That's an excellent guess. Their reunion, even just in Tyrion's imagination, would be. . . awkward. On the one hand, he loved her. On the other hand, she— well, we're never told how she felt about betraying Tyrion like that (and based on her story at trial, we're left in some doubt about how she really felt about Tyri…

I got the impression that Jamie and Walder's conversation happened on the night of a feast. Walder's assassination seems to have happened at some sort of off-hour, and probably at least a week or two later, since the flurry of activity around the Lannisters' presence had died down completely and the Twins were…

Alas, no. But it did come with some white picket fencers.

It might be a different father, but the father would still have to be a Targaryen. If the baby didn't have Targaryen blood, half the Kingsguard wouldn't have been stationed out in front of the tower which actually, come to think of it. . . was a freakin' tower. Why didn't they just bar the door?

I forget the timing, but do you think she knew even then what her endgame was going to be? Or was she just trying to keep Olenna around in the hope that she'd just do her thing and organically Olenna herself into trouble with the High Sparrow?

Cersei will be furious, especially when she learns that the Knights of the (supposedly loyal) Vale of Arryn were involved in defeating her Bolton allies. Jamie will probably be more pragmatic. . . it's Winter now, so the North isn't really of much value to anybody.

Thank you for your response. In reading your Point 3, something horrible occurred to me.

I suppose Varys had to act on the assumption that Dany was alive, since, if she isn't, his life has no purpose. Bringing the Westerosi fleets back to Mereen served a dual purpose: if Dany hadn't returned yet, they could have helped the defense of Mereen.

LF probably has the means to take the North (in the sense of capturing Winterfell), but he can't actually hold or govern it . . .and, really, he's smart enough to know that the North isn't a place for him to linger.

True. If you'd asked me a week ago how I thought the show would resolve the tangled web of conflicts in play in King's Landing, "Cersei kills the Tyrells, Kevan Lannister, Pycelle, the High Sparrow, the Little Sparrows, the Queen, and about a thousand other people, following which King Tommen kills himself and Cersei…

I'm sure Arya's heard about that battle by now. Even against the background noise of war and chaos, the Starks retaking Winterfell is a major piece of news that would spread like wildfire (sorry-too soon), even in the semi-distant Riverlands.

I don't think Qyburn really has good reasons, but I think that he believes that he does. He's either seeking knowledge for its own sake, or he's acting out of loyalty to Cersei. . . and it's not completely impossible that, like Melisandre, his entanglement with dark knowledge and darker powers could actually prove to…

Her reasons are petty, but she basically just killed all her living rivals except for the Sand Snakes and Olenna Tyrell. . . and Olenna was lucky. I just love the fact that pretty much every important person in King's Landing was gathered to witness the long-awaited downfall of Cersei Lannister, from which she…

Good point. The Qyburn on the show isn't quite the same character as the Qyburn in the books, and the differences are all in Qyburn's favor.

The show's addressed that fact before. . . it wouldn't surprise me if mass starvation becomes another tile in the hellish mosaic of Cersei's rule.

Thank you for an interesting perspective. You're right that Cersei is probably judged more harshly than her deeds would strictly warrant. . . but not a lot more harshly, because, let's face it, even for a character on Game of Thrones, her deeds are pretty dark.

You have to feel for the guy. All he ever seems to do is shuttle around the world fixing his family's mistakes.

I think at this point she may have given up on beating the prophecy, as such… like Macbeth in Act V, she's worked out that she's caught in the jaws of an unbreakable prophecy, and her goal is no longer to escape the prophecy's verdict but rather to subvert it by taking as many people as possible down along with her. A…

It won't be easy. . . but she's "no one". I think the most poetic (and also the most rewarding) way to kill Cersei would be to kill Qyburn, take his face, walk unhindered through the castle to where Frankengregor is standing guard at the door to Cersei's chamber. . . and order him to brutally kill Cersei.

I had absolutely no idea that was going to happen. I mean, I had a sense that something was wrong when they kept showing that empty room. . . but I thought it was something like Jamie Lannister or the Kingswood Brotherhood coming for him. It never crossed my mind that it could have been Arya because: