Red Mosquito

Mecca wrote:Beric gives up his flame to catelyn, tho

cutuphalfdead wrote:So in the books Cersei is going on trial for, among other things, the incest with Jaime that led to him fathering the Baratheon children. I assume this is also what she's on trial for in the show, which means Tommen's complicity with the Faith makes no sense. If she's guilty then he's not king.

Simple Torture wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:So in the books Cersei is going on trial for, among other things, the incest with Jaime that led to him fathering the Baratheon children. I assume this is also what she's on trial for in the show, which means Tommen's complicity with the Faith makes no sense. If she's guilty then he's not king.

They should address it at some point since it's just a big meatball sitting there, but it can be explained away (i.e., High Sparrow can say that they don't want to get involved in political matters, just cares about souls, etc.). I imagine Cersei is going to bring it up at her trial.

cutuphalfdead wrote:Good on the show killing of Ser Barristan. Instead we get to watch those cringe-worthy Tyrion/Grey Worm/Missandei scenes,

Zantac Junkie wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Good on the show killing of Ser Barristan. Instead we get to watch those cringe-worthy Tyrion/Grey Worm/Missandei scenes,

Yeah, I really hate what they've done with Peter Dinklage this year. It's my one major disappointment in what has otherwise been a really good season.

spike wrote:

Zantac Junkie wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Good on the show killing of Ser Barristan. Instead we get to watch those cringe-worthy Tyrion/Grey Worm/Missandei scenes,

Yeah, I really hate what they've done with Peter Dinklage this year. It's my one major disappointment in what has otherwise been a really good season.

he was absent for the previous two eps ffs

cutuphalfdead wrote:

spike wrote:

Zantac Junkie wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Good on the show killing of Ser Barristan. Instead we get to watch those cringe-worthy Tyrion/Grey Worm/Missandei scenes,

Yeah, I really hate what they've done with Peter Dinklage this year. It's my one major disappointment in what has otherwise been a really good season.

he was absent for the previous two eps ffs

Yeah, but when we have seen him it's been horrible.

Mecca wrote:I smell the splinter greyjoy forces making their way to meereen in the last episode

spike wrote:i mean, she doesn't play a big part in the overall plot; it'd just be a big reveal for book readers at this point.

As with the books, the basic thematics of Arya’s time with the Faceless Men makes sense to me: Arya is stripped of key parts of herself in an exploration of who she really is, having been living numerous other identities since she ran from King’s Landing. But the actual mechanics of it have been muddled in the show, such that when Jaqen claims that killing the Waif has somehow made her “no one” I have legitimately no bloody clue what he’s going on about. This was the moment the story was building toward—Arya reclaiming her name and deciding to return home—but the procedure of it ended up feeling lost in the opaque logic that governs the Faceless Men and Arya’s training. “No One” should not mean nothing, and yet it does in the context the show has presented it in, and that strikes me as a missed opportunity.