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shapinglightFirstly, apologies for not even having answered comments from last week yet. I hope to get around to it this week, when things should be (I hope) a little calmer.
Just watched the ep and...
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...several things you could just see coming, including the demise of Barmy Aunt Lysa. That'll teach her to stand so close to a 5000ft drop with a bloke that no one with an ounce of sense would trust an inch.
The Baelish/Sansa kiss was creepy as all get out. Yuck! Mind you, I didn't get the impression that Sansa necessarily thought so. I was also rather taken aback when she slapped Annoying Little Lord Robin. I thought she'd grown far too cautious to do such a thing.
Others things you could see coming - sadly, Bronn's betrayal of Tyrion. I'd been fearing it ever since Tyrion's arrest, hoping it wouldn't happen, but mostly being pretty certain it would. And lo and behold....
I suppose that's probably the last we'll see of Bronn. :(
Sad. I thought he and Tyrion made a great team.
And the other thing you could see coming the minute it was made clear that Cersei had chosen Gregor Clegane as the crown's champion, Prince Thing-y of Dorne (I keep forgetting his name. Aargh!) declaring himself Tyrion's champion. I liked that scene between them in the prison cell. Prince Thing-y (bloody hell, what is his name?) seems like a nicer person than almost anyone you might meet in Kingslanding. I hope he turns the Mountain into a molehill and then stomps on it.
Other good scenes, all the Brienne/Podric stuff, which was delightful. The Dany/Jorah scene, which I loved for several reasons. Firstly, it was a Dany/Jorah solo scene and we don't get many of those these days. Secondly, Dany once again showed that she's willing to learn and open to reason. Thirdly, seems she does know about Jorah's slave trading past (I thought I remembered him telling it to someone but had convinced myself it must have been Viserys) so that won't be a reason for him to be made to leave her (though of course if that happens this season, I will probably like the actual reason even less. I just hope it's not yet another reprise of Seeing Red). Must admit, I also sorta kinda liked that the Dany/Daario scene was so like so many of the m/f sex scenes in this show but with the genders reversed, though note rather sourly that it didn't go nearly as far as some of the scenes with the 'conventional' m/f dynamic seem to go.
Not that I wanted it to, you understand, but it's the principle of the thing.
Anyway, there was also Ser Alliser still being a git to Jon Snow (and a stupid git at that), and the Hound/Arya stuff, which was fab. Wonder how long till news of Barmy Aunt Lysa's sad demise gets out and scuppers the Hound's cunning plan?
Finally, there's Melisandre being ultra creepy with Stannis's wife and the horrid threat of something happening to Stannis's adorable little daughter. I have all my fingers crossed that it'll turn out she's impervious to fire too. That'll have to dual effect of possibly making her mother less horrible to her and of making Melisandre quite cross.
Here's hoping.
Just watched the ep and...
Spoilers behind cut
...several things you could just see coming, including the demise of Barmy Aunt Lysa. That'll teach her to stand so close to a 5000ft drop with a bloke that no one with an ounce of sense would trust an inch.
The Baelish/Sansa kiss was creepy as all get out. Yuck! Mind you, I didn't get the impression that Sansa necessarily thought so. I was also rather taken aback when she slapped Annoying Little Lord Robin. I thought she'd grown far too cautious to do such a thing.
Others things you could see coming - sadly, Bronn's betrayal of Tyrion. I'd been fearing it ever since Tyrion's arrest, hoping it wouldn't happen, but mostly being pretty certain it would. And lo and behold....
I suppose that's probably the last we'll see of Bronn. :(
Sad. I thought he and Tyrion made a great team.
And the other thing you could see coming the minute it was made clear that Cersei had chosen Gregor Clegane as the crown's champion, Prince Thing-y of Dorne (I keep forgetting his name. Aargh!) declaring himself Tyrion's champion. I liked that scene between them in the prison cell. Prince Thing-y (bloody hell, what is his name?) seems like a nicer person than almost anyone you might meet in Kingslanding. I hope he turns the Mountain into a molehill and then stomps on it.
Other good scenes, all the Brienne/Podric stuff, which was delightful. The Dany/Jorah scene, which I loved for several reasons. Firstly, it was a Dany/Jorah solo scene and we don't get many of those these days. Secondly, Dany once again showed that she's willing to learn and open to reason. Thirdly, seems she does know about Jorah's slave trading past (I thought I remembered him telling it to someone but had convinced myself it must have been Viserys) so that won't be a reason for him to be made to leave her (though of course if that happens this season, I will probably like the actual reason even less. I just hope it's not yet another reprise of Seeing Red). Must admit, I also sorta kinda liked that the Dany/Daario scene was so like so many of the m/f sex scenes in this show but with the genders reversed, though note rather sourly that it didn't go nearly as far as some of the scenes with the 'conventional' m/f dynamic seem to go.
Not that I wanted it to, you understand, but it's the principle of the thing.
Anyway, there was also Ser Alliser still being a git to Jon Snow (and a stupid git at that), and the Hound/Arya stuff, which was fab. Wonder how long till news of Barmy Aunt Lysa's sad demise gets out and scuppers the Hound's cunning plan?
Finally, there's Melisandre being ultra creepy with Stannis's wife and the horrid threat of something happening to Stannis's adorable little daughter. I have all my fingers crossed that it'll turn out she's impervious to fire too. That'll have to dual effect of possibly making her mother less horrible to her and of making Melisandre quite cross.
Here's hoping.
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Date: 2014-05-19 03:09 pm (UTC)Sad. I thought he and Tyrion made a great team.
I never really considered it a betrayal. In the book, Bronn had already been married to Lollys (which I don't remember in the book whether that marriage was arranged by Tyrion or by Cersei. At any rate, it happened much earlier. I figure they're adding it now to bring Bronn back into line to his book position as newly landed courtier).
The point always seemed to methat Bronn was now a landed knight with something to lose, which he wasn't before he met Tyrion. He likes Tyrion. He genuinely does. But this is asking him to go to near certain death for Tyrion and...well, he's earned himself a life and a position. He's not a selfless dude, and Tyrion is more or less asking him to die for him. Bronn wasn't betraying Tyrion so much as doing what was in his own best interest. (Still hope we see Bronn with Jaime in the future, though. I noticed that they demoted Lollys from castellan. In the books, all that was left was Lollys and her already widowed mother, so Bronn was conferred insta-head of a family. That's not what they did here. (And there was at least one scene in a later book with Bronn giving Cersei the verbal finger over Tyrion. I always like that scene).
Anyway, I still think it's a possibility of seeing Bronn/Jaime in the future.
And the other thing you could see coming the minute it was made clear that Cersei had chosen Gregor Clegane as the crown's champion, Prince Thing-y of Dorne (I keep forgetting his name. Aargh!)
Oberyn. If it's any easier to remember, in the book he's regularly referred to as "The Red Viper"
Thirdly, seems she does know about Jorah's slave trading past (I thought I remembered him telling it to someone but had convinced myself it must have been Viserys) so that won't be a reason for him to be made to leave her (though of course if that happens this season, I will probably like the actual reason even less. I just hope it's not yet another reprise of Seeing Red).
I'll be hella annoyed if the show does anything like that. That is NOT what happened in the book.
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Date: 2014-05-19 06:45 pm (UTC)Oberyn! I don't know why I have such trouble remembering it. I just need to keep telling myself he's almost the king of the fairies and I'll have it.
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Date: 2014-05-19 04:57 pm (UTC)Very sad about Bronn :( I get what
Prince Thingy is called Oberon, or something near as damn it. I have learnt a lot more of their names since I started reading not watching :D
(never had a clue what Danny was called until I started reading your reviews).
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Date: 2014-05-19 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-19 05:28 pm (UTC)Good riddance to Mad Aunt Lysa. But couldn't she have grabbed Littlefinger's... uh... little finger on the way down and pulled him with her? Then we could imagine The Hound and Arya arriving at the castle to find Sansa ruling, Cordelia-in-Pylea-style, with Mad Robin as her jester. Robin-slapping will never be the same as Joffrey-slapping, though.
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Date: 2014-05-19 08:48 pm (UTC)Have to admit, it doesn't look good for Oberyn.
As for Arya arriving at the Eyrie to find Sansa in charge, I fear that would break the whole 'no two Starks are allowed to meet again ever' rule.
Robin-slapping will never be the same as Joffrey-slapping, though.
Well, you can't beat a classic.
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Date: 2014-05-21 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-22 03:55 pm (UTC)That gives me an excuse to use this icon too.