May 24, 2019
As Nancy Pelosi is engaging Trump rhetoric;
with some musings of her own;
I just realized that she is 3rd in line
in Our game of thrones.
The Game of Thrones finale (actually much of the final season) left me with a number of unresolved storylines:
1) Firstly, Who-in-the-Hell was the Night King and why did he want to kill Bran the Broken (this title was tacked on rather quickly by Tyrion)? For a moment I thought the Night King had something to do with Jon Snow — as Jon was forced into exile with the Wildlings.
2) Speaking of Jon Snow — I thought he was supposed to be the rightful heir to The Iron Throne? How could he be locked up (and exiled) for killing Daenerys? It was his prerogative. And, didn\’t he successfully ride one of the dragons? Only a royal Targaryen can accomplish this, right? Was the whole dragon ride simply meant to get Jon by Drogon en route to taking Daenerys\’ life?
3) Back to Bran: This Three-Eyed Raven title doesn\’t seem to be of much worth (except to execute a few, well-placed, one-liners). If not for Arya — the Night King would have killed Bran — and then what? Aside from traveling in the past — and not showing us anything about the future (though he seemed to know that the council would elect him king) — Bran doesn\’t appear to be of much use. Bran was certainly of no use in Season 5 when he didn\’t even make an appearance. He certainly didn\’t foresee the death of his younger brother (and was there ever a storyline for yet another disposable Stark?).
4) Speaking of Stark children, and Arya\’s ability to face change — what the heck was this talent all about? Was this ability merely to be used once — to avenge the murders of her mother and brother?? And the demolition of King\’s Landing (Season 8/Episode 5) that saw Arya wandering around the burned buildings and corpses of King\’s Landing — while avoiding Drogon — only to ride off on a white horse — meant what?
I maintain — that if not for Sean Bean\’s depiction of Ned Stark in Season 1 — that Game of Thrones never would have gone on to become the sensation it did! I, like many millions, tuned into the next Season to see Ned Stark resurrected — and when he wasn\’t — we stayed tuned in to see Joffrey\’s demise — particularly after two more Starks bit the dust at the end of Season 3. Thank god there is a cosmic justice.
Now will that cosmic justice ever visit the White House and Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court — or, will the current storylines there also play out as non sequiturs? I can only hope that the next 18 months will go by quickly as well — and that someone new seizes the Iron Throne, er, American presidency before it is melted away…
And I am in complete agreement with those who have suggested that it was Peter Dinklage\’s character, Tyrion, who truly carried the show: from start to finish — HIS was the story that provided the glue holding the whole \”thang\” together. I found it humorous that the shortest figure in Game of Thrones played perhaps the largest character in the Marvel Universe. I\’m sure that the Donald might live large in some alternate universe too…
…But for now, with brothels being restored in King\’s Landing, it\’s all the enticement needed for the Donald to lay claim to the throne of the Six Kingdoms…