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House Slate: What Does “Certain Rumors Are Confirmed” Even Mean on Game of Thrones?

Can we ever escape who we really are? House Slate hosts Marc Faletti and Amanda Marcotte celebrate Arya’s return to self and mourn Jaime’s reclamation of his Lannister identity. (The jury’s still out on what this all means for the Hound.) In Game of Thrones, people can run, but their true selves find them in the end. 

Amanda and Marc also have some theories about what, exactly, Qyburn was talking about when he said that certain rumors are confirmed. Has the Mad King Aerys been reborn in the Bitter Queen Cersei?