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.
Wasn’t Cersi on Arya’s “list” of people who needed to be killed?
And if the prophecy says Cersi will be killed by her son, what if Arya wore Tommen’s face, or Jeoffrey’s for that matter? (She would be the right height.) Cersi is mad so would she lose it if her son appeared in a hallucination?
wow... nice call!
She is definitely on Arya’s list. Maybe Cersi could be under the influence of the essence of night shade or in a drunken stupor. It would be a definite series hit if Arya strangled Cersi while wearing Tommen or Joffrey’s face. WOW!
little brother not son.
I don’t see it.
The High Sparrow, Like Stannis, was a man who was doing his duty out of devotion, not self aggrandizement.
He achieved a life of wealth and luxury, which he rejected and pursed one of penitence and service.
I think Sansa has the integrity to stand by her promise, despite her dislike for Littlefinger. But he does not seem to me to be one who will settle for less than he thinks he deserves, hence he will screw up and end up room temperature.
Standard operating procedures for Westeros.
Whoops, missed Ramsay Snow/Bolton
Thanks for that.
Notice that we are seeing a shift in royalty from males to females. Nothing better and bloodier than a cat fight!!
Ah, so when he does the same dastardly things as the people he condemns, it’s okay, because everyone does it. There’s a word for that attitude. It starts with an “h” and ends with “ypocrisy”.
I was extremely pleased to see The Hound back in play in the prior episode. I can’t help by like that dude. He makes everything so cut-and-dry. :-)
Bran is the trueborn son and rightful heir to Winterfell.
Thank you.
I am pointing out that this is an accepted practice for crime and punishment in the Game of Thrones universe. The only hypocrisy here is that the elites exempt themselves from this punishment.
The High Sparrow is holding the elites to the same punishment standards that everyone else is held to.
Explain to me how making everyone equally subject to the law of the land is hypocritical?
Danaerys didn’t torch the entire fleet. She wanted to go kill everyone until Tyrion provided a better option where she would keep the majority of the Masters’ fleet for her own uses.
She made an example of one to show the others what happens when they break a negotiated agreement — strength through superior firepower.
Many more would’ve died and Mereen would’ve fallen to the Sons of the Harpy if Dany chose the vengeance route.
Yes, service as he viewed it, that included making sure everyone else yielded to his will...whether they yielded due to being broken by torture, or by soft spoken words, made no difference. That’s not service.
He was just as much a sadistic bully as the rest of the wretched lot, he was just more soft spoken. His “relevations” and threats may have always been delivered in subtle and gentle tones, but there were always armed fanatics at his back as he delivered them.
He was no different in any way, from the rest of the lords and ladies leading their armies to grow their power and influence, other than he had no high birth or money to gather followers, so he wrapped himself in “religion” to gain his loyal army.
If those you claim to help, get their “help” with your sword at their throat, you are not offering help or service, only subjugation.
Sacrificing your children for your own selfish pursuits isn't a "girl power" theme; it's quite the opposite.
I suggest re-reading the books for a fourth or fifth time.
If he did not have armed fanatics at his back, the elites would have killed him and gone back to business as usual, the man was not an idiot.
Every person that he punished, was guilty of the crimes they were accused of and would have gone unpunished if not for him.
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