I definitely think she’s talking about Little Finger too.

It kinda looks like the old Winterfell maester, Luwin. I can’t recall if they actually showed him die or not. Or perhaps it’s some sort of vision of Luwin. Or it’s totally someone different and I’m imagining it.

I was thinking it was season 1, but it wasn’t. I forgot they didn’t include any of the initial King’s Landing stuff for them.

Ummm, you’re kidding, right?...Cersei? How did they not set her up to be the hated antagonist? She’s singlehandedly responsible for killing every other character in King’s Landing. Euron?

Is that Thoros or Beric? Looks more like Beric, but the flaming sword was Thoros’s thing.

I think you nailed it with your reasoning. The belief powers a separate entity, with some connection to the original. I mean, at some point or another I think all of the gods were based on someone. McSweeney was based on a Gaelic king I believe. Bilquis developed out of a real person, I think one of the primary…

I don’t think so, because that doesn’t seem to preclude not-a-god McSweeney from participating in the war. Laura made it very clear in this episode that he’s not a god, but still plans on going to battle with the old gods.

Yes, exactly what you said at the end there. Those gods are too omnipotent/formless to have a manifestation.

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“Things have to be very specifically marked in our bodies to avoid an immune response.”

Norse mythology has a pervasiveness in heavy metal music, Marvel and a general obsession with vikings, all of which don’t have a strong equivalent that I can think of in Greco-Roman. The only thing I can really think of would be Spartan races, but I feel like that’s at least balanced by Vikings (TV).

Jupiter and Zeus I would imagine are a lot less popular/entrenched than Odin thanks, I would guess, to Odin’s early arrival with the vikings and a greater interest in pop culture in Norse mythology than Greco-Roman.

Yes! The lack of woo-oo was a real letdown. Also missing the real funk vibe from the original, funkier bass line, guitar riffs and the horns. And the voice feels blurred to me.

I noticed that too! She is jacked!

This was almost exactly my reaction. Feels blurred. There’s a lot of sharpness missing from the original, in the voice, in the horns, in the funk vibe.

Came for this, Gummi Bears.

“We had two almost identical Bilquis scenes (the second provided NO new information or point of view), and it doesn’t look like she’ll be a major POV character in the show.”

Excellent take on this. Very well reasoned and I think you’re spot on.

Didn’t the witches of Dathomir do that in Clone Wars?

I get the feeling he doesn’t realize, or realizes and is intentionally ignoring, that there are two sets of crimes committed by two different people?...