Consider it EW’s small council, made of two people far too obsessed with everythingThrones.
Is there any chance that she survives 11 more episodes?
That would’ve been quite a trump card.)
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Maybe I’m putting too much stock in Book-Euron, though.
We’re never gonna get that eyepatch, are we, Darren?
How different is TV-Euron from Book-Euron?
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Are they even remotely the same character?
Fair to say, this is NOT the interpretation of Euron that David Benioff & D.B.
Weiss have run with in the last couple episodes.
Euron is kind of like Bronn with sails, and I like Bronn, and I like sailing!
Do you have different feelings about the radical Euron reboot?
(Seven hells, Cat Euron.)
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So yeah, sail away, Euron!
Go off to Yi Ti!I want to know more about Yi Ti!
We just had Hot Pie drop by last week, didn’t we?
And at this point, I think whatThroneslacks the most isn’t levity.
I think it lacks moments that define the stakes for this world.
Take that scene with the Lannister soldiers andwhispersEd Sheeran.
We could, if you remove pop-star-who-shall-not-be-named-again, use more of that.
Is anybody evenleftin Dorne?
Has Westeros been emptied of regular people since the War of the Five Kings?
If the point is to save Westeros, shouldn’t we see why it’s even worth saving?
But maybe I’m being nit-picky when there are bigger questions to consider.
Darren, what are you hoping to see more of (or less of!)
as we head into episode 3, “The Queen’s Justice”?
And to be clear: I am HERE for two (three?)
more books about Eyepatch Euron the Pirate Cthulhu.
But it feels like last season’s finale was a real statement of purpose from Benioff & Weiss.
We’re rushing headlong towards Lannister v Stark v Targaryen v White Walkers.
Where the hell was I?
Episode 3: I’m buying what you’re selling with the soldiers and the smallfolk.
Which at this point, really, means more of Arya and the Hound.
Together and now separately, they’re our most interesting envoys into the wider world of Westeros.
(Wolfsbane and Jean Grey, together again for the first time!)
And how did you feel about the pronoun-centric resolution to the “prince/ss that was promised” prophecy?
I’m reminded of something Jon Snow tells Melisandre in his last chapter (so far?)
in the books: “It seems to me that you make nothing but mistakes, my lady.”
I didn’t eventhinkabout Yara and Ellaria (Yallaria?
That would have been fun to watchandwould have pushed the envelope in a wayThroneshasn’t before.
I’ve got my fingers and toes and eyes crossed that Grey Worm survives the ambush.
If the Greyjoys can’t last, I’m hoping this shade of Grey does.
And yet, that’s always felt too obvious, hasn’t it?
Having Missandei clarify that last week only made me more worried that what we’re expecting will not be.
What do you think?
The Kingslayer could become a Queenslayer, no prophecy required!
SHIRLEY:Her name is Tyene, Darren!!!
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