Quote:Olenna Tyrell steals every episode she's in. Her scene with Ellaria and the Sand Snakes was, by far, my favorite followed closely by Sam and Gilly finally arriving at the Citadel (odd choice, I know...but I like Sam). "Let the grown women speak!" Absolutely flawless! We must have Lady Mormont and the Queen of Thorns in a scene together! A Varys sighting made he happy as well...even if that isn't necessarily where I expected him to turn up.

 

It's as if the producers heard the complaints about the weakness of the Dorne story line and brought in the big guns.


 

One relatively minor quibble I had with this episode was the wildfire bomb. By the lore, that stuff is literally impossible to put out once it starts burning so how did King's Landing not burn to the ground?

 

Well, it was still burning when Jaime rode into town, so...


 

Cersei is as good as dead, though, once Jaime finds out what she's engineered.

 

You're not the first with this theory, but can anything be bad enough for him to kill the love of his life?


 

Many of us already suspected Jon was Rhaegar's son but the way that was explained was excellent. I'm slightly disappointed they didn't clarify the nature of Lyanna's and Rhaegar's relations (meaning, was it "forced" or was it consensual). Now it just remains to be seen how Jon will learn of his ancestry and how, if at all, will it change his character.

 

Not only that, will the inevitable revelation that he's not a descendant of Ned warm Sansa to Littlefinger's plans? He's already planted the seed, and gave her the look when John was hailed as King of the North.


 

I don't know how I feel about Arya's scene, honestly. It's always good when a piece of filth gets what he deserves and Walder Frey definitely deserved what he got...I dunno, to me it was just a bit too much a bit too soon but I'm admittedly skeptical about Arya's anime cliche character in general.

 

Still, feeding Walder his sons before slitting his throat was satisfying. More intriguing to me was her flirtatious looks at Jaime, which makes me wonder if he was the one she really wanted to get.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
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