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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...
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.
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.