Benioff: I think the idea of Cersei without her children is terrifying because it was the one thing that really humanised her: the love for her kids. And as much of a monster as she could sometimes be, she was a mother who truly did love her children and now those children have gone and now all she’s got is power – and she’s got a lot of it. She’s the queen, she’s sitting on the iron throne. I don’t think it bodes well for anyone really. She’s capable of doing anything – as she’s proven in this episode – to get what she wants. The real question now is, what does she want?
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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dimejinky99 wrote:Benioff: I think the idea of Cersei without her children is terrifying because it was the one thing that really humanised her: the love for her kids. And as much of a monster as she could sometimes be, she was a mother who truly did love her children and now those children have gone and now all she’s got is power – and she’s got a lot of it. She’s the queen, she’s sitting on the iron throne. I don’t think it bodes well for anyone really. She’s capable of doing anything – as she’s proven in this episode – to get what she wants. The real question now is, what does she want?
What's the estimation on the size of her army now? Compared to Dany, I'd guess she's got way less soldiers, but also less mouths to feed (since she blew them all up).
Does she have an army at all) but if not has Lannister money to pay for one.
Question is, will Jaimie lead it? I'm thinking he's gonna kill her in anger. But same time, I don't think he wants the throne for himself. At all.
He's more a field man. He's never have delusions of grandeur really.
Strat wrote:I laughed really fucking hard when the king launched himself out of the window.
Really? That terrified me. It was the first truly shocking moment in the show for me as a book reader.
Hodor?
There was enough speculation prior to the episode to let the air out of that one. It was still totally effective and heartbreaking, sure. But it wasn't truly shocking because too many people predicted it ahead of time.
I didn't see a single thing predicting and discussing Tommen's suicide. It was shocking to me.
Strat wrote:I laughed really fucking hard when the king launched himself out of the window.
Really? That terrified me. It was the first truly shocking moment in the show for me as a book reader.
Hodor?
There was enough speculation prior to the episode to let the air out of that one. It was still totally effective and heartbreaking, sure. But it wasn't truly shocking because too many people predicted it ahead of time.
I didn't see a single thing predicting and discussing Tommen's suicide. It was shocking to me.
I consider myself a regular on the Reddit threads and I had no idea about the Hodor reveal. That death completely took me by surprise.
Strat wrote:I laughed really fucking hard when the king launched himself out of the window.
Really? That terrified me. It was the first truly shocking moment in the show for me as a book reader.
Hodor?
There was enough speculation prior to the episode to let the air out of that one. It was still totally effective and heartbreaking, sure. But it wasn't truly shocking because too many people predicted it ahead of time.
I didn't see a single thing predicting and discussing Tommen's suicide. It was shocking to me.
I consider myself a regular on the Reddit threads and I had no idea about the Hodor reveal. That death completely took me by surprise.
Really? Didn't we talk about it here in spoiler tags? I don't know how I "knew" about it or expected it if not for this thread. I don't Reddit.