See What The Tyrells Are Plotting (Video)

Playing “the great game,” as Tyrion Lannister calls it, is something that every last person in King’s Landing does. It’s like breathing—most of them don’t even think about it. Cersei may be a terrible decision-maker, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t playing her heart out. The Tyrells, on the other hand, are not only skilled players of the game, but they’ve all been tutored under the master: Grandmother Olenna.

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Hail spoilers

We’ve been wondering about Margaery and exactly what it is she’s been plotting with this whole “Let the High Sparrow win” stuff that happened last week. Did she really convert? Is she just taking Loras’ advice in the most twisted manner imaginable? Moreover, what is Margaery going to *do* about Grandmother Olenna? She was clearly stunned last week when that army came marching in, and Olenna with it. She had obviously thought that aligning with the High Sparrow and giving the man what he wanted—Tommen—was going to be an effective move. She hadn’t counted on accidentally humiliating her father and grandmother in the public square.

Just as importantly, how is Olenna going to take being cut out of the power structure? This is a woman who spent the last 20 years grooming Margaery to become “The Queen.” Like Varys, she is a spider, and she wouldn’t take well to finding that thread cut.

We knew Olenna would go marching in to see Margaery just as soon as the Queen was back in her chambers. What we didn’t expect was this.

https://vine.co/v/iY9PdQDzFiM

I was joking about Hail Hydra, but Margaery is in fact passing a note in that photo.

https://vine.co/v/iY9Phum2LE3

And it’s the flower of House Tyrell. It looks like she’s still in the game, and on her grandmother’s side.