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The Red Badge of Theon (Game Of Thrones Season 7 Episode 2: Stormborn)
Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 2 “Stormborn” (HBO) signals the official start of the war for control of Westeros.
Euron grabs his prize for Cersei and throws a major wrench into a “clever” man’s battle plans, Arya changes course, Sam plays doctor, and Jon Snow heads for Dragonstone.
Remember, if you haven’t watched Season 7 Episode 2 of Game of Thrones *Spoiler Alert*
Treason or Intelligence?
Daenerys starts episode 2 off by asking some pretty fair but pointed questions of “Lord” Varys (he did, after all, once send assassins after her).
He responds by admitting that he hasn’t always been the straightest shooter with the monarchs that he has served but, in fairness, he only turned on his employers when they started to betray the interests of the people:
“Incompetence should not be rewarded with blind obedience.”
At the core of Game of Thrones, deep in its bones, has always been a belief that politics follow a natural order of hard-core Morgenthau-style realism and Varys has always been the…
