GAME OF THRONES

As the withdrawal starts to take effect and I realize it will be an agonizing nine months until a new episode of Game of Thrones airs, I think of how far this show has come and how the stakes are now higher than ever before. Through violence and murder (reminiscent of the Mad King) Cersei is sitting on the Iron Throne, Dany is on her way to Westeros and Jon is finally recognized as a Stark and named King in the North. There’s only one potential problem with the latter since it was finally confirmed (and I’ll get into this more later) that Jon is the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen and is in fact not Ned Stark’s bastard son! Oh yeah, a few other things happened as well… Such as, Sam and Gilly finally reaching Oldtown, showing us the Citadel. Maesters are pretty much the nerds of Westeros and that was proven to us as Sam and Gilly enter the tall white building where Sam hands the letter Jon gave him to a guy in a white robe with some funky reading glass...

The penultimate episode of the season is always a good one and this one didn’t disappoint. I don’t know how I’m alive and not a white walker because I think I held my breath the entire episode. Baby Rickon bit it, the Starks have taken back Winterfell and Ramsay is canine food! Arguably one of the most violent episodes yet, people were getting killed left and right. And not just in Winterfell. Mereen had some violent deaths as well. Mereen is getting hit on both sides. While boats are setting off burning catapults, poor souls outside the gates are getting slaughtered by the Sons of the Harpy. As they are being pounded, Dany asks for an explanation from Tyrion. He tells her he made a deal with the masters to make peace. Things happen though and not everyone is honorable to live up to their deals. The masters can’t let Mereen succeed because it will prove that slavery is an old practice that is no longer needed and the masters know that. Dany sees his point an...

These past few episodes are definitely gearing us up for some big battles. Mereen is under fire, Riverrun now belongs to the Frey’s (ugh) and Sansa and Jon still don’t have enough men to fight the Boltons. Good news though, Arya is alive and hopefully staying that way. Speaking of Arya, it seems Lady Crane has taken her leverage over the head troupe guy and taken Arya’s advice. Her last monologue is full of emotions leaving the crowd completely engaged and some were even crying. Lady Crane goes backstage to relax after her final scene, but hears some movement in a closet. She checks it out and finds Arya wounded and bleeding. She stitches Arya up while answering the question of what happened to the younger actress that tried to have her killed. The girl won’t be getting another acting jobs anytime soon after what Lady Crane did to her face. (Ooh, a dark side. I like it.) She invites Arya to join the troupe and take over the roll of Sansa (lol) and travel to Pe...

Everyone thought last weeks episode was kind of dull. I didn’t agree, however, I might agree this week. This episode was necessary to move storylines along, though I would’ve liked to see Ian McShane put to better use. Speaking of Ian McShane… We finally get to see him! For the last year we’ve heard that he was going to be on the show. He plays a septon, but I don’t think they ever said his name. He is the leader of a small group of commonfolk who are just looking for a nice place to live in harmony. They picked a great place in a beautiful green valley. They are building some sort of structure, possibly a sept. (Which is a type of church in Westeros if you didn’t know.) Women are cooking and men are carrying wood for a building. One man stands out in particular. He is tall and has a limp. When the camera pans up we see the Hound (aka Sandor Clegane). So, he made it after Brienne knocked the snot out of him with the help of the septon. He and...

I apologize for the late post. The holiday and some work obligations hindered me finishing. This episode seems to be getting a lot of flack for not being so exciting. Maybe you have to be a bookreader to have enjoyed it, or maybe I’m more different from everyone else than I thought because I absolutely LOVED it! We got so much information in this episode! The first few minutes alone were jam-packed with all kinds of goodies, but before we get to Bran’s visions let’s talk about who saved Bran and Meera from the wights. Meera pulls Bran through a blizzard with dozens of wights hot on their trail. She is basically alone, because not only does she have to pull Bran, a job Hodor was taking care of, he’s not even awake because he’s downloading the matrix from Bloodraven at hyperspeed. She’s so cold and about to lose hope lying down with Bran and crying. He wakes up as out of the woods a hooded figure flies through the trees on horseback wielding some kind of burning ...

What the Hodor! Such an amazing episode and an emotional roller coaster. It moved some storylines along, hopefully getting Arya out of this House of Black and White funk, getting Jon and Sansa closer to marching towards Winterfell, getting Dany back to Mereen and (more importantly) closer to Westeros and showing us how Hodor got his new name. WILL A GIRL EVER BE READY? Arya and the Waif are still on this stick fighing/bojitsu marathon. I thought we were past this already. A fan needs a girl to start doing something else. Arya shows her toughness by getting the snot knocked out of her, getting back up and then getting sucker-punched. I could see Chris Tucker standing over her saying, “You got knocked the fuck out!” The Waif says she will never be one of them, calling her Lady Stark. Jaqen gives Arya a history lesson on how the Faceless Men got started. We see how a lot of different things got started in the Game of Thrones world in this episode. The Faceles...