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Originally Posted by eDave
This is ****ing great! Not sure what happened but **** Cersei.
Ova. I'm lost with the spiritual/Cersei arc though. |
Brief background -- the main religion in Westeros (except in Stark lands) is The Seven. The MOther, the Father, the Stranger, the Warrior, etc.
Because of all the troubles during the civil war, and the siege of King's Landing, the peasants increasingly turned to religion for solace. A branch of the main religion developed which was led to the fellow in rags, nicknamed teh High Sparrow. He is and htey are very pious. Religous zealots, basically.
When they caught the High Septon (the normal, "real" leader of the religion) in a brothel, they shamed him. The Septon then goes to Cercei and demands that they punish them, and throw the High Sparrow in prison. Instead, Cercei thinks she sees an opportunity and instead puts the Septon in prison, and goes to the High Sparrow and elevates him to High Septon.
What she doesn't realize is that this guy doesn't give a shit about money, power, prestige, wealth or the Game of Thrones. He won't be doing any quid pro quos. Cercei doubles down on her mistake by allowing them to have their own quasi-military. The Faith Militant. They were banished long ago (precisely because kings couldn't control them).
Fast forward to Sunday's episode -- the dude with the crazy tattoo on his head -- that's Lancel Lannister, Cercei's cousin. He was the guy who (1) spiked Robert's alcohol (at Cercei's bequest) with a stronger alcohol, so he would be extra drunk and hopefully fail when fighting the boar, which happened and led to his death, (2) was ****ing Cercei after Robert died and Jaime left, and (3) got turned by Tyrion into a spy against Cercei after Tyrion intimidated him into it. Shacking up with cousins apparently isn't allowed, so now Cercei is in jail for it.
What hasn't helped is they switched actors for Lancel. They announced this once episode when we see the new actor, and they're like "surely you remember your cousin Lancel" or something.
Same dude (for purposes of the show):
