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.
I am truly surprised at the amount of vitriol aimed at the High Sparrow on various conservative sites.
The man is essentially the Martin Luther of Westeros. He was working to reform the church, minister to the down trodden, and make the elites live under the same laws they force on everyone else.
I saw no hint of malice in the way he conducted himself. To me, he came across as a grandfather who understood that true love, sometimes requires stern actions and decisions.
True, could be Tyrion that kills her, if you go by the prophecy.
But remember he said that before he came home to find out she had done the one thing that he had killed his own king to prevent... may not have been the entire city but it was a damned good show of it none the less... that and their last child also fell victim, even if unintentional to her schemes.
Jamie obviously loves her, but he does not share her complete lust for power, to date Jamie seems to have a code of morality to him, even if it is a bit more warped than most, whereas Cersei has none.. her love of her children, evil or good as they may be, seemed to be about her only grounding .. now they are all gone.. there is nothing left to ground her at all.
Time will tell.
Michael Lombardo who is an activist faggot and is the gatekeeper for HBO projects insists on the gay angles being injected outside the book nauseatingly
Ditto the fembot crap which is more HBO brass meddling
I have a relative by marriage fairly high up the HBO executive ladder
We’re it the Empire State Building she’d be on a floor in the high 80s
Closet conservative....she has to be....HBO ferociously molds shows to fit their politics and with GOT they go way outside the books posturing
But it’s still a good ADULT fantasy medieval show
The best ever in my opinion.....simply incredible
The burning of the Sept was foreshadowed a lot when talking about the mad king burning it all down....we knew that medieval napalm was somewhere
I see it all differently
Dany goes south and Snow colludes with White Walkers and the undead
I see Eddaeds brother coming back as a link to that and how so much revolves around the Starks as the only group that always does the selfless thing
PC people complain the Starks represent old Saxon England set upon by a corrupt EU and brown world encroaching
Like a big allegory
People are funny
Today Martin and Weiss and Benioff and the other guy are hammering out the screenplay from unwritten chapters so who really knows
We caught up with the book
What if God forbid Martin dies?
What an imagination.....he claims he started all this cause he wanted more Tolkeinish entertainment but for edgy
It is all that and I can sure see why some are offended....I hate the occasional gratuitous nonsensical gay garbage like with Oberyn Martell
While Jaime might kill her, Tyrion actually has a more power motive. She wrongfully accused him of Joffrey’s death and would have had him executed.
No malice is torturing people ?
Re: Varys’ “teleportation” - if you watch the end scene again you will see that there are Martell ships as part of the fleet by that point. So it was nothing magical, he just got on a ship in Dorne and sailed to meet the fleet.
It just seems strange because there must be weeks of time passing between scenes that were shown just a few minutes apart. The whole last episode probably occurred over several months, since Dany is in Mereen at the beginning of the episode, but at the end, her and her fleet are probably in the Narrow Sea already.
I believe it will be Jamie. Cersi has a bad habit of jumping to the wrong conclusion and making enemies out of friends.
Wow...
If you think his scheming and manipulation and concentrating of his power was done for the greater good, let alone for “god”, and not his own purposes, just because he wrapped it up in religious quotations, they I would advise you stay away from anyone or anything remotely resembling a cult.
Agree on the John Snow / Danerys combo
That would be a fitting next step
I’d have go back and read the books but the series has not exactly followed them to the letter. Who knows what will happen to the dragons given the whims of HBO? There was not all the same sex goings on in any of the books. Look what they did to Renley, to Loras and even to Littlefinger.
Must have missed the whips and chains.
He detained people who had committed serious crimes until they were ready to admit their crimes and accept punishment.
I thought he was quite lenient with Cersi and her walk of shame.
GOT frequently embellishes gay and wimmin way beyond the books
And speaking of which
We are now way beyond the books
>I saw no hint of malice in the way he conducted himself. <
Go back and watch the scene where his minions block Margaery from leaving the sept.
Littlefinger is going to die even if I have to yell at the writers to make a cameo role for Enterprise to enter the act to do it myself!
” And remember that though Daenerys was willing to burn the cities of the Masters to the ground, it was Tyrion who counseled her to consider a better option. She too has a genocidal tendency if not counseled out of it.”
I don’t think it’s a genocidal tendency, just that she knows she has to be twice as fearsome as any male king in order to get half the respect, so she has grown accustomed to going overboard and taking no chances. She took half measures and showed mercy before and was seen as weak and betrayed for doing that.
Compared to his predecessor’s and the elites in King’s Landing, the man practically walks on water.
Oh, I think he will, eventually. My money is on Dany to be the last (wo)man standing. I think Sansa is toast at some point in time. Arya is such a better character.
I doubt that just because we have never seen the Faceless men actually change the size/shape of their bodies. It seems like they can only change their faces. How would Arya even fit in Jaime’s armor?
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I believe him to be a true believer, but just one who has become convinced that any act is justified to save someones soul. Which makes him the most dangerous type of villain one who truly believes that the evil he is doing is good and who has no fear of death or consequences.
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