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shapinglightJust watched this and...
Spoilers behind cut
...um...er...I'm not really sure what to think.
Definitely a game changer for sure, if not in quite such a shocking way as the Red Wedding. But that's been true of the season as a whole really. Old certainties breaking down.
We've had three seasons of Joffrey as king, with Tywin as an eminence grise in the background, three seasons of Sansa trapped in Kingslanding, and Arya's painful wanderings around Westeros. Also three seasons of Dany and her dragons, and with Jorah Mormont as her right hand man. And of course Tyrion as the snarky outsider of the Lannister clan, not accepted (except by Jaime), but, as Tywin said (and I still don't know if he meant it) still one of them, and with Bronn as his shadow.
All those things have changed. Even more recent allegiances, like Arya's with the Hound, are over. I don't know why she wouldn't kill him. If it was just revenge, why didn't she stay and watch him die?
I dunno. Anyway, it seems half the most important remaining members of the cast (Arya, Tyrion, Varys) have fled to Braavos, or thereabouts, and I've no idea what might happen to the other half (I mean Brienne and Sansa, principally, I suppose Jaime and Cersei will just stay in Kingslanding with Cersei as regent for Tommen), though have to say it does rather look like Jon Snow has had the misfortune to catch the eye of Melisandre. Obviously, she sees something in him. I wonder what it is?
Speaking of Melisandre and Stannis, Stannis's cavalry charge beyond the Wall was very well done. I do wonder, though, how he managed to get that enormous army past the horrible Boltons. Aren't they supposed to be in charge of the North (or the south of the North, at least). Is Bolton Snr playing both sides against the middle again?
Also, I waited all season for Walder Frey to get his comeuppance and it hasn't happened yet. Am I doomed to be disappointed?
For that matter, how does what happened in this episode compare with what happened in the books at this point? Is the same at all, or radically changed?
Anyway, best bits, the Hound/Brienne fight (though I kind of like both of them, and didn't want either of them to die), all the stuff at the beginning with Stannis arriving at the Wall and everyone continuing to be horribly Northern and dour, and Bran and his companions finding the Magic Faraway Tree.
Actually, no, apart from the living skeleton fight (totally ripped off from Jason and the Argonauts), all that stuff with the fairies or whatever they were, and Treebeard was a bit hokey.
I did like the final scene of Arya running to the bow of the vessel and putting Westeros behind her.
I didn't at all like Tyrion's actions. I understand he was upset with Shae and with Tywin (and with Tywin/Shae), but all the same...
Also, you'd think someone would have the decency to say something sad about Oberyn.
Oh, anyway. Next season will be very different, for sure.
I'm going to miss Tywin.
I haven't mentioned Dany, because I haven't a lot to say. She's queen of Meereen, doesn't seem to regret Jorah being gone, and her dragons are acting up, but all I can really think of is that I thought the black dragon was called Drakaeris, not Drogon.
Or is 'drakaeris' just a general word meaning 'dragon'?
:Drums fingers on table top until next April:
Spoilers behind cut
...um...er...I'm not really sure what to think.
Definitely a game changer for sure, if not in quite such a shocking way as the Red Wedding. But that's been true of the season as a whole really. Old certainties breaking down.
We've had three seasons of Joffrey as king, with Tywin as an eminence grise in the background, three seasons of Sansa trapped in Kingslanding, and Arya's painful wanderings around Westeros. Also three seasons of Dany and her dragons, and with Jorah Mormont as her right hand man. And of course Tyrion as the snarky outsider of the Lannister clan, not accepted (except by Jaime), but, as Tywin said (and I still don't know if he meant it) still one of them, and with Bronn as his shadow.
All those things have changed. Even more recent allegiances, like Arya's with the Hound, are over. I don't know why she wouldn't kill him. If it was just revenge, why didn't she stay and watch him die?
I dunno. Anyway, it seems half the most important remaining members of the cast (Arya, Tyrion, Varys) have fled to Braavos, or thereabouts, and I've no idea what might happen to the other half (I mean Brienne and Sansa, principally, I suppose Jaime and Cersei will just stay in Kingslanding with Cersei as regent for Tommen), though have to say it does rather look like Jon Snow has had the misfortune to catch the eye of Melisandre. Obviously, she sees something in him. I wonder what it is?
Speaking of Melisandre and Stannis, Stannis's cavalry charge beyond the Wall was very well done. I do wonder, though, how he managed to get that enormous army past the horrible Boltons. Aren't they supposed to be in charge of the North (or the south of the North, at least). Is Bolton Snr playing both sides against the middle again?
Also, I waited all season for Walder Frey to get his comeuppance and it hasn't happened yet. Am I doomed to be disappointed?
For that matter, how does what happened in this episode compare with what happened in the books at this point? Is the same at all, or radically changed?
Anyway, best bits, the Hound/Brienne fight (though I kind of like both of them, and didn't want either of them to die), all the stuff at the beginning with Stannis arriving at the Wall and everyone continuing to be horribly Northern and dour, and Bran and his companions finding the Magic Faraway Tree.
Actually, no, apart from the living skeleton fight (totally ripped off from Jason and the Argonauts), all that stuff with the fairies or whatever they were, and Treebeard was a bit hokey.
I did like the final scene of Arya running to the bow of the vessel and putting Westeros behind her.
I didn't at all like Tyrion's actions. I understand he was upset with Shae and with Tywin (and with Tywin/Shae), but all the same...
Also, you'd think someone would have the decency to say something sad about Oberyn.
Oh, anyway. Next season will be very different, for sure.
I'm going to miss Tywin.
I haven't mentioned Dany, because I haven't a lot to say. She's queen of Meereen, doesn't seem to regret Jorah being gone, and her dragons are acting up, but all I can really think of is that I thought the black dragon was called Drakaeris, not Drogon.
Or is 'drakaeris' just a general word meaning 'dragon'?
:Drums fingers on table top until next April: