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.
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>You could be right about the stare. She clearly understands his lust for power, and she understands the lengths he will go to in order to obtain what he wants. His time grows short, and he will slip up and be dispatched.<
Ah, but given the mindset of the HBO writers (women uber alles) I interpreted Sansa’s look toward Littlefinger more as an “Ah, hell naw!” expression. Jon had told her she, being the trueborn Stark, should be Queen. Obviously the lords hadn’t gotten that idea. Jon didn’t correct them, like Theon corrected Dany and Tyrion that he was unfit to lead, and that he supported his sister’s claim.
I will not be surprised one bit if Sansa doesn’t team up even grudgingly with Littlefinger to claim what she sees as her absolute right to Winterfell. She has always deep down considered Jon as beneath her. Has she truly changed her mind? Time will tell.
I like it. Doubtful though. She can imitate the face, but not the height and not a man’s voice.
Considering the first book was published in 1996 I would say no.
Now there are other shows out there that are definitely pushing that but the "A Song of Fire and Ice" series gets a pass.
I would be disappointed if she ever teamed up with Littlefinger again for anything. She might end up being Queen of Winterfell, with Jon Co-ruling with Daenerys. I still expect Littlefinger to get dispatched in a future episode. To me Jon would be a very capable and wise leader. I hope I’m not disappointed.
We didn’t hear him speak, and the faces do change the body as well.
Arya appeared as a 6 year old girl to the guy in the brothel who liked little kids.
I was sure I heard him speak as they were riding towards the city. But anything is possible with this show. I will laugh out loud if you are eventually proved right.
LOL, because it’s highly entertaining with edge of the seat plot twists. I love it.
Obviously there will be a 3rd dragon rider, John obviously is #2.
You could be right about who #3 is...
Actually, in the books the king of the iron islands doesn’t have the horn, his brother (passed over for the throne) does and arrives in slavers bay as the battle with the maesters is taking place. The show has not even introduced or contemplated that horn. Also, the books don’t make it clear that it is doing anything other than burning the person blowing it.
“The most likely being Jamie kills Cersei, as he recognizes the woman he loves is absolutely insane and evil.”
Possible. However, keep in mind what Jaime said to Edmure Tully - tied up in the tent outside Riverrun: if necessary, he (Jaime) would kill EVERYONE in order to get back to Cersei.
Of course, he may have just been using a bit of hyperbole to scare Edmure into submitting...
I hope you’re right, but remember. Littlefinger did school her on the strategy needed to play (and to succeed in) the Game of Thrones.
She was raised to wed a powerful man. She expected to be Joffrey’s (ewww) Queen and to rule Westeros. She stated that that was her greatest goal.
She was raised to hold Jon as beneath her. She watched her mother’s attitude toward him. She admitted she treated him horribly when they were younger.
actually only two can kill her. Either Tyrion or Jamie.
Remember the prophecy. Three children she will have, gold will be their crowns, gold their burial shrouds, and that she will be queen, but only for a short time until someone younger and more beautiful takes it from her and that he brother would kill her.
The point of that was to show that a lot of TIME just went by.
That is VERY important, because TIME would be needed for the King of the Iron Islands to build his “largest fleet the world has ever known”. I believe that fleet will play an important role in the coming season.
quote “Theory: Jamie died at Arya’s hands at the Twins, along with old man Frey. It is Arya in Jamie’s face awaiting to kill Cercei.”
whoa!!! that’s a heck of a theory!!!!
I don’t know if that’s how it will go down, but WOW good guess!
As valid theory as any at this point.
I believe in the end one of the two female dragons will die.
My theory ... the Dragon horn will only control one dragon. The other two dragons will be forced to kill it, leaving on one female and one male for John and Daneries to ride.
Sansa WILL end up the Lady of Winterfell, John will end up being the KING along with Daneries.
>actually only two can kill her. Either Tyrion or Jamie.<
Even if Tyrion turns out to be the third head of the Targaryen dragon, he would still be her half brother. Jaime, of course, is her twin.
My choice is Tyrion, if nothing else because Cersei has been trying to kill him for years.
The horn was introduced in the show... he brought it with him to the kings moot and blew it when he put forth his claim to the throne.
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