[nitpick]Robert is the ruler; Lysa is his regent.[/nitpick]
Yes, Mord was terrific and that conversation between him and Tyrion was priceless “Sometimes, possession is an abstract concept”
Let me put it this way. Knowing what you know about the Khal, would you steal his wife’s stuff even if it was unguarded?
Heh. I loved Tyrion’s pained expression as he realized that he’d have to dumb down his usual method of speaking - way, way down - in order to get through to Mord.
At this time, do we know who’s next in line to claim the Vale if something were to happen to Robin/Robert and his mom? It wouldn’t be Cat, would it?
Keep that book stuff out of here. It’s “Robin”.
-Joe
Is it really? Sorry.
After watching the episode again i gotta say i am impressed in the job they did uglying up the gorgeous Natalia Tena to play a wilding.
It seemed to me that he just happened to wonder in at the appropriate time. No one should be allowed to even get near the eggs. Blondie had them stashed away and was ready to go.
BTW, am I the only one who’s glad he’s gone? I found his character not only irritating, but hard to believe. Scrawny little whiner who can’t seem to plan his way out of a paper bag.
Those who had read the books and saw the title of this episode knew what was coming - and I don’t think anyone was going to exactly be sad about it.
-Joe
We do not. It would have to be some Arryn; Lysa has no rights of her own that Cat could inherit.
Thanks. I’ll ask in the spoiler-laden thread, too.
The character is obviously meant to be intensely unlikeable but I don’t think he is unrealistic. He is pretty much what you would expect if you put a very privileged child through intense humiliation and hardship. His background has given him enormous ambitions but he doesn’t have the skills to match, skills that he would have normally learnt from older males in his family and court.
The show does a good job of showing all the small ways in which aristrocratic boys learn how to lead: that wonderful scene between Ned and Bran at the execution, the lessons taught by the maester and so on. Visersys learnt none of that.
Joffrey has also gotten the short end of the stick because his father completely ignores him but he has been schooled in a certain amount of cunning by his mother.
Well said, Lantern. I agree.
Except that such a person would have been deposed by a more ambitions relative or general or whatever.
Yeah, his name was Khal Drogo. His father’s was named Robert Baratheon.
-Joe
His “last dragon” rants seem to imply that they’re all dead.
With their gold belts, hulking muscles, and much ballyhooed undefeated status the Dothraki are like the Mongol Horde as imagined by Vince McMahon, and I am endlessly entertained with their antics for it.
If anyone in Westeros invents ‘a chair that folds’ everyone is in for a world of hurt.
-Joe
One question about something Khal Drogo said, although since I also saw the seventh episode this morning via the HBO Go service, this might have been from there, so I’ll spoiler-box this:
Khal Drogo said something about wooden horses that cross the sea (i.e., ships) but did he also say something about wooden horses crossing the sky (i.e., planes)?
Just watched it. Fantastic ending.