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Published May 6, 2019 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hello and thanks for all your time and effort on these reviews. Two things:
There was some dialogue that revealed something to me, that these characters exist on “a continent with millions of people” and that most of those people don’t really care who sits on the Iron Throne. That is larger and more realist worldview that I don’t remember having been expressed before

Second, I read a review in the NY Post that postulated Sansa as the one who will bring Cersei down. Daenerys, I think, will die or go mad in her quest to bring Cersei down. Plus Daenerys has an arrogance about her right to the IT that has tragic flaw written all over it. Jon really is not a peacetime leader. I think he knows that and his history, so far as I can tell, and self-evaluation does not put him on a path to the Iron Throne. Sansa, however, does care about the details of how people will eat, for example, and has had experiences that have helped her grow in empathy with her fellow Westerosi, even as those experiences helped her learn to understand and navigate the realities of power. It is an interesting and plausible outcome to me.

Anyway, thanks again for the time and effort.

Steve M.

PS– I began following your podcasts with last season’s Westworld reviews. Hopefully, that gem will be back in 2020 as has been publicized.

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