Game of Thrones Season 3 Episode 2 Recap

So, the second episode of GoT aired last Sunday. I will not go into full rant about the lack of Stannis in this episode so a quick recap through points:

1-The whole Jojen & Meera introduction was the absolute worst thing since the Baelish/Sansa interaction in the first episode, idiotic and completely wrong. Meera would have never pointed a weapon at Osha, so just stop, HBO. Also, I can't believe the kid who plays Jojen is actually 23! Oh my God, talk about the fountain of youth.

2- Robb Stark continues to be a complete idiot. Talissa is a complete idiot. The only person who isn't an idiot in that camp is Roose Bolton. Probably Karstark, too.

3- Did ANYONE believe the story Catelyn told about Jon and the pox? Very VERY out of character.

4- Arya, Gendry, and Hot Pie being the little awkward children of nothingness they -now- are. I hated that we didn't meet Lem and the Winterfell stables-boy. I hated that the uncovering of Arya's true identity was by The Hound. They took so much away. They couldn't give us the simple pleasure of seeing joy in Arya's face when she sees the stables-boy. Screw you, HBO.

5- Brienne's and Jamie's scenes were a bit of a let-down. I mean, after all the anticipation. The fighting scene was great, though, and the location of the fight and the nature of it. GOD. I'm still expecting better scenes this week, though, and keeping my hopes high.

6- Jon, as usual, was a badass even when he isn't supposed to be one. I loved the Mance/Jon conversation about the wildling tribes and the whole Worg scene. The worg scene was cool beans. Yes, I just said cool beans, it's 1:30 AM, get over it.

7- Sansa and Loras Tyrell = heart break
WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT. She sees in him the days of the Hand's tournament, when her dad was still alive and the world was her oyster. She sees her old bubbly little girl self in his eyes. Oh, Sansa.

Tears were shed with/for hers.

8- Sansa/Margery/Lady Olana = OH MY GOD.
The Queen of Thorns is literally the best. Her attitude, her sweet-talking Sansa to reveal the dirt on Joffrey. Freaking Joffrey.

"Get me my cheese!"

9- The whole Margery seducing the king with perverted talk about killing animals with a cross-bow. Kinky. It gives me the creeps.

10- Show us Riverrun already!!

11- Freaking Theon Greyjoy. You know, in the books, he disappears in the third one. I wanted that to translate into the TV series. You don't always get what you want.

12- The kid from Misfits is apparently sent by Asha or whatever her name turned out to be on the show which WHAT IS THAT?! I don't recall this happening in the book, but okay, I like him.

overall rating of the episode: 3/5
overall rating of Sophie Turner as Sansa in this episode: 5/5 





 

Game of Thrones Season 3 Episode 1 Recap

This is not really a recap. I mean it is. Mostly it is just an elaborate rant of why I'm very disappointed in the premiere of season three. If you don't want to be spoiled this is a warning, if you want to be spoiled this is an invitation.

Season three starts where season two left, with Sam Tarly beyond the wall. I though that was a good enough start, I mean, the prequels in the books tend to be quite ominous and this seemed extremely suitable. What I didn't like was the fact that in season two they threw off the entire white walkers attack on the rangers in the fist of the first men and how the whole raven sending dilemma came about. I guess, for TV factors, they needed to make Sam a big fat fool. Also for TV points, the sentence, "You had only one job". We get it , Weiss, now stop.

CUE NEW THEME SONG.
I personally loved the new theme song. Out of the entire episode my favorite part was the theme song, and that should tell you something. The addition of new locations was just perfect, and is exactly what the audience need due to the oh so many new settings in the story. Also, ASTAPOR.

Bricks and blood built Astapor, brick and blood her people.

 North of the wall, and deep into the wildlings camp, Jon Snow sees his first giant. I loved the giant. How normal it was for the wildlings for a giant  to live amongst them and do some of their work. The camera time of the giant was slightly on the unnecessary longer side but all in all it was well.

I also starred in Les Miserable as Jan Valjan

Rattle-shirt and Ygritte take Jon into Mance's tent. Mance basically tells them both to leave, which they do, albeit Ygritte looked a bit unwilling to go. Mance then goes on to ask Jon why he wants to join him. Jon gives him a half-assed answer about how Lord Commander Mormont knew about Craster sacrificing his sons and how he did nothing about it. Which is total bull crap. In the book, Jon gives a genuine well-thought-of answers to Mance's question. In the novel, Mance knows what Jon looks like because he sneaked into Winterfell to the banquet that was thrown in the honor of king Robert Baratheon coming to the north at the beginning of the series. Jon answers Mance's question about the reason he abandoned the watch by telling him, "All my brothers and sisters were seated at the main table. Did you see where the bastard was sitting?" 

he only got away with his crappy answer because he gave mance this look

Then we get to see Bronn -who is now a ser- frolicking in a brothel because someone has to get some action in this show, doesn't matter who, anyone will be fine. I don't know why but Bronn has been getting on my nerves for the last few episodes of season 2, and anything he does in this season will just make me hate him.
Something Bronn said to Tyrion really caught my attention, when asked by Tyrion if they were friends, he answered, "We are. But I'm a sellsword, I sell my sword, I don't loan it to friends." I think this is as good an indication as any of a future parting of ways.

 I was looking forward to my favorite character's screen time, and I got about 2 minutes of it. I was also very disappointed, but the creators gave me a consolation scene which is fine. Sansa's scene with Shae, Rose, and Peter Baelish. How do I begin talking bout this scene. Okay, first of all let us talk about Sansa and Shae and their little "game". Even though this scene didn't happen in the books, and the whole Shae/Sansa relationship is completely for tv only, I liked it and like the relationship very much. What I don't like is Peter Baelish replacing Dontos in the role of Sansa's escape helper. No. When Sansa learns in the books that Peter is trying to get her out of King's Landing she is instantaneously fearful and cautious, unlike her behavior in this scene.  Sansa is also the only character -aside from Joffery and Danaerys- who got a new plot in the beginning of this season, everyone else just sort of continued old plot lines and stories. She still remains my favorite character in terms of character development. She is growing up, not as fast and dramatic as her sister and brother, but maybe in that aspect she's closer to her most distant brother, Jon Snow.

Queen Margery is finally being portrayed as she is in the books, alongside Ser Loras, who are both getting a lot of screen time this season.  As for Cersei, Tyrion, and Tywin, there is not much change on that front, all are behaving as befits their personalities. Joffery is still an idiot prick, but at least he's getting some development in this episode.

House words: Curly Locks.

Robb & Catelyn continued being their boring selves. I mean, God, grow a bit. You've practically started this whole war, Robb, and you've learned nothing to show for it. Roose Bolton said 2 or 3 badass comments about being the strongest or the best or something and that was it for the North. Oh, but wait, they are in Harrenhal. HARRENHAL. I mean come on, HBO. They were supposed to be in Riverrun from the start, and it has been constantly delayed for nothing. Nothing, I tell you. We also meet Qybrin, who I've learned I've been pronouncing the name of wring this whole time.

essentially, the reversed Snape.

Davos's and Stannis's scenes were much shorter than I expected, but still satisfactory and true to the novels. I think this is probably the only storyline left not meddled with by the tv adaptation.

Dany's Khalsaar's trip on a ship in the poison water was cut shorter than their trip across the red waste. Thank God for that. If I had to sit through more episodes of Dothraki following Dany to eternal ruin I'd probably stop watching altogether.We get a small glimpse of Astapor and the Unsullied. Missandi translates to Dany a language she already speaks, and we don't get the subtitles of the slave-lord and Missandi's conversation. Dany sees a little dirty girl playing with a wooden ball and being her maternal self follows the child into the city, the child throws the ball at her and tells her to open it, Dany falls with the ball as a hooded figure tries to jump on her only to be stopped by Jorah. The ball opens in two halves to reveal a sort of scorpion creature which the hooded figure soon kills. The child bares her teeth to the the figure, her teeth and gums are a dark night shade of blue, she jumps into the water and then reappears on the wall behind them. "the warlocks!" exclaims Dany to inform the dim witted viewers who still hadn't caught on. The hooded figure then reveals himself to be SER BARRISTAN SELMEY woah what you may think. Well, I'm pissed off by this. First of all this scenes was jumped up about 4 other event in Dany's chapters, it should have been revealed to her as a form of treachery by a new acquaintance. Second of all, I hope the ser Jorah vs Selmey plot line is still in action because otherwise this has taken a great turn for the worst.

this, like that slave's chest, is pointless.

Overall, this episode was just setting the characters back into place and reminding the audience where everything was left off, something -I don't think- the show can afford, time-wise. I'm looking forward to next week's episode but I'm keeping my hopes and expectations at bay. I was -and still am- disappointed with the premiere, but I hope the show will take off after this episode. I was disappointed for the lack of Jaime Lannister screen time, as he is almost but not quite the center of the third book.


Also, check out the web-series School of Thrones on Youtube. It is awesome.

Overall rating of the episode: 1/5 

Game of Thrones: What to Expect from Season 3 and A Storm of Swords review

 Game of Thrones quickly became my favorite fantasy story ever. The place was previously held by Lord of the Rings, but not anymore. Game of Thrones' characters are very alluring, well developed, and interesting. The setting -in my opinion- is better than any I've seen before. It truly is a marvelous epic story.

What we can expect from the third season is more plot twists. Oh God, much much more plot twists. Characters meeting and having multiple scenes together, including characters you never thought will ever meet. More players star playing the Game of Thrones. More betrayals, love, death, perspectives, failures, success, and a lot more.Characters we haven't seen since the first few episodes reemerge, smaller characters get bigger roles.
Be emotionally prepared, the stuff are more heart breaking than Eddard dying.

Now, I guessed a lot of stuff about the third part before I read it based on the second season. Now, if you know me, I'm pretty much the prediction master when it comes to TV, but Martin continues his mad man fiasco and surprises everyone with more twists and turns and a couple of BAAAM!s and KABOOM!s.

This is as far as I'll go without spoilers from the THIRD book, so if you haven't read that leave now. 

Brace yourselves, spoilers are coming.

What I'm really excited about seeing in the third season is the introduction of characters that were supposed to be introduced in the second season but were left out: Ramsay Bolton, Jojen and Meera Reed, and Ser Kevan.

I'm also excited to watch how the whole Sansa and Dontos situation played out, as they left all their Godswood meetings from the second season. Will Baelish just come out from the beginning and she'd instantly know he was behind it and AGREE to go with him? Sansa is my number one favorite character in both the books and the show, and seeing how she developed and grew throughout the third book is very fascinating. She still put her trust into people sooner than she should, Dontos was bad news, but she clung to a hope she had gained through a children's song. Which, kudos on that George R R Martin, showed the reader that she's just a child. Okay, she did go through a lot and witnessed a lot, but she still lives in her own world, shielding herself from everything bad out there, and when she saw a familiar glimpse of a story she loved when she was back home with her parents and brothers and sister she held on to that.

Will the prologue be filmed or would the murderous plots against Lord Commander Mormont be a complete surprise until the deed is done in a much later episode. Which, okay, let me talk about Mormont for a bit. The guy is built like a freaking bear, he's old, huge, and intimidating. He's one of those people that are probably weaker than they seem but are so badass and frightening they could probably scare an army. Who in their right mind came up with the midevil assassination idea?

Since we are talking about the Mormonts, let us talk about the bear cub. It was no shock that Jorah would come onto Dany sooner or later, I was not surprised by that at all, nor was I surprised by the whole I-will-punish-you-for-betraying-me thing. That whole plot was as predictable as a teen movie. Dany is a kid, she's trying so hard to grow up and prove she isn't but she is, and instead of keeping him as a close, and very wise, counsel she banishes him for betraying her before he even knew her. Back then, he wasn't sworn to her, he didn't know her, he didn't love her. It was a different time. The only thing he did wrong was send Varys a message from Qarth, which shouldn't be punishable by banishment. Sure, Dany did teach her "court"a lesson and they'll think twice before they cross her, but at what cost? Sacking the slavers and freeing the slaves in Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen was badass, though, I'll give her that.

Brienne and Jaime.

I love how Jaime's a lesser jerk when he's around her or when her safety is in the question. Yelling "SAPPHIRES!" and jumping into the bear pit. I know I'm romanticizing their relationship and then some, but I really don't care. I enjoyed reading Jaime's chapters. I'll risk and say they were my favorites in the book, all the excitement and constant flow of the plot, I loved it. I still don't forgive him for Bran, though.

 Thanks to an idiot who didn't tag their post on tumblr, I found out about The Red Wedding prior to reading the book, so on that front I can't say I was surprised. The only thing I can say is Lame Lothar or whatever he's called is such a snake. I trusted him. I thought he didn't know. Roose Bolton, I was expecting as much of him, after all an apple doesn't fall far from a tree. I still love Roose, though, he's one of my favorite minor characters. He was right in doubting Robb as a king. He's a greenboy, and childish still. He lost the north, and his heirs in the process, while simultaneously managing to lose his biggest ally, cause a spread of doubt amongst his troops, and piss of his mom.

Greatjon and smalljon, I'm not sure if they were killed or taken captives, but I really hope it's the latter. As for Robb and Catelyn, good riddance. Robb is an idiot who can't honor anything, especially his dead father. He tries too hard to do the right thing and then ruins everything by being a stubborn little prick. It was a stupid thing to kill Rickard Karstark, and it was stupid to give Rickard reason to do what he did in the first place. He wasn't fit to be king. I'm curious if that was the theme of his royal plot from the beginning, to show that the Stark was less of a north-man than the Snow. I'm also curious to see how Catelyn 2.0 the Zombie edition works out in the fourth book.

Arya is continuing to kick some serious butt, but she's soon finding out that without Jaqen H'gar she's not a ghost, she's still a little girl who cant be overpowered with a hand of a bigger person. I loved seeing her with Sandor, that was pretty cool, seeing the dynamic between them and her seeing him for what he is. I liked the parts of her "prayers" a lot. I liked how her lists shrinks by the end of the book. I hate how she and Gendry got separated. I want to know how she can get "wolf dreams" like Bran and how she saw that Catelyn was actually dead.

Bran's part were fairly dull and slow until he reached The Gift, and then things started to get interesting. Meeting Sam, however briefly, it was awesome. I like his relationship with Meera and Jojen, and how he "reached out" to Hodor and both of them were terrified by what happened.


I liked The fact that Theon's chapters were gone and replaced by Sam's. Sam's chapters were very interesting, smoothly paced, and overall satisfying. I loved Sam the Slayer, I loved Sam the oathkeeper (to Bran's), and I loved Sam the wife savior. I loved what he did when he came back to the wall.

Everything about The Wall is great. Stannis coming to the aid, I almost died. Davos, you brilliant, faithful, wise man. All hail Davos, the onion lord, hand of the king. Rescuing the wall like he did, so much love for this badass.

And Stannis, offering the north to Jon. I couldn't believe it. It shows how Stannis developed as a character. Earlier in the series, he would have never offered a lordship to a bastard, and a brother of a traitor, but know he sees that in order to win compromises must be made. I loved that plot twist.

Because the book is super huge I'm going to just post a Roose Bolton reaction to some major events I haven't discussed:

a) Ygritte and John

b) Ygritte dying

c) JOFFREY'S DEATH

d) Tyrion & Sansa's marriage

what is WRONG with you people?

e) Pyter pushing Lysa out the moon door

f) Tyrion killing Tywin

g) Peach Brothel's scene with Arya and Gendry

h) we find out Joffrey hired Bran's attacker

I) we find out Littlefinger was responsible for every bad thing that happened

final rating: 5/5
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