The Meaning Behind Lady Olenna’s Epic Game of Thrones Moment! (Nerdist News w/ Jessica Chobot)

- Did Lady Olenna's big moment foreshadow Cersei
becoming the Mad Queen?
Alright.
As per usual, let's just get the spoiler warning
out of the way.
(dragon roaring)
There you go.
Last night's Game of Thrones was another heartbreaker
as the final rose was plucked from the Tyrell garden.
Lady Olenna's sharp tongue and take-no-(bleep) attitude
made her a long time favorite for fans of the show
and watching her down that poison was harder
for some than all the red weddings and Hodors combined.
I am in that group, I almost cried
until she dropped some mad (bleep).
Luckily, the Queen of Thorns lived up to her name
even in her final moments as she used her last words
to hit Jaime Lannister with a few last devastating barbs,
giving him her real opinion of his beloved sister
and dropping the bomb that she was the one
responsible for Joffrey's death.
If mics existed in Game of Thrones,
Olenna could have dropped a couple of them
right before she ended up dropping dead.
But as much as we wanted to give her death diss
a big round of applause, we couldn't,
because we were too busy dissecting it,
looking for clues about what to expect
for the rest of the season and there are a bunch of them.
In fact, hidden amongst all of the insults
and nasty language you wish your grandmother was cool enough
to use, there was some foreshadowing to season seven's
biggest plot twist yet, Cersei's ascension to Mad Queen.
Sure, the lady of Casterly Rock hasn't exactly
been stable since taking the Iron Throne, or really ever,
but now it looks like she may be embarking on a royal reign
that will make Aerys Targaryen
seem pretty chill in comparison.
So before we get into what Lady Olenna says
before she died, let's talk about how she died.
Now Jaime tells her that Cersei had a few extremely
gruesome fates in store for her, including being flayed
alive and getting beheaded in the streets.
Fortunately, he managed to talk his sister down
to a more dignified poisoning.
But already, we were seeing a tear happening
between the two incestuous siblings,
Cersei's sadistic side is completely unchecked
while Jaime's is almost nonexistent.
It's something we see played out earlier in the episode
as well when Cersei delights in figuring out
the single most agonizing way to punish Ellaria Sand
for murdering her daughter.
And wouldn't you know it, her devised method hearkens
back to one of the Mad King's most infamous kills.
Now when Aerys cooked Ned Stark's father Rickard Stark
alive in his armor, he also put a chain leash
around Brandon Stark's neck.
Now the younger Stark then choked himself to death
struggling to save his father
and while that scene has never actually been shown
in the show, Joanna Robinson over at Vanity Fair
has helpfully pointed out that they did film it
as a flashback and then abandoned it way back
in the second episode of the entire series.
But snippets of it have appeared since then
and it's a scene that bears a striking resemblance
to the one in the King's Landing dungeon last night,
when Ellaria and her daughter struggled to reach each other,
bound back by chains putting them
just out of each other's reach.
And it's probably also worth mentioning
that Aerys used wildfire to cook the elder Stark,
a weapon Cersei has already shown a penchant for
when she took out the Sept of Baelor last season.
And let's not forget that watching the way Aerys
would cruelly kill his subjects is what led Jaime
to eventually murder the Mad King and earn his reputation
as the Kingslayer, and if Cersei is going down
the exact same road, it's hard not to imagine
that Jaime will end up having a very similar reaction.
Of course, Aerys and Jaime never had the same
family ties as Cersei and Jaime,
so that could certainly spare her for awhile,
but another family connection could also doom her.
Namely the one between Jaime and Tyrion.
Now Lady Olenna capped off her death note last night
by letting Jaime know that she was the one responsible
for Joffrey's death, not Tyrion,
so there's a good chance that he'll take that info back
to Cersei and ask her to forgive their little brother.
And there's an even better chance
that she'll flat out refuse to believe him.
Jaime may be able to let a lot of things slide for Cersei,
but continually condemning Tyrion for a crime
that he never committed may be a step too far, even for him.
As for the rest of what Lady Tyrell had to say,
well it was a lot of language that drew a pretty strong
parallel between the current queen and the former Mad King,
calling her a disease and a monster,
to which Jaime even admits that a lot of other people
probably feel the exact same way.
But she also mentions that she will be the end of him,
which has us wondering if the Mad Queen could stay
in power longer than we thought.
Now conventional wisdom is that Jaime will end up
killing Cersei, but what if that's wrong?
What if Lady Olenna is right and Cersei actually ends up
killing Jaime for his inability
to get onboard her crazy train?
But what do you folks think?
Is Cersei really on her way to being the Mad Queen?
Could she outlive Jaime,
and what brother will she bang if Jaimes dies?
I mean, we're coming down to one.
Let's discuss.
And that's even if he is an actual blood relative.
The coffers are thin.

The Meaning Behind Lady Olenna’s Epic Game of Thrones Moment! (Nerdist News w/ Jessica Chobot)

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