Thursday, 31 January 2019

ASoS 60: Tyrion 809

Ah, Westeros knows how to do a good wedding, you can't deny it!

Tyrion has decided that Joff must have sent the assassin after Bran personally. I don't know why I hadn't considered that myself after the knife comment. I suppose I internalised him as a child and therefore incapable of ordering assassinations. But this is Westeros.

Lady Olenna gives Tyrion a run for his money. She cracks me up. More scenes with her and Tyrion, please!

Then 50-odd courses, numerous renditions of the Rains of Castamere, jousting dwarves. And Joff bullying Tyrion. How he kept his cool is beyond me. Knowing Melisandre had cast a spell to kill Joff, I half expected Tyrion to skewer him with one of the dwarves' lances. And then he choked to death on Tyrion's pie. That he stole himself.

"Tyrion found himself thinking of Robb Stark. My own wedding is looking much better in hidsight." Wins the chapter.

But of course it was poison. So who was the poisoner? It seems like the poison was in Tyrion's peice of pie, so was it really intended for Tyrion? Surely Joff didn't eat his own poison. Perhaps Cersei wanted him dead and accidentally killed her own son. That would have appropriate drama. Or if the target was indeed Joff, could Tywin have done it, knowing what a terrible king he would make. I think Tommen is next in line, which would have Tywin really in charge for longer. Or was it the Tyrells? They seemed rather unconcerned when they learned that Joff was likely to beat his wife.

Tyrion is getting the blame for now, though. Off to the dungeons for him. And where did Sansa get to? Is she being rescued by Dontos?