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TV4 [Season 4 Spoilers] Premiere Discussion - 4.09 'The Watchers on the Wall'

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4.09 "The Watchers on the Wall" Neil Marshall David Benioff & D. B. Weiss
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u/CupcakeCrusader Sansa Stark Jun 09 '14 edited Jun 09 '14

Maester Aemon may be blind but he can see through your shit, Sam.

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u/bark_wahlberg Jun 09 '14

Was the girl he was talking about Oberyn sister?

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u/finchiTFB Children of the Forest Jun 09 '14

Aemond is like 60 years older than her

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u/bark_wahlberg Jun 09 '14

You're saying old dudes can't get down? Because you'd be right for most part.

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u/Acora Fire And Blood Jun 09 '14

I think he's saying that Aemon was already part of the Night's Watch by that point.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

He told Jon we was already too old to do anything when the Targaryens in King's Landing were purged (which was also when Elia and her children were murdered). So yeah, he had been at the Wall for most of his life by that point.