I will give Dickon this much, at least people seem to care that he existed. No such luck for Rickon Stark.
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Nope. He was the forgotten Stark and, sadly, the most innocent up until the end. 
Should have zig-zagged. Serpentine, Rickon. Serpentine.
Nope. The only reference to him this season is an unnamed mention by Daenerys when she refers to Jon's two dead brothers.
I also found it a little weird that it took Sansa so long to mention that Bran was alive and at Winterfell. I guess you could say she was caught up in the moment of reuniting with her only sister, but it felt a little force that the writers wanted to use that mention to segue directly into the next scene at the Weirwood.
She would probably shag his burnt out corpse.
I imagine these conversations are happening off-screen since it's not really relevant to the plot or character arcs.
"Hey Arya, remember our youngest brother Rickon?"
"Yeah, Theon murdered him."
"No, actually he escaped for a few years, but then my husband murdered him in front of all of us at the Battle of the Bastards."
"Oh..."
"So Jon beat him to a pulp with a rock then I fed him to his own dogs."
"OK..."
"But Bran's back!"
"..."
A few minutes of greeting and reconnecting is a long time after not seeing her for half a decade? It seemed perfectly reasonable to me. And yeah, that was the obvious place to end the scene because that's how storytelling works (see above.) Plus I get the sense she had to work up to it since yes, Bran is back, but he's not exactly himself anymore.
Yeah, I guess you're right. Poor Rickon.
I suppose but there were a few points before Sansa got to it that seemed like she should've/could've brought it up. You're probably right about the last part though.
Oh, now that's an interesting point. I've been so focused on the idea of Jaime doing it again but to his sister that I hadn't considered the possibility that Jorah might do it. It would break his heart for certain.
On the other hand, he loves her more than anything else. Would he care if she's roasting Westeros to a crisp if it means he can be by her side?
It's too soon, he only died 5 episodes ago.
I can't believe it's only been 4 episodes between the Battle of the Bastards and Dany's Great Bake Off.
That's from the Land of the Lost movie, right? I'm pretty sure Will Ferrell was quoting the same movie I am, which is The In-Laws:You ever get tired of being wrong?
They also borrow the same quote for a funny scene of avoiding an enemy sniper in the miniseries Generation Kill.
She definitely takes more pleasure in conquest than Jon, but then for the most part she's removed from really messy work, whereas Jon was almost crushed to death by a mountain of corpses. A bit hard to relish the experience from the trenches.
That said, I wouldn't go so far as to say she seeks power for it's own sake. She has a code of honour and a definite mission. She seeks to end the corruption and oppression in Westeros the way she ended slavery in the Bay of Dragons. Granted it didn't start like that, but that's what her goal has become.
Really speaking, her "rightful claim" to the throne is no more of less valid than Cersei's as it basically amounts to "someone I'm related to hit everyone with a big stick until they said 'oh all right fine, you get to be king!'"
Though I suppose it's a little better than strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords.
The concept of rightful heir is laughable at best.. she conveniently ignores how the Targaryens came to power. Would have been awesome if Jon reminded her of this and seeing her reaction.
I really like Dany but she can be really cold blooded and ruthless at times when she wants something to happen.. even as a young girl she quickly wises up and learns how to manipulate Khal Drogo through sex and forging a real bond as equals (and as a bonus she really fell for him and he for her).
She uses people if the situation warrants it and discards them.. ask Daario. However once she is convinced of a person's loyalty and good character she will be your best and most loyal friend but that's quite a small circle nowadays.
I really like Dany but she can be really cold blooded and ruthless at times when she wants something to happen.. even as a young girl she quickly wises up and learns how to manipulate Khal Drogo through sex and forging a real bond as equals (and as a bonus she really fell for him and he for her).
She uses people if the situation warrants it and discards them.. ask Daario. However once she is convinced of a person's loyalty and good character she will be your best and most loyal friend but that's quite a small circle nowadays.
I watched the battle sequence again and I picked up something I missed before: In their hurry to form ranks as shields and spears, many of the Lannister soldiers fail to wear their helmets. It's not an issue of their position in the ranks because you see obvious gaps here and there where soldiers are bare headed. I thought that was a neat touch, intentional or not.
There seems to be an inner battle in Denerys' mind behind her insane bloodlust and her empathetic idealism.
I'm reminded of her magical hallucination in season 2 where she's in the throne room of a burnt out red keep and snow falling through the roof. This seems to me like the outcome if the evil Denerys wins. At some point she will need to make the decision to give up the throne to save the human race.
Speculating about what might happen with Jon. Jon will bend the knee to Denerys and then Littlefinger will get all in Sansa's ear "Hey, you gonna let him do that, Sansa STARK?"
Littlefinger has never been on Arya's list despite being directly complicit in betraying her father. Is it because he didn't out her to Tiwyn in Harenhal, and will he bring this up to try to manipulate Arya?
I'm reminded of her magical hallucination in season 2 where she's in the throne room of a burnt out red keep and snow falling through the roof. This seems to me like the outcome if the evil Denerys wins. At some point she will need to make the decision to give up the throne to save the human race.
Speculating about what might happen with Jon. Jon will bend the knee to Denerys and then Littlefinger will get all in Sansa's ear "Hey, you gonna let him do that, Sansa STARK?"
Littlefinger has never been on Arya's list despite being directly complicit in betraying her father. Is it because he didn't out her to Tiwyn in Harenhal, and will he bring this up to try to manipulate Arya?
I'm not sure anyone else knows Littlefinger was the one who sold out Ned. I don't think Ned was able to tell anyone after he was sent to the dungeon and the only other people who would know and were present when it happened are Cersei, Joffrey, and a bunch of paid off Lanister soldiers. I'm sure there are rumors of LFs involvement, but nothing concrete. Bran probably knows now since he's become Professor X. I was figuring he'll tell Arya and/or Sansa the truth about what happened and then on the list LF goes.
THAT. WAS. SO. GOOD.
Just came here to say that.
Just came here to say that.
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