Even if that’s the case, it’s the first politically or militarily shrewd move I’ve seen her make in… well, ever, so far as I can recall.
She really is the best character on the show.
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I do agree with you guys about Lyanna! At age 9 or 10, she’s the most competent sovereign in the series. I’m also really liking Bran’s transformation. It’s the most interesting arc in the series for me.
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Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll, which looks pretty interesting from the first episode. Think Groundhog Day set in NYC.
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Not entirely true. I imagine that pretty much everything that happened to Daenerys up until the arrival of Tyrion would have been the same, even had Littlefinger not been involved. Remember, everyone (except for Ned) agreed on the assassination plot.
And most of the stuff north of the Wall would have happened, too (and probably would have turned out much worse without Stannis).
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I’m sure he was hip deep in the Raegar/Lyanna drama, all in pursuit of being balls-deep elsewhere and angling for the throne even then.
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I watched more or less of the first 2 seasons and couldn’t get past how if winter is coming how come all the girls are naked all the time when the guys are weAring head to toe fur? Guess I was too literal. I just wanted to get those poor girls a blanket.
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I watched up through season 6 and had successfully not watched 7, but I’m getting sucked in.
Might have to find someway to watch it now.
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I doubt it. He was a nobody until after Robert’s Rebellion, which is why he got into such trouble in the first place (being infatuated with someone far above his station). He didn’t start working his way up until after Lysa, who was besotted with him, married Jon Arryn, and helped him rise beyond a petty landholder.
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Well obviously, it’s to point out the fact that women are tougher and better equipped to survive.
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If they did, there’d be nipple windows in them. /s
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I thought it would be poetic if the final scene is Tyrion sitting on the Throne in the otherwise smashed and ruined Great Hall, his little feet not even reaching the floor, everybody else dead.
Grumpy scowl at the camera. Credits.
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Indeed.
The arc of The Hound and The Mountain. HBO Hound is hangin’ in there, kitty claws in what’s left of his humanity. Mountain got turned into a motherfucking robot.
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Ooh, look what I found!
Olefas, 1987. Was called Pathfinder for US audiences, but changed after Ridley Scott’s Pathfinder was released.
Dubbed in English.
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I don’t know… Euron seems like a problematic wild card, honestly. He was certainly able to take the Iron Islands, but he had not been around the way that Yara had been… in the short term, have a professional reaver as a part of your military force might be helpful, but he’s too chaotic to be a decent ruler. He’ll end up being a problem in the long run, I’d guess. So a good short term alliance, but not in the long term.
Yeah, it’s interesting, for sure! He has a central role to play in what’s to come.
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And thank god that he’s gone… all of this death and destruction could have been avoided with out him. But I think you’re underestimating the role that Varys has played, though. Both of them are critical to the chain of events, the difference is that Littlefinger did it for purely vain reasons, while Varys cares about creating a well ordered society with a modicum of justice.
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i don’t buy it, but there’s a theory out there that he helped fake his death with a faceless woman from Bravos, where he’s from. i loved his character, but it’s too far-fetched for me.
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I agree with you, mainly because I just don’t think Littlefinger is as clever as he imagined himself to be. He just got lucky in his schemes early on and Sansa ordering his execution was just reality catching up with him. Also, he’s from Bravos? I didn’t remember that… in my defense, it’s a complicated story!
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well, i think he is exceedingly clever – you don’t survive as long as he did doing the things he did without being super smart and being able to outthink and out maneuver his opponents. i think perhaps he just got overconfident, and slipped up. he misjudged the Stark women, thinking they were still stupid kids, and that was his undoing. And yeah, i had forgotten he was from Bravos until i ran across the theory this morning – i’m still not even 100% sure that’s correct, but here i am not bothering to look it up. 
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Pretty sure he’s not from Braavos.
He’s a Lord of the Vale, a title he inherited from his father.
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