There is an example of something that we would recognise as democracy in Essos, the voting for the Triarchs of Volantis. Any freeborn land owner (including women) can vote in the elections. Candidates need to be of Valyrian blood, and hold office for a year.
I doubt it would scale to a continent the size of Westeros well enough to work though.
Soooooo much this.
Cersei meeting her end from somebody she long-ago dismissed as not-worth-thinking-about and from one of her pettiest moments, would have been so much more thematically satisfying than what happened: A surprise five-minute reunion with the man she didn’t want around, all for some squicky idea that incestuous siblings should end up together in the end.
“I wanted Arya to kill Cersei,” she said. “Even up to the point when Cersei’s with Jaime I thought, ‘He’s going to whip off his face [and reveal its Arya]’ and they’re both going to die.
Just imagine. Arya kills Jaime at Winterfell. In his face, she breaks up with Brienne who can’t understand “why the sudden change of heart?” and then a quick ride down to King’s Landing and people’s screaming nightmares forevermore.
(Bonus: Last shot stays the same. Brienne writing in the Book of Brothers: Died protecting his Queen…)
One thing I cant get past. Isnt making Bran King of the 6 Kingdoms analogous to making the Head of the NSA President?
Surveillance State?
I awoke the next day to be surprised that this was the internet’s assessment; watching the show my first thought was uh oh people are going to be pissed they turned her into Christopher Columbus.
A pirate? A pirate would go where they know there is shipping to plunder, not off the edge of the map.
My thought on Bran is that if “history is a nightmare from which I (we) am trying to awake”, then humanity is fucked.
Yes, you’re absolutely right, that was the intent. Pirate Arya was what I thought of, though, when I saw her on the sailing ship, and would have made more sense to me. She’s got a nice scar for it.
Not that I care much, just since we’re talking “fan service”:
Both Tarly and Tarth were minor houses who, in a fandom driven narrative, should not be there. In a TV series context, it makes sense, since they are major supporting cast. I’m ok with it, they fought the Army of the Dead and everything.
Also, I wouldn’t call comic relief dumb fan service, but it still is lazy writing. Like Edmure’s slapstick. No-one really needed this, but some tension was eased. Can do. Don’t care too much.
Talking about the electorate, there would be some precedent in Westeros in 101 AC, and maybe 136 AC, in a much smaller setting. I recently gathered this from Fire and Blood, which gives a history of Westeros under the Targaryan’s reign. (Helps me to fall asleep. Sincerely, it’s boring in a nice way.)
Point is: Samwell Tarly could have known this and suggested a Great Council instead of blabbering about “everyone” and being laughed at. Wonder a bit why they went for the laugh instead.
I rather thought of the Grey Havens, and Arya going west as a “I’m leaving this shitshow behind”. Might be that this was caused by someone mentioning Jon to have the same constipated look on his face as Elijah Wood. During most of the last episode, and I couldn’t help it but see Frodo.
And she has the dagger for it. A pirate needs a good dagger.
That, and they need something for those drunk guys to sell late at night on HSN.
Hilarious!
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