Posted on 06/29/2016 7:04:29 AM PDT by Enterprise
The opening scenes of the show depict Cerci getting ready for her trial before the seven septons. Now we knew that she would never stand trial didn't we? Well, we weren't disappointed. (I wasn't at least)
Loras confessed to everything. The deal was that he would be released after Cersi's trial, but Margaery didn't know that he would have the star carved into his forehead.
Meanwhile, Pycelle gets lured off and meets his end at the hand of the children while Qyburn looks on. Pycelle was a go along get along guy. He should have kept his mouth shut, but he stepped in it by criticizing Gregor Clegane, and by his inability to suppress his dislike of Cersi. Bye bye.
Because Cersi and Tommen weren't in attendance, and the High Sparrow sent Lancel Lannister to fetch them. Lancel saw a suspicious child and followed him. While this is happening, Clegane is forcibly preventing Tommen from leaving for the trial. Margaery understands that something is wrong, deadly wrong, because Cersi and Tommen aren't there. She tries to get the High Sparrow to evacuate the Sept, but the old jerk is so full of his own righteousness and religious authority that he can't conceive of the scope of treachery that Cersi is capable of. Lancel follows the child undergroud and gets stabbed. He sees the light of candles and crawls towards them. To his horror, the candles are burning down and are about to touch off barrels upon barrels of wildfire, stored conveniently below the Sept of Baelor, where the trial is being held. Too late though, as the fire ignites, disintegrating him, and blowing up the whole Sept. AWESOME! (Lancel's religious journey toward the light ended in a very BRIGHT flash!)
Poor naive Tommen commits suicide. In this I was sympathetic. He loved Margaery. He was a young boy who fell in love with a beautiful girl. And he knew that she was suddenly gone forever. The grief he felt was overpowering.
I liked Margaery, and I know she wasn't perfect either as she did her share of scheming and plotting. Too bad she couldn't get out of the Sept. Her dad was an affable old duff, but not too smart. Loras - who cares. The High Sept - ADIOS MOFO! I thought of him as a disgusting, icky old creep, something like Pycelle.
One reviewer I read noted that later, when Cersi takes the throne, that there were a LOT of new faces since the former elites went up with the Sept.
Littlefinger tried to baffle Sansa by declaring he wants to sit on the Iron Throne with her by his side, but by now she has wised up considerably, and she shut him down. Stupidly, he steps in it again by telling her that the North would back her, but not Jon. At the meeting, the North backs Jon, with the help of a rousing speech by little Lady Mormont, and Littlefinger looks like the loser he is. Sansa gives him a death stare. Littlefinger, the definition of slime and ooze.
So we have Walder Frey all happy and blustery at getting Riverrun back. He's happy with his alliance with the Lannisters, and boasts that when they put their swords through the hearts of their enemies, "The Freys and Lannisters send their regards."
Jaime pours a little cold water on Frey's happiness by reminding him that he couldn't hold Riverrun, and that if the Lannisters have to keep bailing him out, then who needs him?
And Arya. Love her. She serves Walder Frey a meat pie which contains he two sons. As he begins to grasp the horror, she unmasks herself and tells him who she is, and that the last thing he will see is a Stark smiling down on him as he dies. Frey is speechless. Literally, because Arya cut his throat the way her mother's throat was cut.
And speaking of last things someone sees, Cersi had promised Septa Unella that the last thing she would see before she dies is her face. Unella is under the impression that she is going to meet her god. Cersi explains her that it won't be today, or tomorrow, and introduces her to Gregor Clegane. Cersi mocks Unella with "confess," and "shame." As she leaves Unella is screaming, and we have to use our imaginations as to what exactly Clegane is doing.
Davos outs the witch's past atrocity of burning the daughter of Stannis alive. Jon banishes her and promises to hang her if she returns, and Davos tells her he will kill her himself if she returns.
Varys appears to help forge an alliance between Olenna Tyrell and Ellaria Sand. It was fun watching Olenna smack down the Sand girls. She told one that she looked like an angry little boy, she told one to shut up, and told the third not to speak.
Daenerys basically told Daario adios. Tyrion tells Daenerys he believes in her and said he would pledge his sword, but he doesn't have one. But he pledges his counsel, now and always. She appoints Tyrion as "Hand of the Queen." He kneels. I give Daenerys credit for understanding his value.
At the end, the fleet of Daenerys is sailing with its troops and horses. Yara and Theon are sailing with Daenerys after having pledged their support with the understanding that Daenerys will support them in defeating their treacherous uncle Euron. As the fleet sails, the dragons fly combat air patrol overhead. Must wait until next year now.
Martyrs suck, especially when they tell everyone who’ll listen they’re willing to die for their cause, and then decide they’ll bring everyone else with them.
Dude, I watched the scene. You can’t wish cast a major piece of equipment into a show that has one season left, which they are dividing into two.
All I care about is The Hound and the dragons.
Everyone else can snuff it.
Tommen jumping cracked me up.
I appreciate your bringing that up, I watched the scene but didn't understand its relevance.
The other noteworthy tidbit in the finale was the white raven arriving at Winterfell signaling that Winter is here.
As for next season the only predictions I'll make is that the dragons will make short work of the zombies from beyond the wall.
Also, could it be that Jon Snow is the Prince That Was Promised , and that is why the Red Witch was able to bring him back from death?
And Sansa’s self-serving lie caused the first death of a wolf.
She can’t go gruesomely enough to satisfy me.
If Snow, Tyrion and Dany live, I’m okay with that.
They love critters.
Everyone else...meh.
With her husband dead, her kids were her only means of remaining “in power”.
With that end in mind, she “loved” them.
She let Bran be thrown off the castle and then tried to finish him off, to protect her claim to the throne.
She fried the Sept after being told to go stand with the other riff raff, instead of by the boy king’s side, as was her usual place of status.
She is bloodless and loves/serves only herself.
I just got through binge watching the first season...and Net Flix doesn’t have it! So, I’ll probably buy more. I’m hooked.
That’s a different horn from the Horn of Joramun/Horn of Winter. The same horn was also found with the dragonglass in the books, only it was found by Jon Snow instead of Sam.
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/26/12029644/winds-of-winter-recap-jon-snow-parents
Every example you mention is basically military commanders handing out summary executions for traitors, outlaws, or deserters during wartime. That wouldn’t be unusual even in our modern day, and it’s certainly not comparable to the type of criminal prosecutions that the High Sparrow is undertaking.
“The trials conducted by the elites had preordained outcomes for people who were not guilty of the crimes they were accused of.”
Certainly they have tried to rig trials in their favor, no doubt, but in every case, the accused still received a trial, had the opportunity to speak in their defense, call witnesses, and failing all else, appeal to trial by combat to receive a fairer outcome. The High Sparrow has systematically eliminated all of those options for his prisoners. So if you think the trials conducted by the elites were unjust, unless you say the conduct of the High Sparrow is even more unjust, you’re being hypocritical.
“The people who were to be tried by the Sparrow were guilty of the crimes they were charged with.”
So what? Guilty people don’t deserve legal protections?
“Arguing about whether or not he was right or wrong, is a mote point.”
If the people of Westeros won’t learn from the mistakes of the past, they are doomed to repeat them!
True, but I think he’s probably okay with giving that up now that he’s the new “three eyed raven”. He never wanted to be a lord in a castle anyway.
>I think you are correct in that, by the time she was blowing up half of King’s Landing, she knew Tommen was going to die anyway because of the prophecy.<
Tommen is the one who cut off Cersei’s ability to have a trial by combat. Who is to say she made a calculated decision to sacrifice him in order to keep him from betraying her in the future. He could have ordered her executed for the murder of his wife and the rest of the casualties.
Sal, do you not think Bran loves his animals? If not for Summer, he could not have run. And, that crow he wargs into has given him so much. Would he not have love for it?
Just sayin’. (c;
You continue to view this through the prism of contemporary Western culture instead of the Westerosi prism. They are not the same.
There is obviously no presumption of innocence, no juries, no lawyers, no appeals, civil rights and apparently few legal protections for the accused.
Loras and Margaery were allowed to go free after they admitted their crimes. Cersei was allowed to go home to await trial for regicide after she admitted incest with Lancel. These were certainly better outcomes than what Ned and Tyrion received.
And his lifespan probably just got halved.
Yeah, probably.
But his story line has been infinitely dull.
I cracked up when the Big Hodor Reveal happened.
Ho’ de door”
LMAO.
Oh grief, what a plot device.
Looking forward to Hodor’s Whitewalker return.
That should cause a whole bunch of emotional conflict.
The Bran Orchestrating All Reality Theory sounds like the Bobby In The Shower scene from Dallas.
If it turns out that way, I will be royally p*ssed.
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