Season Five Takes Its Cues From The Godfather He kept the volatile Lannister elements in a sour, bitter suspension, but with him gone it seems entirely possible that his house could fall apart and go the way of House Reyne - and then what happens to the Iron Throne? Tywin’s left no real scraps of power for his children - though they’ll be saddled with his legacy of resentment and estrangement for the rest of their lives - and, well, it’s only a matter of time before the rest of his grandchildren tip into the “golden shrouds” portion of the witch’s prophecy.
Cool, cold Tywin Lannister was a lot of things: the architect of the family legend, the wellspring of its pain, and the pin in its grenade. The question of what happens now that Tywin’s gone looms over much of the season-five opener. After all, as last season’s finale reminded us, you can wake up one morning as the Hand of the King and find yourself dead on the privy before the next sunrise. (Thank the Seven she’s honed her zingers since then: Li’l Cersei was not the most inventive of mean girls.) Even the most powerful, ruthless, and tireless players don’t have the luxury of stopping to catch a breath. The girl is, of course, Cersei, getting a fateful glimpse into the battles that lie ahead of her. The episode’s title is “The Wars to Come,” but this flashback reminds us that, in Westeros, war is both perpetually always here and always on its way. Gold will be those three children’s crowns, and “gold their shrouds.” She will be queen for a while, and then a younger, more beautiful queen will take her place.
The blonde demands to hear her fortune and the witch concedes, sucking a fairy-tale drop of blood from the girl’s thumb and telling her that she will not marry “the prince,” as she expects, but will instead marry “the king” - a king who will have 20 children, though the girl will only have three. Welcome back, GoT!!!Īs in Bran’s encounter with the three-eyed raven, the girls enter the cave in search of wisdom from a creature on the edges of humanity - in this case, a witch rumored to have “cat’s teeth and three eyes” who turns out to be pretty normal-looking, as cave-witches go. So even if the eerie music and the spooky cave didn’t tip you off, the mere sight of two girls walking alone through dense, black woods probably triggered that anticipatory stomach burble you’ve been missing these past ten months. Game of Thrones cold opens do not usually turn out well for young ladies in dark forests. Watch Game of Thrones Season 5 Episode 2 Online - s05e02
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