Definitely a solid episode. Tyrion's goodbye with Podrick gets me everytime too. Such a great duo.
Andrew Clifton
2023-04-04 23:46:24 +0000 UTC
Ok so imma comment this before I forget. The show runners actually apologized for that scene with Cersie and Jamie by Goffery's body. In the books it's reversed. Cersie forces herself on Jamie in this spot. Jamie tries to resist but can't. It's supposed to just be another example of how Jamie can't resist her no matter how hard he tries. It's his biggest weakness. Nearly every terrible thing he's done is for her. For whatever reason it got filmed like this and they said screw it and left it in there. It goes against everything with Jamie's character arc at this point. Just pretend it doesn't exist lol.
Andrew Clifton
2023-04-04 22:52:42 +0000 UTC
One of my favorite things about this show is Tywin with children. It's weirdly sweet for such a powerful/menacing character. Him and Arya and even this little bit of him and Tommen - I don't think it was all that manipulative all in all. It's like his whole thing about legacy makes him bother to educate kids. Also the way Cersei loves her kids - great way of making the more villainous characters sympathetic.
Christopher Hawkins
2023-03-31 04:23:30 +0000 UTC
Consensual or not, I think we can all agree that a brother and sister having sex next to their son's corpse is pretty weird.
Arthur Fields
2023-03-27 18:59:22 +0000 UTC
The scene in the book ends with it being consensual. The show does not. At no point does she consent to it in the show. They are two different scenes.
Ian Mossner
2023-03-27 13:43:44 +0000 UTC
I suggest you re-read that part of the book. I checked and Cersei is against it at first. She says to Jaime:”not here, the septons..” and after he forces her onto the altair , in the book Cersei punches his chest with weak fists, she murmurs to him about the risks, the dangers, their father, the septons, of the wrath of the gods. So I wonder why everyone keeps saying this scene is totally wrong. Only after all this, after Jaime insists does Cersei make it “consensual”. (Sorry to everyone for my bad English).
Matteo
2023-03-27 13:17:33 +0000 UTC
aaaand that's why the northerners don't fuck with the wildlings 🙃 kind of crazy it took this long to see what the northerners have been saying about them since season 1
Halima
2023-03-26 22:16:33 +0000 UTC
You don't get a lot of pure scenes in this show like the one between Podrick and Tyrion. Tyrion's former Hand of the King and the son of arguably the most powerful man in Westeros, and he put the life of his squire above his own. I definitely cried too 😂
Halima
2023-03-26 22:13:25 +0000 UTC
It’s such an odd scene because it’s never referenced again and adds literally nothing to the plot. It doesn’t alter Jaime or Cersei’s arc, it just…there. I honestly forget that it happens until the scene comes up in my rewatch.
Halima
2023-03-26 17:45:52 +0000 UTC
BTW pretty much all fans try to forget that Jamie scene it doesn’t happen in the books and it’s so out of character
Tayyib Majumder
2023-03-26 16:44:22 +0000 UTC
One of the worst scenes in this history of the show happens in this episode. The Cersei and Jaime sex scene is consensual in the book. They turned it into a rape scene in the show. So they spent all of season 3 rehabilitating Jaime as a character just to turn him into a rapist. Also show fans don’t care at all. They still love him.