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shapinglightOkay, can I say first off...
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...that I don't want to see any more of what happens to Theon. I found what we did see in this episode so horrid that I decided I had to spoiler myself for what else happens, which I have just done on a GoT Wiki page, because not knowing was making the tension so bad I wasn't sure I could keep watching at all.
As it is, now I know, I think I'm going to have to fast-forward through all the Theon scenes from now on. If they're anything at all as described on that Wiki page, they're going to be unwatchable. :(
Theon apart, it it was a very enjoyable episode. I loved the Jaime/Brienne fight, and really hope they don't get captured, because those Boltons and their Flaying!Yay! philosophy don't need any more victims. I also loved the scene with Sansa, Margaery andDiana Rigg Margaery's granny, whose name I didn't catch. I think they have Joffrey's number now, as demonstrated in the Margaery/Joffrey scene where Margaery showed she knows exactly how to handle him. I like that they were nice to Sansa too. I hope her words about Joffrey won't be used against her later on.
Otherwise, it was good to catch up with Bran, Osha and co - and hasn't the kid playing Bran (inevitably) grown? I hope they've decided to just ride out the fact that not that much time is supposed to have passed and yet suddenly his voice is breaking, because changing actors is really not going to work. Not sure what I think of this brother and sister. So far, they get on my nerves a bit. And Worgs? Really?
Elsewhere, things aren't going well for Robb, are they? That's what happens when you're mean to your mum and marry the world's most boring woman. I like Catelyn's monologue about Jon Snow, though. Explains a lot (though I always thought 'the pox' was another name for syphilis, so was a bit thrown by Cat calling whatever childhood ailment Jon had that).
Things aren't going that well for Arya either. Also, I suppose it's pointless hoping that someone will tell the Hound off for calling her names. Why did he, anyway? What's his problem? It's clear that Arya has a lot still to learn and a lot of growing up to do. I hope these new people - none of whose names I caught - are trustworthy (to some extent anyway).
As for goings on beyond the Wall, I'm glad Lord Mormont stood up for Sam. I also can't understand why all the Wildlings aren't dead already. There doesn't seem to be anything there to eat. Except horses, maybe. The remaining Nightswatch men seem to have lost all theirs, and I can't remember when that happened. They also - as has been noted many times - don't seem to have a single hat among all of them. Very silly.
Maybe it's because he used to be a Nightswatchman that Mance Rayder doesn't wear one either.
Anyway, I've been rewatching some of season 1, and I have to say, though plenty of nasty stuff happens in season 1, it still seems like the good old days compared to now. Everything just seems to be sliding horribly down hill. It'll be a good thing when Dany and her dragons arrive and make people behave themselves again.
Trivial stuff:
Anyone else feel sorry for Cersei?
Okay, just me, then.
Spoilers behind cut
...that I don't want to see any more of what happens to Theon. I found what we did see in this episode so horrid that I decided I had to spoiler myself for what else happens, which I have just done on a GoT Wiki page, because not knowing was making the tension so bad I wasn't sure I could keep watching at all.
As it is, now I know, I think I'm going to have to fast-forward through all the Theon scenes from now on. If they're anything at all as described on that Wiki page, they're going to be unwatchable. :(
Theon apart, it it was a very enjoyable episode. I loved the Jaime/Brienne fight, and really hope they don't get captured, because those Boltons and their Flaying!Yay! philosophy don't need any more victims. I also loved the scene with Sansa, Margaery and
Otherwise, it was good to catch up with Bran, Osha and co - and hasn't the kid playing Bran (inevitably) grown? I hope they've decided to just ride out the fact that not that much time is supposed to have passed and yet suddenly his voice is breaking, because changing actors is really not going to work. Not sure what I think of this brother and sister. So far, they get on my nerves a bit. And Worgs? Really?
Elsewhere, things aren't going well for Robb, are they? That's what happens when you're mean to your mum and marry the world's most boring woman. I like Catelyn's monologue about Jon Snow, though. Explains a lot (though I always thought 'the pox' was another name for syphilis, so was a bit thrown by Cat calling whatever childhood ailment Jon had that).
Things aren't going that well for Arya either. Also, I suppose it's pointless hoping that someone will tell the Hound off for calling her names. Why did he, anyway? What's his problem? It's clear that Arya has a lot still to learn and a lot of growing up to do. I hope these new people - none of whose names I caught - are trustworthy (to some extent anyway).
As for goings on beyond the Wall, I'm glad Lord Mormont stood up for Sam. I also can't understand why all the Wildlings aren't dead already. There doesn't seem to be anything there to eat. Except horses, maybe. The remaining Nightswatch men seem to have lost all theirs, and I can't remember when that happened. They also - as has been noted many times - don't seem to have a single hat among all of them. Very silly.
Maybe it's because he used to be a Nightswatchman that Mance Rayder doesn't wear one either.
Anyway, I've been rewatching some of season 1, and I have to say, though plenty of nasty stuff happens in season 1, it still seems like the good old days compared to now. Everything just seems to be sliding horribly down hill. It'll be a good thing when Dany and her dragons arrive and make people behave themselves again.
Trivial stuff:
Anyone else feel sorry for Cersei?
Okay, just me, then.
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Date: 2013-04-08 05:56 pm (UTC)Of course it doesn't bother me what might have been changed from the books either. I've only read the first one and didn't like it enough to read any more. I do now find myself wishing, though, that they'd changed Theon's story.
But I'm pretty sure they won't have, because if they'd been going to, they should have just killed him at the end of season 2.