Euron Greyjoy Is Trying Too Hard

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Big props to you guys for getting the instacast out early Monday morning so us East-coasters could continue to obsess over this episode on the drive in Monday. many thanks to you guys.

I want to address Euron Grayjoy. Can we roll back to last season for a moment, when he first gets there and is talking to the Iron Born fleet, where hes talking about taking the “Queen of Dragons” and how he is going to seduce her with his big fleet of ships and take her as his queen. Cersi wasn’t in his line of sight until after Theon and Yara take the fleet and beat him to Daenerys, his only option left is abandon the first plan he had and default to the second, that being Cersi. Which, at least to me, leads back to the prophecy that Cersi was given as a little girl, wherein the witch tells her that a younger queen will replace her. First she was focused on Sansa, then Margaery, she has no idea it was Daenerys all along. So it isn’t like Euron had this master plan to get Cersi and join her side. Hes only defaulting to Cersi because the Queen he really wanted is now on his enemies side, and even with his Rock Star persona they gave him, hes trying a little too hard layering on the suck-up-ness a little too thick, he should be a little smarter than pulling a line like “as a little boy i wanted to marry the most beautiful queen” like come on. You may have won Cersei over by being frank and saying yea i was going to marry the young beautiful mother of dragons but my shit ass niece and nephew beat me so, guess that leaves us with the same enemy lets get hitched and do this. Maybe its me, but it felt like a little too much cheese.

Also weird note to thrown down, but anyone else getting that ying-yang feeling? Jon is the warrior, Sansa is the politician. Jamie is the warrior, Cersi is the politician. Even Theon and Yara are that ying yang of warrior/politician. They are each like scales, needing to be perfectly balances in order to effectively rule. But then you look Daenerys, yes she is counseled by advisors and yes she always has someone guiding her (for the most part, or just giving her the pep talk she needs to arrive at the right decision), but overall she is the balance in and of herself. Its just interesting to see that, while shared power may be the best in some circumstances, it does leave that duo open to in-fighting, causing cracks in their loyalty to one another, when one wants power more than the other. Daenerys killed her brother, there is no one to question her authority, and she clearly seems to find a balance and walk the line of a true warrior and diplomat. Just an interesting note from the first episode back.

And gene, from the moment i realized it was ed sheeren (from my mother who does not watch game of thrones making her sole comment of “oh thats perfect he looks like a troll”) i knew you were going to hate it, i fell victim to the shock and awe because it was unexpected and it did take me out of the show. It was done to be done. They don’t have Geoffrey to shocked us with his cruelty and Little Finger isn’t spending any time in his brothels so I guess they needed to throw in something that would have us not discussing the plot and theorizing every scene for the moment, throwing the beehive mentality off the plot, so we would all focus on a stupid cameo instead. It worked, but you guys don’t fall prey to those tricks. We’ll keep our tin-foil hats close by.

Theres so much more, I’ll wait patiently for you guys to dive deeper and take it from there. Also, love the small counsel. (or council? i honestly dont know)

As always, the most annoying

Gillian

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