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shapinglightRather late to the party this week, as I've only just had the chance to watch the episode this evening. Spoilers behind cut.
Well, one of my predictions from last week was wrong. I was pretty sure King Robert would get murdered before the end of the season, but unless you count Lancel Lannister, his squire, constantly plying him with drink (and if that was a deliberate sneaky move, Lancel Lannister is a very good actor), he wasn't. Instead, he dies by accident, having been gored by a boar. Ahem!
I would say that the episode suffered from a serious lack of Tyrion, except that Nightwatch Sam was back (yay!) and filled Tyrion's place admirably. Well, he's not as witty, obviously, and is cute rather than sexy, but he's a similar character in that he bats above his weight, as it were. Elsewhere, Ned Stark continued to be honourable and dense (and will probably be dead before the end of the next episode), while Varys and Littlefinger were all underhand and scheme-y - that is, except when Littlefinger inexplicably revealed all his deepest darkest secrets to Roz the ubiquitous whore (that woman gets everywhere), though for some weird reason I feel anything Littlefinger had to say in that scene was only a cover to let the show get away with some sub-porn (and not that sub) hot lesbo action. They might as well have given the scene its own porn movie title (suggestions on a postcard please). As you can probably tell, I didn't like it. The show has at times edged over into gratuitousness when it comes to depictions of sex or violence, but this time it took a big flying leap over the edge and landed in soft porn land.
No. Really didn't like it.
That said, it didn't spoil the ep for me because there was way too much more interesting stuff going on, from Khal Drogo's testosterone fuelled (a lot of that in this ep) speech about how he was going to conquer Westeros for daring to try to hurt Dany (must have been quite an effort learning that speech in a made up language and making it sound convincing/threatening, so kudos to Jason Momoa), to the utterly wonderful Charles Dance as the scary and chilling Lannister Snr ("Go on. Say something clever.") to Cersei being both scary (must get it from her dad) and strong (I wish she wasn't going to be quite so evil - I don't know the particulars, but I've seen enough of what other people have said to know that she is - because at the moment I have quite a lot of sympathy with her). However, the best scenes for me were the Nightwatch ones, with what the captive wilding girl said about 'things' waking up beyong the Wall as a sort of commentary on them. I loved all those scenes, and really enjoy the friendship between Jon Snow and Sam. And that last moment with Ghost the direwolf and the severed hand? Actually pretty creepy.
Very, very exciting, though I may well skip that one scene when I watch it again. The episode won't lose anything important.
Well, one of my predictions from last week was wrong. I was pretty sure King Robert would get murdered before the end of the season, but unless you count Lancel Lannister, his squire, constantly plying him with drink (and if that was a deliberate sneaky move, Lancel Lannister is a very good actor), he wasn't. Instead, he dies by accident, having been gored by a boar. Ahem!
I would say that the episode suffered from a serious lack of Tyrion, except that Nightwatch Sam was back (yay!) and filled Tyrion's place admirably. Well, he's not as witty, obviously, and is cute rather than sexy, but he's a similar character in that he bats above his weight, as it were. Elsewhere, Ned Stark continued to be honourable and dense (and will probably be dead before the end of the next episode), while Varys and Littlefinger were all underhand and scheme-y - that is, except when Littlefinger inexplicably revealed all his deepest darkest secrets to Roz the ubiquitous whore (that woman gets everywhere), though for some weird reason I feel anything Littlefinger had to say in that scene was only a cover to let the show get away with some sub-porn (and not that sub) hot lesbo action. They might as well have given the scene its own porn movie title (suggestions on a postcard please). As you can probably tell, I didn't like it. The show has at times edged over into gratuitousness when it comes to depictions of sex or violence, but this time it took a big flying leap over the edge and landed in soft porn land.
No. Really didn't like it.
That said, it didn't spoil the ep for me because there was way too much more interesting stuff going on, from Khal Drogo's testosterone fuelled (a lot of that in this ep) speech about how he was going to conquer Westeros for daring to try to hurt Dany (must have been quite an effort learning that speech in a made up language and making it sound convincing/threatening, so kudos to Jason Momoa), to the utterly wonderful Charles Dance as the scary and chilling Lannister Snr ("Go on. Say something clever.") to Cersei being both scary (must get it from her dad) and strong (I wish she wasn't going to be quite so evil - I don't know the particulars, but I've seen enough of what other people have said to know that she is - because at the moment I have quite a lot of sympathy with her). However, the best scenes for me were the Nightwatch ones, with what the captive wilding girl said about 'things' waking up beyong the Wall as a sort of commentary on them. I loved all those scenes, and really enjoy the friendship between Jon Snow and Sam. And that last moment with Ghost the direwolf and the severed hand? Actually pretty creepy.
Very, very exciting, though I may well skip that one scene when I watch it again. The episode won't lose anything important.
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Date: 2011-06-01 04:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-03 04:49 am (UTC)Now, Jon Arryn, who also had the information Eddard found, was poisoned with the tears of Lyss. Jon's squire also had a Lannister connection but he died in the tourney before he could talk.
I think by now Cersei is also killing off Robert's bastard, including the whore with the baby that Eddard did talk to. I'm pretty sure that happened as soon as Joffrey is on the throne. Surprise that wasn't shown.
That's the subtext missing from what's going on now, which is really too bad.
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Date: 2011-06-03 06:13 am (UTC)