No. The older Tommen was played by one of the child actors depicting the Lannister cousins murdered by Karstark.
Yes, it was mentioned plenty of times early on. The lack of food reserves in King’s Landing to face the coming and expected harsh winter was even discussed by the small council.
Euron’s fleet of one thousand ships, at least. A naval fight before landing might reduce significantly the numbers on Dany’s side.
Presumably the formerly Tully’s bannermen, given the situation.
And eventually the Night walkers. I can see the magical protection of the wall being purposefully destroyed in some unknown way by Cersei to be a nuisance (or as a “let’s everything burn along with me since I’m doomed” ala Mad King)
It was clearly mentioned that the Iron bank always get its due, and could make a kingdom crumble if need be. Tywin and Olenna Tyrell were taking this danger very seriously. The creditor, in this case, is depicted as able to force you to give it all back.
They did something. The carried out the Red wedding and took the blame for it. That was what they brought to the deal and why Tiwyn rewarded them.
What happened, however, is that the Iron Bank gave Stannis money too - for the promise that he was going to pay the debts of the crown later. We haven’t seen them do anything worse.
It’s hard to compare money lent to a House with money for the crown. A House can be strong-armed in many ways, the leader of a continent is less susceptible to force or pressure.
And Tywin and Olenna might have also feared rather personal consequences, in shape of assassins etc.
Does anybody have any idea or speculation on what “year” even means in a world where seasons last years?
Also, clairobscur just reminded me of the Iron Bank of Braavos. Does anybody have a guess what part they’ll play in the coming seasons? Will they support Dany? Or find a way to destroy Cersei? They are always described as very powerful, but we haven’t yet seen any of their power. Do they have soldiers? An army? Do they have powerful governments on their side? In what way can they actually enforce the terms of their loans against debtor kings?
But there has to be a way to get their money back, or they wouldn’t be in the position to loan it out. Robert wasn’t the first or only king they loaned money to. They have to have a business model more sophisticated than “I guess we chose the wrong king again, there goes our yearly revenue!”.
Since they’re in Braavos, I’m thinking they are involved with the faceless men. Of which there has to be more than just the one, right?
But Euron wants the Iron Throne. Now that Yara and Theon have teamed up with who he thought was going to be his ally, he might still have it in for them, but I don’t see him backing the Lannisters. Even if Euron and the Lannisters fought against Dany and won, he’s still going to need the Lannisters gone to get the throne.
The Tullys and bannermen just got ran out of their home by Lannisters and Lannister allies, can’t see them backing the Lannisters, either. If they weren’t killed off in their retreat by Lannister-backing Freys. I doubt Edmure will be looking to fight for the Lannisters if he gets out of the dungeon.
I don’t know that even Jaime would fight for the Lannisters now, he’s smart enough to know that their public support is at rock bottom. Their presumably best ally just had their entire bloodline wiped out by his sister, the population of King’s Landing surely despises them, their weaker (and in constant need of rescuing) ally just lost the top three males of its house. His kids are all dead, the sister he loves is batshit insane (or getting there), and the daughter of the king he murdered is coming for his head. I’d round up Bronn and tell him to find a country pub we could buy and get the hell out of Dodge.
Of course there are more ways to make it more convenient for a crown to pay the debts than remain stubborn; and more ways to do so than money: trading and other economically worthwhile rights, monopolies, land, political favours, ad infinitum.
But what we saw, was: Lets give this Stannis guy money too, and hope for the best.
Something not touched on: does Tyrion know the Sands murdered Myrcella? He seemed to actually like Myrcella and Tommen and really did send her to Dorne to be safe.
I thought it was to kill a puppy? One that they had been given to raise at an earlier point in the training.
I agree, but since it’s been reported that the principal actors are going to be getting paid half a million bucks per episode for these last seasons, it may have been necessary for budgetary reasons. They also reported the reason that Ghost wasn’t in the Battle of the Bastards was because they couldn’t afford to have both him and Wun Wun, so they chose Wun Wun (and also giving Wun Wun more weapons/equipment would have been cost-prohibitive as well).
Leave it to Bran to inadvertently destroy the world. Damnit, Bran.
There was already a Red Priestess in Dany’s court, and she seemed to know things she couldn’t possibly know, e.g. the details of Varys’ castration. If the Lord of Light wants Dany to fight the White Walkers, he doesn’t need Melisandre to tell her.
They had to kill the puppy they had raised after the first year of training or be killed themselves (although I don’t think this was actually mentioned in the show). They had to kill a baby in front of its mother to earn their shield. Here, about 2:45.
Thoughts on Queen Cersei I Lannister - does she have *any *popular support, at all? In her gunpowder plot we saw plenty of gunpowder but not much plot. Is she blaming the Sept bombing on the sparrows, the Tyrells, communists or what? Olenna points the finger straight at Cersei and as the only one to benefit from it you don’t have to be the Queen of Thorns to make the same deduction. She has the added problem that the High Sparrow and Queen Maj were genuinely popular and has just made martyrs of them. She seems awful smug for a woman who only has on her side Dr. Mengele, Frankenstein’s monster and a stab-happy version of the Baker Street Irregulars.
She did just blow up most of her enemies, become Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, and completely turn the tables on the person who had been torturing her for (days/weeks/months?). There’s no doubt that her downfall will be coming around soon enough, but jeez, let her have her moment.
So apparently when they dropped the R + L = J bomb, Lyanna says “His name is…” mumble mumble. So that’s why the whispers the audience couldn’t hear. We’re all now supposed to speculate on Jon Snow’s real name.
She’s got a walking monster and she just caused the High Sept with all her enemies in it to explode. Very few people know how she actually did that, so I’d say she can just claim she can do the same thing anywhere in the city if people cause trouble. They’re likely to believe it.
Nothing but what a character on the show stated.
And by your same logic, you’re claim that they were raised like brother and sister is also unsubstantiated.
A year is a year, just about as you’d expect it to be, with some degree of ordinary seasonal shifts within it. Think of the long “seasons” as climatic cycles. “Winter” is like a Very-Little Ice Age.