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Lord Lannister

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  1. You might be on to something with Shadd being Shadrich. You lost me when you brought Reed into it though.
  2. I think Jon and Robb would almost certainly have an unspoken alliance. That'd be a huge edge against the others if they don't make it too obvious from the start enough to cause everyone else to initially gang up on them.
  3. Distinction noted. Just was poking fun at the silliness of it. Been a couple years since I've been around here regular and yeah, people are still trying to tear down characters that threaten their favorites.
  4. You can't kill the tinfoil theory threads. They rise again, insaner and stupider.
  5. Sometimes a simple explanation subverts expectations. Golden hair could easily qualify as a golden crown. It could also end up meaning other things than a literal explanation. Viserys got his golden crown for example. As for the Tyrells abandoning Cersei, if Cersei was still calling the shots in King's Landing I'd be inclined to agree. But she's not. She's disgraced and Kevan is dead. That all but leaves the Tyrells in charge in King's Landing. All the Tyrells have to do is put a document in front of Tommen for his seal naming Mace Regent and Hand and tell him it's what Margaery would want.
  6. If the sellsword companies were doing the majority of the fighting over there they'd be running the show. At the end of the day a sellsword company typically isn't going to fight to the death for someone else's cause. They'll be vicious and oppurtunisitic when the odds are going their way, otherwise they're typically going to cut their losses and pull back so they can fight, and get paid, another day.
  7. Mace Tyrell for me. I always believed the bumbling oaf act was just that, an act. He's consistently managed to land on his feet during the Rebellion and the War of Five Kings. He manuvered himself into a postion during the Rebellion where sure he took a side, but wasn't getting his lands or armies destroyed in the war by tying himself down besieging Storm's End. If the royalists won the war he woud've been due his reward, as it happened he just dipped his banners and called it a day taking fewer losses than any other great house in that war. He managed more savy manuvering during the War of the Five Kings. He's managed to hedge his bets quite well and moving Margaery from being engaged to Renly to Joffrey to Tommen was quite genuius. Sure his forces and lands seem to be in the direct line of fire more often during this war, but the Tyrells are playing the game to win and be on top and are managing to bounce back from every reversal they're dealt so far. As the books end, they're in virtual control of King's Landing and the Council now that Kevan is dead and Cersei disgraced. All that needs to happen is Tommen be handed a piece of paper to seal naming Mace Regent and Hand. Sure a lot of people dismiss his role in Tyrell success by saying it was all Olenna. But at the end of the day a good ruler is going to listen to good advice and act on it. If he was truly an oaf, he'd just dismiss Olenna's advice saying he wasn't going to listen to some woman or something.
  8. Just killed will do. I never understood the people who want the bad guys to go down so bad, they're perfectly fine with the good guys acting as bad as them or worse.
  9. There's a lot you can be critical of Daenerys about but sometimes people reach too hard. Sure Dany was party to the actions of Drogo's horde in some ways. It's why I have a hard time feeling bad for her feeling betrayed by MMD. But she wasn't going to be able to stop it. This was legitmiately a young girl nudging events into a less terrible outcome for those women. Sometimes that's all you can do.
  10. I guess I'm just not seeing why Dany would care one way or the other about the Frey-Stark feud unless one house or the other ends up pledging to her. To her they're just the usuper's dogs fighting amongst themselves.
  11. I'd say in between. He definitely had his dark aspects, and part of what makes him a compelling character is the reader can identify with why he ended up this way. He also has compassion and even a general desire to be decent in a savage time. As things are going by book 5 he's sliding more towards evil though. Maybe he'll have an intervention that lets him get his life back on track. Or maybe he'll keep taking his daily doses of screwitol and continue his decent into darkness and despair.
  12. As you say, the whole prophecy is one huge case of confirmation bias. You can make a case for almost anyone twisting the words this way and that and cherry picking facts. Is it time for me to spin my "theory" about Hot Pie being Azor Ahai Reborn again?
  13. Brandon Stark marching into the Red Keep and yelling for Rhaegar to come out and die.
  14. Miss you around these parts.

  15. Eh, I think the government just needs to get out have the marriage business altogether. In theory there's supposed to be separation of church and state, and too much of matrimony has it's roots in religion. If that requires rewriting tax codes and things to recognize households as opposed to marriages so much the better. It gets the government out of the business of picking and choosing what to and not to recognize, which is what we have now.
  16. Which gets irony points given how much of Game of Thrones is based on the War of the Roses.
  17. Holy crap, that was a powerful episode and a lot to get excited over. I was literally on the edge of my seat the whole episode. A weak season over all, but it went out with an epic finale. Perhaps the most epic episode of GoT ever. The whole Wildfire plot was just chilling to watch unfold, and the music captured the moment perfectly.
  18. I think this is going a bit far, though I do feel that Sansa feels threatened by Jon. She made a point a couple of times this season to point out that Jon's not a Stark, seems critical of everything he does, and went to great lengths to conceal that she had an army just waiting for her beck and call. I doubt she wanted Jon dead but I'm not sure she's very sad that the wildlings personally loyal to him took the brunt of the fighting,
  19. It's amusing how many people watch this show every week if they hate it as much as they profess.
  20. Almost wish we had Joffrey back. He would've stormed the Sept on day one. Sure Marg and Loras would likely die, but at least a Tyrell/Lannister war might be more interesting than... whatever we have now.
  21. I'd say this one was the weakest all season so far. There were some good scenes in it, but also some random ones as well. I enjoyed the sequence of the Hound just strolling up and murdering the brigands. It was nice to see him in action again. Though as amusing as Beric and Sandor arguing over who gets to kill who and how was, it just seemed random to make Lem and his hand renegades. It seemed just a clunky plot device to reintroduce Beric and Thoros and to bring the Hound in alignment with them. The Riverlands plot was mixed. I enjoyed Bronn and Pod's little interaction and Jaime and Brienne's reunion was nice. Despite how the previews were trying to make it look like they were going against one another, they both seemed to understand where each other stood in this and were as aligned as they could be in the matter with their conflicting goals. Jaime and Edmure's exchange and threats was easily the highlight of the episode. Though giving the Blackfish an off screen death was... highly unsatisfying. But they did it with Dorne, so who knows? Maybe all the Stonefish speculation is true, but that would just seem bizarre. Either way the Riverland plot seems to be in a nose dive now and it's only a question of what they'll hit at rock bottom. The Mereen scenes were... again mixed. Tyrion and Varys little scene was nice, and the book readers likely have a good idea where the story is going with his departure. Oddly enough I enjoyed the little banter between Tyrion, Grey Worm and Missandrei. His attempts to coax life out of them were almost successful and Grey Worm's "joke" did make me laugh. Until the plot just takes another random turn and oh.. .the slaver fleet is attacking with no warning whatsoever. If only Dany had a brilliant spymaster in her entourage that could've warned them of this.... speaking of her, her return was... disappointing at is was random. Did she really just use Drogon as a bus and let him go? That scene ending on a cliffhanger of Drogon breathing fire at the camera as he swoops end would've been all the hook we needed to keep us wanting more. Cersei's scenes... well the whole "I choose violence" scene just seems to have been trailer bait because it did nothing for the plot. With all the "burn them all" and wildfire flashbacks this season, Qyburn's little "secret" is fairly plain what it's building up to. And what the hell is up with Tommen? A few episodes ago he was crying saying he'd never let his mother get hurt again. Now he drinks the koolaid and is all but condemning her to a kangaroo court? So the one interesting build up to all this, Cleganebowl, was canceled. Fuck the king. Arya... ugh. I did like the actress giving Cersei a Shakespearean spin, though I'm still scratching my head at the whole sequence of events with her relationship with Arya. Arya couldn't go through with killing her and warned her about the young actress so she struck at her first. So did she just randomly take Arya at her word... or did Arya tell her everything? In that case why the heck is she sheltering Arya given how much the Faceless Men are known and feared in Braavos? I dunno. The chase scene was neat, up until the point you remember she just got gutstabbed repeatedly last episode. But hey, she was sewed up and got a night's sleep, so right as rain? The cowering in the dark hole bit would've been neat except for it was rather... predictable. Also... what the heck is up with Arya just storming into the House of Black and White to mouth off to Jaqen? Oh don't get me wrong, it was badass, but.... what was the point of any of it? Her scenes the past two seasons were incredibly repetitive and all for her just to say fuck off when she's accepted in? And Jaqen let her do that? So we have pointless ends to the Blackfish's story, Tyrion's peace negotiations, Cersei's trial by combat and Arya's entire Braavos arc. Meh. This one gets 4/10. Next episode better live up to the hype.
  22. 8/10 While I'm thrilled the Hound returned, I felt the whole plot was a bit overdone. Certainly the intent was to make him sympathetic to the Faith and want to kill their enemies, likely to set up Cleganebowl. A few lines of dialogue could've explained how he ended up with them and the surprise reveal of him walking forth to challenge Gregor would've been much more... dare I say hype? Still he never seemed to break character during this whole sequence even if he was down. Lyanna Mormont was awesome. Purely awesome. I hope we see more of her. Daddy Davos still has it as well. I can't help but start thinking there's a bit of a rift between Jon and Sansa however, mainly on her side. She seems to feel threatened by everyone looking to Jon as the leader of the Northern alliance. I also like that most of the houses seem reluctant to commit to an obviously losing side. The letter "mystery" really isn't much of one though. Should've just let us read it, since we all know it's going to Littlefinger. The Theon/Asha scene... eh, didn't care for it. Just there to fill the boob quota and even Asha's making dick "jokes" now. The Arya scene was kinda mixed. Was nice to see her actually doing SOMETHING in booking passage back to Westeros... then apparently forgets all her training(which a man found all those scenes repetitive...) and stands in broad daylight when she knows she's on a hit list. And let's face it... we know she's not going to die... so yay, drama. Margaery... oh she's a master actress in this one. I'm still just not sure which side she's playing on though. I just have this vision of the sparrows waiting for her on the road between King's Landing and Highgarden now. Cersei's situation seems more and more precarious. All she has is Qyburn and the zombie. Jaime and the Blackfish was awesome. Though I was disappointed he didn't threaten to have the Tully bannermen attack first, then the Freys, then if anyone's left the Lannister forces will attack as in the novels. It seemed perfectly logical and would be the perfect rebuttal to the Blackfish's determination to die. Was nice to see Jaime dishing it out to the Freys and some Bronnage. Though he seems unhappy with the Lannisters these days. I'm wondering if he'll jump ship again when a certain old friend comes back to Westeros in the company of a dragon queen. All and all I can't wait for the next one.
  23. Well given the amount of people who hate the show no matter what and will watch it every week to comment how much they hate it, I'm not sure these poll results will be entirely meaningful. An hour of mostly nothing happening, but it sets things up to come. There was some good moments(Jaime and Cersei's grief), some cringe worthy moments(The Sand Snakes) but mostly this was just checking in on all the major characters with what they were doing. So middle of the pack, this episode gets a 5.
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