A new Game of Thrones Season 5 teaser features Jon Snow rebuking Mance Rayder for uniting all the Wildlings, yet valuing his pride more than their survival. Mance responds: “Pride? Fuck my pride.”
Now, I have been debating with myself whether this is the worst line Ciarán Hinds has ever been asked to deliver. Professional that he is, he manages to make it sound convincing. But honestly, is this the best Benioff and Weiss have got?
Now, a person who is really accomplished at cussing knows how to deliver a delightfully musical line:
Jon: Isn’t their survival more important than your pride?
Mance: Pride? Fuckety-fuck and double-suck my pride!
A satisfyingly crude choriamb is followed by a series of three iambs: Dum diddy Dum, de Dum de Dum de Dum! But perhaps we should avoid the F-Bomb altogether. Just for the sake of originality.
Jon: Isn’t their survival more important than your pride?
Mance: Pride? Take my pride and shove it up yer arse, you annoying little shite-hawk!
Here we have added a clever allusion to Jon’s status as a “crow” because a “shite-hawk” is a scavenging bird (and/or a sorry sack of shite). Speaking of allusions, I suppose it is too much to ask that a king who has been deposed say something interesting:
Jon: Isn’t their survival more important than your pride?
Mance: Pride? Our lands, our lives and all are Baratheon’s,
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Or if they don’t like literary allusions, they could take a few from the silver screen:
Jon: Isn’t their survival more important than your pride?
Mance: Pride? I triple dog dare you to fuck my pride! And if you can’t manage it, you’re on double secret probation!!
But here is the approach I would prefer:
Jon: Isn’t their survival more important than your pride?
Mance: Pride? My pride fell with my fortunes, boy. Now leave me in peace. I’m writing my sexual memoirs and I’ve just come to the part about that threesome with Ygritte and Magogga the Giantess.
Now that’s what I call a teaser.
Linnet Moss 
Laughed out loud at “Pride? Fuckety-fuck and double-suck my pride!” I will no doubt hear that in my head when the show premieres. Love CH in this role. I was soooo excited when he was cast. =)
Hee, hee. I have been laughing about that line too. He deserves good material. I hate to see an actor of his stature wasted. But maybe the rest of the scene will be more interesting 🙂
Ha ha! I hope they call you after this 🙂 Sounds like the show needs you!
What the show needs is a sense of humor! And I need Benioff and Weiss’ paycheck 🙂
Sounds like this show needs you 🙂
Succinct and to the point, I suppose, but you’re absolutely right, he deserves better text than that! #F***wits, the lot of them!
Ha! Maybe they thought it would be transgressive to have a revered actor say “Fuck,” but guess what fellas, it’s been done, and much more thoroughly, in “McCanick.” #FoulMouthedBoss
yep, the whole thing is starting to take itself too seriously and the dialogue suffers. I’d think he’d a least manage a retort insulting his opponent at the same time 🙂 i’d very much like the hawk-shite one 🙂
LOL. I had fun writing that.
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