Conflicts to Come
• Jamie and Cersei can’t help but misuse their positions
• Stannis is ruining the Night Watch
• Baelish, well he’s being Baelish
This episode did not disappoint – sleazy scheming, sibling in-fighting, death by burning, and the ever-present abuse of power. Basically, everything you could ever want from Game of Thrones (we don’t watch this show for the culture). When it comes to Conflicts of Interest, these fine folks are sticking with the classics in this season’s opener: MISUSE OF POSITION and CROWN RESOURCES.
Cersei gets her abuse on early. Like way early, as in 20 years ago early. Preteen Cersei gets a foreshadowing of all her sorrows to come when she goes to a creepy (yet somehow still sexy) witch’s house. Cersei wants …show more content…
He decides a better use of the Night’s Watch’s resources would be spent on his totally ill-fated quest to be king. Instead of for, ya know, he all-important task of protecting the realm against whatever-the-scary-icicle-things are on the other side of that giant frozen wall from climbing over and turning all of Westeros into a medieval version of the Walking Dead. Stannis, generally speaking, is a principled man. But, he’s allowed his ego (and a crazy burns-people-at-the-stake-and-gives-birth-to-shadow-deamon-babiescult leader) turn his principle all wonky. Those resources are for the exclusive purpose of having Castle Black protect the realm and not to be commandeered by Stannis for his personal business, no matter how righteous Stannis thinks that business is. It might be time for Stannis to have a taste of his own medicine. As Master of Virtue, I’d fine Stannis two of his least favorite fingers to remind him not to take what doesn’t belong to him. But, that’s just in Westeros. If this went down in NYC, COIB would probably refer Stannis’ case to the DA to be brought up on criminal charges: misusing an entire army (if NYC had its own army) is way more than the usual MISUSE OF CITY RESOURCES (like, say, misusing a City printer and paper for your personal business …show more content…
He’s made himself the “guardian” of little Lord Robin Arryon and taken our girl Sansa under his wing. But being Lord Baelish, we know for certain that he hasn’t done these things out of the kindness of his heart – this guy’s always got an angle. It just so happened that both Lord Robin and Lady Sansa come with some pretty powerful and famous names – might it be that Little Finger wants to get ahold of those names to secure himself more power and privilege? Yeah, probably. Arguably, that’s a MISUSE OF CROWN RESOURCES: Little Finger, being the current “guardian” of the two young nobles makes him kinda their supervisor (and they his subordinates). Subordinates are Crown Resources. If Baelish uses his subordinates, or their names, to advance his personal fortune instead of for Crown purposes he has MISUSED THE CROWN’S RESOURCES. Not unlike a former Police Commissioner that made his subordinates dig up dirt on his biological mother for his autobiography he later published – on their on-duty & off-duty time, even making one fly to Ohio to conduct the research – definitely not a City purpose. Here, Little Finger is not just asking his subordinates to do him a “favor”; he’s actually attempting to steal their names (and their minors!!). Baelish should be stripped of his title and fined the maximum amount possible (which would be whatever the gold dragon equivalent of $25,000, plus whatever ill-gotten gains he might receive
• Jamie and Cersei can’t help but misuse their positions
• Stannis is ruining the Night Watch
• Baelish, well he’s being Baelish
This episode did not disappoint – sleazy scheming, sibling in-fighting, death by burning, and the ever-present abuse of power. Basically, everything you could ever want from Game of Thrones (we don’t watch this show for the culture). When it comes to Conflicts of Interest, these fine folks are sticking with the classics in this season’s opener: MISUSE OF POSITION and CROWN RESOURCES.
Cersei gets her abuse on early. Like way early, as in 20 years ago early. Preteen Cersei gets a foreshadowing of all her sorrows to come when she goes to a creepy (yet somehow still sexy) witch’s house. Cersei wants …show more content…
He decides a better use of the Night’s Watch’s resources would be spent on his totally ill-fated quest to be king. Instead of for, ya know, he all-important task of protecting the realm against whatever-the-scary-icicle-things are on the other side of that giant frozen wall from climbing over and turning all of Westeros into a medieval version of the Walking Dead. Stannis, generally speaking, is a principled man. But, he’s allowed his ego (and a crazy burns-people-at-the-stake-and-gives-birth-to-shadow-deamon-babiescult leader) turn his principle all wonky. Those resources are for the exclusive purpose of having Castle Black protect the realm and not to be commandeered by Stannis for his personal business, no matter how righteous Stannis thinks that business is. It might be time for Stannis to have a taste of his own medicine. As Master of Virtue, I’d fine Stannis two of his least favorite fingers to remind him not to take what doesn’t belong to him. But, that’s just in Westeros. If this went down in NYC, COIB would probably refer Stannis’ case to the DA to be brought up on criminal charges: misusing an entire army (if NYC had its own army) is way more than the usual MISUSE OF CITY RESOURCES (like, say, misusing a City printer and paper for your personal business …show more content…
He’s made himself the “guardian” of little Lord Robin Arryon and taken our girl Sansa under his wing. But being Lord Baelish, we know for certain that he hasn’t done these things out of the kindness of his heart – this guy’s always got an angle. It just so happened that both Lord Robin and Lady Sansa come with some pretty powerful and famous names – might it be that Little Finger wants to get ahold of those names to secure himself more power and privilege? Yeah, probably. Arguably, that’s a MISUSE OF CROWN RESOURCES: Little Finger, being the current “guardian” of the two young nobles makes him kinda their supervisor (and they his subordinates). Subordinates are Crown Resources. If Baelish uses his subordinates, or their names, to advance his personal fortune instead of for Crown purposes he has MISUSED THE CROWN’S RESOURCES. Not unlike a former Police Commissioner that made his subordinates dig up dirt on his biological mother for his autobiography he later published – on their on-duty & off-duty time, even making one fly to Ohio to conduct the research – definitely not a City purpose. Here, Little Finger is not just asking his subordinates to do him a “favor”; he’s actually attempting to steal their names (and their minors!!). Baelish should be stripped of his title and fined the maximum amount possible (which would be whatever the gold dragon equivalent of $25,000, plus whatever ill-gotten gains he might receive