He wanted to insure his boat trip, the insurer looked at the map and said no. Seemed simple enough.
Thanks. I swear I saw him unsheathe it before killing the WW, but now that you mention it, I do remember his sword getting knocked out of his hands.
Jaquen certainly knows when Arya is lying, and smacks her with his cane each time. I’m sure he can tell a legit mission from common vindication.
Also, does anybody know if Jaquen is the many faced god? Or a high priest? Or is he just one of many Drill Sergeants in the service? Or we don’t yet know his exact role in the organization yet?
Did you think it might have been possible those kids looked like her own kids?
Or maybe they were her own kids?
There’s no reason to think they WERE her own kids. We’d seen her put her own kids on a boat earlier, and as far as we know all the boats got out to the ships just fine.
It’s possible that she had other children who had vanished years earlier and now had returned in zombie form. More plausible is that they were kids of friends of hers, or maybe her own childhood friends who had been in zombie form for years.
Most plausibly, she just was too freaked out by the sight of zombified children to keep fighting.
This was a fantastic episode… all of those previous episode setting up situations all paying off. If this pace continues for the last two episodes of the season… my goodness.
I agree with everyone that GOT appears to be heading towards a dragon/white-walker battle but if there’s one thing we’ve learned it’s that GOT rarely goes in the direction we think it will.
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When Arya first encounters Jaquen, he is a captive in a traveling jail wagon with some other common criminals, and apparently he can’t escape from the wagon. So, not so much with the supernatural stuff at that point, if he got himself captured, couldn’t get out of the cell wagon, and needs a little girl to rescue him. 
I think she just refused to fight children, even undead. When they came at her all she did was cross her two swords across her chest in a token act of self defence.
Thank you1 Thank was very clear.
Well, there’s a herb used in folk medicine called Valerian. (I dimly remember it’s to help you sleep.)]
I belatedly twigged the woman with the two children who became undead was the pretty reporter in Borgen! Holy smoke!!!
The problem is that if Cersei confesses to everything Tommen’s claim to the Iron Throne is completely invalided which is very bad news for the Lannisters; especially given that they’re bankrupt.
Assuming Joffrey allowed the Faith Militant to be reinstated in the first place he never would have let it get as far Margaery being arrested in the first place. He wouldn’t have cared much about Loras, but might have summoned the High Sparrow just to shut Margaery up (I imagine she’d go the crying hysterically about her brother route instead of what she did with Tommen). Then after the High Sparrow refused to meet with him he’d have send his guards to bring him to the Red Keep (with or without the rest of his body) without giving a damn if Loras got killed in the process.
We’ve seen the Night King turn a human baby into a White Walker (which was the fate of all of Crastor’s sons save Sam Jr); presumably those babies proceed to grow into adult White Walkers instead of just slowly rotting like the Wights. Either that or the White Walkers were all turned as adults and the Night King keeps making eternal infants for some nefarious purpose.
It’s a little vague how exactly a regency works in Westeros. Despite being underage Joffrey was able to order all sorts of things against his regent’s wishes (like Ned’s beheading), but on the other hand he couldn’t stop his grandfather from excluding him from Small Council meetings or sending him to bed. Neither Joffrey or Tommen have been allowed to make a decision of state on their own.
It seems like instead of the Regent just issuing decrees in the King’s name without actually consulting him (which is how a regency worked in the UK) they actually the King rubber stamp decrees on their “advice” (which is how modern ministerial government works in the UK). There are a lot of examples in European history where regencies officially ended when the monarch came of age or married, but the former regents remained as the power behind the throne for years afterward.
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Thanks, I knew I recognized her from somewhere, but couldn’t figure it out without the character’s name to search.
She doesn’t need to confess to everything, just to what Lancel claimed. The incest charge comes from sleeping with him. The sparrows might be crazy fundies but every charge they’ve raised came from direct evidence, not rumors.
I don’t think it was that Tywin, as regent, had authority over Joffrey. Just that Joffrey obeyed his grandfather. Not hard to imagine, given Tywin’s forceful personality. (And remind me; wasn’t the order to behead Ned Stark before Tywin showed up?)
Long before. Pure Joffrey. Even Cersei wouldn’t have had him executed.
FWIW, I’m not 100% sure Cersei’s on the hook for acts w/ Jaime (yet). She also got up to some naughty business w/ Lancel, because apparently she is Into Incest generally at least as much as Jaime specifically. So he can only testify directly to that, so far as sexytimes go.
I’m also not sure that Joffrey was subject to a regency, or provided that he was, I think he came of age and into his own fairly early in the course of the show. (Tommen, on the other hand, I’m pretty sure was and maybe still is? This show is confusing.)
What have we seen that leads us to believe he should be able to do it without help?
I assumed it was her dead sister, the one she repeatedly referenced during the parley.
Cersei repeatedly referred to herself as Queen Regent, but you’re right; it does look like he came of age before he died. He still spent his entire reign with his grandfather/Hand of the King pulling the strings.
Good point. I don’t think it was clear until now that first cousins coupling was considered incest in Westeros (or that it was as severe as brother/sister). I wonder were exactly the Faith draws the line, considering that the vast majority of marriages in Westeros probably involve close cousins of some degree.
And of course regardless of whether it was incest by Westeros custom, it was certainly adultery. Even if first cousins got a pass she’d still have to deal with that charge.
In medieval Europe you had to have anywhere from four to seven degrees of seperation ( depending on the period ) and “blood ties” could be created by marriage or even just affairs. This last problem was supposedly one of the issues surrounding Richard I’s rejection of Princess Alix of France, due to rumours of her being intimate with his father Henry II. Of course as you rose up the ranks of nobility finding someone of sufficiently acceptable station who was that many degrees removed could be a tough problem, hence the incessant requests for Papal dispensations. Also the incessant anullments of unwanted spouses ( inevitably female ) when a marriage became inconvenient.
One doubts Westeros is as touchy, what with the example set of the Targaryens playing footsie with their siblings. But it may well be for the common folk even second or third cousins might be considered mildly scandalous.
Cool… er, cold theory!
Nothing, but LouLou7 was responding to the suggestion above that Jaqen himself is the Many-Faced God. If he were, then (presumably) a locked door wouldn’t have been much of a problem.
So far as I can tell, Jaqen is just one of many Faceless Men, distinguished mostly by the fact that he’s taken an interest in Arya. Then again, do we even have any way of knowing that this Jaqen is the same Jaqen she met in Westeros, and not another one wearing the same face?