Sweet summer child. Hope you’re right!

I said this upthread, but I agree and I think it makes her stronger: she’s honest and raw and vulnerable with Jaime, whereas he’s being weak and craven again. He didn’t have the stones to tell her he was leaving and why. Instead, he vomited his self-loathing all over her pain. And she’s always been emotionally…

Tormund was a wonderful bit of comic relief here, but he’s also a great example of a wonderful dude who is into you who you wish you liked, but just don’t.

She’s also (rightly) counting on Tyrion’s respect and fondness for her. I’m really torn: she didn’t keep her word, but Daeny had not been making a good impression. I do think it’s interesting that Sansa’s slowly adopting the tactics and manners of two people she despised. It seems to be a theme in this final season…

Yes, but his mother was from the Crownlands, hence “Waters.” It’s unclear if his mother knew who Robert actually was, and he didn’t find out until later. /geek pedantry

It would have been delicious if she’d jumped and pulled Cersei with her back when Cers was laying hands on her, though.

I’m leaning this way myself. The wheel will indeed be broken as Daeny said back in the day, but not in the way she meant. If Tyrion survives and Sansa stays up north, if they capitulate to Bronn, with Gendry as the new Lord Baratheon, they’d have quorum. Is Robyn Arryn still around? The show wiki says yes. He liked…

I love Brienne and I thought her reaction was totally understandable. I mean, she chinwobbles damn near every time she and Jaime have parted in the past, and now? After she’s finally found respect as a fighter and love from a man she both esteems and wants? Of course she’s going to bawl! And in fact, her truth makes…

It’s such a disappointment where the writing in Ep 2 and 3 were actually pretty good (plot armor in the Battle of Winterfell notwithstanding)...this one just took an absolute nosedive.

I feel like if they’d spent 10% of their SFX budget on having a better stable of more diverse writers, it would have improved the quality of what we’re seeing 100%

I also think it’s becoming very clear that they don’t understand these characters at all. They made decisions about where they want the players on the board and with whom but can’t find ways to move half of them realistically (emotionally and/or logistically) between episodes.

I don’t think Tyrion thought Cersei would abdicate; it was about the optics of making Cersei publicly own her choice. What he didn’t anticipate was her using Missandei, their only high-status hostage, like this...which given her history is dumb.

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DING DING DING

Which is another reason I love Sam (despite is very bad, no good choices in the previous episode due to Major Daddy Issues): he unites both the scientific/logical and the magical perspectives.

This is the first good reason I’ve read re: why they wouldn’t just hire mercenaries to help overthrow Cersei.

I mean, he’s fought with them tons and with him and Tyrion on the same side, it’s not inconceivable.

Or Daario is hired by the Iron Bank to hedge their bets and exact their price if needed.

Their scene in the tower in the first episode is clearly choreographed with him lightly choking her so I wouldn’t be surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised. I’m hoping it’s a misdirection because I would find it much more satisfying for Arya to clean her list up and I’d like to think Jaime would be satisfied with…

At first I was disappointed in Jaime and Grey Worm, but when I thought more about it, it made sense. Jaime reminds us himself about his failure at Whispering Wood. (I can’t hold the loot train incident against him because dragons.) As for Grey Worm, he’s been trained to be top-shelf canon fodder. He has a lot of…