You know, the one that eventually led to Tyrion shooting her father with a crossbow, Cersei getting marginalized and Ellaria Sand killing her daughter in revenge for Oberyn’s death. Indeed, Cersei’s vengeance campaign feels strikingly similar to the one she began after Joffrey’s assassination, down to the personnel.
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Cersei seems to be orchestrating some sort of overthrow of the High Sparrow and his militant minions via a shifty legal proceeding and trial by combat.īecause that worked out so well for everyone last time. The children are Varys’s former “little birds,” we learned, who are now working for Qyburn. She and Jaime are personas non grata in King’s Landing, but Cersei is planning a return to prominence and activating weapons great and small, ranging from the gray-fleshed Mountainstein, who continues to creep out everyone, to a pack of sweets-loving street urchins. Only Olly gave him pause, and even that may have been Jon trying to figure out how the traitorous lad aged four years in a matter of days.Ĭersei, on the other hand, seems to be on a trajectory we’ve seen before. I thought we might see him spare his betrayers and use his new “god”-like status to begin assembling a loyal force of fighters. “I did what I thought was right and I got murdered for it,” he told Davos. It was a haunted Jon Snow we saw on Sunday - it’s unclear whether that derived from the bleak void he encountered on the other side or if he’s just deeply bummed about compatriots killing him, which would definitely leave a psychic mark in addition to the stab wounds.
Death hasn’t malignantly overhauled him in a “Pet Sematary” sense, but it has affected his spirit. I mentioned earlier that Jon was more or less the same, but that’s not quite right. the whole Ramsay thing.īut back to the oathbreaking zombie at Castle Black. most of us can barely remember who you are, and 2. I think we all could have done without seeing you this week, because 1. Back in the present, another Stark, Bran’s little brother Rickon, made his return to the story.