Preview of next Game of Thrones Episode
The series continued its steady acceleration from a slow start. Things are unfolding in King’s Landing, Riverrun, the north, and for little Arya.
Tywin Lannister is an intelligent and shrewd leader. He recognizes the lack of intellect in his daughter Cersei and the young king Joffrey. It is his job to clean up their mess. When he learns of the potential marriage of Loras and Sansa, he immediately recognizes it as a problem (unlike Tyrion). Tywin wants to arrange a marriage between Sansa and Tyrion, as well as between Cersei and Loras. GENIUS!
A Sansa-Tyrion marriage puts a Lannister as the heir of the North if Robb Stark is killed. This plan makes clear Tywin’s intent. He doesn’t plan on making peace but destroying Robb Stark, thereby having Winterfell fall to Sansa as the next oldest, making Tyrion Lord and Warden of the north.
The Loras-Cersei marriage further locks up the alliance between Tyrell and Lannister. This gets Cersei out of Tywin’s hair and makes the new queen the only significant Tyrell remaining.
Tyrion is appalled at the move, and should be. However, he revealed too much to his family. A truly shrewd, self-interested dwarf would jump at this opportunity. Instead, he doesn’t want it and his family now has reason to be even more suspicious of him. It is possible that he sees a possible end to the war if Sansa were alive and unharmed. Being wed against her will and deflowered by a dwarf isn’t really the way to go.
I don’t see the Tyrells going for this. Cersei is damaged goods and Loras likes men. How does Olenna get her family out of this??? We will see. It is problematic to defy the Hand of the King or the King in these matters.
Jaime is barely alive and shares a moment with Brienne. This is becoming weird. He tells a story of how he killed the mad king, claiming he saved the city from being burned to the ground. The problem is Jaime lies… a lot. At the same time their seems to be a respect between the two. How could someone that tried to kill a kid, killed his own people to escape from capture could have any selfless motives? I don’t buy it. He might respect Brienne but he is no hero, at least not any more.
Arya is one step closer to being reunited with her family. The Dog won the battle and the Lord of Light saw fit to resurrect the one-eyed leader of the Brotherhood without Banners. The show likes to mix in a tiny bit of magic here and there.
Robb Stark seems to think he has a solution to his problem. He executed Rickard Karstark for killing the two Lannister boys. It was an imprudent move, shrinking is force by half. A king can’t have his lords taking matters into their own hands, plus there’s the whole justice thing I suppose. To replace them, he thinks he can get Walder Frey to go all in on this war. This after he married Talisa instead of a Frey girl. He better have a really good explanation and offer for the old man. Otherwise this is a wasted trip and he’s pretty screwed.
If he gets Frey’s men, he continues on to Castlerock. He can’t attack King’s Landing and the Lannister forces won’t engage him in the open fields. So, he will strike their home. A pretty clever move. I could see Tywin, the Mountain that Rides, and Joffrey all acting brashly and wanting to go after Robb for this. I think it works.
Oh and John Snow got laid. Good for him. So much for the oath.
Jacob
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