tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post4273974248852272819..comments2024-02-04T05:13:04.501-05:00Comments on Nik at Nite: Game of Thrones 7:03 The Queen's JusticeNikki Staffordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463618183850438914noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-49493980939379070962017-08-11T23:28:22.131-04:002017-08-11T23:28:22.131-04:00I won’t expand too much on the notes I’d made whil...<br>I won’t expand too much on the notes I’d made while reading this shortly after it was posted, since we’re almost a fortnight removed from the episode, and I’ve kept my comments spoiler-free in terms of subsequent installments, but…<br /><br />@Christopher: <i>— “The Queen’s Justice” is brilliant specifically because of the cumulative power of this series. —</i><br /><br />Yes. Payback may be a bitch, as illustrated by this very episode, but payoff rocks. I’m almost giddy simply watching the disparate factions we’ve followed now become aware of and discuss, message, or even meet up with one another, let alone seeing various narrative mysteries and in-story augurs and viewer hopes be realized.<br /><br />@Christopher: <i>— let me rhapsodize a moment longer on </i>just how beautiful this episode looked<i> —</i><br /><br />It really did. The environs of Dragonstone were particularly striking to me — I spent most of my childhood in a seashore town (on a barrier island that was dead flat, so nothing like the picturesque cliffsides here) and rocky coastlines are my atmospheric, nigh-synesthetic jam — but there were several shots throughout the episode that prompted me to freeze the screen in admiration.<br /><br />@Nikki: <i>— Yes, I said it. I despise Cersei, but Myrcella had no role to play in any of this other than to be the pawn that Ellaria drew in to the battle. —</i><br /><br />Yup.<br /><br />@Nikki: <i>— And then along comes a brother who tells her he can see everything that’s ever happened and will happen all at once. —</i><br /><br />This struck me as so ham-fisted that I’m compelled to assume the scene between Sansa and Bran was not originally intended to run immediately after the one of Littlefinger creepily cooing his quantum-entanglement wisdom in her ear but ended up there for lack of options in the final cut. <br /><br />@Nikki: <i>— Sam proved that the answers can lie in books —</i><br /><br />My interpretation of the Archmaester’s decision is that he’s well aware of this, and Sam can’t very well copy the rare, ancient texts to which he was previously denied access without reading them while doing so, making this a punishment in the same vein as Starfleet’s demotion of Kirk from Admiral back to Captain of the Enterprise at the end of <i>The Voyage Home</i>.<br /><br />@Christopher: <i>— Would this not have been a conversation they had when he first proposed sacking Casterly Rock? —</i><br /><br />Yes. I’m especially confused about why this conversation couldn’t have been framed as a flashback in some way or adjusted into exposition for the sake of other characters given how the first scenes of the assault playing under Tyrion’s narration are then undercut by what’s really going on. On another note, I’ve been surprised that none of the few recaps of the show I follow mentioned what I believed to be a total groaner of Tyrion’s, so much so that I now wonder if neither the writers nor the actor delivering the line actually intended it in the first place: “He didn’t build the sewers. That was beneath him.” Rimshot. Hand of the Queen, ladies and gentlemen; here all week.<br /><br />@ Christopher: <i>— That it ends not with a huge spectacle or plot twist, but with the revelation of a truth </i>we already knew<i> speaks to the power of this episode’s writing. —</i><br /><br />Very much so. I’m still frustrated by a fair amount of what the show’s been throwing at us in terms of the decisions the characters make and the whiplash shift into high-gear pacing with its accompanying Westeros Wormhole travel times but there’s a whole lot of very satisfying stuff happening as well regarding both storylines colliding and pure craft being exercised.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-21105904945333669032017-08-04T15:27:11.014-04:002017-08-04T15:27:11.014-04:00Great review as always..
I must say as we go furt... <br />Great review as always..<br /><br />I must say as we go further along I'm liking Dany less and less. So arrogant and condescending to all others... I've always been a huge fan of Cersei and have always thought she should win at the end. I hope we get one final twist and it actually happens...<br /><br />Really Jon - you don't even ASK if somehow Dany would send just one fire-breathing dragon to fight the ice army? Maybe even offer to bend the knee? What are the two laws of business? - everything is negotiable and it never hurts to ask...<br /><br />So fired up to see BRONN! He, Cersei and Meli have always been my favs and I look forward to his reunion with Tyrion. It better happen...<br /><br />I know she went the other way but I totally thought Cersei's assistant was Arya. Also, Jamie must know she was thinking about Euron the entire time...<br /><br />Can't wait for next week<br /><br /> -Tim AlanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-43453993178871222292017-08-04T08:22:54.010-04:002017-08-04T08:22:54.010-04:00Thank you for the review. There was so much info i...Thank you for the review. There was so much info in this episode that it was hard to pick my favorite. <br /><br />The biggest difference between Cersi and Dany is that Cesi is willing to be Queen of the ashes as she thinks everyone is replaceable. At this point Cersi has won the people as they fear the Mother of Dragons and her horde.<br /><br />There hasn't been a battle where Cersi can see what she is up against and that her less than honorable tactics may fail against. When we saw the scene with Arya and the Lannister soldiers we saw a group of men who had kindness in them and after their bit of adventure just wanted to go home. Dany's soldiers follow her as she is the one who gave them the freedom they never had. They know the cost of failure is the return to servitude, if they survive the wars. The Dothraki follow the unburnt Mother of Dragons who defeated her rivals. She has a connection to her people Cersi does not.<br /><br />Now to Bran his behavior can be compared to someone in a dissociative state who sometimes is lucid and in the present. Bran gets to relive periods of time with people who has had terrible things happen to them. The worst thing for Santa was her wedding night but the second worst thing would be having to watch that night happen. Bran may not have known who Ramsey was so his vision would have started with him seeing his sister looking beautiful at her wedding then have to watch what her marriage was going to become and not have the power to protect her. Bran is new to his calling and has seen a lot of cruelty in a short time. That's a lot of trauma.<br /><br />Olenna shall be missed. Her last barb may mean more to Jamie than Cersi and will influence his next meeting with Tyron, if there is one. <br /><br />Again, thanks I wait every week for your review.leorarufusnoreply@blogger.com