jfoobar

My guess is no, not legally (as in according to the Queen). Riverrun now belongs to whomever Frey's heir is. Arya did not "kill off the Freys" as there dozens of them. The show only implies that she killed three of them.

mwbmis

She did create a power vacuum though. The Frey's are disorganized and more than a bit dumb. Walder was the smartest of the lot. The Riverlands will probably be complete chaos until someone comes in and takes over.

Edmure Tully is not exactly a cunning leader either.

Greedoshotfirst

I was thinking...I wonder if it'll ever be brought up that Varys was a part of Robert's council when they planned to have Dany murdered, which Varys agreed to. Is Varys out for his own self interest and only believes in Dany because at the end of the day, he believes she will take the throne?

It probably won't, but I was watching old episodes and thought that was interesting.

boredsilly

I think the only thing that makes this stuff feel so pronounced is because in the earlier seasons such a big emphasis was placed on how long it took people to get from point a to point b. So something about the characters leaping around feels in-authentic, but I also conceded that it shouldn't detract too much from the show. Especially if you think about the stories not happening concurrently.

LurkerDan

good analysis. and yeah, normally I don't care too much either. The Varys one bothered me, though, because it was so jarring and unnecessary.

GreenMonkey

Mostly it's just Littlefinger. The Varys one was a bit jarring. But at least he did it by ship - theoretically faster than Littlefinger, who constantly appears in places very far apart, traveling by (theoretically) mostly horseback across a dangerous, war-torn region.

Defiant1

They are two different dresses.

Dorne is easily the most liberal and progressive of the Seven Kingdoms so I'm sure Dany would be just fine with them the way they are. The Tyrells of The Reach are well known for basically siding with whoever is in power and wouldn't need much reforming. Other than the Iron Islanders' penchant for reaving and raping, Westeros is reasonably progressive overall for a medieval-type society. Dany would basically just need to give more rights to women and perhaps to the smallfolk. She does seem to be a strong believer in noblesse oblige and that absolute monarchy is the best form of government.

bluetoast

Defiant1, thanks for the insight. Looks like those alliances should hold then.

Except that the fleet at the end included Tully and Tyrell sigils, indicating that they agreed to team up. So presumably, he came back with them. Though to be fair, I didn't notice them myself, and was also wondering at first how he teleported.

fujishig

Tully or Martell? If it's the former than I really missed something.

bluetoast

Whoops, Martell, not Tully.

fujishig

Speaking of male heirs, who is there left for Dany to even consider marrying for an alliance (besides Jon) Robin? Martell and Tyrell and her side of the Greyjoys don't and are already on her side. In fact who besides Cersei and Littlefinger (who is seemingly going to get very screwed over) even wants the iron throne anymore?

windom

Sweet Robin would actually be a good idea for Dany to marry. Doesn't the Vale have one of the biggest armies in the north? Also, Tyrion is familiar with Robin. It would be cool to see some other characters introduced to the moon door. It would be also be cool to see Dany fill the role of Robin's mom, if you know what I mean... Unfortunately, he's probably too much of pussy for her.

Josh-da-man

Yeah, all of the heads of the original heads Of the seven kingdoms (from the beginning of the series) have all died or been killed:

Jon Arryn of The Vale
Robert Baratheon of the Crownlands
Ned Stark of The North
Renly Baratheon of the Stormlands
Hoster Tully of the Riverlands
Tywin Lannister of the Westerlands
Stannis Baratheon of Dragonstone
Doran Martell of Dorne
Balon Greyjoy of the Iron Islands
Mace Tyrell of The Reach

The others, like Reed, Seaworth, and Tarly are minor houses under the authority of their great houses of their various regions and there are hundreds of these.

Osiris3657

I found this amusing overall. Some impressions are spot on (Jon, Ramsay, Jaqen), others suck (Jorah, Tormund, Sam)

Tom Banjo

I've seen lots of variations of this phrase on black t-shirts via Facebook ads. They should be easy enough to find with some searching. Maybe Etsy?

Tom Banjo

Fuck that site! I really wanted to read the article but the page keeps incessantly reloading every few seconds until the browser crashes. I've tried it on two different browsers on my iPad without success.
Does it say anything about a downloadable score for the episode?

LurkerDan

I know, but they didn't need to show him with those ships to get the idea that they had agreed to team up. We pretty much knew that the moment he showed up in Dorne for that meeting. That was my problem with it, it was unnecessarily jarring. But no biggie, I'm not losing sleep.

GuessWho

Timber

I think the point of the castle scene was that Edmure still was ruler of the Riverlands. That's why the Walder Frey didn't have him killed. He needs him alive.

Aphex Twin

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hc7mkijdtg...Music.pdf?dl=0

Josh-da-man

When the Boltons defeated the Starks they took over Winterfell themselves (not sure what happened to the Dreadfort).

In theory, if the Freys became rulers of the Riverlands they would take over Riverrun themselves. But since The Twins is a big money making racket for the Freys, Walder would probably want to stay there himself. There also might be a problem with too many Tully loyalists at Riverrun.

creekdipper

https://www.yahoo.com/news/never-for...184854101.html

Clegane smash!

or

"First, there is a Mountain, then there is no Mountain, then there is...."

Original Desmond

Finally caught up

Last few episodes absolutely killed it ! amazing TV. Production values of a big budget action movie combined with the emotional connection you only get with over 50 hours with characters.

Lady morment stole the show for me, amazing little actress and character

The death of the High sparrow wasn't intimate enough for me. I'm pretty anti religion so really wanted him to see a painful death. at least his butch female offsider is gettin hers

Arya killing Frey was a 'cheap pop' but oh so satisfying. I know people have been critical of Arya's story, i loved it. she went away a victimised little girl, came back a little assassin.

When Arya reunites with Sansa and Jon, who won't be bawling their eyes out ? I just recently rewatched season 1 episode 1, seeing the Stark happy families seems so so long ago.

Sad to see Margery go because i don't think her story was done. Didn't mind Tommen topping himself

The players have been trimmed and things are really set for the final run home which should be a blinder. I think we are going to see some of the biggest budget TV episodes ever made

Also can't wait for a stand off between Danys/Tyrion and Cersi/Jaime

The Dorne/Tyrell alliance is interesting. They are minor players but adds another player

DJariya

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-thrones-season-7-may-908804

Season 7 may be delayed. Article says it's due to weather reasons for the story. They are going to start production later.

slop101

I'm surprised they can't make things look more "winter-like" either in post and/or film-making tricks during production.