for some reason i always tend to be hungover when writing these, oh dear. currently in bed (in my NEW SUPER COOL COCA COLA JIMJAMS BECAUSE I ACTUALLY WENT CLOTHES SHOPPING YESTERDAY AHHH) drinkinh ice water and eating left over wagamamas because i am so hip and cosmopolitan now im a london girl that of course i eat japanese food for nutritional sustainance.
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BRILLIANT episode this week after two that have been a bit slow. i dunno, just watch it as soon as you can. realllly good.
Game of Thrones Season 4 Episode Eight:
The Mountain and The Viper
shit's going down at the wall
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| she mad. |
here's a lesson to all men. hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. so probably not a good idea to get into a relationship with a woman who can wield a club, snog her atop a giant ice wall whilst basking in the glow of a beautiful sunset (which would 100% make her love you) and then abruptly leave her. because that's what jon snow did, and now ygritte is pissed. you can literally see it in this scene when she is marching through the town, she has got a proper pace on and a face that says "im coming for you jon you bastard and you are a dead man." men, if you ever see a woman walking towards you that fast and with a look on her face like ygrittes: run. run fast.
anyway, mance's army is on the way. they've done alot of talking about mance's army and its taken a bloody long time for them to get to the wall, but that isnt really suprising seeing as they have 10,000 people to move across what is essentially a big block of ice populated by bears and the frozen undead. the army is basically everyone who lives north of the wall who wants to no longer live north of the wall because it's cold and there are lots of snowzombies and apparently also a big blue darth maul ice king that steals babies that nobody bloody knew about. where are the snow zombies, by the way? i want to see more. i demand at least one snowzombie every two episodes and any episode without a snowzombie should have a dragon in it. take note, hbo.
anyway, judging by the trailer for next weeks episode, the army will actually arrive and we will finally get to see the battle, thank god. we havent really had a proper one since the battle of blackwater (SHIPS! WILDFIRE! BOOM!) and i love a good battle.
more heartbreak for ser jorah
alot of attention given to this little missandei and grey worm love story. i don't seem to remember there being any relationship between them (or at least not alluded to) in the books. can't tell whether this is just filler or will actually be relevant to future plot points. lets wait and see. i don't mind anyway, it's quite cute. it's nice to have a little love story going on amidst all the endless betraying. and if essentially saying 'im glad i was brutally castrated as a child because it means i got to meet you' doesn't win a girls heart, nothing will. n'aww.
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but anyway. just to make things a little bit worse for ser jorah, it's time for daenerys to discover that he betrayed her. see! betraying. betraying everywhere. endless betraying. i think i went over this in my last post about 'but who is the real jorah mormont???'. basically he sold slaves back in westeros and was exiled. in order to recieve a royal pardon that would allow him to return home, he spied on daenerys and her brother and sent reports on them to king's landing. he has finally recieved his royal pardon, only a couple of years too late. and in pretty sneaky circumstances too, as the pardon was delivered to barristan selmy. perhaps, as jorah suggests, an attempt by tywin lannister to create discord between daenerys's men?
anyhoo, daenerys is miffed and sends him away. i genuinely, hand on heart, no word of a lie, wailed out loud. i wailed 'noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo' at my laptop screen. i honestly cannot deal with how much i love jorah mormont and i cannot handle seeing his heart being torn to pieces week after week after week, he is like a faithful labrador that just wants to be rubbed on the belly but no-one will love him. he is so sad all the time and it makes me sad. "i have loved you" oh my god i cant handle it i need to stop typing
ramsay becomes a bolton
i think ramsay is fast becoming my favourite character. mainly because he is being played so ridiculously well by iwan rheon. and i slightly fancy him, wont lie. this time we're at moat caillin, woohooo. it's basically a big northern castle being held by the ironmen, who are theon's people. the ironmen took over alot of the north around the time that theon took over winterfell (season 2? why cant i remember?) and now roose bolton and ramsay, his bastard son, are trying to get rid of them all. ramsay offers them safe conduct to return home but oh no wait this is game of thrones WHO'S READY FOR A SUDDEN SHOT OF A FLAYED HUMAN BEING
kudos to hbo for getting a cool little shot of crows picking at dead bodies too, which is probably a reference to the book title this season is based on, A Feast For Crows. Basically, there are so many dead bodies lying around now that the crows are having a feast, simple.
A wild Roose Bolton appears! I will never forgive Roose for stabbing Robb Stark. Never. I think I will go to my grave rueing the day that George R.R. Martin ever put pen to paper and created Roose Bolton. Roose and Ramsay go off for a little father son chat involving a speech that is slightly reminiscent of mufasa talking to simba whilst looking out over the pride lands in the lion king. Roose tells Ramsay that he has been legitimized, meaning that he can now call himself a 'bolton' and will be roose's official heir. Roose is filling the vacancy left by ned stark and is acting as warden (essentially, ruler) of the north, a role that ramsay will now take on when roose dies.
they ride off together towards another castle.... is that winterfell?!?! i cant tell.
sansa stark becomes awesome
what is the show called? game of thrones. it literally sums up the entire point; it is all a game, and they are all a part of it, whether as players or 'pieces' that the players manipulate- metaphorically moving them across the board- for their own gain. up until now, sansa stark has been a piece. all of sudden, she's about to become a player.
i love sansa. she gets so much stick but i actually really love her character. and there's a definite change in her character in this episode. even her acting seems to have changed. she's gone from being a bit stumbly and confused looking to being sleek and a little bit suggestive. she lies perfectly, whereas before she would stutter and blush and become flustered. she's learnt a thing or two from petyr baelish, and is begining to lie to and manipulate people herself.
just to hammer home to fact that she is a changed woman, she also gets a makeover. we always see her in pink and blue, pale 'girly' colours and dresses. all of a sudden, wam bam leather and feathers. i think they darkened her hair too, but that happens in the books anyway as part of her 'disguise'. anyway, i loved old sansa, but i think im gonna love new sansa even more. how brilliant would it be if she became the ultimate player of the game of thrones.
the mountain and the viper
this obviously involves spoilers, so dont read if you havent seen the show yet.
ladies and gentlemen it's time for oberyn martell versus gregor clegane, aka. the red viper versus the mountain!! this is like an onyx versus a hitmonlee.
ive said it in pretty much every post so far but yeah this is what oberyn has been waiting for, the chance to kill the mountain (gregor clegane) in vengeance for killing his sister and her children. but it all goes tits up. i dont really need to say more. it's all pretty self-evident.
i knew what was going to happen, but there was a part of me that hoped against all hope that the producers had decided to change the outcome and keep oberyn and that he wouldnt die and we could continue being happy and carefree and watch him enjoying all of the worlds delights with ellaria but no. this is game of thrones. and the moment you start to love a character, they gonna die. because if you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention. and whilst i hoped and pleaded with all the gods that oberyn wouldn't get his head smashed to smithereens, i knew it was a lost cause. oberyn needs to die, because his death is the catalyst for the events in the next season. [speaking of next season, its been leaked that an actress has been cast for the role of young cersei. which means..........FLASHBACKS. I AM TOO EXCITED.]
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R.I.P OBERYN MARTELL
we loved you, and we will miss you. we cannot handle the feels. but dont worry, game of thrones fans, if you heart is in tatters. only two episodes to go before we can all relax and breathe easy knowing your favourite will last another year. if they don't die in the next two, that is ;)
