Kangaroo Court
Did you ever have your dad umpire in Little League? Some dads, the ones who really pushed their kids and thought they were all the next Griffey would obviously cheat for their offspring. They'd give them the benefit of the doubt constantly. However, most of us were terrible and our dads knew that and just wanted to get through the game. They were also worried about being seen as biased toward their own kid, so they called balls and strikes harder on their own kids than on anyone. You'd have to swing at pitches above your head or rolling on the ground if dad was the umpire.
With Tywin judging Tyrion, with Mace and Oberyn, take that balls and strikes factor. Then compound it by the fact that Tywin really really hates Tyrion due to his small strike zone, than you start to get an idea of how effed in the a Tyrion is.
As lax Oberyn appears, such as not bothering to stand when Tywin enters the Small Council chamber, he seems genuinely invested in the trial, asking sincere questions. He makes a point about Lannisters paying debts...
Though, Tyrion is family. And Tywin does view him partly the way you view your racist uncle, where you kind of roll your eyes and avoid killing him. In this case, it appears it actually is Tywin's plan to not kill him but send him to the Wall, which would put him back in touch with his friend Janos Slynt and the acting LC Alistair. Jaime proposes the idea to Tywin (using similar logic to what we discussed) and is even willing to give up his Kingsguard appointment and go back to Casterly Rock to raise little Lannisters. He doesn't seem suspicious that he should have driven a harder bargain though, because by the speed at which Tywin accepted this arrangement, he probably planned to do it all along. Which literally means that Tyrion is facing death or exile. Or perhaps death...by exile.*
Tough for Tyrion to top his confession at the Eyrie. But he still rolls the dice. Jaime is caught in the middle, and would he be able to fight for him anyways? Will Bronn pick up the mantle again?
* The single funniest line in all three Batmans. Even if it's GRITTY and DARK you can still find humor.
Braavos
...is added to the opening credits, featuring a large Boba Fett standing at the entrance to their port. Mycroft Holmes* has taken a profession as a banker. Few people shown from the East are white. Basically, Mycroft and Illyrio so far. It brings to mind John Adams asking for money from the Dutch in the effort against the British. I find the international relations between the West and the East to be fascinating and I hope we continue to see interactions like these. The bank has been touched on multiple times this season and now Stannis' campaign has a shot in the arm, able to reload against the Lannisters. It also means the Iron Bank is probably not going provide much help to the Crown. Nor will it stop at one loan with Stannis. If he makes any decent progress, it means he'll get more money.
* The Elementary version of Mycroft has played a large part in the end of season arc over there
Dany's One Thing
Much like Ava had one thing to do each episode, Dany follows that pattern this season. Today she sits in a throne room dealing out patronage. Her dragons are out and about having barbeques. Let me save you a thousand pages of reading and sum up the Dany/Hizdahr interation.
Hizdahr: Please?
Dany: No
Hizdahr: But, tradition. And things.
Dany: Ugh, fine.
Ser Not Appearing in this Film
Arya/Hound, Littlefinger/Sansa, Snow and the Wall, Bran & Co. So basically, all the living Starks. Huh...
Silvers and Coppers
- Unfortunately, in the battle between Ironborn and Bolton men, there are survivors.
- I always pictured Hizdar looking like how Xaro looked in the show
- Mace Tyrell, Master of Gophering. He calls out that he is master of ships, the way a little kid would claim that he gets a particular game piece, or that he gets to be Han Solo when the kids play Star Wars
- Cersei's title is Master of Discounting things
- Tywin is 67, which puts him a little under 50 during Robert's Rebellion
- I found it significant intelligence dug something up about Sansa and Dontos, as well as the necklace
- "Every excuse to dance these blues away.....I ain't comin home"
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