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Originally Posted by Mike F
Can one of you who seems to be able to come up with some explanation for anything explain the logic behind Cersei's actions...
- She seems genuinely shaken by the undead soldier and offers to accept the truce if Jon swears loyalty to her (I think?) and agrees to never leave the North;
- When Jon refuses, she says No Deal to the whole thing, and storms out of the conference;
- Tyrion says. . . . Something
 . . . . to her and she comes back not only ready to accept the truce, but pledges Lannister troops to fight with the North. . . . Except;
- She then says, Nope, I'm keeping my troops here to consolidate my hold on the South as soon as the Golden Company arrives.
I genuinely can't see a logical thread, but rather than just bashing the writing, I'll give the collective shadow writers here a chance to make sense of it.
And if you can do that, we can move on to the entire Sansa & Arya plotline, which has me similarly baffled. |
The way I read Arya Sansa is Arya is playing the game of faces with her in the previous episodes and determines she wants what's best for the North and not whats best for her even if Sansa doesn't know that about herself. Arya wouldn't walk into the room to be betrayed without knowing the outcome. This might be assuming too much from Arya and is a little reachy.
Sansa applied Littlefingers advice to Littlefinger and went through each persons worst motivations. Then realized she has someone who can see the past and just asked him what happened.
Then sweet revenge.
My personal issue with this Arc is it revictimizes Sansa at the the hands of a man though she finally does beat him on her own. If you look at the season from the perspective of Sanssa the manipulated victim rather than Sansa, lady of winterfel I think everything works.
I really wish they spent less on CGI and more on shows. An episode like this one is what makes the show ticked. All of the problems this season could have been fixed with more dialog and greater screen time between battles to make the troop movements less jarring.
Cersai's line about listening to their father and calling Jaimie an idiot was fantastic.