YMMV / Westeros: An American Musical

• Harsher in Hindsight: As noted below, the musical accidentally predicted the highly controversial turn Daenerys' character arc would take in the final season.
• Hollywood Pudgy: Robert, whose significant weight gain is mentioned in "King Robert Baratheon", is played by an actor with a fairly average body type.
• Ho Yay:
  • Ned and Robert. To give an idea of the level at which the play amplifies it, "King Robert Baratheon" ends with Ned calling himself "the damn fool who loved [Robert]" and the narrator calls their relationship "The bromance that won Robert's rebellion".
  • When the narrator says that she "ships it" after "First Watch" she isn't specific about whether she's talking about Sam/Gilly or Jon/Sam.
  • Davos and Stannis. Contributing factors include Selyse not getting any kind of mention and Shireen's body language when Davos is re-instated as Stannis' Hand being that of someone who's witnessing a surprise proposal getting accepted. The play also keeps the Intergenerational Friendship between Davos and Shireen from Game of Thrones, all around making it look like Shireen has two dads.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish retains his manipulative brilliance while losing his petty sadism. After arranging both Jon Arryn's murder and Ned Stark's arrival in King's Landing, Littlefinger then betrays Ned, leading to the War of the Five Kings and his ascension to further power. Proving instrumental to the Battle of the Blackwater by convincing the Tyrell forces to join the Lannisters, Littlefinger then allies with Olenna Tyrell to assassinate King Joffrey Baratheon. Leaving for the Vale, Littlefinger uses Dontos Hollard to rescue Sansa Stark from the chaos, returning under the cover of darkness to rescue Sansa himself and kill Dontos. With his alibi set, Littlefinger then leaves with Sansa for the Vale, becoming the newest major lord and getting away with Joffrey's assassination.
  • Olenna Tyrell remains as delightfully cunning as ever. Pretending to be a senile old woman to hide her devious intelligence, Olenna very quickly views Joffrey Baratheon's sadism and decides that he must die for the sake of her children. After pretending to give Sansa a comforting ear, Olenna gives her a hairnet containing the poison that will kill him, choosing such a method to ensure she's nowhere near the groom when it happens. As a result, Tyrion is framed for the crime she committed while she votes him guilty, taking great pleasure in revealing her crime to the audience and leaving the musical having gotten everything she wanted.
  • Shae proves herself to be the only rational person in Tyrion's employ throughout her brief stint in the show. After realizing how desperate Tyrion is for her affections when he defies Tywin's orders, Shae takes advantage of this by conning him out of a house among other things, then points out the flaws in Tyrion's various plans as time goes on. When he puts her in more danger, she gets her revenge by helping Olenna frame him for Joffrey's murder, lying that he schemed the assassination with his wife Sansa. When he confronts her that night, Shae finally calls him out for his selfish attitude, never losing her fearless edge even when Tyrion grabs a crossbow and kills her.
• Older Than They Think: "I'll Be Back" was part of the 2018 version of the play, and that version already had Daenerys threaten to go mad and burn the Westeros countryside with dragon fire. The Game of Thrones episode in which exactly that happened was aired in May 2019, and the 2019 version of the play was put online a couple weeks later. This resulted in people who discovered the play via its 2019 version assuming that "I'll Be Back" was inspired by what had happened in the series rather than an accidentally spot-on prediction.

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