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Photograph: HBOĬersei and Dany weren’t the only ones demonstrating they knew how to rule. Sansa continued to treat Littlefinger with a healthy disrespect. ‘Fight every battle everywhere, always, in your mind. She might be mad, bad and very dangerous to know – but she’s getting results. Thus Cersei knew Tyrion has always longed for Casterly Rock, and she used that to outsmart him while simultaneously seizing the money from Highgarden she needs to pay the Iron Bank. They know your weak spots and your secret desires they know how to hit you where it hurts. But the trouble with families is that those you grow up with know you best. It would have been easy to show the smart, witty Tyrion coming up with the perfect battle plan to defeat his family. That’s one of the most interesting things about this series. Most of all, though, she understands her younger brother Tyrion. She has a seasoned battle commander in Jaime, an experienced second-in-command in Randyll Tarly and a keen ally in Euron Greyjoy. And yet she is winning and, actually, it makes sense. She cares nothing for the people of Westeros, has no long-term plan for ruling after she’s won, and is driven almost entirely by revenge. She savoured her early victories, flaunted her relationship with Jaime and set about destroying those who had opposed her with open glee and particularly pertinent deaths.Ĭersei is, of course, a terrible queen. The show’s other queen, Cersei the Untrammelled, has no such saving graces. Jon and Dany should have a lengthy chat about the problems of saviour complexes. However, it’s Dany’s next step that will prove the most interesting: the fact she allowed Jon to dig for dragonglass suggests she is open to compromise. At Dragonstone Dany, who built her reputation thanks to her unswerving belief in herself, responded to early setbacks by suggesting that she and she alone should save the day by flying out on her dragons (if nothing else, she and Jon could have a chat about the problems of saviour complexes). Or will it? The two types of Queen’s Justice explored suggested perhaps not.
All those deaths begetting more deaths, and so it seems it will continue. From Dany’s long murdered family and all those dead Starks to the final withering, root and branch, of the once golden House Tyrell. The dead were heavy in the air here from Oberyn Martell to Joffrey, Tommen and Myrcella Baratheon. You must have felt powerful after you made that choice. Dany is still feeling her way into governance and Jon has had leadership thrust upon him their fumbling attempts to make their cases rang true. Emilia Clarke and Kit Harrington are often criticised for being stilted as actors, yet that awkwardness played well here. Naturally, it wasn’t straightforward: Jon desperately tried to convince Dany to put her claim to the Iron Throne on hold and join forces to fight the Night King, while Dany tried to get him to recognise her claim as the true one. It was exposition-heavy, but it also delivered a number of tense confrontations, provided Diana Rigg with a magnificent final scene, and gave fans a couple of moments they’ve been waiting for since the Seven Kingdoms first began to fall.Ĭhief among those was the meeting between Dany and Jon, the titular Fire and Ice (as Melisandre made clear). That makes it sound as though I dislike The Queen’s Justice. In previous years, the sieges of Casterly Rock and Highgarden would have unfolded at a leisurely pace rather than as a twist at the end (good though that twist was) – and the dialogue does lack the subtlety of seasons past. Certainly, the truncated season has led to a slightly rushed feeling. How you feel about the way this season is unfolding will come down to whether you’re prepared to cut the creators some slack as they move the pieces into position. Do you know what kept me standing through all those years in exile? Faith’ I have been sold like a brood mare, I’ve been shamed and betrayed, raped and defiled.
So many men have tried to kill me I don’t remember all their names. Do not read unless you have watched season seven, episode three, which airs in the UK on Sky Atlantic on Monday at 2am and 9pm, and is repeated in Australia on Showcase on Monday at 7.30pm AEST. Spoiler alert: this blog is published after Game of Thrones airs on HBO in the US on Sunday night and on Foxtel in Australia on Monday.