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Tywin: You shot me. You're no Hodor. Tyrion: I am Hodor. I have always been Hodor.

Dude. Lena Headey is trolling us now with her phony Stoneheart spoilers. Clearly she can no longer be trusted.

House Tully has revised their words.

That seems kind of ridiculous. We don't kneel. Now take us 50 feet that way, and we'll be total supplicants. They call themselves the Free Folk for a reason. They don't kneel to any king. Not even their own. Now I'm not suggesting they'll all be strong willed, I'm sure some will decide they'd rather submit to Stannis and his laws then face the White Walkers. Just that their code doesn't seem based on location.

It is out of character. It's supposed to highlight the curveball that Tywin is to Tyrion. - Tyrion should hate Tywin, he's definitely justified in doing so, but he still desires his love and respect. He's happy when Tywin keeps him in the tent in season one after he lets all his other advisors go. He's honoured when Tywin names him his direct proxy as Hand. - Tyrion should ignore Tywin, but he still does what he says. He goes to King's Landing and becomes the Hand, he still marries Sansa even though he kinda doesn't want to. His biggest rebellion is bringing Shae to the capital. It's the equivalent of a teenage girl continuing to date the guy her dad doesn't like, but she still is home by 10pm every night, she doesn't drink or do drugs, and she gets straight A's. - Tyrion should leave everyone who rejected him and tried to kill him behind. He should go straight to Varys and escape without any delays, but he can't leave Tywin behind, and he goes to confront him. Tywin, up until the moment Tyrion shoots him, is Tyrion's achilles heel. Tywin makes Tyrion do things and act in ways he otherwise wouldn't. Isn't there someone you know who can/could just push your buttons and make you act uncharacteristically? I know there is for me.

Is he a side-kick though? Whose side-kick is he? He turns around and betrays everybody.

I honestly don't think he was thinking it through. He didn't plan it out at all. He just acted. He wasn't thinking "Ok, I'll have a nice chat with Pops, and then I'll peace out." he was probably thinking "What the crap am I doing? Turn around, turn around and go back to Varys, why am I not listening to my common sense?" It's difficult when we aren't getting the inner monologue like in the books and we have to fill it in ourselves, but I maintain this was one of the very few decisions Tyrion makes that isn't the least bit rational, it's just something he couldn't stop himself from doing.

The only sticking point is that "they do not kneel" Stannis will require them to kneel to their King if they are to be citizens of Westeros.

He didn't go up there planning to kill his father or settle a score. He only decided to kill his father after he found Shae in his bed. If he needed to kill someone before he left I agree he would've settled on Cersei. But he went up to see his father because he just couldn't let go of the notion that maybe he could do something to make his father hate him less. Just like he had to know why Orson Lannister spent all day in the garden smashing beetles, he had to know why his father continually hated and tried to kill him. Even though he already pretty much knows why. He still needed to absolutely know before he could leave forever. The difference between Tywin and Cersei, to Tyrion, is that he never craved Cersei's approval, all the way through though he craves Tywin's. Why else would his last words to him be "I am your son. I have always been your son."? I don't think he would've said the same thing to Cersei. He probably would've spit on her corpse and peaced out.

Yeah it seems odd I think Aimee Richardson is actually slightly older then Nell Tiger Free, so it's not like Tommen who they felt needed to be older than Callum Wharry. Maybe they just felt Aimee didn't have the acting chops? Myrcella has been used fairly sparingly for the first 4 seasons, and next season I wouldn't be surprised to see her elevated to a main character. Probably a tough blow for her, to be sure, but as you said that's show business.

Think we'll get a Sean Bean guest shot? Or maybe Chris Hemsworth playing young Ned Stark

It doesn't seem to me like it'll be a huge problem. Cersei can't outright cancel the marriage, because that would dissolve the alliance. When she tries to delay it, Margaery (or Olenna) can make some veiled threat about how the Tyrells have been away from home for a long time and they need to see to matters of defending and feeding the Reach. So, the Tyrells, their army and their food will return to Highgarden and Cersei can send for them when she wants the wedding to take place. Cersei won't be able to let the realm starve and thusly the Tyrells will get their wedding. This also will plant the grudge deeper in Cersei and can trigger the House of Cards storyline where she seeks to ruin Margaery.

Another question The show has previously taken a staunch disapproval of flashbacks, will they break it for Bran's visions? Might we see Sean Bean return, cleaning Ice beneath the heart tree at Winterfell and hoping that Robb and Jon grow close like brothers? If they don't break it how will the show display Bran's new found powers? Will he just be able to see in the present?

The only issue with this is they might have to come up with a reason for Dany to reject him. In ADWD Barristan supposes that if Drink was the Prince of Dorne it might have ended differently, but because Quentyn is plain and stocky, she immediately puts him aside. Trystane I believe they are casting a heartbreaker someone to make Myrcella swoon. Also, yeah Trystane will have to be everywhere, for him to put the moves on Myrcella, put her aside and then go and try to woo Dany. That might be fun though.

Agreed. Jojen should not have been a finale death. There was just no time given for the death to land. We saw Jon mourning Ygritte and Grenn and we even got a moment with Pyp on the fire to let those episode 9 deaths land. Jojen however is just left to die in a vacuum and Bran rushes forward because they didn't have enough time to spend on making his death land. Bran should have been devestated. I can see him being somewhat detached in the books, he's closer to Meera there, and he's starting to go all green seer on everybody and that might necessitate a certain detachment from emotion. But TV!Bran was even triggering wide spread thoughts of whether or not he's into Jojen, as a romantic prospect, largely because he seems to be having a lot of significant looks with him and Meera just seems along for the ride. Very disappointed in how that death was handled. Maybe we can get a scene next season where Bran and Meera bond over the loss, but having to wait a year for Jojen's death to have impact is just ridiculous.

Cersei's pretty delusional. She seems to think she has a lot of power and protection when a lot of that power is either a paper shield, or comes from outer sources. Hilariously she's making the same wrong assumptions Ned Stark did in season one. Ned thought that Robert's death bed endorsement, his position as Hand and the swords he got from Littlefinger protected him enough to make his move. He didn't realize you can't really count on men that aren't your own, and your own absolutely, and that an order given by an old King doesn't really matter once he's dead. Cersei thinks that Tommen's position as King (read: her position as Queen) and the Lannister swords protect her. She isn't thinking things through that if she goes ahead with her plan, her father, not her, will command the Lannister men, the Tyrells will command the rest of King's Landing's standing army, and Tommen will have no legitimacy to rule, which will remove her own legitimacy. Her power, just like Ned's, is very transient and it's hard for her to see that when right now she's one of the most powerful people in the Kingdoms.

I don't remember her saying this line in the trailer. Maybe you saw a different one than I did. In any case it is possible they used different takes. Sometimes the director makes some last minute substitutions and I hear Alex Graves and the editors ware working on this finale up until the last week before airing.

What's great is that not only does Stannis not break stride, he doesn't even draw his sword while the kamikaze wildling launches at him. Davos atleast has his blade out but Stannis just doesn't care, so absolute is his control over his army, that he knows someone is gonna cut that sum'bitch down before he gets close to the one true King of Westeros. What a beast. Stannis also probably has the best leitmotif in the show. You hear that and you think, oh something is going down with Stannis.

Cersei: When you marched into the throne room to tell me we'd won the Battle of the Blackwater do you remember?! I was sitting on the Iron Throne with Tommen. I was about to give him essence of nightshade, that's how far I was willing to go when I thought someone awful had come to take my son away. Someone awful is coming to take him away Tywin: Oh. (You can actually HEAR Tywin roll his eyes here.) Cersei: Joffrey is dead. Myrcella's been sold like livestock, and now you want to ship me off to Highgarden and steal my boy, my last boy! Margaery will dig her claws in, you will dig your claws in and you'll fight over him like beasts until you rip him apart! I WILL BURN OUR HOUSE TO THE GROUND BEFORE I LET THAT HAPPEN!

If they do Sansa and Harry the Heir (and I hope they do) they'll probably give it the love story treatment the way they did with Robb/Talisa and have a bunch of scenes where Sansa is trying to charm him, or vice versa. I also want Lady Stoneheart and Frey Pie. We need to see some Frey's killed here. I mean, seriously, in the series they're just getting away with the Red Wedding. Also LSH is not just thematically important, but in TWOW it seems she's going to be the driving force in Brienne and Jaime's conflict. I just cannot see Brienne betraying Jaime for anyone other than Catelyn. I'm supposing the drama in King's Landing will be Cersei doing her own "House of Cards" style scheming to lead Margaery (and herself) to ruin. That could be interesting if they do it right. It'll need a lot of expansion though, these were some of the dullest parts of AFFC for me. They are already setting up Qyburn's creation of Frankengregor, so maybe we'll even get Cersei's trial by combat next season? Other Big Season 5 Possibilities: 1) Griff and Young Griff, some people are thinking they'll just remove the Aegon storyline, I'm guessing those people are the book readers who are hoping for Aegon to not be important later on. He dominates ADWD though, and I can't see them cutting him out. Also Jon Connington is a character I'd like to see, I don't see that happening without Aegon. 2) Quentyn Martell, Dragontamer. Curious about this one, we've seen casting calls out for Doran, Trystane and the Sand Snakes, but nothing with Quentyn and his party. I really like Gerris Drinkwater and Archibald Yronwood. I'm hoping we get all three, even though this story doesn't seem all that necessary, it does seem like they might lack for deaths in the upcoming season, and might include it to keep up the quota as it were. 3) Sam, Gilly and Aemon on the way to Oldtown. Another one that I'm not sure will happen but i hope does. I kinda want to see Alleras/Sarella and I'm hoping that storyline is going somewhere in the books. It might be nice to see Sam run into Arya in Braavos too, he can be the one to collect meetings with Starks.

I don't even think it can even be called presumably. It's definitely a trap. She tells Jaime that she found Sansa and she's with the Hound a day's ride from Pennytree, and that if they don't go together alone the Hound will kill Sansa. We of course know that this scenario is impossible. The Hound is either dead or on the Quiet Isle and no longer the Hound, and Sansa is in the Vale. I can't see Brienne lying to jaime unless she's absolutely decided to kill him for Lady Stoneheart.

Because lightsabers make everything better Takeaway: if Emperor Palpatine had trained the Red Viper, he'd still be alive.

I always thought the theory of Shae working for Tywin all along was ridiculous. Bronn was bought super easily, Tywin could have easily bribed Tyrion's guards or Bronn himself if he really wanted to spy on him. Tyrion was pretty easy going with most information. Letting Tyrion keep Shae around was actually contrary to Tywin's plans. Tyrion had less reason to consummate his marriage with Sansa when he had a little Shae-side-action to relieve his frustration. This interview pretty much confirms what I figured all along, Book!Shae was just a whore. She stayed with Tyrion because he kept her in a manse and gave her pretty things and when his star fell she decided to cash out her chips when Cersei offered her a marriage to a knight. Then I'm guessing Tywin decided he'd rather have her, and it's more profitable to be the Hand's whore than it is to be some landed knight's wife. It sounds like what they were going for with TV!Shae was that she's much more like Tysha, she did love Tyrion, but he broke her when he tried to send her away and called her a whore, so she became what he called her.

It's the first mention I believe. Before all of them were King/Queen of the Andals and the First Men. Even in 4E06 when Dany's holding court she's the Queen of the Andals and the First Men with no mention of the Rhoynar. I think it may have just been a slip up, some writer put it in all her titles as they are in the books maybe. If it wasn't a mistake it's a stupid decision to start including it now, it makes it seem as if the title just came out of nowhere. They're just adding more confusion for the sake of confusion.

How dare you leave out House Bolton? The reigning house in the North! Are you prayin' for a flayin'?