Twin Peaks: Audrey, Billy, and living inside a dream

[Most of this was written before the finale, but surprisingly not only that the finale didn’t refute the below theory it strengthen it, so I added a whole new section that reflects that, and in retrospect the theory seems also to explain why Billy and Audrey were not in the finale, all the clues are here]

A second and a half before the Twin Peaks finale I have a theory about Audrey, Billy she’s looking for, and the dream theme repeated over and over again in Twin Peaks.

I will take you step by step down the rabbit hole, just bear with me:

Audrey is looking for Billy, her lover, the one she seems to sleep with while she was in a relationship with the dwarf/not dwarf Charlie. It is Billy who will save her from the miserable life she seems to be living.

In part 16 Audrey finally arrives at the Roadhouse, right after we are introduced to Eddie Vedder – not by his stage name, but by his real name – Edward Louis Severson the third, and that’s significant.
After Eddie’s show is over we discover that Audrey is not really in the reality of Twin Peaks, but in some dream she dreams, and in fact in the Twin Peaks reality she’s in a bright white room, in front of a mirror no less, probably at Ghostwood madhouse that was also mentioned in her conversations with Charlie.

In her existential crisis Audrey says “I feel like I’m somewhere else, have you ever had that feeling Charlie?“.

Then she adds “I feel like I’m somewhere else and feel like I’m somebody else, have you ever felt that?”

So where is she Charlie? What makes her feel like she’s not herself anymore?

An hint that Audrey is not in the Twin Peaks reality hinted to me by the user EpicEsquire that he read in this article, and I quote:
“Another clue is the Emcee’s words. He calls it “Audrey’s Dance”.  That is the name of that track on the Twin Peaks soundtrack alright, but in *our* world.  Not in the world of Twin Peaks.  She didn’t punch “Audrey’s Dance” on the RR Diner jukebox 25 years ago.  So what is *that* supposed to mean?” 

But who is Billy? There was some mentioning of Billy, that his truck was stolen, but they might just share the same name.

But what if Billy is Billy zane?

Wait a second, There is no Billy Zane in the reality of Twin Peaks, that’s the name of the actor, the one who plays Audrey’s lover from the original season, John Justice Wheeler

So let’s move to the movie for now, Twin peaks: fire walk with me, and remember Phillip Jeffries (another one that shares a first name with other character, Philip Gerrard).

What does Phillip Jeffries say, whom is our beloved David Bowie?
“We live inside a dream”

And in part 14, in Gordon’s dream – purposely Gordon, the one who is david lynch the director of the series in the non Twin Peaks reality – says no other than Monica Bellucci, the only character until then that appeared as part of the non Twin Peaks reality, actually elaborate on what David Bowie says:

“We are like the dreamer who dreams, and then lives inside the dream. “Troubled, she then asked:” But who is the dreamer?”

Friends, David Lynch tells us something here, over and over again, and we all ignore him, there are three “realities” in Twin Peaks (a number which lynch really adores).

The first is the “normal” reality of the series (which is quite funny to call it “normal”), the Twin Peaks reality.

The second is the unusual reality of the series, the reality of the red room, the black lodge, the white lodge, and so on.

And the third reality my friends, and here is the center of my theory, is our reality, us the viewers, this world, the world of Monica Bellucci, and David Lynch (not Gordon!).

Notice what happens in Gordon’s dream, he is looking straight to the camera – the fourth wall breaks, the wall that breaks in movies and series only when the character exit his own media and talk to us the viewers:

Gordon meets Monica in a street in Paris, so when he turns around and looks at us he also looks at a very specific place….

Directly at the exhibition space where David Lynch in our reality has a show IRL – David Lynch “Plume of Desire”!
(thanks Mike for reminding me that :))

Let’s continue, Billy is mentioned twice more.

Once in Part 14, in the Roadhouse, in a conversation between two women (that one of them as Maura noted his David Lynch own wife). Those two for some reason did not appear before or after this scene (and I bet they will not even appear in the finale and I have a reason), blabbering about how Billy jumped over the fence and was bleeding from the nose and mouth, and Yada yada yada.

Second time Billy is mentioned for a moment, is when the son of David Lynch ladies and Gentlemen, now his son in our reality, himself, running and asking where is Billy?
And then what happens? All people on the bar at the diner are replaced! Reality has changed back!

What am I actually saying here?

I’m saying that Audrey sees our reality, that Gordon in his dream sees our reality, that Monica Bellucci’s question can be divided into three parts and explained as follows:
1. “We are like the dreamer who dreams” – The We in this sentence are us, the spectators who stare at the screen and dream of Twin Peaks with David Lynch.

2. “and then lives inside the dream” – Which of us, the devoted fans, does not feel living inside a dream called Twin Peaks? That we spend the rest of the days glazed with dreamy eyes, and do not know what to do with ourselves until the next part arrives.

3. “but who is the dreamer?” And that of course are us, the series is taking place in our collaborative dream, Twin Peaks itself constitutes one of the main themes this season – the series is a “Tulpa”, the imaginary creation of us all.

Even Mark Frost’s “The Final Dossier”, which is the last Twin Peaks book, in its last chapter, supports this:

(Tammy Preston:) “How much of what I know, what I’ve been culturally attuned to believe, feels like the set of a play on a strange stage I’ve wandered onto without knowing why I’m here. I don’t know the lines, I don’t know what part I’m playing, I don’t even know what the play’s about or what it’s called.
I’m just here onstage, stuck in a dream,
lights shining in my eyes. Is anyone out there watching?”“…

Again I’m not saying that Twin Peaks is a dream, I’m saying it exists just as our reality exists, and we manifest it in our dream. There’s a big difference.
One last thing, remember what pulled Dougie’s attention and after 16 long and frustrating hours manifest him to existence as Dale Cooper?

After Dougie hits the remote 3 times, it was none other than a movie from our reality – Sunset Boulevard, with a character which drove David Lynch the creator to name his Twin Peaks counterpart Gordon Cole.

And I wish that was what David Lynch tried to convey, because I must add that this is how I see most of the series and films in my life, and that is how I read most of my books – with a great belief that somewhere in some universe (just like “The Tempest” in Dan Simmons Ilium / Olympus books) we create, we “Tulpa” into existence what we read or watch.

And in this case Twin Peaks, we bring it into existence in our desire for it to take shape, and here in Twin Peaks the piece we created looks back at us in a mirror, us the dreamers, Shockingly (like us) saying three times, What? What? What?

Gene is Heisenberg! Better Call Saul season 6, episode 11

Gene is Heisenberg! Pay attention to the glasses, the mustache, the thinning hair until it disappears completely…

The behavior is already there – the clenched mouth, the angry expression, no more Saul’s lightness and mischievous smile with the sarcasm “I got more second story guys in my book than pimples at a junior prom”, all that remains is the rage at the world that took everything from him and “forced” him into the world of crime to get what he deserves.

“What did I just say?” Walter patronizingly chides his sidekick Jesse in the episode “Más” when that same Jesse is in Saul’s office, “What did I just say?” Gene’s patronizing denunciation of his poor sidekick Jeff.

Those who think that Walter and Jesse are only there for fan-service are wrong in my opinion. They are there to show us what happened to Jimmy at the end of his life, what he became, what is the ultimate mask for Jimmy/Saul/Gene, what he sees as the height of his ambitions in life – and that is “Heisenberg, wow”, and “I see 170 pounds of clay ready to be molded”, and he indeed molds, in his image, himself.

I think that Walt and Jesse might appear again in the next episode, to continue to show us the transformation of Jimmy into Walt, of Gene into Heisenberg, and my feeling is strengthened when the episode ends with Saul going to see Walt at the science fair, and immediately after that, Gene Breaking (bad) into the house – they are not just some scenes that happens to be one after the other, or just so happens that those those two scenes end the episode.

More than that, I think the reason Gene did decide to rob the identity of a guy sick with cancer, put him in the con taxi when he had the chance to take it himself, to break into the house of that cancer guy knowing there was a very high chance he would get caught, is because of another guy that has cancer, because of Walt, and we will understand why from Jimmy’s experience “a guy with cancer can’t be an asshole?” And there’s no need to feel sorry for him (if a whole series of Breaking Bad wasn’t enough for us to understand that) from the scene that’s going to happen at the science fair in the next episode.

That is, on the one hand, Jimmy admires Walt, worships him, wants to become him, and on the other hand, he is disgusted by him, that asshole, believe him he knows!, and he also knows it about himself and the disgust is therefore also inward.

If we take this understanding that Gene becomes Heisenberg and project it into the future, then we know how Heisenberg/Walt ended his life – he died after saving one soul and was supposedly redeemed, so by extrapolation it is very likely that this is how Gene/Jimmy/Saul’s life chapter will also end in a heroic rescue (Kim?) which death lies at its end, you have been warned 🙂

And could it be that we saw the catalyst for all of this in the incomprehensible conversation between Jimmy and supposedly Kim? Could it be that what made Jimmy freak out there is because Kim tells him she’s in big trouble because of him? blaming him for it? Could it be that the next scene (after the spinning mixer as an allegory for the cogs turning in Gene’s mind) is Jimmy returning to the world of crime despite the clear and present danger because he has to get enough money to save her? Maybe something happened to the diamonds? Maybe he wasted them? Maybe they are not enough for what he needs to do next?

Because to me personally it seems too crazy, even for Jimmy, to continue with the con that has actually already gone completely to shit, for the mere reason the he wants to continue with it, and it may be that the reason is that he has to continue with it.

So when the series was a prequel we felt that almost anything could happen, then now that it has become a sequel really all bets are off…

We have two more episodes to see where this all goes…

PS. Is there anyone else here whose interaction and relationship between Walt and Jesse made him miss Breaking Bad so much and laugh heartily? Got me remember why those two were the best couple to be on the small screen since Mulder and Scully 😊

Severance – what the numbers mean

One of the biggest mysteries in the new Apple tv show Severance, are the numbers that being refined by the severed working at the Macrodata Refinement.

I believe that what a severed is doing when refining a file with numbers and cataloging each cluster of numbers is actually mapping his own brain – you can even see that in the iconic title sequence when the computer refinement is taking place inside one’s brain:

The chip that’s inside a severed brain is actually projecting the severed’s own brain as numbers – probably each file is a different section of the brain.

When a severed catalogues the numbers to one of the 4 types (Wo, FC, DR, MA) they’re actually helping Lumon to understand their brain, probably in order for the chip to eventually be the severed – just like when Harmony refers to Petey’s chip as the actual “Petey” and/or control the severed own emotions, same as the chip controllers the severed memory separation.

For example it could be used eventually to shut down one’s fears (DR) in order to make a super soldier.

Or another example is to shut anything but one’s joy (FC) – create a “brave new world” society, and so on.

The more files a severed is completing, the more Lumon would know how to map their brain.

And when I say map I mean more like AI training than actual 1:1 mapping – the severed helps to train Lumon’s deep neural network on his brain, and each file is like a training data, but instead of tagging a picture of a dog or a cat, the severed tags one of the four emotions.

And this is actually can only be done by the severed himself, as only he knows his own feelings.

It’s like an Awake brain surgery, when the doctor would put electricity in some part of the brain and will ask the patient how he feels about it, so does when a severed hover over a certain cluster of numbers, the chip will run some electrical current in that section of the brain and the severed will know how he feel about it and will put the numbers in one of the bins, so Lumon would know what of the 4 types that section in the brain has a connection to.

The part on the ebook about completing the file and triggering a bomb of some kind is IMO just a red herring and not actually what they are doing.

The spatial separation of memories that each severed is undergoing is actually a crucial part of understanding their own brain without the interference of past experiences – that’s is why having a relationship with others while working on refining is forbidden – to not get too many experiences that will interfere with refining – mapping one’s own brain

Same as the manual in the ebook says – “knowing the true meaning behind the numbers could inhibit your natural intuition”, and Lumon wants the severed intuition as pure as possible and removing memories of past experiences is the best way to do just that.

And why the files have an expiration date you ask – I guess what they do is taking a snapshot of that section of your brain and save it as a file.
And because our brain never stays the same for a long period of time (new neurons connections, new brain cells or brain cells dying, etc), that file as time progresses differ more and more from how it represents your brain, and in time it becomes obsolete.

True Story? better call it Unbelievable Story

This mini series really stressed my suspension of disbelief up to the point where it became just ridiculous.

I think the point where this series jumped the shark is where the Kid out of the blue just jumps and kills Ari.

We were meant to believe that Ari, the gangster, twice this Kid size, that kills people for a living would be killed by out to that point a movie actor and a comedian, a family man that never killed or probably hurt anyone in his life.

It’s not just physically unbelievable, it’s just out of both their characters.

Let’s continue – Kid never thought to check the girl he supposedly killed, where all he needed to do would be to just touch her or listen to her breath, and he just buys his brother opinion that she’s dead.

And when Ari came, he just fall asleep, knowing that there is a gangster now chopping a girl outside of his room.

I run this piece a few times to figure out maybe they put gas inside his room or something, but no, we were supposed to believe that a man that just killed a girl, with a gangster chopping her right about now, would just fall asleep cause that way Simon could get out without him knowing that.

And later, Carlton his brother gives a watch to Kid’s fan supposedly framing him for the killing of Ari and telling Ari’s brothers about him.

Wouldn’t he be afraid that the first thing he’s going to say is Carlton or The kid gave him the watch? Why take such a risk with them?

And why would gangsters kills not one but two people in front of a guy that is not part of their gang, a nobody, and no motive even as to why they bring him along.

Unbelievable.

And now to the finale with the most unbelievable act, where the suspension of disbelief just went out of the belief window.

The kid, that actor comedian, shoots 2 gangsters between the eyes, like he was some Jack Bower, and then in nonchalant shoots his brother, and fix the whole scene to look exactly like he wants it to look, improvising all of this like he was some pro assassin.

What the hell? Why? What attributes did the movie gave his character to make us believe he is capable of staging a murder scene, kill not one but two gangsters and killing in cold blood his own brother that he just said he loved?

And to close this all Buffon of disbelief, his own body guard blackmails him for 6 million dollars and he’s ok with that and with putting his life from now on in the hands of such a guy? After everything he went through to not been blackmail and not let anyone have this kind of control of his life?

I think that this series is called True Story, as a last attempt to make us the viewers believe that this could somehow really be a true story.

Well, you gotta be KIDding me (pun intended)

Mr Robot s04E09 – Whiterose is Mr Robot’s Night King

You remember Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 3 The Long Night?

The episode in which the Night King was killed, leaving us 3 episodes to the finale without the great enemy everyone thought will be only defeated at the end of the show?

Well, also here we are left with exactly 3 episodes till Mr Robot’s finale, and as was in GOT so is here, fans still think the villain will be back and surprise us all.

Well, she ain’t gonna IMO, I believe she’s taken off the board, and we need to understand, same as in GOT, that this show is not about the ominous villain, or about fighting the great evil that wants to destroy humanity. The show is not about that. That was the red herring all along.

The show is about the complexity of human beings, about the dark side and the good side in one, and the battle among those sides for ones soul.

I believe that in the next 3 episodes, we are not going to talk about Whiterose, we are going to talk about the things Sam Esmail always hid from us in plain sight, but we were too blinded by the fascination of world domination and a time machine; a machine that was never really existed outside the sick mind of one, soon to be forgotten, Whiterose, and also in some misunderstanding fans minds that thought we are dealing with a sci fi show. What a joke.

In the next 3 episodes we are going to be dealing with the important things, things such as Elliot’s third (fourth? Fifth?) personality, about his struggle to somehow exit the Alderson Loop he’s stuck in now that he come to terms with himself and his childhood sexual abuse, about what the hell Elliot did last summer that is so devastating, and about Elliot fighting his demons within.

But whatever those things will be, one thing will be clear – that Whiterose is dead, thematically dead, finished, Kaputt, that the last scene of her was putting makeup in front of the mirror while the FBI (I am the FBI!) coming for her, and we the fans need to come to terms with that, and with what this show was all about.

Goodbye, enemy.

Mr Robot, Season 4, Episode 7 – A letter to Elliot

Let me apologize to begin with.
I’m sorry Elliot, and I’m ashamed of myself for not finding out.

It’s not the shameful feeling of “I’m such a great detective so I should have solved the mystery a long time ago.”
Not that shame.
It’s the shameful part of me that I thought had such great empathy to human suffering, the part that should have notice the screaming signs of a molested child.

Elliot, you called me a friend, for times you even thought me as one until you didn’t, and you were right, what kind of a friend would not have realized what you had to go through to become the dissociative disorder person you are?
I had to know that 90% of those that have this mental illness suffered of abuse in their childhood.
But I thought it was your mother, I thought as you told yourself, as you told me, that your father was your only friend.
I had to realize that your amnesia was part of your post traumatic stress due to being sexually abuse.

The signs were all there, I should have known better, I should have felt it in my guts that your mother abuse was not the whole case, that your reaction towards child sexual abusers is that of someone who suffered that kind of abuse himself.
That you telling your sister to hide in the closet when your father came home should have made my alarms go off, but unfortunately they didn’t.
That your mom telling you you should be happy your father is dead, is not an indication to how fucked up she’s been, but how fucked up your father has been.
That an adult that suggests a child to watch an R-Rated movie can not really have good motives, that grooming was really what was going on there.

Was me ignoring those (and great more) signs was because I was not as sensitive as I had me believe?
or was is it because I was too afraid to admit to myself that this is actually what is been going on all along?
That it was easier for me to turn my head the other way because I didn’t want to deal with sex abuse, with child molesting, with the implications of what this does to the soft soul of a child.

That I’m like a neighbor that hears screaming and shouting, and suspects that the The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is being abused but does nothing because he saw her a few times put a smile on her face, so everything must be A OK.

Yeah right.

That I’m the awful person that left you, my friend, all alone, to dwell in your internal suffering, without telling you the core reason for that.
that instead I was waiting for some little bitch turning bully to get it out from you with a swing of his aluminum bat.

I wasn’t abused as a child, I must say. I was bullied at times, maybe had to deal with a rough neighborhood, but that’s it, and I thank my good fortune for that.

But over the years I personally got to know people, close ones even, that were sexually abused in their childhood, that their soul was forever damaged by what happened there behind those closed doors, and I helped them as much as I could to cop with that.

I thought it made me highly sensitive to someone who as a child was sexually abused, but maybe I was wrong.

Maybe in the end I’m still a coward that don’t want to hear about that dark part of humanity, that knows that once it is told to you by someone you know, there is no going back, and you have to deal with that, you have to help him deal with what was done to him, and you have to deal with what this revelation also does to you.

And for that I’m sorry Elliot.

Please forgive me.

Friend.

Legion S03E04 is the closest thing to Twin Peaks you’ll see on tv

“You think, as a filmmaker, you know what you’re doing, and then you watch an hour of Lynch’s work and you think: “I have no idea.”

This was said by no less than Fargo’s creator, Noah Hawley, two years ago.

Among other things, Hawley is also the creator of Legion, and friends this week’s episode (episode 4, third and last season) is the closest thing to David Lynch, and even more to the well-known episode 8 of Twin Peaks 2017, which you can see on the small or big screen.

I recommend all Twin Peaks and Lynch’s fans, to watch Legion, if you haven’t done this already, a work that is really a homage and an appreciation for David (not Haller) Lynch by another esteemed creator, Noah Hawley.

The Goal and the Way – Game of Thrones Finale Review

One of the most important lessons that every person learns during his lifetime is that not only is the goal important but also the way to reaching this goal.

It’s this lesson that D&D, the creators of the series, did not internalize, but after the angry fan responses around the world and a negative record of 4.3 in imdb, they will soon learn.

And what do I mean?

It all starts with a meeting of the author George Martin with the creators of the series in his home, way before they began filming the last two seasons, and over coffee and pastries told them what’s the end he is aiming for in his books, an end to which he wants to arrive and they should arrive there as well.

But what he did not explain to them, or did not adequately explain, was the way to reach that longed-for goal, to that spectacular ending that would leave shocked, surprised but satisfied audience.

And that’s exactly where our pair of creators sinned, because for all their glory they are not George rrrr Martin, not David Lynch nor the Cohen brothers, they are just a great “coverists” but uninspired ones.

And the goal was, as in the army, divided into three – to turn Daenerys into the mad queen, to exile Jon beyond the wall, and to crown Bran.

Let’s see how they destroyed every fertile field of the road leading to the three goals that Martin had set for them.

We’ll begin with Daenerys for starters.

If you would ask anyone watching the series what Daenerys represents for them up until the fourth episode of the eighth and final season, they would tell you without hesitation that Daenerys, like Jon, is a representation of the good vs evil, the liberator vs the occupier, of life vs the cold death.

And, quite suddenly, for the average viewer, the fourth episode shown sparks of something else. Daenerys part gives an ultimatum to Jon, part begging him as if she were in a scene from a telenovela, that he must keep his dynasty a secret or else he would not be with her, as her only aspire in the whole world is to sit on the Iron Throne.

Mmm something is a little rotten in the state of Denmark, but okay, we keep going, it is still our beloved Dany isn’t it?

Then in episode 5, in a sharp transition of only one episode from sparks of a power craven she  becomes a full blown Genghis Khan in his worst days and decides to burn an entire city on its citizens! The innocent! After they surrendered!

I still tried to defend her motivation as fear, that she wanted to create a balance of terror so that they would not try to overthrow her, that for her it was a tactical move necessary to preserve the iron throne. So I said.

And there comes episode 6, and what do we discover? That our beloved Dany did not undergo a momentary nervous breakdown, yet undergone a personal transformation, quite overnight, from a tactical crazy to the Wicked Witch of the West who wants to destroy the whole world, not just King’s Landing, starting tomorrow.

The disappointment of the fans, not just Daenerys biggest admirers, was tremendous, and quite understandable as how can you watch seven and a half seasons of a character with a certain nature that makes a 180 degree personality transformation to the dark side in only one and a half episodes?

Again why is that? Because Martin told them she had to go crazy at the end, that’s the goal, that’s how it must end, but they don’t have the way, they know they have to come up with a logical route from point A to point B. But instead they come up with a crooked, clumsy line, which lost itself somewhere along the road and somehow reached the not awaited end which is the finale.

When you make such a radical change in a character, you have to provide enough foreshadowing so that you do not reveal what’s going to happen, yet slowly lead the viewers toward the recognition of the change that occurred in her, and here it simply was not. There was a single iron bat blow to a character to bend her to the scriptwriters’ wishes and their ultimate goal.

 

*** Breaking Bad Spoiler ***

Remember Walt’s wife telling him in season 4 episode 6, “You’re not some hardened criminal, Walt, you’re in over your head” and “A school teacher cancer desperate for money?”

Then remember Walt replies in the unforgettable phrase “I am the one who knocks!”?

This phrase is the ultimate foreshadowing that revealed to us what is really happening in the soul of Walter White, that there is a situation we do not read correctly, and he is not a good person who happens to be drug trafficking following the discovery of his cancer. And in the next seven episodes of this season and another 16 (!) in the next one this character will gradually be morphed to a narcissistic, megalomaniac, and greedy personality.

This is exactly how a change in a character and the attitude of viewers to it should be built, and because of that Breaking Bad will be remembered as an excellent series in every aspect and Game of the Thrones will be remembered as an excellent series until it went downhill.

* Till here Breaking Bad Spoiler *

 

Let’s continue with Jon – how reliable was it for you that Tyrion should convince him in length that Daenerys is an evil tyrant that should be assassinated? As Jon saw in his own eyes the destruction of an entire city with no provocation, and he heard Saruman’s speech in front of the Dark Armies (with the Babel fish in his ear probably because the speech was in Dothraki) how Dany was going to destroy every town in Westeros as she did in King’s Landing!

How reliable was it that Jon was in love with her? Where is the love story built between them? In a single sex scene last season? In some Disney’s Dragon’s flight they have taken together? After all, if he had really loved her, Dany would not have gone ballistic and thought that only fear was the right way. So please decide D&D, he loves her, and it makes it harder for him to assassinate her, or does not love her and that is not an issue for him.

How reliable was Arya saying to Jon: “I know a killer when I see one.”

Oh, really Sherlock? really? Not anyone with eyes in his head sees an insane killer in front of him now?

credibility level: your blind date is really as cute as you were told.

There’s a concept when you see a series or a movie called “Suspension of Disbelief”, that’s the space where the viewer is, as long as he manages to hold his mistrust of watching just tv, and still believes that that the things he sees on his screen are happening now. As long as the viewer is in this space, he can relate to what is happening on the screen, even when he knows that what he sees is fantastic and does not exist in our reality.

But there is a limit to this space. If you cross it the viewer’s mind stops believing what it sees on the screen, and in response any dialogue and scene seems to him unreliable, not as if he sees things that could have existed somehow, but sees actors, however good they are, who simply recite a script in front of a theatrical scenery and maybe some CGI effects and nothing more.

And that’s exactly how it felt in each of the scenes in the finale, some more and some less absurd, because this barrier is broken to pieces, when the characters do not act the way we expect them to behave, as we know them, and as we know the world works.

After all, how reasonable it sounds that Jon is removed from King’s Landing, and from the life of the Seven Kingdoms, after all the “he’s a Targaryen and a Stark” buildup, how the kingdom loves him, and how great a leader he is, and how he’s next in line to inherit the throne, while doesn’t even want it which means (according to Tyrian saying it later on Bran) he deserves to sit on it.

What a crazy eight seasons buildup of a character, and for what? So that in the end he would be sent to join the Night Watch, impotent now that there is no Night King, but it just existing, and Jon was going to join the free folk with his wolf, who quite frankly if I was her I would lift one leg and leave after his attitude at their last meeting? That’s what Jon deserves after he saved the entire kingdom from total destruction of a crazy queen, because one Grey Worm wanted his head and a second later left for Naath? How all of that supposed to connect in our heads?

A total script disaster.

And finally, the most horrific part of the episode, and perhaps of the entire series, the Dragonpit Summit, which chose Bran as the next king of Westeros.

First, what’s with the Comedians Club atmosphere guys?

Edmure Tully peaching while abruptly silenced and hit his sword in a chair as if we are watching Kramer in the Seinfeld Finale.

And then Sam proposes democracy and everyone laughs at him, which is clearly happened at a screenwriters’ meeting where one offered this solution and everyone was crack laughing, and some other Incompetent scriptwriter said – oh let’s put this In the script, it’ll be cool! Well, it’s not, it’s weird and shameful.

And finally Tyrion decides to do “King’s speech” of his own, designed to convince us viewers that Bran must sit on the (nonexistent) Iron Throne, because he has the best story of them all.

Here they just gone too far, this is a point where D&D told us, go to hell! We want to end this farce Martin stuck us with, he told us the goal is for Bran to rule the seven kingdoms, that’s what you’re getting, and dammit if the way there sounds illogical to you!

Bran says, why do you think I come this far? I’ll tell you why Bran, because Martin told you to come! And nothing else makes sense.

What a good story has the one who sat on his ass all season, literally, did not use a bit of all the abilities they gave him, and at the most critical moment for him, the Battle of Winterfel, the only thing the unsuccessful scriptwriters managed to let him do, is warg into ravens, gather intelligence and keep it to himself.

What did you do to deserve this Bran?!?

Remember that Tyrion told Bran in episode 4 this season that he is now the legal heir as Ned Stark’s only eldest son, but Bran says that “he will never be a Lord now,” and we get it as he is the three-eyed raven who removed himself from all human matters.

And Tyrion says he is jealous of him for his powers, but Bran says he is not – because he lives only in memories of the past.

So where does this dialogue work out with what happened at the summit? How can they think that we will not cross our barrier of disbelief and cry shame for making a fool out of us? I just do not understand what they had in mind in episode 4 with this dialogue when they already know the end game? Why do you include this contradictory dialogue? Only God knows.

If anything, Jon has the best and logical story – a Targaryen, who was raised as a bastard, was exiled to the Night Watch and eventually commanded them, resurrected by the god of light, fought great battles, risen to prominence till becoming king of the north, The queen’s hand, and finally the saver of the kingdom from her!

Who can compete with this story Tyrion? Really Bran? Or is the only story that competes with Jon’s story is the one Martin sold to D&D that Bran should be the King Of Westeros and they ate it and in a transitive way they tried to feed us with it too?

Because this is the true story of everything that happened behind the screen of the last two seasons, a story of no story, because there are no books of Martin, and we only have to hope that perhaps one day when they are published, they will do justice to this farce called Game of Thrones, as it deserves far more than the notorious David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.

Now after we had a good laugh we’ll move on to the artistic part, bonus holes in the plot:

How do you know that Jon killed Daenerys with a dagger? The Dragon took her, so who told about it?

How can grey worm and all the Unsullied kill anyone who opposes their queen, but take her murderer captive and not kill him on the spot?

How can it be that Tyrion does not appear in the (ridiculous) book song of ice and fire when he was the hand of the king, the king’s slayer, the Kin’s slayer, battles commander, etc, etc, etc? It’s a joke so not funny that it’s just plain sad.

Why does Sansa think the North should remain an independent kingdom as it was for thousands of years under Stark when the King now is Stark himself?!? What is the logic in that? And how is it that all the other lords beside her do not raise their voice and demand an independent kingdom too? Didn’t they not suffer in a war as her people? Is it so much joy for them to be under Bran the broken when even his sister does not want to?

And how and how and how … but I’m tired of this series, I no longer have the strength to continue digging where everything is already hollow below, so So Long, and Thanks for All the Dragons.

Game of thrones S08E05: A reasoning for Daenerys’s actions

A lot of fans seems to object and argue that Daenerys did not have enough reason to go ahead and burn all those innocent people in King’s Landing, that it’s just D&D f$@&$ing it up again, that they say the hell with motives, and just want to get this over with.

Well, I don’t see it that way.

IMO she have a very good reason (in her own mind), and that reason is fear.

Think what will happen in her POV if she would just stop the war and try to keep her throne – no one really fears her – an evidence to that is the recent betrayals of Varise, Jon and Tyrion.

No one really loves her – Missandei is murdered, Jorah is dead, Jon don’t even want to kiss her for heaven sake!

She realized that the only way she could rule while Jon is a better contender then her for the Iron Throne, the only way to overcome the one that everybody seems to love and appreciate, is if she would inspire such fear and horror in everyone that they would have to obey her and be afraid to subvert and even think about replacing her.

Add to this the abuse she had suffered all her life, abuse that each of you would go mad of inflicted by it, adding to that (or part of it) all her loved ones were murdered and killed, and her horrifying dynasty that genetically inherited her craziness and madness for blood and fire, and you will receive an adequate answer to her decision to burn them all.

How my Game of Thrones Finale Prediction fared after episode 5, season 8

So, what did I predict and what not in my prediction of episode 5 in the Game Of Thrones published here, And what does it say about the finale

Let’s start with what I was wrong: I was wrong when I thought the Daenerys’s dragon would die, I thought John would come later in the battle, I did not specify that Varise would die and I overestimated Cersei’s military strength.

Regarding the main theme, I think I was on spot:

Daenerys did go crazy, becoming the mad queen, burned innocent people, when all she sees before her eyes are blood and fire.

It did became clear to Jon what his sisters told him – Daenerys is not fit to be the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms after the murder of innocents she has just committed, and yet he still fought for her for lack of choice.

As I predicted, the CleganeBowl did indeed materialize and Sandor Clegane did infiltrate King’s Landing, killed his brother and did die with him.

And finally, Cersei was indeed dead but in the hands of her brother and not by her brother (and so the prophecy kinda fulfilled?).

My prediction for the finale is still the same: Daenerys will confront Jon John, without any serious supporters (except perhaps gray worm) will try to kill Jon, and Arya (as we saw in this episode looking in amazement, anger and disgust at Daenerys’s brutal actions) will kill her, both for her brother and for the crimes Daenerys committed.

Jon sits on the Iron Throne.

The end.

P.S. Great episode! Probably the best episode of the season, though as it says above is mostly predictable 🙂

Game of Thrones Finale Prediction

This is the hat eating prediction for the remaining two episodes of Game of Thrones.

Let’s examine what we saw so far, and from that we will deduce what will happen in the two remaining episodes.

For a while we have been shown that Daenerys is going crazy, slowly becoming the Mad Queen, like her father the Mad King.
This was especially evident in the last episode when she wanted to burn the people in King’s landing and march with her battered and tired army against the advice of everyone around her who urged her to wait and lay siege.

Finally she seemed to agree to give an ultimatum to Cersei before she burns everyone there . As we all saw, not only did the ultimatum not bear fruit, but the strategic Cersei killed Daenerys and grey worm beloved Missandei.
This would lead quite surely, as Cersei wanted, to the merciless attack of Daenerys on King’s landing without waiting for Jon, for the murder of innocent people, when all she sees before her eyes are blood and fire.
This would play into the hands of Cersei, who without Jon’s lead would simply destroy Daenerys army, and probably her last dragon.
Toward the end of the battle, Jon will probably arrive, and what his sisters told him in the last episode will be clear to him as well – Daenerys is not fit to be the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms after the murder of innocents she has just committed.
Nevertheless he would join the battle, but even his tired forces would not be enough against Cersei, so salvation would have to come from somewhere else.

So what else did we see that could help us understand where salvation would come from? We saw in the last episode that Arya and the Hound are moving towards King’s landing, without a doubt their goal is to infiltrate it.
The Hound also told Sansa that he had he’s own objective, and we all know what this is – the CleganeBowl – the old fan theory will come to a conclusion when the two brothers of the Clegane family fight and the hound will kill his zombie brother (and be killed because the god of light left him alive for this purpose and he has to return his soul now that his goal is over), thereby opening the door to killing Cersei.

But who would it be? We currently left with two prophecies.
The first is for Arya to shut brown, blue, and green eyes. Since only green eyes are still left to “shut” and Cersei’s eyes are green, she is one of the candidates to kill her.
But we have another prophecy, given to Cersei herself by the Maggy the Frog – that her brother will kill her.
I do not think they will give a “double” to Arya – killing both Cersei and the Night King. While Jamie is the one who stormed towards King’s Landing last episode, leaving Brienne crying, and I bet that he went out not to join Cersei but to be the one who would kill her (and his son in her belly).
After Jaime kills his sister, her army  would collapse and spread to all corners of the wind. And after the smoke of the war disperse, Tyrion, much like Jon, would understand what Varys had told him –  kingdom above all, and Jon is the one who should be the king.
Daenerys who both wins and defeated at the same time, who remains without a dragon and without a strong claim to the crown, without advisers and supporters, will undoubtedly confront Jon for breaking his oath not to tell about his heritage to anyone, and in an act of despair and lack of choice will try to kill him, her former lover.

Remember the remaining prophecy of Arya to shut green eyes? Well, Daenerys’s eyes are green (not like the books where they are violet), and Arya will have to kill her to save her brother.

And so will come to an end two prophecies and one CleganeBowl, and Jon will sit on the Iron Throne, not because he wants to, but because there is no one else who could sit there in his place.

The end.