Thought it was a lot better this week. Apart from Bronn perfectly fine getting excited by tit, nosebleed and antidote and instant recovery in all off 30 seconds.
who would win the biggest bastard comp of Joffrey and Ramsey?
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Even better this week, best episode so far this season.
Winter is here.
Why does this site have no spoiler code , you canât have a GOT thread without it.
Originally posted by @JBoy
Even better this week, best episode so far this season. Winter is here.
yeah i take it back, the weak episodes was obv cos they were saving all the Big Budget for that!
I was like:
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Spoilers ahoy!
Well, I think that this weekâs episode has made up for the legitimate âShit Sand Snakes scrapâ complaint that spawned this thread. Iâve been away on business this week, so I havenât had my usual access to the show. Ended up watching the repeat at 11:05 tonight, and boy, am I glad I did.
Cersei
This really is quite close to the books. She got herself in exactly the same scrape there, and the trigger, an innate sense of unearned competence on Cerseiâs part, was ultimately the thing that landed her in the trouble sheâs in now. Sheâs a short-term thinker that doesnât consider the long-term outcomes. She enabled the very group that is prosecuting her now, and despite all the stuff she says about gender, some of it undoubtedly true in the male-dominated world of GoT, the reality is she doesnât realise how bright she isnât.
Arya
Again, not a huge departure from the books. Sheâs doing the work of the Many Faced God. She played that character in the books, and this was her first assignment. Given the 20 minute focus on one location, this was understandably a case of keeping the ball in the air.
Daenerys & Tyrion
Still hasnât happened in the books, but wouldnât consider this a huge departure other than the timing. Tyrion has been on his way to meet Daenerys for what seems like forever. At the end of the Dance of Dragons (the last book, and the title of next weekâs episode) he is still milling around outside Meereen and hasnât yet met the Dragon Queen. A big part of Daeneryâs story in the novels involved a suitor from Dorne. It didnât really go anywhere and didnât do too much except that explain that once again, short dudes get the worst breaks when it comes to women.
Focusing on the TV though, this shit was electric. Two of the most outspoken (and well-spoken) characters finally meet, verbally spar, and delight. Poor old Jorah Mormont thoâ.
Sansa
A brief visit to Winterfell reveals some interesting revelations, at least for Sansa. Her younger brothers are not dead. From a character perspective, this must be hugely ennobling for Sansa. The girl who had no family to live for suddenly determines that some of them are still out there.
Jon Snow / Hardhome
Saving the last, best scene, until the end. Itâs another GoT battle, but unlike those that have gone before, this one is both on-screen (many of the early battles in the War of the Five Kings were not) and most impressively, happening in broad daylight. The other two major battles, Stannisâ assault on Kings Landing and the assault on the Wall, both occurred at night, very forgiving on the budget.
Not a bit of it here. I am not going to pretend for a second that this was Helmâs Deep on scale, but it easily eclipses any other battle put to screen in GoT. The bit where the wildling chick gets whacked? Wow, that was difficult to deal with, and gives an indication of the desperate struggle that lies ahead.
In conclusion
As I said as the start of this post, it took me a little while to get around to watching this. Iâve heard a lot of hyperbole about how this is the best episode ever. After viewing, Iâm not that sure itâs hyperbole. Usually, the battle episodes are an entire episode, or the best part of it. This managed to advance several plot-lines, put on a tremendous show and, not coincidentally, produced the best âCome at me broâ moment of the entire series. Loved it.
This weeks episode was the topic at work this week (frankly a change from which fake tan is the best which is getting a bit tedious now). I havenât managed to keep up with the books as theyâre just too bloody long. I like reading, I read all sorts but there is just a lot of filler. So appreciate Pap letting me know itâs in keeping with them. 
I didnât like it this week. It was pretty good up until the point it turned into starwars and neverending story.
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i liked it when Ser Friendzone touched dragon ladyâs hand, and gave her stone aids.
Spoilers ahoy!
The Song of Fire and Ice continues. Alas, Shireen Baratheon. We knew you little, but well enough to care. Your dadâs a bastard, isnât he? And your mum? What a weak pile of toss Selyse is. She knows the Red Witch is up to all sorts of dark carnal relationships with your daâ, and when push came to shove at the big winter bonfire, she pushed through the crowd a bit, and shoved you out of her mind. You were truly creepy when you screamed to death while being burned alive at the orders of your father. The only person worth shit in your camp was Davos, and they sent him away so they stitch you up without his interference. Itâll come back to bite him, Iâm sure.
The other big thing would be the large scrap at the end in Meereen, which saw loads of people try to kill Daenerys, and a decisive turn in the favour of our heroes just when you thought it might drag on.
Good point bear, there was also no explanation on how the dragon knew who the sons of herpies were and who the jedis were. People at work think it is cause she is a waulk or something like that but they might just be being racist.
Further more unsulied are crap at fighting, they are being taken out by students at a G8 protest and for someone will so many followers and unsulied or whatever, that was a very badly policed event. There appeared to be little to no stewarding.
I would probably have put solid gold face-masks, and swords, on the list of prohibited items.
Agree bout the unsullieds, they was built up as some kind of amazing army, but itâs like they ainât got no balls.
Iâm giving this series a 5 out of 10 so far, good bit i.e. BBQ children bad bits i.e. Aria doing an apprenticeship in shellfish sales and them showing every day of the apprenticeship.
The Telegraph has trawled a few reviews of last nightâs episode.
This might be my favourite line from those:-
âThis is the most repulsed and browbeaten Iâve felt in this story since the Red Wedding caused me to throw a book across the room and refuse to pick it up again for days. But when Game of Thrones adapted that scene, it ended an hour on it. Perhaps in an attempt to lift viewersâ feelings, Benioff and Weiss couched this sequence behind one of the most glorious and visually stunning moments in the seriesâ entire run - even in the history of television. But my mind is still distracted by that other moment.â
Bumped into a pal of mine today. His first words were âI HATE youâ. âI read your comments on FB last week about this Game of Thrones thing so for the first time I watched it last night.â
So why do you hate me I asked?
âI woke up at about 5am screaming from a horrible nightmare from that showâ
Oh yes that was a really nasty scene.
âYes I was being chased through the snow by a herd of horses that were all on fire, it was horrific, how did the RSPCA let them set that poor animal on fireâ
(I have to find out where the :facepalm: button is.)
But actually, fair point, in amongst all the other horrors last night young Ramsey empowering himself even more kind of got forgotten aboout.
(Note my mate describes himself as a Lebanese of Welsh extraction which may well explain a lot & is currently downloading the whole shebang from Series 1 Episode 1)
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meh horse burning, even child burning, doesnât seem that bad, to those of us who remember the fate of Theonâs pork sword RIP
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The actor who plays him is Lily Allenâs brother.
It would be fantastic if he is method. After GoT, he could release pop singles as No Willy Allen.
I too had trouble sleeping after last week White Walkers episode, man did that have my brain in over active mode.
Havnenât watched last nightâs episode yet but I look forward to more White Walker scenes, especially with their king, he just oozed malevolance.
Originally posted by @BTripz
Havnenât watched last nightâs episode yet but I look forward to more White Walker scenes,
Hmm. How do you feel about scenes of the eyebrows girl, walking around Face Town with a wheelbarrow, failing to poison dudes with oysters?
You had one job, eyebrows girl!
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Whatâs so scary about Darth Maul in the snow Bob?