Welcome
back to another episode of Game of Thrones, worth the wait after a
holiday week, giving us one of the best episodes of the season, or at
the very least one of the bloodiest. The title apparently refers to
the Lannister victory song, which as I've come to learn is the song
played at a very pivotal moment in the episode, though I was not
enough of a Thrones nerd to pick up the reference at the time. It
definitely fits given the events of the final few minutes, and at the
risk of spoiling the thing everyone who cares about this show already
knows about anyway, I'll tread lightly and leave it at that for now.
The
episode is mostly pre-occupied with Robb Stark consolidating his
forces in anticipation of his planned raid on the Lannister's
hometown by attending the arranged marriage of that smarmy Tully
archer guy and what turns out to be the only attractive daughter of
Walder Frey. Frey, who you might remember as the janitor from the
Harry Potter movies, is the guy with all the daughters who Robb
betrayed by marrying for love at the end of last season (not to be
confused with Craster, the slightly creepier old guy with many
daughters killed earlier this season). As Robb begs his forgiveness,
the old coot wastes little time rubbing it in his face as only a
creepy lecherous bastard can or would.
Do
I even have to say how awesome the ending was, or at this point, post
Internet explosion, is even articulating this point sort of
redundant? If you'd read the books or had it spoiled for you by
someone who had like I did, perhaps it wasn't as impactful as it
almost certainly was for those flying in completely blind. If you
still haven't seen it, stop reading this and go watch it in whatever
way you watch next day shows right now and then come back. You done?
Good. I don't even need to go into spoilery specifics and I won't
just in case, but its the most powerful final scene since “And Now His Watch Is Ended” and very reminiscent of the famous penultimate
episode of season one. My only issue is that I happen to know of one
element of this scene from the books that was not depicted and that I
very much wanted to see, and I'm left to wonder if this will be cut
altogether, or brought back in next week's finale to extend the
moment a bit more.
The
rest of the episode, otherwise known as all that stuff nobody even
remembers because the last five minutes was so insane, mostly follows
Daenerys' continued success in abolishing slavery all over the world
to conscript them into her totes awesome girl power army, and an
intriguing continuation of the Bran storyline focusing on his new
burgeoning powers as a Warg which could have been the entire episode
as far as I'm concerned even with the great ending in mind. We also
get a few more fun scenes with my new favorite comedy team Arya and
The Hound, a plot thread that I have thankfully not been spoiled on,
and which is becoming more and more interesting as the weeks go on.
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