Oh. I didn’t even catch the hourglass thing. Wow. That’s awful.

That is a genius plan. Shouldn’t his wife also then have king’s blood, by virtue of being married to the king? She’s a queen, right?

Oh please. Stop being obnoxious. People who are viewers of a television show are allowed to register horror at actions taken by a television show. Television runs on money, which runs on likeability. The showrunners have decided - and sadly, correctly so - that people love to be shocked and horrified, and are thus…

Interesting analogy regarding the two mothers.

Yes. You “enjoy” watching children burn to death. Excellent.

You really can’t think of any moment that was shocking simply for being shocking?

Thank you. This is what I keep saying, over and over again! At the very least, can’t someone leech Shireen? Stannis could also be like, “Let’s cut off my toe. How’s that for king’s blood?”

He means “fresh one” as - still a virgin.

That’s actually one of the writers’ point. He said, and I’m paraphrasing, “The only reason you care about Sansa being raped is because you know her and like her. But rape happens to a lot of people you don’t know or like in the GoT universe. Is it okay then? In fact, I think it’s worse you don’t care about the people…

Me, for one. When a show has me traumatized all night, remembering the screams and the shrieks, I think to myself, “This is supposed to be entertainment. Not torture.” If I wanted to watch a snuff film, I’d watch a snuff film.

She didn’t sacrifice Gendry to the gods. She leeched him for his blood. So yeah, this was overkill redundancy.

Her death IS pointless - especially coming after the PREVIOUSLY ON GoT! where you saw Gendry merely get leeched to get the same effects.

These look like the most haggard people ever. Power comes at a price, indeed.

Also, the difference between Margaery and Cersei isn’t necessarily better instruction. They’re, at the core, very different people who may lust for power, for who want it for different reasons. Cersei wanted it so that she could finally stop being someone’s pawn for political gain - told to sleep with that one, not…

Tyrion was never given Casterly Rock, and it seems likely that had he - for a second - received it upon Tywin’s death, joffrey would have confiscated it for his own, or to be used as a political carrot.

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He didn’t do a terrible job - he just had a terrible child - Cersei. She’s the one who instigated all of this. By sleeping with Jaime (and he is at fault as well) but then convincing him to become a Kingsguard in order to prevent him from being married off to some other house in a political move. Then Tywin thought…

Yes, but just because historial fiction motivates a lot of what he writes, doesn’t mean that - as a whole - his series religiously adheres itself to historical fiction. In addition, while historical fiction is certainly bloody enough, it’s not QUITE this robust in its quest for death and disaster.

Wait another minute. I guarantee you, she’s not long for this show.

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