Game of Thrones Season 6 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]

[Clueless Morgan]

Did anyone else think that Sam's family home was gigantic? like overly large?

Yeah, Horn Hill is the seat of a marcher lord. That sprawling mediterranean castle was a tad too large. I imagine that was to show the 'importance' and grandeur of Lord Randyll Tarly.

It looks large enough to rival the Red Keep in size :/ Could have used a bit of scaling down I thought - a little too grand-looking IMO but... wuhyagonnado?

Joffrey's fucked up, yes... but I think Cersei had more to gain from Bran's death and Tyrion's involvement in that death.

That's debatable. Even if Bran lived (which seemed unlikely at the time), came out of his coma AND remembered what happened - it would still be just a word of a feverish child, against the word of a queen and her brother.  Had an assassin been caught and interrogated - his confession might prove much more troublesome. Joffrey would be much more likely to disregard potential consequences, because he was just a dumb, sadistic kid, trying to play king.

And again - Cersei had more to gain from Ned Stark's death, than Joffrey, because Stark knew about illegitimacy of her children. But she agreed to let him join the Watch, where he could still potentially share this knowledge. As far as Joffrey was concerned - Ned was defeated and his claims were untrue and unsubstantiated, there was little to gain from the man's death, at this point. But he wanted to kill somebody, I guess, to show off and test his power - and we know how it played out.

Personally I'm inclined to apply Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I'm not sure I buy that Joffrey was behind the attack on Bran - it doesn't make sense to me. He's a little shit, to be sure, but where would his motive have been? At that point Bran was just an injured kid to him and he didn't know about his parentage so there's no reason for him to defend Cersei and Jaime from rumors or anything.

And yes, Ned knew about Cersei and Jaime and that Joffrey was their child, not Roberts, but he didn't know that when Bran was attacked at Winterfell, he found all that out long after the fact in King's Landing.