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Oh shit, is the valonqar her youngest child?

Prophecy says Cersei has three kids. So Cersei's going to die in the next nine months, right?

Oh, I like that. The contrast of Littlefinger telling Sansa to imagine anything that might happen and Bran's now completely deterministic perspective.

And Cersei doesn't have a claim to the Iron Throne. Right now, the letter of the law doesn't much matter. Ellaria Sand is the current ruler of Dorne, conventions of the order of succession be damned. It speaks to what is probably the theme of the show: legitimacy as a social construction.

"You been making pies?"
"One or two."

There's no such name as Brahbrah

And also, you know, not go insane and die.

That would be surprising and more interesting. Of course, she could engage in a best-of-both worlds scenario, in which she kills Tyene in front of her mother to avenge Myrcella's death (via FrankenMountain to make it all the worse) and then locks Ellaria away somewhere to suffer and neutralize the Dornish threat.

One of the parts I liked that I haven't seen much discussion about is that when Cersei was rallying lords from The Reach, she didn't lie about anything Daenerys has done. Dany has burned people alive. She has crucified hundreds of people. There may be some context being omitted, but nothing she's said has been unfair.

In fairness, the only person that got him killed was Joffrey. Ned was just supposed to head up to Castle Black until Joffrey's decision.

They made such a big deal out of it because the guy was recast. Making sure that people recognize the character despite the role change.

Cersei, Gregor Clegane, Ilyn Payne, the Red Woman, Beric Dondarrion, and Thoros of Myr still live. Tywin, Joffrey, Walder Frey, Polliver, Meryn Trant are all dead, three of them by Arya's hand. Sandor Clegane still lives, but it's ambiguous as to whether Arya still wants him dead.

The physical response that Jon gave was almost the same one that Ned provided when Baelish seemingly disrespected Catelyn.

Arya didn't kill Lannister footsoldiers, she's not going to kill someone without evidence that they've caused some damage. Of course, her frenemy The Hound knows about Baelish's betrayal of Eddard Stark, and he's also heading north.

That certainly seems likely, given how the Sand Snakes were all just fighting over who could lay claim to killing the Mountain.

That would do quite a bit of damage to Ros.

Sansa feeds people to dogs now.

Nope, Cersei and the Mountain and Thoros and Beric and the Red Woman is about it at the moment, I think.

Nah, I think at worst it would have been like a Jon Snow banishing Melisandre situation: Thanks for all the help, get the fuck out. (Speaking of which, Melisandre and Davos are going to be in the same place again real soon.)