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shapinglightThought I would continue to do these posts, if only for completeness' sake.
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It's ba-ack, and can I just say first that the whole Dany/Daario Thingywotsit situation is soo much easier to bear now that Mr Motley Crue Reject has been replaced by Sonny from Treme. I'm no longer fuming quite so much on Jorah's behalf that he's been supplanted.
Seeds of conflict being sown there too, with Daario Tact-Is-Not-My-Middle-Name Naharis goading Grey Worm about his feelings for Dany. Not nice. Also, still some uncomfortable twinges in the whole Dany storyline coming from the fact that Dany and three of her chief subordinates are white, while everyone else who follows her very much is not. IMO, they should have cast Daario right from the start with a non-white actor. Too late now.
Elsewhere, Cersei is trying hard to win the Nastiest Woman in Westeros award for the fourth year running (she'll have to up her game, there's stiff competition, especially from Melisandre) and Joffrey (no one has slapped him yet but it's early days) proves himself a chip off the maternal block yet again by echoing Cersei's accusation against Jaime of not escaping sooner on purpose. I know Cersei persists in having maternal feelings for this horrid little s**t (I mean Joffrey, not Jaime, of course), but what, I wonder, are Jaime's feelings for him? Does he have any fondness for Joffrey at all? Actually, why would he? It's not like Tywin has set Jaime a great example in how to be a loving father.
Otherwise, things are going to hell all over the place. The King's Peace seems to be interpreted in Westeros as the King's Men's Carte Blanche To Do What the Hell They Please (though in this instance it gets them killed by the Hound and Arya, and good riddance), Shae is fed up with Tyrion (or is it vice versa? Maybe Tyrion is in love with Sansa no matter what he said?), and a bunch of swarthy(ish) foreign types are swaggering around the brothels of Kingslanding throwing their weight about. Can't wait to see more of them and how that goes.
Meanwhile, Ygritte's wildlings meet some other wildlings bigger and nastier (and a lot more cannibalistic) than themselves and Jon Snow (back with Sam! Yay!) shows just how much he's grown up when he faces down the horrible Ser Alliser Thorne (who I haven't missed at all in the past two seasons).
And then Sansa gets the one genuinely nice moment in the episode, and the nicest thing that can have happened to her for a long time - possibly since season 1. That's actually quite a nice necklace. I hope she doesn't end having to give it to Margaery, but given the whole necklace conversation between Margaery and Granny Tyrell, I suspect she will. Maybe Joffrey will see Sansa wearing it and demand she hand it over? :(
All in all, the show carried on almost from where it left off last season. The reverberations of the Red Wedding, though they'll be felt for a long time by the remaining Stark children (those that know about it) are already beginning to die down for everyone else, it seems. There's a new status quo. I wonder how long it will last?
Trivial stuff: Yay! Bronn! And Brienne. Lots of love for both of them (though I suspect Bronn will turn on Tyrion any moment). And what a surprise. It took all of five minutes for some woman to get her kit off.
Spoilers behind cut.
It's ba-ack, and can I just say first that the whole Dany/Daario Thingywotsit situation is soo much easier to bear now that Mr Motley Crue Reject has been replaced by Sonny from Treme. I'm no longer fuming quite so much on Jorah's behalf that he's been supplanted.
Seeds of conflict being sown there too, with Daario Tact-Is-Not-My-Middle-Name Naharis goading Grey Worm about his feelings for Dany. Not nice. Also, still some uncomfortable twinges in the whole Dany storyline coming from the fact that Dany and three of her chief subordinates are white, while everyone else who follows her very much is not. IMO, they should have cast Daario right from the start with a non-white actor. Too late now.
Elsewhere, Cersei is trying hard to win the Nastiest Woman in Westeros award for the fourth year running (she'll have to up her game, there's stiff competition, especially from Melisandre) and Joffrey (no one has slapped him yet but it's early days) proves himself a chip off the maternal block yet again by echoing Cersei's accusation against Jaime of not escaping sooner on purpose. I know Cersei persists in having maternal feelings for this horrid little s**t (I mean Joffrey, not Jaime, of course), but what, I wonder, are Jaime's feelings for him? Does he have any fondness for Joffrey at all? Actually, why would he? It's not like Tywin has set Jaime a great example in how to be a loving father.
Otherwise, things are going to hell all over the place. The King's Peace seems to be interpreted in Westeros as the King's Men's Carte Blanche To Do What the Hell They Please (though in this instance it gets them killed by the Hound and Arya, and good riddance), Shae is fed up with Tyrion (or is it vice versa? Maybe Tyrion is in love with Sansa no matter what he said?), and a bunch of swarthy(ish) foreign types are swaggering around the brothels of Kingslanding throwing their weight about. Can't wait to see more of them and how that goes.
Meanwhile, Ygritte's wildlings meet some other wildlings bigger and nastier (and a lot more cannibalistic) than themselves and Jon Snow (back with Sam! Yay!) shows just how much he's grown up when he faces down the horrible Ser Alliser Thorne (who I haven't missed at all in the past two seasons).
And then Sansa gets the one genuinely nice moment in the episode, and the nicest thing that can have happened to her for a long time - possibly since season 1. That's actually quite a nice necklace. I hope she doesn't end having to give it to Margaery, but given the whole necklace conversation between Margaery and Granny Tyrell, I suspect she will. Maybe Joffrey will see Sansa wearing it and demand she hand it over? :(
All in all, the show carried on almost from where it left off last season. The reverberations of the Red Wedding, though they'll be felt for a long time by the remaining Stark children (those that know about it) are already beginning to die down for everyone else, it seems. There's a new status quo. I wonder how long it will last?
Trivial stuff: Yay! Bronn! And Brienne. Lots of love for both of them (though I suspect Bronn will turn on Tyrion any moment). And what a surprise. It took all of five minutes for some woman to get her kit off.
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Date: 2014-04-07 04:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-07 05:02 pm (UTC)I enjoy doing them, even though there aren't many people around to read them any more.
You're probably right about Grey Worm. Missandei is gorgeous. How could he not be interested in her? And Daario ThingyWotsit teasing Grey Worm about his lack of certain attributes just goes to show that Daario doesn't know as much about women as he thinks he does.
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Date: 2014-04-07 05:32 pm (UTC)Poor Sansa, though. Always poor Sansa. But, hey, at least Arya got Needle and a pony.
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Date: 2014-04-07 06:25 pm (UTC)Yes, good snark, though Margaery being Margaery, if Joffrey did do such a thing she'd probably smile and ask him to fasten it for her.
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Date: 2014-04-07 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-10 06:31 pm (UTC)The other bloke just looked...weird.
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Date: 2014-04-10 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-10 07:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-07 09:42 pm (UTC)I thought it was an excellent start. Agree that this Daario is much easier on the eye, and everything. As for Daenerys chiefs being white - they have Grey Worm and Missandei who are also her highest subordinates, maybe it should just be shown better.
I loved how everything was bookmarked by the first scene with the sinister Lannister song playing over Tywin burning the wolf pelt and reforging Ned's sword, and the last scene with Arya reclaiming her sword and killing Lannister enemies, with Stark song played in the the same sinister, chilling key as the Raines of Castamere.
Arya is becoming as ruthless and cold as Tywin, and it's horrible and fascinating to see.
The last part with the Hound and Arya was the best.
But I also, yet again, was falling for Tyrells. I love how they show them, how there is always a hint of humanity, or *normalcy* to them. Margaery talk to Brienne, her distaste of Jeoffrey, Lady Olenna's caution, that made me happy.
Jaimie had a horrible time. He's trying to keep the remnants of his honour, to be a better man, and gets disowned for it and rejected by Cersei (which is actually good for him!) It's playing out differently from the books, and I like it. What, indeed, can he do with Sansa now?
Cheered for John Snow smackdown of those slimeballs.
And Oberyn was fun, he was done just right.
The only thing I didn't like is that the girls dropped their clothes but the boy didn't. Not fair. :J
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Date: 2014-04-10 06:37 pm (UTC)I hope I can keep it up. 'Net time is at a premium this year.
As for Daenerys chiefs being white - they have Grey Worm and Missandei who are also her highest subordinates, maybe it should just be shown better.
I dunno. I'm probably being over-sensitive, but there is just too much of the 'great white queen swoops in and saves all the dark-skinned people who can't look after themselves' about it. But that's from the book so it can't be helped really. I vaguely recall GRRM admitting that he's more aware of this kind of thing these days and if he were writing the books now he might do some things differently.
Good catch with the bookmarking of the first and last scenes. Though I did realise the music in the first scene was the horribly sinister Rains of Castamere, I didn't pick up on the music for the final scene being Stark in origin. Must watch again.
Agree that the Tyrells seem quite 'normal' compared to everyone else. I hope Margaery can cope with Joffrey. He's so unpredictable (except for being horrible) that it's going to be tough.
And Oberyn was fun, he was done just right.
Yes, I liked him and his scary lady friend.
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Date: 2014-04-09 08:04 am (UTC)Jaime has a cybernetic slapping hand now. Just saying. :)
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Date: 2014-04-10 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 05:21 pm (UTC)My husband, who's read the books, keeps saying 'you'll never believe what happens next'. I believe him.
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Date: 2014-04-12 07:40 pm (UTC)Same here, though from what little I've gleaned, I don't think anything bad happens to the Boltons for a while. And it should.