Game Of Thrones Season 7 Implications: What "The Queen's Justice" Really Means

10. Cersei Still Has Some Humanity...

Though she's increasingly becoming an unhinged monster who wants to flay old ladies and torments her enemies by allowing them to watch their daughter die and rot in front of them, this episode showed a flash of humanity in Cersei suggesting she's not entirely gone.

When she comes face to face with Ellaria, there is genuine devastation in her reliving the death of Myrcella, who still feels like an innocent dragged into a war she had nothing to do with. She was one of the show's only truly good characters, and even knowing everything that Cersei has done, it's hard not to feel some sympathy for her almost losing it over her murder.

Lena Headey's performance in that sequence is stunning, segueing from cold, monstrous evil to legitimate emotional vulnerability in a flash, and it actually offers a hint towards her weakness. The fact that she went from this torture immediately to Jaime wasn't an accident: we were supposed to see the message that her only remaining close emotional tie