Lancel is now wearing some sort of dingy, floor-length monks get up – never a good look – and “repenting” of his former wrongdoing (including the murder of Robert Baratheon, carried out at Cersei’s behest).” “A somewhat uncomfortable encounter between Queen Cersei and her ex lover (and cousin) Lancel highlighted just how un-fun things can get when your ex gets all evangelical.
That walk of shame is going to be so gratifying. This is probably what gets the ball rolling on Cersei’s season of atonement. “So the heroically stoic Mance Raydar paid the ultimate price and burned in the courtyard at Castle Black rather than kneel to King of the North Stannis Baratheon.”Īnd then Cersei starts to feel the repercussions of all her nasty deeds.
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Plus we know that Rattleshirt leads a group of Wildlings on Hardhome, so he won’t be taking Mance’s place. I understand that enchanting him to look like someone else doesn’t thematically work for the show, but it just feels cheapened, in my opinion. As an avid fan of the books, this scene simply throws me. The biggest shock of Episode 1…seriously, I’m floored. But how, as her lover Dario points out, can she be The Mother of Dragons without them?” “Now we’ve seen her return, and even by her own admission, she “can’t control her dragons.” They nearly barbecue her in their airless tomb. So, I am wondering how that will play out, this season. I know we don’t have Quentyn Martell, this season, to start the chain of events that sees them released. Will we get to see Dany visit Viserion and Rhaegal in Episode 1? I am hoping she releases them sooner, rather than later. “No,” he replies, to which she says, “Good.””ĭany, her dragons, and Daario. “There’s a tantalizing ambiguity between them in the opening installment: does she want him sacrificed, or is she attracted to him? “Are you a virgin?” she asks him. Is it because she sees something in him that she does not in Stannis? We’ll probably find out this season. It appears that Melisandre will be attempting to seduce Jon Snow. What makes this scene particularly amusing is the bright blue eyestones placed on, well, his eyes.” “Charles Dance is back – but only as a corpse. It is part of Westerosi funeral practices. If you remember way back in Season 1, Lord Jon Aryyn was laid out with eye-stones. No, the eye-stones are not supposed to be funny. He then urges the imp to spend less time hitting the bottle, and more time backing Daenerys for the iron throne.” “”Westeros needs to be saved from itself,” Tyrion is told by Varys, who’s helped him escape.
It’s interesting to note here that Tyrion is heading to Daenerys to strike an alliance, and he’s doing it far more quickly than in the books. This seems like the scene from the trailers where Varys uses the “Who said anything about him” speech. They slit the throat of White Rat, an Unsullied who sweetly uses the services of a whore merely for a topless lullaby.” “Golden-masked and murderous, the Harpies, we learn, are a major threat to Daenerys. Dany’s Unsullied will now face a new threat that will be a bigger thorn in Dany’s side than anything she’s ever faced. She was told that “gold will be their crowns and gold will be their shrouds.” “In the first ever flashback witnessed in Game of Thrones, we see a young Cersei be given her prophesy by a witch.
Young Cersei goes to see Maggy the Frog, and she receives the Prophecy of the Valonqar. The Telegraph begins their review with the flashback scene. MAJOR SPOILERS await all those who venture there.