As I suspected Margery was playing the long con with the Sparrows. And I get that the drawing of the rose tipped her grandmother off on the ploy, like a wink, I got this under control… play along. But why the rose as the tip-off?
That’s the symbol of their house.
I think she’s still working out the details, but whatever’s she’s planning it sure looks like she has the Sparrows fooled. Refusing to meet her grandmother without Septa Unella chaperoning was a genius move. Also notice she’s dressing a lot more conservatively than she ever did before (& I’m sure that lovely shade of blue matches her husband’s balls nicely).
Sixty two men is what Lady Mormont could spare, not all that she had. It’s a shame she’s only Jorah’s cousin; I thought she was his daughter.
Nice one. The High Sparrow telling Margaery to take one for the team also served to inform her that Tommen is still confiding in him. I think the Sparrow is the real deal, but he certainly does know how to play the game of politics.
It’s a significant part of her forces. Either way the point in the same.
As stated, the Rose is the Tyrrell symbol.
The meaning is that she is still loyal to her family, not to the Sparrows.
I think there may be a major slaughter on the way. The Waif will find out she didn’t kill Arya when she gets back to HQ and there’s no new face. Of course Sansa is writing Littlefinger, who else would she be writing to? And still she doesn’t tell Jon. What is her problem?
Also, I think dying has made Jon a freakin’ wimp and I expect Theon to be found with his wrists slit in the morning.
I was under the impression from past scenes that the Faceless Men needed the actual corpse in order to slice off and remove its face.
Guys… when asking for troops ALWAYS open with the zombie pitch. Always.
I would have liked to have seen Jon and Sansa learning from Davos and coming into their own.
Glovers refusal made sense…but again. ARMY OF THE DEAD, mention it guys. I would have liked to have seen them not be able to convince Glover but get him to agree to sit out the fight when the battle came.
Another mention of the Manderlay’s but no mention of them agreeing or refusing to come to the Stark’s aid.
I’m confused by the Brotherhood slaughter as well.
I assumed that Arya would be found by the Actress and helped.
With respect to the Hound’s new religious commune, I spent most of the episode wondering what the heck they were building. (It obviously wasn’t intended to be a gallows.) A watchtower? Maybe a granary or something similar?
And were we supposed to know who that Septon was who saved the Hound?
I’d say the wounds are less lethal, she is bleeding out. I expect she is going to run into either the acting troop, which then takes care of her, or run back into the monastery and then drink from the lazarus pit.
The waif had her, but she was under orders to make sure Arya did not suffer, seems a girl does not quite follow orders correctly.
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I assumed they were building a church…why out in the middle of nowhere? I dunno.
I guess the Waif just ignored the “Don’t make her suffer” command. That twisting of the knife was not necessary and she could have slit her throat at any time. That bitch wanted to stab her 50 times, get her money’s worth.
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Was this the first episode with a cold open before the credits? Of course I went to my kitchen for a snack thinking I had a minute because of the credits and this is the one episode that starts right in. Luckily I ran back in when I heard talking so I didn’t really miss anything.
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Yes, I ran past it when fast forwarding on the DVR. No idea why they made that change.
Not that it’s a low-budget show to begin with, but Ian McShane was a big paycheck (I’m guessing) for a one-off role. (Tobias Menzies probably got way beyond scale for a nonspeaking cameo as well, but I’m assuming he’ll be back.)
Looking forward to Brienne v. Jamie.
No Daenerys and no Bran means they’ll probably be center stage next week.
Was this the first time it was clearly established Theon’s sister is a lesbian? And she had the line of the night: “Alright, fuck justice; revenge.”
I have no idea how anyone can consider the possibility that Maergery is doing anything but playing the faith. All we’ve ever seen her do is play people, over and over again, for the entirety of her character. Filling whatever role she needed to be to advance her interests or control the situation.
But people are considering the possibility that she might’ve had a spontaneous, unseen, unearned religious conversion? That’s very silly. Of course she’s playing everyone.
The scene between Olenna and Cersei was the winner this week. Olenna didn’t pull any punches and just laid it all out to Cersei, who didn’t even bother to deflect her blows.
IMDB doesn’t even list the girl who played Lady Mormont. I was curious what her actual age was. Loved her scene.
Also, I thought Jon was going to whip out Longclaw at some point to prove that he was Mormont’s chosen as a way of proving his worth, but I guess that’d be risky if they decided “oh, how nice of you to bring our ancestral sword back to us”
What I would’ve actually have liked to see is for Sansa, not Davos, to do the recruitment. We’ve seen Davos the Sweet Talking Recruiter before, basically in almost exactly the same scene. But this plotline is about uniting the North again under the Starks. Davos is an outsider. It should’ve been Sansa who rallied Mormont to her cause.
When Lady Mormont dismissed Sansa by saying “you’re a Bolton… or maybe a Lannister”, Sansa should’ve given a fiery speech about how she’s a Stark through and through and demands allegiance. It could’ve been a much more impactful scene than the “hey, give Davos a reason to still be around” speech we got.
Yeah, but the problem is that neither she nor Jon are actually good at this.
Sansa should be better at it, if the direction of her character arc was wising the fuck up and learning to play the game and being stronger.
The thing is, the whole “The North Remembers” thing is the best chance we’ve got of having a cathartic moment as an audience. The loyalty of the northerners is one of the only decent qualities in this universe you can rely on, and I want to see that manifest and triumph over treachery and games for once. It seems like they’re steering us in that direction, in which case a strong Sansa rallying people to the Stark cause is a hell of a lot more satisfying than Davos giving another “I’m just the simple son of a crabber” speech while people should be yelling “who the fuck are you?”
I bet she ends up back with the actors and they take care of her.
Agreed. I never thought her conversion was real.
I was wondering if she was just partying with the men, and wasn’t necessarily a lesbian.
They made a big show of the bags of money she threw on the table, and they also made it clear later that she had stashed them somewhere on her person, because they showed both her hands being free repeatedly. So, the money was stashed in a waist belt, and the coins partially absorbed the blow. Perhaps.
The Waif first started by trying to rip Arya’s stomach open with a slashing cut. I’m betting the money stopped that one. Then she stabbed her, and it looked maybe like the blade didn’t go in straight. But then she stabbed her again, and it looked pretty bad. That second stab sure looked like it went right in to the hilt, but it’s hard to tell if the angle might have been suggesting the blade was deflected… If that didn’t go deep, they’ve got some explaining to do. Or maybe if only one stab went in clean, they could explain that it missed vital organs.
Great episode. Aside from the smackdown by Grandma Tyrell on Cersei, Jaime took a pretty good verbal beating from the Blackfish. And now it looks like Margaery has a plan. This has been a very bad week for the Lannisters.
And what a great scene between Theon and his sister. If Theon re-grows his spine, it’ll be that scene which makes it believable.