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...

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 gi...

--> 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… This episode was filled with Second Sons and not just the ones that kill for gold.   Stannis is a second son, Tyrion is a second son and even Sandor Clegane (“The Hound”) is a second son.   I’m not sure how much double meaning, if any, laid in the naming of this episode but it did seem to be pretty coincidental. Fortunate or not, Arya is now “The Hound’s” captive.   She gets the chance to try and   kill him thinking she can crush his head with a rock while he lay asleep.   As she is creeping up to him he opens his eyes and tells her to give it a try.   If she kills him then she is free, if she doesn’t he will break both her hands.   She decides to put down the rock.   They must share a horse on their journey across Westeros.   Arya see’s water and asks if it is Blackwater.   She believ...

--> 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… Entertainment Weekly mentioned Game of Thrones in “ The Bullseye ” this week.   For those of you that don’t read EW, “The Bullseye” is a target with hits and misses of the week’s latest pop culture news.   To quote directly from the magazine, “Dear Game of Thrones , We don’t all have Ph.D.’s in genealogy, medieval studies, and incest.   Could you slow down once in a while? XO, Bullseye”.   I’d love to know what they are confused about.   Maybe I’m being too hard on them because there could be more people with questions, but   I think the show has been pretty straightforward about the genealogy part.   We know who’s related to who and such and that almost everyone has at least one bastard child (I think there is a quota is Westeros).   I can see where they plucked medieval studies from, but this is...

--> 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… This is an episode in which a lot happens and not a lot happens.   We only get ten episodes this season, which leaves us four more so this is one that sets up the pieces.   We saw a bit of almost everyone except for Danaerys, but I’m sure she has been up to something and we will probably get to see next week. Sam and Gilly are trying to survive in the wild, but Gilly is taking better care of them than Sam.   He’s not very good at building a fire and she figures out that he is highborn.   He sings to her and the baby and tells her about the Wall and Castle Black.   He shows her a dagger he found at the Fist before the Night’s Watch had to run.   It seems as if they were trying to point it out in the episode so I have a feeling we will be seeing it again.   In Bran’s camp Osha and Meera are fight...