Turns out Euron’s kidnapping last week of Ellaria and her daughter Tyene was the demented pirate equivalent of a trip to Tiffany’s. The punishment called back to Cersei’s own dark terror, expressed last season after Myrcella’s murder, about imagining dead loved ones decomposing in the grave. You will “watch her beautiful face collapse to bone,” Cersei told Ellaria. At the same time Jaime, her closest companion, seems ever more uncertain about the future, which could be a problem. • I was, however, satisfied to hear that state propaganda had supplied an explanation for Cersei’s Season 6 Sept explosion.

Source: New York Times July 31, 2017 03:56 UTC