Time flies when you’re having fun, doesn’t it 3.5 readers?
Season 6 of GOT is over. Done. Finito. In the books.
Let’s talk but beware for like Melisandre’s mystical vagina, this post is dark and full of terrors…AND SPOILERS.
Mostly spoilers.
From a writing standpoint, so many things happened this season that we’ve all been waiting for a long time:
- Arya got her revenge.
- Jon Snow is King of the North.
- Sansa escaped a life of having to go from being tortured by one douche to being tortured by another douche.
- One of Cersie’s schemes actually worked.
- The Imp is finally recognized by someone who appreciates his brain.
- The Khaleesi is on her way to Westeros.
- Overall, the kids have grown up and everyone’s either doing or on their way to doing what they’ve been meant to do all along.
So about last night –
CERSEI
She’s long lamented that her lack of a dong has held her back. She has argued many a time that she’s wise and brilliant and if only she were a man she’d be taken seriously.
Well, people be taking her ass seriously now because…holy shit…she done went and exploded the Sept of Baelor.
Took out the High Sparrow, all his little sparrows, probably even the Tyrells though technically we didn’t get full confirmation as to whether or not Margery and Loras made it out or not.
The running joke about Cersei is that her schemes always fail. Not only do they fail but they usually make her problems worse. (i.e. she gives the High Sparrow extra powers to go after her enemies only to have him turn on her.)
Did Cersie know that Tommen would kill himself?
You could argue yes because she did put on her Queenly garment before it all went down.
You could argue no because she had Frankenmountain keep him from getting blown up and historically, though she has been douchey to everyone else, she has been fiercely loyal to her children.
At any rate, her butt is on the Iron Throne.
KHALEESI
I know her name isn’t Khaleesi but I like it better and it is easier to spell.
Didn’t you get goosebumps seeing all those ships and dragons crossing the Narrow Sea?
The long awaited invasion of Westeros is on the way.
Though I have to wonder, when that happens, could the end of the show be far behind? Putting the Khaleesi on the Iron Throne and defeating the White Walkers seems like the final plot points that need to be wrapped up.
THE IRON BORN
Bunch of smelly pirate vikings.
If you ask me, GRRM is way too obsessed with turning his male characters into eunuchs. Spare the balls, George. Spare the balls.
But despite being a eunuch, Theon seems to be on the way toward redeeming himself for his douchebaggery. He’s lost his claim to the Iron Islands, but may do something super heroic, die in battle, or end up as his sister’s chief advisor.
Speaking of…
WOMEN TAKING OVER
Hey. Look. I’m all for women’s rights and shit but Westeros is becoming a total vag-ocracy here.
You’ve got Cersei on the Iron Throne and the Khaleesi about to take the Iron Throne (does anyone think anyone in Westeros is willing to be chomped by a dragon to protect Cersei? Doubtful.)
You’ve got Ellaria Sand ruling Dorne after killing her brother-in-law in a coup.
You’ve got Lady Olena in charge of Highgarden even though she’s like a million years old.
Sure, Jon Snow is King of the North but he’s one of those perpetually depressed hipster emo losers who will probably walk away from it all and turn it over to Sansa.
I’m not saying never have a woman ruler but you know, let’s mix it up and have some peen-ocracies and some vag-ocracies.
ARYA
Checked a big name off her list. Got her revenge.
WHAT’S BEYOND WESTEROS?
There was a brief mention this season that there is land beyond Westeros but no one has ever sailed that far.
I wonder if that will become some kind of allegory to Europeans sailing and colonizing the Americas.
WHAT SAY YOU, 3.5 READERS?
What did you like about this season? What did you not like? What did you want to see and or not see?
What’s next?
Discuss.
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