![]() She seems much too calm for my tastes, but perhaps that is due to her finally feeling fully free in commanding the Seven Kingdoms as she sees fit. We’ve discussed this in the thread, but I would have appreciated more sadness or hysteria as Cersei realizes the Maggy the Frog prophecy has come true. I wasn’t really a fan of how Lena Headley portrayed Cersei as she looked down on her son’s dead body. Surely Cersei did not expect Tommen to die, especially with the Mountain watching over him. The one character that I had read about on forums leading up to the finale was Tommen, who many suspected would commit suicide after realizing his wife and friends of the Faith were just obliterated. I predicted that Cersei would burn it down, but I did not expect the level of magnitude and sheer amount of major characters killed off. In the end (and only 15 minutes into the episode), we have seen the deaths of recurring characters including Pycelle, High Sparrow, Loras Tyrell, Margaery Tyrell, Mace Tyrell, Lancel Lannister, Kevan Lannister and everyone else present in the sept. Cersei is casually sipping on some vino while Lancel crawls in order to save everybody. The High Sparrow is too full of himself to care. Margaery realizes Cersei isn’t present and something is amiss. The music truly kept me on the edge of my seat last night as I just knew (and was hoping) that something big was going to happen.Īnd boy did it happen. Right off the bat, we are greeted with some intense, eerie music that I thought set the scene tremendously for the next 10-15 minutes. The tenth episode opens with an incredible, heart-pounding sequence of scenes that flip between the sept of Baelor and the Red Keep. I hope that the show creators Benioff and Weiss continue to work with Sapochnik because it has very clearly worked thus far. I have to continue to give credit to director Miguel Sapochnik, who has directed arguably the 3 best episodes of the last 2 seasons (Hardhome, The Battle of the Bastards, The Winds of Winter) and perhaps even of the show. If you would like to discuss the episode with book spoilers, click here. If you would like to discuss the episode, click here. Regardless, Episode 10, “The Winds of Winter” was an all-time episode for me. Perhaps that is due to me becoming more and more an “Unsullied” watcher as we stray further and past the books, or it is due to the action, script and acting improving. Episode 10 did not disappoint (and perhaps, even went above and beyond). ![]() Flash-forward to this season and I must say that it is likely my favorite season to date. Seasons 4 and 5 were sometimes a struggle as I did not really understand what the writers and directors were doing or why they made various changes. I love the books, and I also love the show, but I often found myself nitpicking minor changes about the television adaptation because I preferred how George RR Martin wrote it. Ever since I completed the “A Song of Ice and Fire” books during Season 3 of the show, I have considered myself a book purist.
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