GAME OF THRONES

After last weeks shocker this episode felt like the outline for season 4.   Of course “The Red Wedding” would be hard for any act to follow.   At first viewing I thought it would have been much more suspenseful for them to end on last weeks betrayal and surprise of Robb’s death and Daenerys’s victory over the Yunkai.   Then I realized I would’ve been mad if they had left on that note.   You just can’t please some people.   There were a lot of great moments of dialogue that will hopefully stick in our memories until next season. Up North: Bran and company arrives at the Nightfort, an abandoned castle belonging to the Night’s Watch.   Bran isn’t too keen on staying there because there are lots of horrible stories about the place.   He tells Jojen and Meera the story of the Rat Cook.   He was a cook at the castle who got angry at the King for some reason or another.   To get back at the King he killed his son and cooked him in a pie and fed it to the King.   The

SPOILER ALERT:  This is a recap of the episode, so if you haven’t watched it and don’t want to know what happens, exit now… Wow!  This is the episode that book readers have been awaiting and dreading.   From what I’ve seen   people have been keeping a tight lip on this surprising plot twist.  I'm one of those and did not want to spoil the bittersweetness that was to come.  I viewed a few comments after the show and it seems this may have been one of the only non-spoiled TV episodes of all time.  I'm sure one or two people out there accidentally saw something, but for the most part another war wasn't started because of this episode.  At least not outside of Westeros.   However, I will warn everyone to keep those spoiler shields up because with this show, you never know what could happen. Since Cersei explained what the song "The Rains of Castamere" meant last week, seeing that as the title should've given everyone a lit