Joanna Robinson

The real, like, shades of hot pie, like, thinking that just having armor made you a knight.

I also was thinking of Melisandre and Gendry with, like, the King's Blood.

That was an interesting bit of old backstory.

I was thinking about Varys.

Varys as well, for sure.

Varys with abusive priests, yeah.

Yeah.

But, like, you know, sometimes the thing you learn about the characters in the adaptation is...

that they have more of an active hand, and sometimes you learn that there's more of a tragic emptiness or a void there.

The account for Aemon deciding, I'm going to go to Harrenhal in the book is, Septon Eustace tells us that the Kinslayer, Aemon I Kinslayer, was determined that this should be his victory.

He had no wish to share the glory with his brothers nor any other man.

We saw him, to your point, beg Helena to fly with him at the end of last season, and she was like,

I'm going to issue a very spooky prophecy instead and tell you to fuck off, right?

She's like, I'm more interested in bugs.

Thank you very much.

Are there bugs there?

I don't know.

And then his mother, like, manipulating him.

I was waiting for him to be like, why are you trying to convince me that Harrenhal is safe?

I literally have a mural in my bedroom of... Right.