I was so worried that they'd cast Brienne with somebody that Hollywood "thinks" is ugly, which is usually somebody that you'd think is pretty if you ran into them in real life. This Brienne, I can see as a believable warrior-maid, indeed, and while I bet she actually cleans up nicely, I'm not going to have too much cognitive dissonance going forward.
And yeah, am disappointed in the Drowned God baptism. Me, I would have opened the scene with the priest and Iron Dad holding struggling Theon under the water until he drowns, then drag him back to shore and do mouth-to-mouth. Maybe an aside by Yara that the priest isn't losing nearly as many initiates as he used to.
I can see the appeal of that, but I think it would be wrong for Theon going forward to have that major a religious experience. The Damphair pouring water over his head is what happened in the book, although the order of events has been shuffled a little.
I admit to quite often skimming the Theon chapters in the books on rereads. I find him such an unlovable, yet
unfascinating
character. He's better in the series, anyway. I thought his rebuke of his father's abandoning him was outstanding.
I'm just wondering who got to explain things to Cersei.
The part where there was never any plan to marry the Princess off? Getting the Queen emotionally distraught and then going, "Surprise! It was all a trick!" strikes me as a non-optimal strategy. Maybe there'll be fallout next episode.
I'm not sure Tyrion doesn't intend to barter Myrcella, actually. Cersei's freakout seems a little like a non-issue, too -- she doesn't like or trust anything Tyrion does, so it doesn't really matter what he tells her. Or, you know, has other people tell her.
Right.
Bartering Myrcella is actually something that is likely to happen.
yeah, it sounded serious to me. I thought the bartering was the main truth. The "lies" where to whom she was bartered.
Game of Thrones: A couple scenes were way too disturbing for me tonight. The torture seems really graphic.
