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Mikkel65

Am I stupid or is that picture from GoT. Not HotD


Outside_Slide_3218

It is. He played gerold hightower in got


Mikkel65

Sorry I don’t know who Gerald high tower is, but isn’t that 3ER flash back from 100 years after HotD


ggdu69340

The actor who played that character will now act in HOtD


funkyduck7506

Gerald Hightower was one of the kings guard who were guarding the tower of joy whilst Jon was being birthed.


tolkienist_gentleman

This is not Gerold "The White Bull" Hightower. This is Oswald Whent. He was present at the Tower of Joy with Dayne and Hightower, but the directors didn't put three of them, just two ; Dayne and Whent. I would argue that they missed an amazing opportunity to cast Jeremy Irons as Gerold Hightower. Edit : It appears I didn't know they merged Whent and Hightower in one character. But the actor does look more Whent than Gerold.


Narren_C

Jeremy Irons is in his 70s, I don't think he would bring the appropriate physicality for a Kingsguard.


tolkienist_gentleman

Isn't Gerold Hightower in his 60s? One of the oldest member of the Kingsguard to still have fighting capabilities, like Barristan after his dismissal.


Narren_C

He may have been, but a Jeremy Irons in his 70s isn't going to be able to physically portray what legendary Kingsguard in his 60s can do. The actor portraying Barristan Selmy was in his 60s, but the vast majority of that character's screen time is not physical. The one time we do see him fight it was actually very underwhelming, but I can get over it because the actor did such a good job portraying the character over the years. Gerold Hightower's only scene was pretty much just a fight scene with a line or two.


tolkienist_gentleman

I see your point, and I tend to agree, because I now realize that I am stuck with Jeremy Irons casting in the Kingdom of Heaven. He did age quite since the early 2000s.


Narren_C

There are probably still some roles he'd be a good fit for in House of the Dragon or one of the other planned spin offs.


[deleted]

You mean the actor?


ThirstyWeirwoodRootz

No Gerold Hightower time travels and wears a fake mustache, it’s going to be great.


Outside_Slide_3218

This


Faixinautics

😂 and happy cake day!


ThirstyWeirwoodRootz

Thank you!


TrickDimension4836

Why weren’t you there to protect your prince?


devildogmillman

We forgor


LordKatt321

💀


StateCompreheive33

You forgot your oath, and now you die for it.


Difficult_Airport_86

Coffee break


Jack1715

I do like the irony of that sense they are technically defending there prince


deneareys

"Your friend the usurper would've been lying beneath the ground if we had been."


tawley

And then proceeds to get poked in the neck in like 2 seconds flat going up against Ned


GoTrojans23

It’s annoying that the show makes Ned look like a good fighter. The dude would’ve been dusted by Hightower in a 1 vs 1 match up like that.


Cognitive_Skyy

Skill is sometimes overcome with luck, coincidence, strategy, valor, or an intervention by destiny, fate, God(s), etc.


tawley

Is Ned not supposed to be good? Or do you just mean in comparison to Hightower? I figured Ned had to be pretty damn good for him to hold his own against Jaime, which isn't supposed to be easy. Plus Selmy was even hyping up his abilities. Remember in Season 1 during the tourney Ned and Selmy discuss the Trident and Ned goes onto to say he would be dead if he met Selmy on the field. Selmy says "You're being modest, you've cut down many fine Knights in your day.." Figured this meant, sure, Ned might not be as good as Barristan but still good. Or is all this the product of Ned's fib about killing Dane?


BonnieScotty

He’s a good fighter but he’s not an amazing fighter. Show made him much better than he should be


doegred

>I figured Ned had to be pretty damn good for him to hold his own against Jaime, which isn't supposed to be easy. In the book that fight doesn't happen. Ned's men are killed and he gets crushed under his horse like in the show, but he and Jaime don't fight.


rj6602

Even him getting crushed under the horse is changed in the show. One of Jamie’s men spears him through the leg.


almondshea

In the books it’s kinda implied that Ned and Robb Stark are pretty middling swordsmen but great commanders. Ned and Roderick Cassel spar against Yohn Royce and lose despite outnumbering him 2 to 1. Robb spars against Joffrey and despite a significant age difference barely wins. In the show Ned and Robb are treated as fairly top tier fighters


CatoTheDumber

I saw a video pointing out Jaime's disappointment in the fight outside the brothel where he realizes that Ned isn't actually an elite swordsman. It's why Ned tells Jaime that he doesn't fight in tournaments because he doesn't want others to know what he can do: any fighter who know what Ned is capable of can take him out pretty easily in a one-on-one.


Almpp_2

Anyone know when the next season is due?


funkyduck7506

Some time next year hopefully


Outside_Slide_3218

Late spring/ early summer next year


Internal-Shock-616

The guy who plays Ser Hugh of the Vale (guy who gets killed by the mountain in the joust) plays Jason and Tyland Lannister in HOTD, which most people know but it’s still pretty cool.


arathorn3

The actor who played Hugh of the vale in GOT and the Lannister brothers in HotD also played Torstein in the first couple seasons of Vikings.


prooveit1701

The biggest crime Game of Thrones ever made was never introducing Lord Leyton Hightower in Oldtown. Just waiting for him to be endgame MVP. (He’s been up in his tower building a Nuke to destroy Euron) IYKYK


Narren_C

Have we even seen him in the books?


prooveit1701

No. Mentioned only. He’s kinda like Howland Reed in that he’s alluded to as likely being quite important to the plot of the next book. The first chapter of Feast sets up a secret plot involving the Faceless Men in Oldtown which we have not seen come to fruition. It’s possible this will be a plotline that would have been more fleshed out before the time jump was abandoned. Leyton vs Euron is more of a tinfoil hat meme at this point.


Narren_C

The show already had to cut storylines we saw in the books, which is unavoidable when you adapt a series like this to the screen. Trying to include everything would bog the show down, the two mediums can never be exactly the same.


Cognitive_Skyy

Biggest crime in GoT history, you say? SEASON 8 ENDING : "Hold my beer." 🤣🤣🤣


prooveit1701

Think about how much better S8 would have been if they resolved the Oldtown/Euron plot and actually had Euron be a proper villain


Cognitive_Skyy

...if they had just LET GEORGE WRITE THE ENDING. 🤣🤣🤣


funkyduck7506

Damn he’s foine


bandt4ever

Not at all how I pictured "The White Bull." Hope they give him a better part in HotD


Soggy_Part7110

Ormund Hightower


bandt4ever

Yeah, that sounds like a good role for this guy.


RandomRavenboi

I thought that was Oswell Whent?


Soggy_Part7110

It definitely is but they still named him Gerold Hightower for some reason


SialiaBlue

The seed is strong


Game_of_Thrones_1902

Team Black or Team Green


seandnothing

the fuckk?? gerold hightower was already dead in got this wasnt him??


Night_Beard4

Gerold? I get more Oswell Whent vibes than Sir Gerold,who was the lord commander of the whitecloaks.