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Any comments on Arya's buddies i.e. the fat kid and Robert's only living bastard (again, whose name escapes me)

I could actually see this bastard kid going places in this series. Arguably, despite being a bastard he has a pretty good claim to the throne, and I think we've seen some really decent qualities in him over the past season. He doesn't quite have the nuanced character development of some of the others as of yet, but, provided he lives on, there is still time for that. I see him being an important character in the future.

And not dying, obviously.
I think Gendry is pretty important, and will eventually father Arya's son. I think this was suggested at in ways like when Ned gave Arya that talk about how she has to be a good little lady, but she didn't want to. Yet comes in a dude she actually likes, who's also a secret Baratheon. I don't think Stannis can hold the Baratheon storyline as long as it needs to be held, and bringing in Gendry, especially if he's wedded to a Stark, would create a very compelling dynamic for the Baratheons in the latter seasons
oh by the way, I don't see Cersei dying, at least not yet. Recall Tyrion's "(...) will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you will know the debt is repaid" shpiel, seems like this will take time to carry out. If Cersei dies before anything happens on that front, obv providing Tyrion himself is not dead (can't see this being the case), then that scene is a bit pointless. The meaning changes from Tyrion rightfully expressing his desire to get back at Cersei for being such a bitch and threatening those close to him, to Tyrion putting on a bit of a show just to act like he's pissed and dissuade Cersei from digging any deeper and actually finding Shae. meh
That's a good point. I feel that it was more about developing the characters and setting the stage than foreshadowing though. Cersei appears that she's eventually gonna die, but maybe not really soon. I'd say Jorah and Jaime are the most expendable, but not by a lot.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if a big character doesn't die in the finale. It's not like that's a thing, or anything; it's more that lots of people are overestimating what Ned's death meant. I could see GRRM writing the second book with a "is Tyrion dead" cliffhanger so as to really get his audience's goat, because he did the same thing in book one, but then when book three came around it turned out he was just trolling and Tyrion is really alive

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Shae was already made before that gay dude interrupted. She's done for. Cersei is looking for a special girl somewhere, and she can kill anyone for fun and pleasure, and then tell Tyrion to see if he still has his pokerface.
This is similar to what I've thought about Shae i.e. how expendable she is. But the problem is that if she really is that expendable, the writers were kinda dummies with her. I mean her dialogue is like half count to potato. She keeps saying how she won't let anybody hurt Tyrion. There has to be a reason for that. I mean it could be to just make what kind of person she is, but that's a weird way of doing it. It makes more sense to me that she has some serious secrets. My guess is she quite literally has magic powers that could keep people from hurting Tyrion. He may be in a coma, she may bring him out of it; she may heal that face scar, she may bring him back from the dead. There's gotta be something there IMO. Otherwise she's really just a dummie