Posted on 06/29/2016 7:04:29 AM PDT by Enterprise
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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