percentstardust · 2 years ago
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btw, none of my asoiaf muses are straight. NONE OF THEM. yes, even jacelyn.
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moonlitgleek · 7 years ago
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Say Cersei does marry Rhaegar. I assume the bloom comes off the rose with the marriage to a Sadsack prince in the court of his mad father. Does Cersei still convince Jaime to go for the Kingsguard? Would Jaime be seduced to cuckolding the prince he admires? What does Tywin do?
Putting aside the contradictory character motivation that would lead Aerys to  simultaneously make Tywin’s daughter a princess but also spite him by depriving him of his heir, while giving Rhaegar everything he needs to plot Aerys’ own dethroning with Tywin’s help…. yes, Cersei probably would still convince Jaime to join the Kingsguard.
 But when [Jaime] made a brief call at King’s Landing on his way back to Casterly Rock, chiefly to see his sister, Cersei took him aside and whispered that Lord Tywin meant to marry him to Lysa Tully, had gone so far as to invite Lord Hoster to the city to discuss dower. But if Jaime took the white, he could be near her always.
That sense of possessiveness that drove Cersei to talk Jaime into joining the Kingsguard so that he could only be hers does not go away if she marries Rhaegar. After all, it has made itself known when she was all of ten in what she did to Melara Hetherspoon, at a time when Cersei still thought she would wed Rhaegar
You stupid girl, the queen thought, angry even now. Jaime does not even know you are alive. Back then her brother lived only for swords and dogs and horses… and for her, his twin. 
Note the present tense Cersei uses here. She is still bristling two decades after killing Melara just because Melara had a crush on Jaime. Cersei was ten. She was enamored with the thought of marrying Rhaegar but her thoughts and actions still bespoke her possessiveness towards Jaime. The thing about Cersei’s relationship with Jaime is that Cersei saw it as something that transcends any other relationship. They were two halves of a whole. Jaime was her mirror image, a part of her. There was no contradiction in her head between her “love” for Rhaegar and her connection to Jaime. So I don’t see how wedding Rhaegar would have deterred Cersei from sabotaging Jaime’s betrothal to Lysa so she could keep him herself.
Of course, wedding Rhaegar also has nothing to do with Cersei’s other motivation in talking Jaime into joining the Kingsguard. This is where Cersei’s resentment over how different she and Jaime were treated and over Tywin’s rampant misogyny towards her manifest as well. Cersei deliberately took Tywin’s chosen golden heir from him, the heir she thinks this of.
“You are not your father. And Tywin always regarded Jaime as his rightful heir.”
“Jaime … Jaime has taken vows. Jaime never thinks, he laughs at everything and everyone and says whatever comes into his head. Jaime is a handsome fool.” 
That’s the heir Tywin favored over Cersei, Cersei who sees herself as the only true son Tywin ever had and who resents that he never recognized it. Talking Jaime into joining the Kingsguard wasn’t just about Cersei’s possessiveness of Jaime, it was also about punishing Tywin.
As for the question about Jaime cuckolding Rhaegar, that’s an interesting question. Jaime did admire Rhaegar so “horning” him might not come to him as easily as it did with Robert. However, OTL!Jaime’s idealization of Rhaegar was shaped by a few factors: it was a byproduct of Jaime’s idolization of Ser Arthur Dayne who held Rhaegar in high esteem himself, but it’s Jaime’s time in court with Aerys that really highlighted the contrast between the Mad King and his chivalrous heir who, at the time, had Tywin’s regard as well. The glaring difference between Aerys and Rhaegar could only endear the prince to everyone around who saw him as a definitive improvement on his unstable father. Jaime’s idealization is further exacerbated in current time by his deep sense of guilt over failing Rhaegar in not preventing Elia and the children’s deaths, and by his overwhelming hatred of Robert. But the truth of the matter is that Jaime didn’t really spend that much time with Rhaegar personally to really know him. Jaime was indoctrinated into the Kingsguard at Harrenhal, mere months before Rhaegar took off with Lyanna, and even those months were mostly spent with Jaime in King’s Landing, and Rhaegar on Dragonstone. In reality, Jaime idealized the idea of Rhaegar he had in his head rather than the actual man who he did not know.
But the idea of Rhaegar would fail in Jaime’s eyes just as it would in Cersei’s in this AU. His twin’s involvement would force a necessary divide between Jaime and Rhaegar, not just in the jealousy Jaime would inherently feel towards whoever married Cersei, but also in how Rhaegar’s treatment of Cersei would heavily influence Jaime’s opinion of him (because I don’t think that the mess at Harrenhal and Rhaegar’s subsequent disappearance with Lyanna would be prevented simply if Rhaegar married Cersei instead, because Rhaegar’s actions weren’t simply about Elia not being able to have a third kid in OTL. Call me a contrarian but I’m a strong proponent of the narrative not validating Cersei’s delusional claims that Rhaegar wouldn’t have needed Lyanna if he’d only married her instead of Elia, which smacks of a great deal of ableism, racism and victim-blaming. No, thank you). The tourney at Harrenhal would have a great influence on Jaime’s opinion of the crown prince. Jaime had no horse in the race at Harrenha in OTLl; he had no reason to care about Elia Martell, and usual Westerosi ableism and racism made it far easier to scapegoat Elia than to hold Rhaegar accountable for his actions whether at Harrenhal or after, hence Cersei, JonCon, Viserys and even Dany doing exactly that. Elia was collectively thought of as lacking in the eyes of many and thus received a great deal of the blame for what Rhaegar had done (it’s not for nothing that we keep hearing “if only Rhaegar had married X, he wouldn’t have needed Lyanna”. X sometimes being Dany and sometimes being Cersei but the he implication remain the same - that the cause of the problem was Elia and her inability to provide something that Rhaegar needed rather than Rhaegar himself).
But when it’s his beloved sister and his family getting publicly humiliated in front of all of Westeros, don’t expect Jaime Lannister to still smell roses off Rhaegar after the latter publicly spurns his sister, the Light of the West and the most beautiful woman in Westeros in Jaime’s eyes, in favor of the “wild thing” that is Lyanna Stark. Jaime’s disillusionment in the court of the Mad King would absolutely include the silver prince in that context. In an unfortunate parallel, the tourney at Harrenhal would repeat history in having another Targaryen publicly shaming a Lannister lady (at even a wider scale than what Aerys did to Joanna considering the sheer number of nobles present in Harrenhal) and another insult added to the list of insults Tywin suffered. While Jaime might not care about the Lannister name the way Tywin did, Cersei’s shame, heartbreak and fury would certainly matter to him in light of how much he loved Cersei and was protective of her. And Cersei would be murderous with the insult, which is personal and political. For a woman who coveted power since she was little, having her political standing so publicly undermined would be intolerable, which is made worse by the risk of being set aside for Lyanna (especially if Cersei and Rhaegar are not yet wed by the time of the tourney) or having Lyanna formally installed as a royal mistress.
How the changes would affect the aftermath of the rebellion is a bit complicated and is heavily dependent on whether Rhaegar and Cersei were already married or not. But ultimately, if Rhaegar survives the rebellion and wins (that’s a very big if), his very public actions with Lyanna and how he handles Jon’s existence might lead to some variation of this.
It did not take [Robert] long to start playing with [his widowed cousin] again. As soon as Cersei closed her eyes, the king would steal off to console the poor lonely creature. One night she had Jaime follow him, to confirm her suspicions. When her brother returned he asked her if she wanted Robert dead. “No,” she had replied, “I want him horned.”    
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You have probably already answered this, but I was just curious as to why you are against Ned/Ashara.
My foremost issue with it is that it simply does not make sense.
We know that Ned had a crush on Ashara, at least to some extent, but we are given no legitimate indication that it went beyond that, nor that Ashara ever reciprocated. We have a total of two interactions in the entire series between the two of them that are documented: their one dance at Harrenhal — which Brandon orchestrated — and after the Tower of Joy fight when Ned returned Dawn. That’s it.
If you want the long explanation, however, I’m happy to oblige.
Ned never thinks about Ashara, not once. If she were the great love of his life, the woman he’d fathered a bastard on, the woman he held a torch for, then why on earth does he not allude to so much as her name, even within his own thoughts? Catelyn thinks about Brandon several times, yet not a peep from Ned about Ashara.
He couldn’t even muster up the courage to ask her (or any other girl, so far as we know) for a single dance. Yet we’re supposed to believe that he then somehow got up the courage to sleep with her?
Ned appears to have had an honorable reputation even when he was young (Jaime’s “the noble Lord of Winterfell” as well as that he built a grave marker for Arthur and didn’t take Dawn for a trophy). Having a one-week stand and producing illegitimate children would be out of character.
He was only 18 at the time and very likely had never even kissed a girl before, let alone slept with one. Not that he couldn’t have lost his virginity there, I suppose, but it would seem a rather strange location and time to do so. Especially since having a fling with the most prominent lady-in-waiting to the future queen isn’t exactly the most honorable thing to do.
He shared a tent with Howland Reed for the duration of the tourney who, being the astute observer that we see he is, would have noted his bunkmate sneaking off to go have sex with Ashara.
Ned wasn’t the only person Ashara danced with. She also danced with Oberyn, one of the Kingsguard (likely her brother or Barristan), and Jon Connington. Where are all the rumors of her having a romance with any of them?
Apart from her beauty, Ashara is described as having “laughing” purple eyes, which implies a lighthearted, spirited personality, whereas Ned is, well, not. Particularly given the short time frame, I don’t think that personality clash would lend itself to a romance.
Brandon, meanwhile, has a reputation for sleeping with highborn women, had already fathered bastards elsewhere, was exceedingly handsome and charismatic, and had previously spoken with Ashara as well. To sleep with Ashara sounds exactly like the kind of thing Brandon would do.
Barristan is nothing but friendly to Ned when they’re in King’s Landing together and he defends him to Dany, yet in ADWD, he refers to the person who “dishonored” Ashara merely as “Stark.” He’s so pissed off about it 20 years later that he can’t even think the man’s name. That seems a rather odd tic if indeed Ned was the one who he’s referring to, especially since he was in love with Ashara.
None of the sources we hear their supposed romance from are reliable. We have Edric Dayne, who was not even alive at the time, who heard it from his aunt Allyria, who may also not have been alive at the time. Two more things about this:
The Daynes are already involved in what happened at the Tower of Joy, what with their wet nurse having been not only Edric’s but Jon’s and whose name Ned tells Robert is Jon’s mother, there’s the possibility that it was Ashara who told Ned where to find Lyanna, Starfall is quite close to the TOJ, and so on. This would be a benign coverup by comparison.
It’s completely understandable that Allyria (or whoever told her the story, if anyone did) would want to craft this poetic narrative of the honorable Ned Stark and her sister having a fairytale romance instead of it being a hookup with Brandon, who was a bit of a cad and betrothed to someone else.
Then we have Harwin, who was all of nine years old when he heard the story, was not at Harrenhal, and who himself says he doubts it was true. 
This series thrives on things not being what they seem, on requiring us to read between the lines, to not take things at face value. Yet we’re supposed to take Ned/Ashara at face value?
Ned fathering a bastard completely obliterates his — and Jon’s — narrative. The entire point is that Ned did not have a black mark on his honor like everyone in-universe thinks; instead, he compromised his reputation in order to do the most honorable thing there is. He promised his dying sister to protect her son, never mind who the father was, never mind that Ned’s best friend hated Targaryens so much that “it was a madness in him,” never mind that the very sight of Jon hurt Catelyn day after day. To say Ned did indeed father a bastard is … peculiar.
Even if he had done so, why would he not provide for it? You’re telling me he slept with Ashara, got her with child, and then just ignored the both of them? Didn’t bother contacting her, didn’t bother asking after the child, never even thought about the stillborn baby girl he sired? Ned Stark never once thinks about his dead illegitimate child?
The ability of Ned and Ashara to have carried out a romance is unlikely. This isn’t 2017 where Skype and texting is a thing. As soon as the tourney concluded, Ashara went back to Dragonstone and Ned back to the Vale, and then within a few months, Lyanna disappeared, the realm was thrown into civil war, and Ashara was dismissed from court back to Starfall. Yet somehow that all lends itself to maintaining a correspondence, let alone a love affair?
One of the stories about her says she threw herself from the tower because she was heartbroken over Ned, which is incredibly patronizing. Her child had been stillborn, her princess was raped and murdered, the children she’d seen born were slaughtered, her entire life had been upended, her brother was slain protecting Lyanna Stark and all Ashara got in return was his sword, 10,000 of her countrymen — which would have included men she knew — were extorted into fighting and a large amount of them died, Prince Lewyn was killed, she would have suffered survivor’s guilt, need I go on? That the cause of her suicide would be Ned marrying Catelyn out of duty is downright insulting.
To me, it seems like people also really want Ned to have had a prior relationship instead of just Catelyn having one (for as much as a betrothal can count as a relationship, at any rate), as well as the cliché of the shy guy getting the hot girl.
Meanwhile, the only “evidence” for Ned/Ashara is hearsay from people who weren’t there. Not exactly a compelling case. I’m not going to bash people who do ship them, but you also won’t find me ever shipping them myself.
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S7, E4:
Damn. God damn HBO.
I haven’t been writing these because I feel like everything is all a bit more straightforward these days, and people don’t need recaps because everyone is an ~expert~. I got close last week because it was such a badass episode, but this one. I. AM. Shook. 
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The before-the-show “remember this” previews always get me because, i.e., in this one, we see Qyburn talking about a “solution” for the dragons, you see Dany getting frustrated, and you’re like SHIT NOT THE DRAGONS. 
But let’s back up.
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So we begin at Highgarden (RIP OLENNA) with Jaime paying his debts to Bronn. I hate to say this, because as much as I hated the sand snakes (overall and just... overall) I kind of wanted Bronn to ride off to King’s Landing to save Tyene... somehow. Wishful thinking, because Bronn sends him off to help Dickon Tarly yell at people.
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Now on to Cersei. Tycho, this guy from the Iron Bank, is hella creepy. He reminds me of my student loan officer from college who was like “if you take that fifth year, think about all you can accomplish”. And now 1/3 of my monthly income goes away to pay it off. Anyway.
Cersei is still possessed with the idea of controlling the “continent” which at this point sounds incredibly stupid given what we know is to come with the War for the Dawn. But, semantics.
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Okay, this dagger situation. Littlefinger is being smarmy, and talking about how Bran almost died, and Catelyn did die. It’s almost as bad as when Bran was like “Hey Sansa, remember how beautiful you were when you were raped?”  It also sounds really “off” to hear Petyr call him “Brandon” because only Cat did that when she was yelling at him for climbing around Winterfell. 
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I’m so glad that Meera interrupts the smarm-sesh because Bran isn’t really waving him off. And tbh whenever I see Meera, I just hope they’re not going to go down the “Jon and Meera” twins crackpot theory road. The one where they decide that there were TWO babies at the Tower of Joy, and Ned took one, and Howland took the other? I hate that theory. Let us have Jon. Meera’s a badass, but... THEN she starts talking about how when “they” (the white walkers) come, she needs to be with her family. Ah, yes, her father, THE Howland Reed, who killed Arthur Dayne, who was the only other living person not a baby who was there at the Tower when Lyanna made Ned swear to protect Jon’s true identity. 
Can SOMEONE please just tell this boy he’s a Targaryen already?! I’ve waited 12 years and that’s long enough.
Back to Bran. Bran is still being very Jaden Smith-like and it’s getting old because he’s not really helping anyone. Bran, this is why we left you out of an entire season. Remember that? The North does. 
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So, now Arya is here, and maybe she can knock some sense into raisin-Bran. 
Arya looking at the Stark crest, though. *Tears up*
I’m upset that we’ve come so far that nobody knows who Rodrick is. SER RODRICK. I miss those mutton chops.
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Arya and Sansa! Together! Being sassy! I love it! Except I only see Maisie and Sophie together, and not their characters, and I’ve forgotten that Arya and Sansa didn’t exactly get along all those years ago.
They talk about how Jon would be SO happy to see Arya, and I hope we get to that point. Arya says that Ned’s statue doesn’t look him him, just as Robert remarked that Lyanna’s looks nothing like her, so that seems to be a trend in the Stark crypt.
I like how Sansa is essentially WTF about her siblings’ new personalities. Bran is a fortune-telling raisin, and Arya is an assassin who broke bread with Ed Sheeran.
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THREE STARKS IN ONE FRAME. AT WINTERFELL. I CAN’T.
Clearly Bran has seen Arya do something with this dagger, or he wouldn’t be so creepy about giving it to her. He ~knows. I’m glad Sansa perks up and says something about how Littlefinger has to be up to something, because for a minute there it looked like she was on board with him.
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I love how Jon literally interrupts girl talk here, and Missandei is like “well talk later”. 
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I also love how Dany just waltzes in there with him, and is apparently fully on board with trusting him at this point.
And we all know how much Jon Snow loves caves. *wink*
I like how he thinks he’s showing her a bit of her heritage, but really, he’s discovering his own as well. 
How CONVENIENT that there are markings showing white walkers, the very things she doesn’t believe in, though?
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When Jon touches Dany I literally just wanted to scream “THEY ARE TOUCHING. WHO TOUCHES THE QUEEN” like this is 2005 Pride and Prejudice and Darcy is helping Elizabeth into the carriage.
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That look.
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I want someone to touch my arm and lead me gently around a cave where I learn about history.
So much tension.
So. much. tension.
People were like “they have no chemistry!” Me: *Gestures at this scene*
Also, the parallels: 
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“I will fight for you. I will fight for the North. When you bend the knee.”
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There are tears welling up in my eyes.
DAMN, DANY. Don’t ask Jon to bend the knee in a cave because he’s already done that and we saw how that went. But honestly I could totally see them turning this around and having him “bend the knee” some other way, especially because of that tension. DAMN.
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~Lingering looks and soft music~
But I don’t know how they’re going to get around the incest factor. It’s not a big deal on GoT but there’s really no way of making it normal between two beloved characters even if they are Targaryens.
In the books, Viserys yells at Dany for not being born earlier so she could marry Rhaegar (normal) because then he wouldn’t have run off with Lyanna (Jon’s mom).
And then they exit the cave so closely it almost looks like they’re holding hands from the angle, but they aren’t, don’t worry. But we’ve come a long way in one episode.
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Tyrion’s like, what do you want, good news or bad news first? Varys is like, my hands are cold.
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Okay, I feel bad that Dany digs into Tyrion like that, but she has a right to be pissed. I also like how she says Jon and Davos should stay because they’re essentially part of her small council now.
“Enough with clever plans. I have three large dragons. I’m going to fly them to the Red Keep”.
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I like how she says “large”. Not just that she has dragons, but like they’re LARGE. Anyway.
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AND THEN SHE LOOKS TO JON. TO JON.
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He’s like “who, me?” Missandei and Varys are like “who, him?” 
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Help me Jon Snow. You’re my only hope.
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And he gives her a speech about doing impossible things, which he has ALSO done. The layers. (I’m not just saying layers because the Onion knight is right there.)
Every time we see dragons I’m like “can Rhaegal come say hi to Jon” like we’re at the damn pet store.
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Arya. Sparring with Brienne. I also can’t. If you think back to when Ned was telling Arya she’d make a fine lady one day, and she told him that’s not who she was, so he hired Syrio, and she was getting somewhat decent, but she wasn’t great. Now... on par with Brienne. We’ve come so far. *ANTM fist pump*
Pod’s like “damnnnn”.
Sansa’s like “who is my sister”. 
Littlefinger’s like “oh fuck”.
THIS. IS. GAME. OF. THRONES. 
Honestly you can tell this was so fun to shoot for the two of them, and I love it. I’m living.
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Omg Jon acting like he’s in middle school: “who?” YOUR CRUSH JON. YOUR CRUSH. “I’ve seen you staring at her good heart”. ARE YOU SERIOUS WITH THIS DIALOGUE, D&D?
Okay, two things are happening here. 
1. Davos CONTINUES to mention Missandei OF NAATH. Not just, Missandei. While it’s common to mention where people are from, nothing on this show is coincidental. He even talks about if she wanted to sail home to Naath. Just FYI - if you want to know something slightly sketchy, look up the butterflies of Naath.
2. They talk about names, which Jon is like “semantics”. Are they setting us up for his Targaryen name reveal?! “My mother and father weren’t married”. BUT WERE THEY?! Ugh I can’t wait to get into this and talk about how they probably were but this post is long enough as it is.
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Missandei speaks 19 languages. And she doesn’t know what a bastard is. Okay.
Jon’s aggression toward Theon. YAS. There’s my little warrior bb. His expression is the epitome of “over this shit”.
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I’m honestly surprised Theon had the balls to walk toward Jon at all. Okay not funny.
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Okay, sidebar: sometimes I just think about Kit in Pompeii. Running around. Being a gladiator. I’m done now.
“The Queen is gone.”
OH MY GOD DANY IS GOING TO GET THE LANNISTERS. 
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“If the head of the line is ambushed, the tail will never be able to reinforce it in time” - Randyll Tarly, you foreshadower, you. Head. Tail. Dragon. I see you.
“Rickon.”
“Dickon.”
Bronn: *Cackles. Is all of us*
I like how Jaime continues to call him by dead Stark names - previously, Rickard, and now Rickon. 
But then. Hoofbeats. DAMN, DAMN. I hate the Lannisters but I like Jaime and Bronn and I know what a shitstorm is coming for them and ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE IT?!
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I like how you can hear the Dothraki screaming from that far away, before you can even see them. Remember this conversation that Robert and Cersei had in season 1? Robert: I do know this: If the Targaryen girl convinces her horselord husband to invade and the Dothraki horde crosses the Narrow Sea...We won't be able to stop them. Cersei: The Dothraki don't sail. Every child knows that. They don't have discipline, they don't have armor, they don't have siege weapons. Robert: It's a neat little trick you do. You move your lips and your father's voice comes out. Cersei: Is my father wrong? Robert: Let's say Viserys Targaryen lands with 40,000 Dothraki screamers at his back. We hole up in our castles. A wise move. Only a fool would meet the Dothraki in an open field. They leave us in our castles. They go from town to town, looting and burning, killing every man who can't hide behind a stone wall, stealing all our crops and livestock, enslaving all our women and children. How long do the people of the Seven Kingdoms stand behind their absentee king, their cowardly king hiding behind high walls? When do the people decide that Viserys Targaryen is the rightful monarch after all?
Those payoffs, though.
It all looks quite stormy, as though this battle will go in favor of Daenerys Stormborn.
Sidebar: they did a fantastic job with the CGI background, here.
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Jaime, if Bronn is telling you to go, you go. He doesn’t play around.
“DRACARYS”
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DAMN, DANY.
And people are shook. People are stepping over each other’s ashes like it’s Pompeii (shout out, Kit) while the Dothraki mow over them.
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I’ve watched a lot of war movies.
I’ve watched a lot of battle scenes.
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And, damn.
Big question: Are Rhaegal and Viserion at home, or?
Sidebar: this must have been EXPENSIVE for all that fire power.
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Archers with regular arrows: nope
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Bronn with the scorpion: SHIT
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SHIT ARE YOU KIDDING ME WE HAVE TO WATCH BRONN SHOOT DROGON WHILST DANY RIDES HIM. THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I feel like this is the worst kind of dread because you KNOW it’s going to happen.
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Bronn is 100% “if I were into that, I’d be into that.” Like, if I were into guys with issues and lots of war wrinkles, I’d be into him. Which means I slightly am. Anyway.
And after Dany and Drogon almost gets hit, SHE DOESN’T LEAVE? SHE DOESN’T LEARN FROM THE FIGHTING PIT SCENE? GO, GO, GO.
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As much as I am in agony I’m also like THIS IS PRIME GAME OF THRONES. BRONN, AIMING A GIANT CROSSBOW THING AT A DRAGON WHILE DANY RIDES IT AND TRIES TO BURN HIM TO A CRISP? THIS. IS. GAME. OF. THRONES. BITCHES.
Sidebar: How does Bronn know how to operate this thing and dramatically throw the sides down like that?!
TYRION IS HERE? SHIT. THAT MEANS BAD THINGS FOR DANY AND/OR JAIME BECAUSE HE IS HERE TO WATCH.
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“Your people can’t fight” A) Does Tyrion now speak Dothraki? He’s terrible at Valyrian. B) Is this also a reference to the fact that Tyrion MAY not be a Lannister after all? C) Is that a hint of the Rains of Castamere in the background? But like a slow remix? Um... who is going to die
Jaime, watching his soldiers crumble away like ash. Third Pompeii reference.
Bronn, shooting at Dany.
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The music swells.
Drogon roars.
Tyrion watches with interest.
Bronn loads the scorpion.
SHIT. SHIT. SHIT.
He hits Drogon. He moves to strike again.
DANY AND DROGON ARE FALLING.
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Okay, Drogon burns the scorpion to a crisp, but IS HE OKAY?! BB!
Dany’s really going to pull that thing out herself?
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No, JAIME. DON’T DO IT.
You one-handed idiot.
But honestly that shot of Jaime galloping along the burning riverbanks toward Dany is cinematic goals.
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Dany actually looks scared, but Drogon’s got her.
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BAM.
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BOOM.
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P.S. If they killed Jaime off, I feel like they’d tell us. They were outright with Olenna... they weren’t outright with Jon. Jaime still has a lot to do.... Valonquar, anyone?
UNTIL NEXT WEEK. P.S. If you like my recaps as much as Davos loves Jon Snow, please let me know and I’ll continue writing them.
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