I wish we see him again !!!!!!!!
he's going to be in season 5.
i wish
ΛΙΑ ΜΑΝΔΑΛΗ you will see him. but with a different face..
I want this face !!!!! :(
we've got no choice. I, myself, am dissappointed with the Three Eyed Raven's appearance.. I expected him to look a bit more grotesque.
Arya is my favourite character now. In the sense that every time I see her I learn more about the faceless men(assassins), at the black and white house. The scene when she seen herself dead was very cool.
It's not logical that an unstoppable assassin like this could be captured, stuck in a wooden cage and almost burned alive.
Maked Marvyl Since you don't know his motivations and plans you can't judge if it's "logical" for him to be in that cage or not.
Maked Marvyl For all we know, he was in that cage for a mission. To "play" prisoner.
***** Syrio is dead. he is not syrio
***** no but since the guy who supposedly killed syrio was alive untill recently when arya killed him. it makes sense, its kinda retarded to think jaqen is a famous swordsman when he is infact practicing being no one.
***** i can bet 100$ that jaqen isnt syrio. deal?
-Alliser Thorne
-Roose Bolton
-Walder Frey
Ramsey Bolton
Ollie
Walder Frey
+MrPurplephrog your lists is almost finish
peaaanuuutz
one more to go baby WOOOOOO
MrPurplephrog Lol it's done!
peaaanuuutz
well waldur isn't dead yet, i hope that loose end will get tied up this season :P
Makes sense that a faceless man, a person who changes his face, would find a girl who pretends to be someone else to be intriguing. Arya ticks a lot of boxes for potentially becoming a faceless man at this stage and this is probably some recruitment routine he does.
"Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three"
"Five is right out!"
A great conspiracy theory is that rhaegar backwards sounds like H'ghar. Feel like that was just to mess with people since in the books faceless man is kindly man, and arya is suppose to look like lyanna. the silver hair could be because hes a decendent of the first faceless men in Valeria or he has some targarian the show is hinting. "The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl." R'hllor is the red god. In the books jaqen is also known as the alchemist and it was a trade rhaegar knew. I wonder if the show will not continue this story or drop it for time.
Perfect casting.
Tywin
Joffrey
Cersei
The war would have been won if she said these names.
+TheSm1thers
cersei has no power without powerful men to manipulate. waste of a kill. she'll die as easily as anyone beneath your sword when you take king's landing.
+waldoman7 thats the exact sort of thinking that got ned stark killed....
TheSm1thers not to mention if she had named Tywin...NO RED WEDDING!!!!!! Her mom and brother alive and well. Stannis would have Kings Landing. Joffrey and Cersi would be dead and all would be well.
Damn you Arya!!!!!!!!
says Joffrey to Jaqen: "a man would kill that brat for free"
Jaqen H’ghar is Enzo the Russian from Stranger Things 4
Hopper’s mate
Man Jaqen was one of the most badass characters in the show
Three names imagine how she could have stopped a war and win the war if the names were selected more carefully.
In the books she actually mentally kicks herself later over exactly that.
I name Klaus Schwab, and Larry Fink, just need these 2 to achieve world peace.
Look, a walking, talking, sexy Death Note. ^^
Jaqen really comes close to being a one-scene-wonder. Maybe four-scene-wonder in this case. Comparatively minor role, but leaving a huge impact and stealing the show!
Damn, I love the way he works.
Jaqen music theme is sick af
They pointed out later that Arya could have named someone important and maybe have ended the war later on. I forget her reasoning for not doing that.
+dibaterman her reasoning in the books at the time is pretty much that she is impatient, she want's immediate revenge on those around her like chiswyk, weese, the tickler, the mountain, ser amory etc joffrey and cersei are hundreds of miles away and she knows it would take a long time for jaqen to get to these people. Remember in the show it makes it look like she is in harrenhal for a short amount of time, whereas in the book she has been a prisoner there for some time and eventually is chosen to be a serving girl,they make her scrub the grime off the floors until her hands bleed, so you can understand that has given her time for her hatred of her captures to mature.
MrPurplephrog Thanks didn't know that.
later on they talk about how he can indeed kill anyone but he doesn't know how much time does it take. he also says that "the man can't do that" when arya wants tywin to be killed immediately.
so it's also just common sense. maybe he kills cersei or joffrey but if it takes years the war might just end by that time.
Best character on this show!
I fucking LOVE jaquen that actor is so good too i wish he would come back in season 3 hes so wise and awesome
Dude’s basically Agent 47 in Westeros
My favorite character so far :)
"Cersei, Jofferey and littlefinger, these are my names..." had this been her dialogue we probably wouldn't have had 5o witness whatever s8 was...
I guess this was the only chance that Arya had to save Robb from his death. Come on girl, just say Tywin lannister and he might be dead before he planned to kill Robb Stark in the Red Wedding.
Sun Moon The books have her realise this mistake, later on - Arya is a young girl who wasn't thinking clearly, she was mostly wanting those she more directly hated to die... And in the books Tywin was never on her list, being they never interacted unlike here - in the books, she serves Roose Bolton instead, after using Jaqen's name to overthrow Lannister control some time after her and Gregor Clegane and such have left; it's also under those circumstances that Amory Lorch died, unlike here where his role as the second name she uses is combined with a minor character, a cruel steward (I believe that was his job) of Harrenhal named Weese.
The Tickler also didn't get named; a separate minor character was her first name, and the Tickler died in late Book 3 at her direct hands in the scene where in the show, she killed Polliver (Polliver himself was killed by the Hound in the same scene; furthering that, ANOTHER separate character was the one who killed Lommy Greenhands in the books, Polliver was just the guy who took Arya's sword but the roles were merged - thankfully, a leaked chapter of Book 6 shows Arya killing the man who murdered Lommy in Braavos, when she finds him there (a death in Season 5 is actually based on that one).
Yeah... the books are complicated like that. You'd have to read them a dozen times or something to notice all the names and details and such...
If only that prisoner cart was about ten times larger.
Later he couldn't - because the Ty has left.
But she knew beforehand who he was and that he was planning to fight her brother. She even pondered stabbing him.
She just hesitated - maybe because he treated her humanely.
With all my affection to the Starks - this is a continuous flaw by them: letting feelings override duty.
I would have given Joffrey Baratheon, Cersei and Roose Bolton. But when you think about it, he says it can take months for these lives to be taken. Maybe more. The names Arya gave to Jaqen were easy lives to take: closely located, almost unprotected. But maybe with those 3 names, the surviving chances would have been very low. He could have died on his first attempt for only the first name, one name, and after months to get to him.
You could but you shouldn’t
He no mare mortal man. Later on the series he says to Arya, "You lied to me, the many face god." He could very well be deity in disguise
Why would she name Roose Bolton. I don't even think she knew him yet (in the show)
a man is powerful that he can take the throne by himself.
I love this guy
I'm glad she used her gift to kill very important characters.
‘’Three life I will give you no more no less’’
“”Joffrey Baratheon””
‘’Error 404”
Jeffory was her,s to kill .She would have loved to see the look on his face when she kills him
This was so amazing... Arya was so amazing in 1st 5 seasons...
Then everything went downhill
*AHEM!* Three lives I'll give you, no more, no FEWER. Fewer!
The first death (Tickler) was Arya testing Jaquen. She didn't fully trust him so she just named a random person (that she hates). The second (Ser Amory Lorch) was necessary. She wanted Tywin to be the third but he'd gone before she reached Jaquen.
Never a dull night.
They let such a great character go to waste..
A Lannister soldier occasionally pays his debts
"Give us a name" - "The sound mixing" - "Well that is enough ..."
Imagine being that young and knowing you have a master assassin at your disposal
At this point she wasn't sure she thought he was just joking.
Legend has it that jaqen is still the only man who scares john wick ....
"John Wick is the man you send to kill the f****** boogeyman!"
But then they realize they both like dogs.
i always say he was my fav character on GoT and people are always confused. Any Rogue Main understands though.
I've always wondered how Jaqen H'ghar got there. How did a Faceless Assassin get thrown into Kings Landing dungeons? Why didn't he escape since it's obvious he could at his leisure? Why did he choose to head to the Wall? What was he doing?
Preston Jacobs. Look up that youtube channel. He's got some incredible theories. Ill say this much. Why would a faceless man need to go to the wall?
ive heard that he did to meet arya like it was meant to happen but i dont know if itd true
+FerretJohn
I imagine this is a difficult question.. He might have been seeking an opportunity to offer many Free Folk and men of the Night's Watch to his god of Death, perhaps..
There's a really plausible theory out there I read years back that had him on a mission to obtain the key for opening something secured (a book? a candle? I forget now) at the Citadel. He obtained the key, but we don't find out what he used it for after that. He was simply biding his time while planning his journey.
I'm unsure why he helped Arya. My theory is he knew an ancestor of hers a long time ago, so he bestows his gift upon his old friend's descendent.
They picked the perfect actor for the role.
The title of the video reminds me of the holy hand grenade scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
I hope they bring him back.
Efren Gamez Your wish has been granted.
Farewell
Geez the old seasons were good
My theory is that Jaqen is actually the god of death/red god; I watched the whole series trying to disprove this gut feeling and only found more to support it 😅 I like to think the actual Game of Thrones was played by the gods, old and new, who actually walked and talked among the people as characters we never picked up on (except Jaqen).
Um homem é o personagem mais sinistro da série.
A man Is AWSOME!
So... Like the Darkbrotherhood and The Nights Mother
Tywin, Joffrey, Kevan = Stark victory...
A man is now fighting monsters from the upsidedown world
Because "This would require more than one life" to achieve.
"Three life I'll give you, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out".
She should have just instantly named Joffery, Cersei, and Tywin.
1, cercei, 2, Jamie 3, night king as simple as that
Death is certain, time is not, so the war may end when Jaqen gets near these people.
I would wonder what his weekends would look like if he worked as a paramedic.
arya stark at the end-"i must use this power for good"
A grown ass psychopathic serial killer amusing himself by justifying his addiction through her need for redemption… it’s quite Dracula-ish.
I do believe you've missed a rather large facet of the show's lore in your masturbatory analysis there.
She was supposed to be asleep..... lol
- Tywin Lannister
- Joffrey
- Tommen
after Stannis kills Renly
=> Stannis get the thrones
Sigurd Torvaldsson Father of the year material.
+Sigurd Torvaldsson Stannis already pledged to crush Robb's rebellion. If Arya sided with Stannis she'd be betraying her own brother.
+Sigurd Torvaldsson I think Joffrey and Tommen were actually hindering the Lannisters more than helping them. Tywin, Loras Tyrell and Tyrion would be better choices
+Adonnus100 y loras
+George Nottas Cause he's responsible for changing the 50k Tyrell army to the Lannister side since he had a boner for Renly
Jaqen H'ghar is such a bad ass!
Tywin lannister-littlefinger-roose bolton
Way worse people than petyr baelish
+ziji helium if u think there is anyone worse than littlefinger then u havent been paying attention
What is dead may never die
“ Give me three names “
“ The Night King “
“ Nah, do it yourself. “
Jaqen H'ghar: The Genie of Death
She coulda saved most of her family if she just said "Tywin Lannister" right here and now XD
rip
She would also have to name Jeoffrey because as king he had great power and he couldn't stand the fact that Starks repeatedly stood up to defy him.
"No more, no less... Lol, jk. I'll give you more if you ask nicely, slash, threaten me with my life."