GOT Tidbits

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From a Natalie Dormer (Margaery) interview:

Before the interview, Natalie was unaware that her kitty co-star Ser Pounce was a fan favorite, and that in the books he is one of three kittens that Margaery gives Tommen to win him over.

“Is he? That’s so cute! She would have made a very good therapist, I think. She’s very skilled at personality analysis. Tommen’s too young for her to appeal to him in a certain way, the way she could with Joffrey, because he’s still a child, so she wants to befriend him, gain his trust, and make him feel safe. He has an attachment with the cat, so she draws on that. She’s very good at figuring out what makes people tick.”

And a (funny. consensual) fan re-write of THAT Jaime/Cersei scene from last week

And I liked the (further) discussion of the Sept scene in the Washington Post review of this week's episode:

It is a striking, curt little speech, and it leaves unsaid what could be a fascinating dynamic between the pair. Less interesting than the gap between the showrunners’ and director’s description of the rape scene is the one between Cersei and Jaime. Disturbing as it might be, it seems entirely possible that Cersei believes she was raped, while Jaime believes that what happened between them was consensual. 

She cannot resolve that, or any of the other unresolved things that lie between them. But Cersei can shut a certain gate on their relationship. By addressing Jaime as the Lord Commander, by turning away from him, Cersei imposes a formality on their relationship. It is a paltry thing, but this is the authority that remains to her as former queen regent, the little power she can claim as Tommen’s mother. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. But that maxim does not mention how painful and protracted your life can become before it ends.

Less altered from the novel is a subsequent scene in which Jaime gives Brienne of Tarth his Valyrian steel sword and a set of armor, charging her to use both to bring Sansa Stark home. But the shade of the sept falls over their exchanges, too: Jaime frequently looks away from the clear gaze of the woman who has come to believe in him, and who pledges to uphold not just her honor, but his own.

When Brienne rides away with Podrick Payne, Jaime sees his honor going with her. Now that Cersei has abjured him, Jaime is left with himself for company, and the account of himself that he writes in the Book of Brothers. When Bronn knocked Jaime to the dirt with his own, gold-plated hand, the sell-sword could not have possibly known how right he had it.

Comments

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Have to say, I didn't find 'the shadow of the sept' lying over the Jaime/Brienne scene at all. It was just a Jaime/Brienne scene, which I enjoyed, as I always do.

I just can't get too exercised about that sept scene. It, unfortunately, just seems par for the course as the Jaime/Cersei relationship has gone in the show.

I do like that parody of the scene, though.

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I did buy that there would likely be different POVs of that scene. What it was from Cersei's POV and what it was from Jaime's is probably not the same thing. And, it could've been true of the book scene as well. The book scene is entirely Jaime's POV. Given what we got of Cersei's views on everything in subsequent books, there's little to say that it would seem the same from hers. (In reading Cersei POV one finds that Cersei is every bit the narcissist one would think she might be.)