Game of Thrones season 8: The fashion of the Golden Company and Cersei

Cersei Lannister now employs the flashiest army in Westeros on Game of Thrones, but she doesn’t look like she should be employing them.

We’re not saying that the price Cersei Lannister has paid for Euron Greyjoy to fetch the Golden Company was worth it on Game of Thrones. We are about to say, however, that this army fits the person Cersei used to be rather than the person she now is, in some ways, and it’s all to do with the color story.

As you can probably tell by either the name or the image above, the Golden Company … likes gold. Their armor isn’t as finely worked as say, Jaime Lannister’s used to be, but the concept is still there. These are mercenaries who have earned the right to kit themselves out the way they do.

So why do we say they don’t fit the person Cersei is now?

Well, have you seen her color schemes lately? There’s a lot of black, but even the robe she puts on in her scene with Euron is a grayish color. It’s all still well-made and befitting a queen, but it’s still putting her in a much darker place than she once was.

For example, below’s video clip shows some of her more ornate looks from earlier seasons, and I’ve gone more into detail about her use of gold in earlier seasons before, too:

See what we mean about the Golden Company being for an earlier Cersei? In some ways, it’s just a reflection of one of Cersei’s ongoing issues: she doesn’t get what she wants, or if she does get it, it’s not exactly the way she wants it.

For example, she secures the throne for herself, but at the cost of all of her children. She gets the Golden Company, but they don’t bring her her elephants. In fact, she has an army, but it’s one brought in from another continent and paid to be there rather than coming out of loyalty to her specifically.

Presumably, if Bronn succeeds in killing one of Jaime or Tyrion, he’ll publicly announce Cersei paid him to do it at this point.

We’ve predicted that Cersei’s not long for this world not once, but several times, including a theory that has her becoming the Night Queen. Over on Winter is Coming, I speculated that things are not going to get better just based on her few scenes in “Winterfell.” The Golden Company’s incongruity with their new employer is just one more reason we’re concerned about our favorite evil queen.

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