Game of Thrones is getting a little crazy and is tweaking my interest. Not the traditional type of crazy or interest tweaking, where there are babies being slain in the street or rat torture devices being strapped to people’s chest, but rather the type of I’m not entirely sure on how to follow what’s going to happen. Now I’ve read the books and I know all the plot follow ups with last night’s many cliff hangers, but the way they’re executed leaves a sense of interpretation that will genuinely surprise me when I see them seen through. I suppose this is good to keep the book readers some-what on their toes and the non-book readers a traditional sense of ‘the sh!t is really hitting the roof.’
Overall, last night’s episode was fairly cliffhanging albeit resolutionless. To me, this season has been extremely resolutionless at many points, primarily because of the way the show jumps around so much that the individual stories will be requiring 8 episodes to finish up. Regardless, the shows shining moment is the glorious return of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s Jaime Lannister after only being seen in episode one. His classic [even wisdomous] snark replaces the hole felt with a lack of Tyrion and carried much of the show’s heart despite being depicted as one of the more villainous characters. I’ll get into how he defines the shades of gray Game of Thrones installs in all its characters, Dany’s Dragons, and how little Jon Snow knows in the posts below. Be free to discuss with me, but keep book spoilers to yourself!
**This symbol means that the following passage adheres to the following: [This doesn’t happen in the book, so I’m thoroughly interested in what will occur]. Trust me, it happened quite a bit this episode.
Jon Snow’s Manhood Gets Him in Trouble**
I really like this Ygritte. She’s got all the angst I’d really like in a woman. She can turn a phrase and the way she makes Jon Snow uncomfortable is absolute gold. As Jon Snow continues to try to find the Halfhand, he and Ygritte have some meaningful conversation about the nonsense of the Man of the Night’s Watch code and about what side he should truly be fighting on. You can tell from his conflicted nature that some of Ygritte’s logical reasoning is getting to him, and that his code is failing him. His code fails him even more when Ygritte baits and moans Jon’s sexual life. In his hesitance, he loses his prisoner and is eventually led into a trap of wildlings.
Arya Gets a Bit Too Comfortable with Tywin Lannister**
Ayra was a smart girl for pretending to be a boy to hide from danger. However, I think this recent conversation with Tywin Lannister was NOT smart. Even Tywin pointed it out how sloppy she was being. She’s boasting too much of her knowledge, being too comfortable with her vocabulary, all around sloppy. She’s too comfortable around him when she should remember that he’s the enemy who’s trying to kill her brothers. However I can’t blame her for getting a trusting feeling out of Tywin. I’ve mentioned before that this Tywin Lannister is a far more likable one than the books for his appreciation for the smart and talented. I just think Ayra is in hot water and I’m not entirely sure how this ends because Ayra was never a cup bearer for Tywin in the books.
Sansa Stark Experiences Womanhood
Sansa Stark is a fully realized woman now. What I can remember from my 9th grade lecture on women, this is called a ‘period’ and marks the transition of becoming a woman or in Sansa’s case: her transition of her ability to bare King Joffrey’s babies. Naturally she’s terrified of the idea of bedding with the monster Joffrey, so she and Shae try to cover it up. When they fail, Cersei takes her in and has a fairly meaningful conversation with her regarding ‘loving’ the husband king. We get some relatively new perspective on Cersei’s approach to life that might explain why she’s so cold to everyone.
We’re given further perspective when she has a brief conversation with Tyrion regarding the impending attack from Stannis Baratheon [who again does not show up in the episode]. She admits to him that even she can’t control him and breaks into a moment of weakness which kindles an awkward yet fairly sincere moment between the usually feuding siblings. Tonight’s most disappointing point was the sheer lack of Tyrion, but his brother makes up for most of that. Read on to the next page.
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