Ep 4.5 "First of His Name"

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 taken the Mereenese navy.  She asks why he did this when she didn’t ask him too and he says he heard she likes ships.  Dany wonders if the ships can carry enough soldiers to storm Kings Landing.  Ser Jorah tells her it will carry about nine to ten thousand, but the Lannisters will have more men and ten thousand soldiers will not be enough to take the kingdom.  Ser Barristan seems to think that the Lannister troops are scattered and tired and now their king is dead.  He says those loyal to the Targaryens will raise their banners.  Jorah says they will raise their banners for whoever is winning.  He then tells her disturbing news from Yunkai.  The masters have taken back the city and re-enslaved all of the free men who stayed behind.  They have also sworn to take revenge against Dany, and in Astapor a man named Cleon has declared himself ruler.  Dany asks everyone in the room but Jorah to leave.  She asks him how she can rule seven kingdoms if she can’t even control Slavers Bay.  He tells her she is a Targaryen but she feels she needs to be more than that.  She will not sale for Westeros, she will stay in Mereen and “do what Queen’s do, rule”.

Sansa and Petyr are almost to the Eyrie.  They must take a narrow passageway that leads to the Bloody Gate.  This is the only route to the Eyrie and explains why it is so impenetrable.  An army could only fit three men across and would be slaughtered from up above before they could even make it to the Bloody Gate.  He announces Sansa as his niece Alayne to the guards as the gate.  They let him pass once they realize who he is.  Young Robin and crazy Lysa are glad to have him back.  Lysa knows who Sansa is and welcomes her.  She tells Sansa that no one can know who she really is or they will all be in danger.  Robin tells Sansa about how he wanted to “make the baby Lannister man fly”, but mommy wouldn’t let him.  Sansa asks how that would be possible and he shows her the Moon Door.  Lysa asks if Tyrion forced himself on Sansa after they were wed, but she explains that Tyrion didn’t want to marry her and they were never together.  Robin takes her off to her chambers and Petyr tells her he will come to her soon.  As soon as the children are gone, Lysa jumps him.  She wants them to get married that night, but he wants to wait until the lords of the Vale can attend.  She talks about the time they slept together years ago,  and how she killed her husband when he asked her to, and how he was the one that had her send the letter to Cat proclaiming the Lannisters killed her husband.  (Hold on a sec, what?!?)  He kisses her to shut her up.  Because she is seriously stupid for saying all that without knowing who could be around, and she’s crazy.  It looks like Petyr’s been responsible for a lot of deaths lately.  He tells her she shouldn’t speak of such things and he agrees to marry her that night.  He asks to go change, but she opens the door and brings in the High Septon to marry them right then and there.  She warns him that she will scream with passion once she gets him in the bedroom, which is exactly what she does and every poor soul within a couple of miles from the Eyrie can hear her.

Tywin and Cersei decide that Tommen and Margaery will get married in a fortnight and then Cersei will marry Loras after that.  There will be no grand feast as there was at the last wedding.  Lord Tywin tells Cersei they need the Tyrell’s gold and must form an alliance with them.  The Lannister gold mines dried up 3 years ago and the crown owes the Iron Bank of Braavos a lot of money.  It’s apparently one bank you don’t want to owe money to.  They are not people to be messed with so the Lannisters must pay it back.  Cersei says she understands what is good for the family, but she doesn’t think her brothers do.  Tywin tells her that as a judge he should not talk to Cersei about Tyrion’s trial.  Cersei reminds him that he shunned Jaime for not doing what he asked, so what will he do to Tyrion for allegedly messing with their hold on the crown.

Arya is laying by the Hound listing out the names of all of her enemies.  He asks her what in the seven hells she’s doing.  She tells him she must say the names of all the people she plans to kill before she goes to sleep.  At the mention of his brother, the Mountain, he tells her if they run into him perhaps they can cross him off of both their lists.  He tells her to continue and be done with it.  She tells him she only has one more name to go, the Hound.

Lysa gives Sansa lemon cakes and talks of Petyr’s devotion to her.  She wants to know why Petyr feels responsible for Sansa.  Sansa says perhaps it is because their families were so close.  Lysa accuses Sansa of thinking that Petyr loved her mother and gets angry over what Brandyn Stark did to Petyr.  She says Catelyn never loved him, but Petyr is risking his life for her daughter.  She accuses Sansa of sleeping with Petyr and being pregnant.  In desperation, poor Sansa says that Petyr calls her a stupid girl with stupid dreams. Finally Lysa consoles her and tells her that she will be a widow soon and then she can marry Robin and become Lady of the Vale.  

Brienne and Pod are making their way down the kingsroad.  Pod has some trouble with his horse.  Brienne is still not too keen on the idea of a companion. She releases Pod from being her squire, but he refuses to leave her.

The Hound wakes up and cant find Arya anywhere. She is practicing her water dancing with Needle as Syrio Forel taught her.  The Hound thinks it’s ridiculous and makes fun of Syrio.  He asks where Syrio is now and she tells him Meryn Trant killed him.  The Hound finds this incredibly funny, as he doesn’t think Meryn Trant is a good fighter, so if he killed Syrio then how could he have been the greatest swordsman in Braavos.  Arya tells him that Syrio didn’t have a sword.  She tries to stab the Hound, but her sword won’t go through his stomach.  He hits her and she falls to the ground.  He tells her that Syrio died because Meryn Trant had metal armor and a big sword.

Cersei visits Oberyn.  They talk about his eight daughters.  Oberyn asks if she really believes that Tyrion murdered her son and she says yes.  She says she hasn’t seen her daughter for a year.  He tells her the last time he saw her she was swimming with his daughters in the Water Gardens.  Cersei says she wants to believe Myrcella is happy and Oberyn tries to assure her by saying they don’t hurt little girls in Dorne.  Cersei says they hurt little girls everywhere.  Cersei had a boat built for Myrcella for her last nameday and wants Oberyn to sail it back to Dorne and give it to Myrcella and tell her that her mother misses her very much.  She even manages to have a glimpse of a tear in her eye as she leaves Oberyn.  Likely to make him feel guilty and vote against Tyrion in his trial.

It looks as though Brienne is going to have to teach Pod a lot of new skills.  He doesn’t know that you skin a rabbit before you cook it.  He ends up burning the rabbit to her dismay, while she was out collecting firewood.  She starts to remove her armor and he jumps to help her, but she says she is fine without him.  She asks if he ever came close to battle with Lord Tyrion and he tells her how he killed a man of the kingsguard who tried to kill Tyrion during the Battle of Blackwater.  She asks how and he says he shoved a spear through his head.  She decides to let him help her remove her armor.

At Craster’s keep the mutaneers led by Tanner are being their usual sunny selves.  Locke is  scouting for the black brothers.  Bran, Jojen and Meera are tied up in a hut.  Jojen tells Bran that he must not let the mutaneers stop him from his task.  He tells Bran that he is somewhere else far away from there, by a great weirwood tree.  He says he an his sister are just there to guide him.  He must make it.  Locke reports back to Jon.  He tells him there are eleven men, most of who are drunk and don’t seem to have a care in the world.  He also tells Jon they should stay away from a certain hut because there are dogs they don’t want to disturb.  Tanner and a few others come to question Bran and his companions.  They string up Meera.  Jojen tells them he will help them if they let his sister go.  He says he has the second sight and can see things that haven’t happened yet. Tanner doesn’t believe him.  Jojen tells him he saw his body die tonight, saw him burning.  Then, Jon and his brother’s attack.  Locke goes into the hut where Bran and his friends are being held.  Locke asks Bran if he is Jon Snows brother.  At first Bran doesn’t say, but Locke cuts his leg and knows he is Bran when he doesn’t scream.  Bran tries to yell for Jon, but Locke tells him he will hurt his friends if he doesn’t shut up.  As Locke takes Bran’s body away, he skinchanges into Hodor.  Hodor breaks free of his chains and snaps Locke’s neck.  Once Locke is dead he goes back into his body.  Hodor sees the blood on his hands and doesn’t understand what he did.  Bran gets him to cut him and the others free.  Bran sees Jon and calls for him, but Jojen tells Bran that Jon won’t let him go North if he finds him so they must leave and let him return to Castle Black.  Bran tells Hodor to free Summer and then they will be on their way.  Jon finds Tanner and they fight.  Tanner almost gets the best of Jon until one of Craster’s wives stabs him in the back.  He goes after her giving Jon the chance to thrust his sword into Tanners head.  Once they are counting all of the casualties, they notice there are only ten mutaneers and wonder where the missing one is.  He is running through the woods when he notices Ghost has been let out of his cage.  He should’ve kept running because Ghost gets him.  Ghost returns to Jon and Jon tells him how much he’s missed him.  His men ask what to do with all of Crasters wives.  He thinks they should come back with the men so they can be safe from the wildlings, but they say they are tired of men beating them and want to make their own way, but the men are more than welcome to burn down Crasters Keep and all the dead with it.   The women are happy to see it go.

End credits…

As much as I would love for Daenerys to sale to Westeros, she is right.  It is not time.  She must learn to rule.  How can the people of the seven kingdoms trust her if she doesn’t follow through with what she started in Astapor and Yunkai.  Plus, her dragons aren’t big enough yet and the only “classy” way for a Targaryen to invade Westeros is riding on the wings of a dragon. If the masters have taken over will she have another war on her hands soon?

Once again the Starks got within a few yards of each other without knowing.  It seems as though they must be kept separate for now with everyone thinking Bran and Rickon are dead and not knowing where Sansa and Arya are.

How lucky is Sansa to look so much like her mother that creepy Petyr Baelish rescued her from Kings Landing and took her to her aunt who is envious of Cat and what she had.  Sansa’s still surrounded by crazies, just in a different part of the country.

Luckily Jon got Ghost back and killed the mutaneers so that’s a happy ending.  Now he needs to get his but back to Castle Black before Mance Rayder gets there first.

It looks like we start Tyrion’s trial next week.  What do you think, will he be found guilty or innocent?

Until next time...

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