GAME OF THRONES

QUICKLOOK:   The Night’s Watch gets saved, but Dany must chain her dragons and even the privy is dangerous in a Game of Thrones. It’s already time for the season finale and I’m sure this episode will leave us clamoring for more during the next year, but that’s why we love it!   This episode was jam-packed with surprises, deaths and the beginnings of new adventures for a few characters. Jon walks through the destruction from the night before towards the Wildling camp.   I’m really not sure why he didn’t at least take Ghost with him, but if he’s bargaining a huge direwolf could send the wrong message.   When he gets close to the camp, the wildlings surround him, but he shows he is unarmed.   Mance appears and Jon tells him he is there to negotiate with him.   He decides to hear Jon out and they go in his tent.   Mance laments that he had hoped Jon’s oath to him and the wildling army had been real, but Jon tells him he was always loyal to the Night’s Watch and was s

The Night’s Watch protects the realms of men, but who will protect the Night’s Watch?   I guess we’ll get an answer to that question tonight.   This episode will be completely devoted to the wildling attack on the wall like the Battle of Blackwater Bay back in season 2.   One hundred thousand men against one hundred doesn’t sound like very good odds. Jon and Sam are keeping watch on the Wall.   Sam asks what Ygritte was like.   He wants to know what it is like to be with someone that way since they are all about to die.   Sam points out that there is no specific vow they make as black brother’s to never lay with a woman, they just don’t take a wife or father children.   So according to him, it’s left open to interpretation.   Jon tries to explain what it’s like to be intimate with someone, but can’t quite express the words.   He sends Sam down to get some sleep and an owl appears on the wall. Around a campfire, Tormund Giantsbane recounts the time he sle

QUICKLOOK:   Daenerys finds out she has an enemy in her lair.   Petyr faces the nobles of the Eyrie over Lysa’s death, and the Red Viper (aka Prince Oberyn) fights the Mountain (aka Ser Gregor Clegane, aka the Hound’s evil older brother). We had to wait an extra week for this episode, but I’m sure it will have been worth it.   Finally, we get to see the showdown between Oberyn and the Mountain.   They actually recast the role of the Mountain this season, specifically because of the difficulty of shooting this episode.   He is now played by Hafpór Július Björnsson, a 6’9’ 420 lb. Icelandic strongman competitor.   Good casting, but more on the fight later… We open in Moles Town where some men of the Night’s Watch are being entertained by some classy whores who can burp out songs.   One of them gives Gilly a hard time about her baby crying.   Gilly hears something outside and knows it is the wildling army about to attack.   Tormund Giantsbane, the Thenn’s a