you can fight for yourself so I would think everyone. The institution actually did exist in germanic law but it was more of an incentive to negotiate a solution before the other side would take a lucky shot at your skull with an ax

seemed like he was going for an inceptiony double parenthetical with that qualification at the end too.

that's too expensive, I guess a fantasy bank could do it but it's not practical. The alternative, that they use the Faceless Men at every turn seems a bit more logical, but that would mean the bank has a HUGE number of puppet head of states along bot Westeros and Essos, so that can't be it either.

sheesh, the way the show's given information about the bank, apparently everyone uses it. Fuck with it and your line of credit goes dry. Now you can't finance your wars or harvests, then the Iron Bank goes into IMF mode and nudges the rest of the great houses to isolate you diplomatically and commercially, then you…

Braavos is a mix of Crete and ancient Rhodes if I gather correctly, probably Venice too from the multiple channels and islets

that's exactly what the show's been preparing the story to tell since the start of the season, Shae's line of "I'm a whore, remember?" is just the final unnecessary confirmation.

the show makes her look more naive than anything else though

yes, but that plays a bit on the knowledge the audience has on the characters that other characters on the show wouldn't have. In this cases namely about Cersei, sure people may hate her but that doesn't make her a bad ruler on it's own merit. We're supposed to dismiss her because of what we've seen her do on screen…

but how else could we jam the misogyny red herrings into the review?

to be fair the range he had to use to scream his lines at the end and not appear hammy, excuses the accent issues.

because just men always pay the price in this show/books, it's Ned Stark all over again.

that whole thing bothered me greatly, the "lord" or boss in any case of the castle runs head first into the fight and the other side doesn't rush to kill him? they literally run shitless away from a pack of unarmored dogs while they have enough padding to make it no more than a nuisance and swords?

but muh slutty waifu

Tywin figures he can finally get some profit out of Tyrion by forcing Jaime out of the Kingsguard and continue the bloodline

now that the show is doing what adaptations are supposed to do, the reviews would be much more productive if they discussed in more length the implications of the character's motivation or incentive changes from this or that change from the book, or how the show fares in comparison with certain atmospheres and…

I thought this was going to be the "shock scene" for the week

half the internet was talking about it, it was normal.

half the cast hasn't read the books

This I guess is also the reason why Ragnar is Norwegian instead of Danish in the show, so they could use shots of the fjords

The show used symbols to associate the characters with certain gods but only according to archetype, Ragnar is Thor using goats, not Odin, Athelstan of all things was paired with ravens, thus Odin and Lagertha with Freya through cats.