(08-16-2017, 08:48 PM)mvannostran Wrote:

(08-15-2017, 05:12 PM)Hard_Eight Wrote: Also convenient, the one wagon with a dragon slaying crossbow in it, isn't burned.

Didn't Drogon smash it to pieces though? Or do you mean during that battle itself?

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Also, anyone else get the feeling Cersei is lying about being pregnant to get Jaime to stay on her side?

That's definitely a possibility, and one I thought of right away.  Hard to tell her age and if that could play a factor.  She was ~32 when Robert died, but the show/books never reference time so it's hard to gauge how long it's been since then.  Ollenna doubts her ability to have children when the marriage to Loras is proposed, but that could just be her resisting the marriage.  Based on the prophecy you would have to assume it is false, but there is a scenario that keeps with and fulfills her prophecy.

The prophecy foretold her bearing 3 children (which she's already done) and that the Valonqar (little brother) will kill her.  She assumes the little brother to be Tyrion, but since she's been consistently wrong in guessing how the prophecy will unfold it definitely leads to Jaime who is seconds/minutes younger.  This could either lead to Jaime straight up killing her or her dying from complications in childbirth, making Jaime the unintentional reason she dies.

Best guess in keeping with the story so far is that she's lying to keep Jaime on her side and Jaime kills her when the war is starting to slip from them and she fesses up.  Regardless of her lying or not, I don't envision her actually having the baby unless the show is going completely off script from the books.

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