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shapinglightThat's more like it. Having said which....
Spoilers behind cut.
.....Waah! Poor Renly. Not happy that he's gone (though guessed it was going to happen). Stannis and Melisandre are a very poor substitute for Renly and Loras, in my opinion.
This episode fairly rocketed along, didn't it, with great scenes for Tyrion and Bronn (Bronn finally got more than one line an episode, and every single one a gem), Arya and the scary bloke with the two-coloured hair (I keep not getting his name), Brienne and Catelyn (that may be my favourite scene, in fact. Brienne has this strange, childlike innocence about her, and I think Cat has warmed to her for that reason) Jon and Sam and the well-hard men of the Night's Watch, (some of them are so well-hard they don't even wear hats, despite the weather), and best of all, Bran and Osha and Dany and Jorah.
That Dany/Jorah scene was a bit upsetting actually. She finally realises how he really feels about her. He realises she realises. Cue much angst and embarrassment. It's not going to end well, is it?
All the Quarth scenes were absolutely gorgeous to look at, with lots of mysteries thrown in. Who is the mysterious lady in the metal mask? Why are Doreah and Irri fighting so much? Will the Dothraki ever learn to play nice (unlikely) etc, etc. I fear the worst for poor Jorah, though. :(
It's also not going to end well for Ser Rodrik, I'm pretty sure. Theon has found a crony and enabler and he's desperate to get one over on his bolshy sister. Winterfell is in big, big trouble.
From what people had to say after last week's episode, I gather the Harrenhal scenes in the book were extremely gruesome (though not as gruesome as in later books when the flaying!yay! Boltons get going). If so, maybe they chose to dial it back a bit this week, after the nastiness of last week's ep. At any rate, I'm glad to see Arya and Gendry safe (for the moment), and glad that first off, the rat in a bucket man is dead (though not quite sure why Arya was so keen to use one of her 'wishes' on him. Presumably, in the book, she sees him do way worse than he did in ep 4, though it was bad enough) and also glad we were spared the gory details. Speaking of Two-Tone Hair Bloke, though, I wonder what happened to the other two men in the cage - you know, the not-chatty ones (their conversation seemed to consist mostly of Raargh! as far as I remember)?
I'm also wondering about the title of the episode. Can anyone fill me in (in a non-spoilery way), as to why it's called The Ghosts of Harrenhal? I have a feeling that what happened in the book is probably so nasty that last week's ep was a mere taste of it, and that the episode title may possibly not feel 'earned' to those who have read it (though on the plus side, at least this meant the episode was watchable).
Yeah, it was good. The war is hotting up. I am very sorry about Renly, though.
Trivial stuff:
Dany looked gorgeous in that dress, but an awful lot of women at the party seem to have been to the same dress shop. She should complain that her wannabe fiance didn't buy her a one-off. Cheapskate!
Is the Red God (as mentioned by Two-Tone Hair Bloke) different to the Lord of Light? I'm confused.
I wonder what's happened to Nymeria?
Spoilers behind cut.
.....Waah! Poor Renly. Not happy that he's gone (though guessed it was going to happen). Stannis and Melisandre are a very poor substitute for Renly and Loras, in my opinion.
This episode fairly rocketed along, didn't it, with great scenes for Tyrion and Bronn (Bronn finally got more than one line an episode, and every single one a gem), Arya and the scary bloke with the two-coloured hair (I keep not getting his name), Brienne and Catelyn (that may be my favourite scene, in fact. Brienne has this strange, childlike innocence about her, and I think Cat has warmed to her for that reason) Jon and Sam and the well-hard men of the Night's Watch, (some of them are so well-hard they don't even wear hats, despite the weather), and best of all, Bran and Osha and Dany and Jorah.
That Dany/Jorah scene was a bit upsetting actually. She finally realises how he really feels about her. He realises she realises. Cue much angst and embarrassment. It's not going to end well, is it?
All the Quarth scenes were absolutely gorgeous to look at, with lots of mysteries thrown in. Who is the mysterious lady in the metal mask? Why are Doreah and Irri fighting so much? Will the Dothraki ever learn to play nice (unlikely) etc, etc. I fear the worst for poor Jorah, though. :(
It's also not going to end well for Ser Rodrik, I'm pretty sure. Theon has found a crony and enabler and he's desperate to get one over on his bolshy sister. Winterfell is in big, big trouble.
From what people had to say after last week's episode, I gather the Harrenhal scenes in the book were extremely gruesome (though not as gruesome as in later books when the flaying!yay! Boltons get going). If so, maybe they chose to dial it back a bit this week, after the nastiness of last week's ep. At any rate, I'm glad to see Arya and Gendry safe (for the moment), and glad that first off, the rat in a bucket man is dead (though not quite sure why Arya was so keen to use one of her 'wishes' on him. Presumably, in the book, she sees him do way worse than he did in ep 4, though it was bad enough) and also glad we were spared the gory details. Speaking of Two-Tone Hair Bloke, though, I wonder what happened to the other two men in the cage - you know, the not-chatty ones (their conversation seemed to consist mostly of Raargh! as far as I remember)?
I'm also wondering about the title of the episode. Can anyone fill me in (in a non-spoilery way), as to why it's called The Ghosts of Harrenhal? I have a feeling that what happened in the book is probably so nasty that last week's ep was a mere taste of it, and that the episode title may possibly not feel 'earned' to those who have read it (though on the plus side, at least this meant the episode was watchable).
Yeah, it was good. The war is hotting up. I am very sorry about Renly, though.
Trivial stuff:
Dany looked gorgeous in that dress, but an awful lot of women at the party seem to have been to the same dress shop. She should complain that her wannabe fiance didn't buy her a one-off. Cheapskate!
Is the Red God (as mentioned by Two-Tone Hair Bloke) different to the Lord of Light? I'm confused.
I wonder what's happened to Nymeria?