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 lo...

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,...

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 atta...

Jaime yells at Tyrion for throwing his life away and the deal Jaime made with their father.   Tyrion says he couldn’t listen to Shae’s lies about him.   He fell in love with her and thought she loved him.   He also tells Jaime that this is exactly what their father wanted.   Tyrion goes to the Wall and Jaime becomes the Lord of Casterly Rock to marry and carry on the family name.   Tyrion says it felt good to take that from their father.   He tells Jaime he is the golden son, he can do anything and get away with it whether it’s sleeping with his sister or killing a king.   Tyrion says he’s not dead yet, he has already survived one trial by combat even though Jaime wasn’t there to save him.   Jaime tells Tyrion he cannot help him now either.   He can’t even beat a stable boy at sword fighting with his left hand.   Tyrion asks where his sense of adventure is.   He tells him to imagine the look on their father’s face whe...

QUICKLOOK:  Stannis gets a loan, Theon Greyjoy is lost forever and Tyrion chooses trial by combat over his farce of a trial. King Stannis and Ser Davos had arrived in Braavos.   They will meet with the Iron Bank to see if they will fund his war.   Stannis is made to wait and grows impatient.   Finally three men enter and sit to treat with him.   They ask Stannis to sit, which he does hesitantly.   Ser Davos introduces him as King of the Seven Kingdoms, but one of the men says that Tommen Baratheon, Stannis’s nephew, also holds that title as well as the Iron Throne.   Stannis says he shares no blood with Tommen who is a bastard born of incest.   The bank is already giving money to Lord Tywin who calls Stannis a jealous an envious uncle.   They ask how many men he has as well as how many ships and they decline to help him.   Stannis gives Ser Davos a dirty look and gets up to leave, but Ser Davos asks the men to giv...

QUICKLOOK:   Tommen is crowned, Daenerys decides to rule (but not Westeros), and Sansa finds herself in a new den of wolves. King Tommen is officially being cornonated.   He and Margeary steal glances at one another during the ceremony until Cersei notices.   She finds Margaery and confides in her that she knew Joffrey was evil and the things she did shocked him, but he was her first born and she loved him.   Cersei says Tommen needs strong people around to guide him at being a good king.   She asks if Margaery still wants to be queen.   Margaery says she has hardly thought about it, but it would be a great honor.   They both agree to talk to their fathers about the match.   Then Margaery tells Cersei that if she marries Loras and Margaery marries Tommen, she won’t know whether to call her sister or mother.   Ouch… Ser Jorah breaks the news of Joffrey’s death to Daenerys.   Daario Naharis informs her that he has ta...