#Tyrion lannister quotes unpregnable tv#

Petyr Baelish’s USP has always been admittedly the kind of foresight that comes from being a cunning genius. And same for Aiden Gillen (that pleading gasp that flits across his face - genius), who pulled off the daunting challenge of essaying a well-informed know-it-all that has been one-upped by an all-knowing know-it-all. That said, are we to surmise, from the reprieves she accords both her brothers at the Mountain’s hand, that she is actually earnestly loyal to family as she claims? I thought that was just something she said.īravo, Littlefinger (moment of silence). If I read the scene right, she might have even used her unborn child as a pawn in the Great Game, leading Tyrion to believe that her humanitarian feint is in aid of her pregnancy and imminent maternality. She has everything to lose by giving in, so instead of sobering up at the prospect of death, she continues to coldly strategise. Given that her much-humbled twin Jaime chooses to fight for the common humanitarian good, you get the feeling the power-drunk Cersei might have chosen differently if only she didn’t have the intoxicating keys to the kingdom.

And naturally, the most powerful of them all, Cersei, the quintessential 1%, is smug enough to feel like she can afford to let the world burn, on the off-chance that she can hide under the ashes. We now have a civilisation on the threshold of extinction.

Even if the show has radically turned coat on GRRM’s canonical storyline, and in the process disrupted the integrity of the books’ original GoT world, Benioff and Weiss have managed, by hook and by crook, to craft a denouement worth awaiting in its own right. And under Jeremy Podeswa’s direction, the narrative has left a lot to look forward to.

#Tyrion lannister quotes unpregnable tv#

‘Suspense’ is the greatest asset of a TV show (books have ‘explicit insight’ going for them). With an 80-minute set-up, ‘The Dragon and the Wolf’ left loads of questions hanging, which is to its credit.

All the fan knows is that she is dying to know the following: What will Aegon Targaryen (Kit Harrington) feel about his newfound (read, true) identity? What will aunty Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) feel, if and when she finds out that her new lover is her nephew? What will Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) feel when he realises he has been played once again by his pregnancy-exploiting Queen of a sister? Will Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) receive a comeuppance or a transformative realisation? Will former King’s Guard Commander Jaime Lannister’s (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) golden hand be able to survive without the glove that is Ser Bronn’s (Jerome Flynn) divine hand? Will Sansa (Sophie Turner), Arya (Maisie Williams), and Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), with their collective acumen, survive the impending Undead attack on Winterfell? Will Ramin Djawadi’s soundtrack for Theon Greyjoy’s (Alfie Allen) save-my-only-sister-and-my-honour rescue mission comprise a triumphant orchestra or a sad emasculated trombone? What will the Iron Throne feel when the first snowflake of the Long-Night informs it that it is nothing more than a collage of scrap metal concocted to entrench the artifice of dominion, a papier-mâché assortment of discarded knives assigned the sinecure of royalty? Will the Night King’s Army’s leisurely amble escalate to a brisk march now that it has emphatically breached the Wall? Weiss are still scripting the rest and then they have to shoot it all, weather permitting Winter has fully arrived in Westeros, and they need to find suitably snowy locations on Earth to film at, don’t you understand?īut all these are logistical impediments. But the season is done David Benioff and D.B. No one who watches Game of Thrones can be OK with waiting for over a year for the next episode.