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.
Its not a matter of whether it was the most “SHOCKING” moment, its the most RELEVANT moment for the larger story... being dismissive of it, completely missing it, or belittling it shows how much of a A.D.D. our culture is...
Oh not one lost their head or got blowed up... yawn.
I think it will turn out that the only ones who can blow the horn are those with Valyrian blood in the first place. That’s why it is burning everyone else, they don’t have that “blood of the dragon” fire resistance that Dany seems to have.
>Now, technically he was born in the Marches so he could be called “Jon Waters”. Hmm, he does hang out with a cross-dresser now that I think about it...<
A warg hanging out with a cross-dresser. Oy!
Pointing out ones mortality is one thing... starving, beating and torturing them, and further mentally abusing them is quite another.
The High Sparrow was no different than the elites, he lusted for power just the same, only difference is he wasn’t high born, so he accumulated it wearing the robes of the church rather than the robes of wealth.
In the end he served himself, not any god, just like the rest of them.
It never said her brother would kill her actually. It said “the Valonquar” would strangle her.
“The Valonquar” just means “the little sibling”, it doesn’t say specifically it would her sibling, or whether it would be a male or female.
>I wonder if Fire/Flame could be the bastard name of a Targarion. That would make Jon Snow both Flame and Snow or..
both Fire and Ice!<
Since the Targaryens are associated with Fire, Jon Snow most certainly would be Fire and Ice. Maybe not in name, but definitely in blood.
I agree, Jamie is a redemption character.. can’t say it won’t happen, but I think odds that Arya killed him are low.... I still see the most likely path that he kills his sister in the end.
I had forgotten about the strangle part.
That would pretty much rule out Tyrion, or Arya wearing Jamies face.
I still believe the real Jamie will kill Cersi in the end as part of a redemption arc.
Jamie will become head of house Lanister after killing Cersi in my opinion.
>Jamie will become head of house Lanister after killing Cersi in my opinion.<
Taking that one step more, will his queen be a certain Lady of Tarth? Or will she end up with a red-head who is sweet on her (LOL)?
Wow. Good one.
I have been wondering about that as well!
I think it is possible, that could go either way.
There is also the loose end of the one remaining Barratheon bastard still alive. Surely that has to come into play eventually in the story, otherwise why introduce him and keep him around all this time?
I was watching the last episode again and in the scene where Eddard Stark was with Lyanna Stark something occurred to me. Both Tyrion and Jon Snow killed their mother at childbirth. Could this be something that happens if a Targaryen child is birthed by a non-Targaryen mother? Having babies outside of the Targaryen family may explain the dark hair.
Just wondering.
That is funny, I just watched the kings moot scene again and there was no horn.
The dragon horn (Dragonbinder) hasn’t been introduced on the TV show yet, only the books.
The biggest unknowns in the series in my opinion.
What happens to Arya Stark in the end
What happens to Gendry (robert Baratheon’s last remaining bastard)
How the wall comes down (it has too)
Who the Lady of Tarth ends up with (if anyone)
Who eventually kills Cersi
What happens to Littlefinger (or more specifically how does he get his just rewards for all his treatchery)
Brans eventual fate
And who marries Daneries to unite to kingdom against the undead.
Renly, Loras, Oberyn, etc are all fruits in the books too, it’s just not something that is focused on graphically. It’s mentioned a few times here and there, then the plot moves on to more interesting things. Even Cersei and Daenarys do a little “lesbian experimentation” in the books.
Varys and Littlefinger seem to have access to jetpacks or transporters.
;-)
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