Greta

I just flat out don't believe this will end with King Bran. I think there will be moves in that direction not just in the show but the books, and perhaps a reveal that this was 3ER/Bran's plan all along, but it won't be successful. It's just an opportunity to allow GRRM to comment on the (bad) idea of a god-emperor.

I would love for Cersei to live, not triumph, but live to see everything stripped away from her as she slowly withers and dies. I think there's a bit of foreshadowing in the books, when Cersei repeatedly thinks with horror about the Maidenvault, where Baelor kept his sisters imprisoned. There's also the Melara in the well story in the books, which is somewhat echoed in the show with Ellaria in the dungeon. I could see an ending where Cersei is imprisoned, either in KL or at Casterly Rock by Tyrion or Jaime, and left to grow old while knowing the world and all the power games she loved are going on just outside her cell. That's a really slow choking the life out of her by a little brother.

I haven't watched in a long, long time, but I can't quit lurking on this board, vainly hoping it will get better. That said, any chance this Hank/Shiloh person is Willow's babydaddy, with her fleeing the cult and giving up the baby to keep him safe, but now thinking she's out of danger and wondering if maybe she could raise the child herself?

Not necessarily. If Dany is dead, the Unsullied don't really have a leader to follow or a home to go back to (or really, any means of getting to Essos en masse without assistance from whoever is in power). Maybe some of them make their own decisions about who to follow. That's the point of being free, isn't it?

I didn't start watching until the late 90s and don't watch now, but let me know when the Gail tribute is so I can watch to support the out-doing of Sonny's me-me-mepisode.

dubbel zout, how dare you misrepresent the immortal line: "My FRENNZZ call ME Kiki!"

One tweak would have fixed this: Anna had a Secret!Baby! result from seducing unknown target of WSB interest, that Faison then found out about and raised as his own. (Peter wouldn't even have to know that Faison wasn't his father.) And if the next sweeps revelation was that the unknown target was one Stefan Cassadine, well that would just be further proof that I could write a pretty good soap.

Meh, the secret father of your long-lost child who is An Enemy! of your family? Who you think killed your half-brother who may or may not be dead? Yeah, that's who a soap heroine ends up in a torrid affair with. But of course this show's writing makes sure to avoid leaving open the possibility.

A dirty-hot affair between Valentin and Lulu makes perfect soap sense which A) is why this show would never choose to do it and B)I really can't see with these two actors.

I said a long time ago that Emma needs to be the sixth Mrs. Sonny Corinthos as Robin's karma for defending him. It needs to be put out there in the universe so it can come to pass, like Soily. I said a long time ago that Emma needs to be the sixth Mrs. Sonny Corinthos as Robin's karma for defending him. It needs to be put out there in the universe so it can come to pass, like Soily.

If Prince Charles died tomorrow, Prince William would become heir to the throne, not Prince Andrew. That's how succession works in monarchies (and titles generally). I'm sure someone can find an example of some tiny country with a different succession rule, but we've seen nothing to indicate Westeros doesn't have the typical system. The whole point is to set up a situation for Dany to see what she does when she can't claim that she is the rightful legal heir to the Iron Throne, something she believes right now. The (f)Aegon story in the books is clearly headed in this direction.

I'm really going to miss this show and not even in a "so bad, it's good" way. (Although I think a big part of the show's problem with the network and with ratings was that the way the show was directed made the production values look cheap, when I suspect the costs were actually really, really high.) All the family and political intrigues really started to hit their stride in the last couple of episodes. With all the Scotland mentions, was Tessa supposed to be Lady McB?

I have no idea how to find it now, but I remember last year someone worked through a family tree to determine that after all the Baratheon deaths, Robert's closest living male heir would have been... Tywin Lannister. There was a Lannister-Baratheon marriage generations past directly referenced in the AGOT when noted geneticist Ned Stark was researching the "black of hair" marker. Of course, the throne has always gone to the closest male heir. And since Tommen retired Jaime from the Kingsguard, the closest male heir is standing right next to Cersei.

It was gloriously awful. I just DVR'ed the season. I actually did love the bit about Montague Sr. being the one pulling the strings on R+J's illicit romance.

You know, if they drew the comparison for the purpose of revealing that Alive! Georgie is what's behind the door Jake draws, the entry to some sort of WSB/Cassadine joint venture for growing new agents, it might make up for getting Alive! Morgan.