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shapinglightWatched this for the first time yesterday. Review behind cut.
Spoilers, of course.
Back to normal in GoT land this week, with lots of female nudity (and no, an old wrinkly bloke wandering around in the altogether does not constitute any kind of parity) and a greatly increased violence-based ick! factor, which I suppose is inevitable when one (let alone two) of the horrible Boltons are on screen.
I suspect I'm not alone in finding the idea of Sansa marrying Ramsey Bolton a bit (make that a lot) sick-making. I'd like to think that she's too important for him to be allowed to hurt and that she'll be all empowered and play him at his own game, but I suspect that she'll probably be used like some character in the books (can't remember which) who (so I read when I was spoilering myself about the Boltons in the vain hope of learning that they'd get their comeuppance) provided an incentive for Theon to break out of his (very understandable) funk. We'll see.
Either way, Littlefinger is a git.
Also, given their proximity to the aforesaid horrible Boltons with their whole flaying!yay! philosopy, I'm very worried about Brienne and Podric. Especially Podric. He's just too nice for his own good. The two of them work well together, though. I really liked their conversation where Brienne told Podric why she'd chosen to serve Renly Baratheon - though of course Renly's fate is an object lesson in what happens to 'nice' people in Westeros. Let's hope Podric took that in.
Elsewhere, the situation Arya finds herself in is weird. Very, very weird. Also, despite what she said, I don't think she wants to be a faceless man at all. She wants her enemies to know who killed them when she kills them. So I don't know how that's going to work out.
Also weird is Cersei making nice with Jonathan Pryce (didn't catch his character's name). It's clearly some sort of plan to outsmart Margaery and keep her influence in the kingdom, but I don't at all see what she's up to yet. If it's what it looks like, though, she'd hardly be the first powerful person to try and co-opt religious fanatics to her cause. Or maybe she is the first powerful person to do that in Westeros, and that's why she doesn't know that it never ends well.
Speaking of religious fanatics, interesting to see the woman preaching to the slaves in Volantis about the lord of light and pretty much saying that Dany is his agent on earth. Makes it a little less likely that Melisandre will try to set fire to Dany when (if) they finally meet. As for what else went on in Volantis, yay!Jorah, is all I really have to say. Though he looks a bit rough, have to say.
Finally, on the Wall, Jon manages to please everyone -Ser Alliser, Stannis, all the Night's Watch, even the audience- by cutting off someone's head.
Well, dunno about you, but I won't miss Wossisface anyway though I did feel a bit sorry for him in the end.
Spoilers, of course.
Back to normal in GoT land this week, with lots of female nudity (and no, an old wrinkly bloke wandering around in the altogether does not constitute any kind of parity) and a greatly increased violence-based ick! factor, which I suppose is inevitable when one (let alone two) of the horrible Boltons are on screen.
I suspect I'm not alone in finding the idea of Sansa marrying Ramsey Bolton a bit (make that a lot) sick-making. I'd like to think that she's too important for him to be allowed to hurt and that she'll be all empowered and play him at his own game, but I suspect that she'll probably be used like some character in the books (can't remember which) who (so I read when I was spoilering myself about the Boltons in the vain hope of learning that they'd get their comeuppance) provided an incentive for Theon to break out of his (very understandable) funk. We'll see.
Either way, Littlefinger is a git.
Also, given their proximity to the aforesaid horrible Boltons with their whole flaying!yay! philosopy, I'm very worried about Brienne and Podric. Especially Podric. He's just too nice for his own good. The two of them work well together, though. I really liked their conversation where Brienne told Podric why she'd chosen to serve Renly Baratheon - though of course Renly's fate is an object lesson in what happens to 'nice' people in Westeros. Let's hope Podric took that in.
Elsewhere, the situation Arya finds herself in is weird. Very, very weird. Also, despite what she said, I don't think she wants to be a faceless man at all. She wants her enemies to know who killed them when she kills them. So I don't know how that's going to work out.
Also weird is Cersei making nice with Jonathan Pryce (didn't catch his character's name). It's clearly some sort of plan to outsmart Margaery and keep her influence in the kingdom, but I don't at all see what she's up to yet. If it's what it looks like, though, she'd hardly be the first powerful person to try and co-opt religious fanatics to her cause. Or maybe she is the first powerful person to do that in Westeros, and that's why she doesn't know that it never ends well.
Speaking of religious fanatics, interesting to see the woman preaching to the slaves in Volantis about the lord of light and pretty much saying that Dany is his agent on earth. Makes it a little less likely that Melisandre will try to set fire to Dany when (if) they finally meet. As for what else went on in Volantis, yay!Jorah, is all I really have to say. Though he looks a bit rough, have to say.
Finally, on the Wall, Jon manages to please everyone -Ser Alliser, Stannis, all the Night's Watch, even the audience- by cutting off someone's head.
Well, dunno about you, but I won't miss Wossisface anyway though I did feel a bit sorry for him in the end.
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Date: 2015-04-30 05:24 pm (UTC)Yes. Which is terribly sad really.