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[angualupin]

Last night I dreamt that Sean Bean, in full Boromir gear, told off Sean Bean, in full Ned Stark gear, for being "hopelessly naive".

Even my subconscious is fed up with Ned, apparently.

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[angualupin]

Having now thought about it, I'm also of the opinion that having Boromir around to slap some sense into Ned would probably have been a good thing for all concerned. Boromir might not be perfect, cf., resisting ultimate evil, etc., but one also gets the impression that he was politically savvy enough to not do something like, just to come up with one example, precipitate a civil war by drastically underestimating Cersei Lannister. Give me a slightly less morally upright character who is not an idiot any day.

[ninamalfoy]

Very true. But the imagery is really too delicious for words... Sean Bean squared? GUH. *drools*

[angualupin]

Considering I normally find Sean Bean rather overwhelmingly attractive (especially when dressed in leather and carrying a sword), I would have expected having two Sean Beans running around my dream would be incredibly hot. Instead, it was kind of creepy. I don't much find the identical twin thing attractive, either, when that happens, so apparently I'm just not into that kind of thing.

[angualupin]

Of course it's not wrong. Frankly, I expected to have that exact reaction, although it turned out I was slightly creeped out instead. Weird.

Sean Bean!Boromir can be all bossy in my direction any time he wants, just as long as there's only one of him.

[angualupin]

I know, right? *sigh* Although given that this was my dream!brain, I suppose I should be grateful there weren't zombies involved.

If we were going to go with two leather-wearing, sword-wielding bossy men, couldn't my dream!brain have given me, say, Boromir and Eomer? It's one of the enduring tragedies of the movies that, with all the changes Peter Jackson unfortunately included, he couldn't have decided on a change that would have had those two on screen at the same time. Nnnnnnngh.

[txorakeriak]

I am jealous of your brain. If Ned Stark had known Boromir, things might have gone differently for him. ;)

[angualupin]

I KNOW, RIGHT? Boromir might have had his own problems, cf., resisting ultimate evil, but at least he wasn't an idiot. He might not have been the most noble and upright person to ever walk the hallowed halls of Winterfell, but he also probably wouldn't have, just to name one possible example out of many, precipitated a civil war by drastically underestimating Cersei Lannister.

JUST SAYING.

[txorakeriak]

Boromir might have balanced out Ned Stark wonderfully. Where Ned has too much honour, Boromir has too little. And, yeah, he's a lot more talented at reading/predicting people than Ned, too.

(Btw, how frustrating was it when the one moment Ned should have been honourable and loyal, he suddenly decided not to be? *grr* I mean, his life was forfeited anyway, considering who was there to judge him, so he might as well have opened his mouth and called Joffrey an inbred bastard in front of all the people watching his execution, instead of babbling all that nonsense. THAT would have given the story a different course indeed.)

[angualupin]

I wouldn't characterize Boromir as having "too little" honour; I think the point Tolkien was trying to make with Boromir was that Boromir is a normal person, and it takes a truly extraordinary individual -- Aragorn, Frodo, Faramir -- to resist the temptation of the Ring. Outside his interactions with ultimate evil, Boromir was actually quite a good person, he just wasn't Hero material. Of course, the point GRRM is trying to make with Ned is that in more realistic situations, having the code of honour of a Hero is more likely to get you killed than it is to save the world.

I also don't think Ned made an incorrect choice there -- certainly not compared to all the horribly incorrect choices he made previously. Remember that even Cersei expected Joffery to spare Ned's life; the choice to execute him was Joffery's alone and Ned had no warning that Joffery was going to be a sociopathic little fuck and go back on the agreement to spare Ned, and more importantly, spare Ned's daughters. Ned gambled that agreeing to lie would rescue Sansa and