- 13. Cersei’s vengeance, FrankenMountain and Jaime’s return from Dorne
Cersei, for her part, doesn’t look to have learned much from her Walk of Shame. She is as always laser-focused on her enemies, specifically destroying them. To that end, her last loyal puppet, the mad scientist Qyburn (Anton Lesser), delivered her a new Kingsguard member Robert Strong . . . who happens to be the undead Mountain (Hafpor Julius Bjornsson). Almost unstoppable in life, who knows what havoc the Mountain can reap in death, not to mention what uses Cersei has in mind for him.
As stated above, Jaime will have to deal with screwing up yet again, this time by letting their incest-daughter (technical term) Myrcella die. Whatever the political blowback, Jaime will likely skip town to deal with Riverrun, no doubt run-off by a very pissed sister/lover. Last year’s Jaime storyline amounted to a Shoot-the-Shaggy-Dog story. Let’s hope this one offers something different. Like being good.
