Welcome to the final week of our Game of
Thrones blog post! I’m once again joined by Christopher “I read the
books so you don’t have to, but you really should because they are awesome”
Lockett, who, well, reads the books and tells us how the adaptation deviates
from them. We have a lot to cover this week, so let’s get started.
Oh, but first, THIS:
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Yes, if anyone’s looking to send something to Chris and me,
that cake would be just dandy. ;)
Nikki: After last week’s unbelievable
episode, this week’s was definitely a lot slower, serving the purpose of
wrapping up this season’s many plot threads while setting us up for the next
season. We covered off every house, every player, and pretty much every
character we’ve seen this season. That’s not to say it was a bad episode — I’m
starting to think that’s simply not possible on Game of
Thrones — but just that it was a bit of a letdown after last week.
And there were certainly some highlights.
What I really enjoyed from last night’s episode is that it
almost felt like it was paying homage to every other show I
watch on TV!
-Lost: We open on Tyrion’s eyeball, as if
the key character for the episode is him.
-Revenge: Arya tells Jaqen that she’s
going to spend years training and learning how to fight and get revenge on the
people who killed her father. She’s like a little Amanda Clark.
-The Walking Dead: Duh. Was it just me,
or was the final scene with the wight walkers set up exactly like the end of
the penultimate season of TWD, with the legions of walkers stumbling towards
Herschel’s farm, complete with the camera panning back to show how many of them
there were?
-The Wire: Tyrion now sports the exact
same scar as Omar Little. As if he wasn’t already a bad mofo, he’s probably
going to be worse now.
-Buffy: Brienne the Douchebag Slayer!!
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Yes, for me, the best part was probably Brienne taking on
the three Stark devotees in the forest. She saw the women strung up in the
trees and even before the men entered the scene, she tied Jaime to a tree and
moved to cut down the women so she could give them a proper burial. Like the
previously mentioned Omar Little, Brienne lives by a code of honour, one that
she will not sacrifice even when charged with a very important and
time-sensitive mission. But before she’s cut the first one down, along come the
louts who put them there in the first place. Jaime whisper-screams,
“CUT ME LOOSE!!” when he sees them coming, which killed me
because I actually shouted at the TV, “Kingslayer, Schmingslayer; she doesn’t
need you, Jaime!!” And no. She so did NOT need him. At first she kept her head
low and answered quickly, but asked a few questions of her own. Once she’d
ascertained that these men did indeed kill these poor tavern women, and that
one of them had been killed quickly and the third real slow,
her mind was made up. With the flick of both wrists, she kills two of the three
men and knocks over the third. Striding up to him with a grimace of pure venom
on her face, she draws her sword and snarls, “Two quick deaths,” before making
sure his death will be slow and painful. And then she unties
Jaime, declaring, “I don’t serve the Starks. I serve Lady Catelyn.”
What this episode really highlighted was the ambiguity of
the entire war. There are no good guys and bad guys, something that the Hound
was trying to drive home to Sansa last week. There are only people doing what
they feel they have to do. We cheer for Tyrion, even though we don’t want the
Lannisters to win. Stannis is a brilliant fighter and probably deserves the
crown more than anyone, but we’re not rooting for him, either. Brienne just
killed the men that would have followed Ned Stark into battle and stood behind
him, but they were bad men, and Ned made terrible choices and trusted the wrong
people. Pycelle tosses a coin at Tyrion and sneers, “For your trouble,” in the
same way Tyrion had given coins to Pycelle’s whore. We look at that as him
being terribly cruel, but Tyrion acted first, and from Pycelle’s point of view,
it was lovely vengeance. Jaqen opened the gates to let Arya out, but he killed
men who had done him no wrong and probably had wives and children. Daenerys
locks her favourite girl in a chamber with Xaro, where they will most likely
suffocate to death before he’ll be able to rape her repeatedly and eat her
corpse (I’m really hoping they run out of air).
These are not good people. But, like candidates in any
Canadian federal election, they’re all we’ve got, and we have to find a reason
to like one more than the others. Unlike a Canadian federal election, it’s much
easier to find things I like in the GoT characters.
Now, my first question of the week that’s kind of driving me
batty: I thought Sansa was leaving with the Hound last week. What was she still
doing standing in Joffrey’s court? Did I miss something?
Christopher: Huh. Interesting. I never assumed she was
going with him—it seemed clear to me that she was turning down his offer. But
then, that might have been because I’ve read the book and know she doesn’t go
with him (that would have been a BIG deviation from the story). Perhaps we
should poll our readers and see who thought as you did?
I didn’t find this episode to be any sort of letdown, though
the shift back to the usual form of storytelling was a bit jarring. One way or
another, I don’t see how they avoid that in the aftermath of “Blackwater”
(aside from not doing “Blackwater” to start with … and, well, that’s just
silly-talk). But for all the slower pacing of the episode, there were some
pretty spectacular moments: Brienne showing the Kingslayer she can handle a
sword, Jon Snow killing Qhorin, the triumphant return of Daenerys as something
more than a petulant girl—and running into Drogo on the way!—and burning
creepy Abed the warlock to a crisp, Jaqen H’ghar changing
his face after offering to train Arya to be a Faceless Man … and of course that
chilling (ha!) final shot of the White Walkers and their army of snow zombies.
Snow zombies. Let me say it one more time: snow zombies. OK,
I think I’ve geeked out enough over that now.
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I might as well start with that ending sequence. I’m
interested to hear what other avid GRRM readers thought of it—do you think it
does your own image of the wights and their masters justice? Our first really
good “look” at an Other doesn’t happen until book three, but I certainly am not
complaining here. I’m also a little relieved, as the one real glimpse we’ve had
previously, in the prologue of the very first episode, made the Walker look
like some sort of tribal savage (I seem to remember complaining about that).
But here it looked more obviously like something born of winter. Here is how
the Other gets described in A Storm of Swords:
A horse’s head emerged from the darkness. [He] felt a
moment’s relief, until he saw the horse. Hoarfrost covered it like a sheen of
frozen sweat, and a nest of stiff black entrails dragged from its open belly.
On its back was a rider pale as ice … The Other slid gracefully from the saddle
to stand upon the snow. Sword-slim it was, and milky white. Its armor rippled
and shifted as it moved, and its feet did not break the crust of the new-fallen
snow.
So we do have a vaguely primitivist
conception of the Walkers on the show—the Others we see are milky white, as
described in the book (or blue-white, at any rate), but are naked but for
breechclouts, and they look something like frozen mummies, with gnarled and
dessicated bodies. But they’re pretty terrifying one way or another, especially
considering they seem to be shepherding a rather large army of wights.
I did wonder why that final scene looked familiar, and you
put your finger right on it—it is TOTALLY reminiscent of The Walking
Dead. I don’t imagine we can accuse Weiss and Benioff of ripping of
TWD, given how closely in time both episodes would have been in production. I
wonder if W&B watch TWD—if perhaps they saw that penultimate episode and
thought, “Ah, crap.”
Probably not. There was a certain similarity, but then it’s
not exactly an original shot, having been done in a variety of ways in a host
of zombie films. But GoT does have one thing going for it: snow zombies!
Nikki: The snow zombies were awesome. And
I’m not sure poor Sam can survive that (will all of them walk right by him and
leave him alone? Not likely…) The mantra from the first episode onward has been
“Winter is coming…” and it appears that the wights actually brought winter with
them. The guy on the horse was absolutely terrifying, and you’re right: they DO
look like frozen mummies! Well put. Craster’s daughter-wives had better have
some more sons, quick. Looks like those wights will need some sacrifices soon.
Very strange on the Sansa thing! In my write-up last week I
talked a lot about how her decision to go with the Hound was an awesome moment,
and you didn’t correct me at all (in fact, I believe you said it was an
excellent reading of the scene). You are one sneaky guy.
I was discussing this final episode with the people at work,
and none of us read the books and all of us had assumed Sansa had gone with the
Hound and were completely confused. Hm… That’s too bad. I really would have
loved to see those two roaming the countryside together.
The OTHER two people who I’d love to see roaming the
countryside are Arya and Jaqen. Last week I made a comment that I wish he’d
have joined her, Gendry, and the fat kid. So when they looked up and saw him on
a hill, I squealed with joy. My dreams had come true! He’s going to travel with
Arya! He’ll be her mentor and we get to continue to hear him speak funny and
give those strange sidelong glances at her and HOLY CRAP WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO
HIS FACE??!!
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The… HELL?? He gives Arya a coin and tells her if she ever
runs into a man from Braavos, to say “Valar Morghulis” to him, and she will
find Jaqen. “Jaqen” is dead (perhaps because she used his name in vain two
episodes ago by naming “Jaqen” as the third person she wanted dead?), and she
must now use the name Valar Morghulis. Wasn’t Arya’s “dance instructor” from
Braavos? If he and Jaqen are from the same city, I want to go to
there. It’s clearly the city of awesome.
Is it possible that Jaqen and Arya’s dance instructor are
the same person with different faces? Her instructor was left behind to defend
himself, and we didn’t see him die, if I remember correctly.
And I’m not sure how much you can reveal at this point, but
are we to assume he’s from a particular group of people who can change their
faces, OR is that just something he can do, OR is it something that men from
Braavos do?
I will miss the old red-haired/white-haired Jaqen. The new
guy looked a little snarly.
Christopher: Huh. I just reread last
week’s post, and I totally didn’t get that you meant Sansa was leaving
with the Hound. It’s a good thing I’m not in a profession
that values close reading or anything.
It never occurred to me that Syrio and Jaqen could be the
same person—as you pointed out, we don’t see him die (we don’t see him die in
the novel, either), and the three men in the cage with Yoren’s group all come
from the dungeons of King’s Landing. It’s an intriguing thought … but as much
as I like the idea, I don’t think it’s likely. The Faceless Men of Braavos are
a secret society of assassins; Syrio was a master swordsman serving the
Sealord. From what I know of those two groups of people in Braavos, it seems
unlikely that the latter would moonlight as the former, or vice versa. Too bad,
really …
Braavos DOES seem like a wicked cool place though, and I’ll
be very interested to see how they render it visually for the series. It won’t
happen until at least season four, though … five if they split A Storm
of Swords into two. It’s described as being a lot like renaissance
Venice.
(To be clear, I’m not giving anything away about Arya’s
future: maybe she goes to Braavos, maybe she doesn’t. There are other
characters who go there).
To shift to another part of the story: what did you think of
Varys this week? I love how they’re developing his character. He’s so obviously
out of sorts when Littlefinger is honored by the king that one wonders if his
overtures to Ros are partly out of revenge. That scene with her was invented,
by the way: and though it was a vindication of the principle that the writers
can’t have Ros on screen for more than thirty seconds without getting her
naked, I thought the entire sequence added a level of depth and nuance to Varys
that, frankly, we don’t get in the novels. His reasons for approaching Ros are
obviously complex: on one hand, he sees an opportunity to get a spy in
Littlefinger’s camp, and exploits her abuse at Joffrey’s hands to that end. But
unless he’s feigning concern (not out of the realm of possibility), he seemed
genuinely upset at what she suffered. We understand that, however much his
polite fencing with Littlefinger looks just like two old hands playing a game,
he genuinely despises Baelish … perhaps as someone who has himself suffered
grievously at someone else’s hands, he has the kind of empathy unavailable to
Littlefinger.
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Of course, I could be totally wrong, and that was all just
an act. But my sense is that we’re supposed to see him as genuine in these
moments, as we are when he thanks Tyrion and tells him that some
people know he’s the city’s true savior.
Though not, apparently, his father or sister or nephew. He
wakes in a slovenly little room, having been ignominiously kicked out of the
Hand’s apartments by his father. He has had everything he built up taken
away—Bronn relieved of command, the city guard in the pocket of either Tywin or
Cersei, his hillsmen sent packing with a handsome recompense that takes them
out of Tyrion’s debt and into Tywin’s. And to top it off, his sister’s pet
Pycelle has been restored and he smugly throws that fact in Tyrion’s gravely
scarred face.
Last week you said the following, apropos of Tyrion’s
possible death: “I don’t think he could be dead. He’s important, he’s KEY, and
Tywin just showed up. Tyrion and Tywin could be a serious force to be reckoned
with … Tyrion — the ironically nicknamed ‘Half Man’ — has just proven himself
to be the only worthy Lannister. Tywin should be pretty impressed, and I doubt
they’d kill him off the show just when he’s finally about to prove himself once
and for all to his father.” You noted that my response might be spoilery, and
you were right … because I was sitting there, sort of flapping my hands, saying
“Omigodomigod, you have no idea how bloody ungrateful
everyone is going to be!” Tyrion can’t win with his family—his sister loathes
him, his nephew is never about to forgive him his slights, and his father will
never allow him to forget that he’s (1) a dwarf, and (2) not Jaime. Give him
credit for, you know, saving the city? Not likely.
Nikki: And you have no idea how much I
just laughed, picturing you bouncing up and down on your chair and squealing,
“You are so wrong!!” That is hilarious. I don’t say this enough, but you
deserve major kudos for letting me blather on week after week (and also letting
the commenters say things in the comments below when they haven’t read the
books, either) and never saying, “Oh, you think so? WAIT TIL YOU SEE!!” Instead
you use some enigmatic words and I never glom on to what’s going to happen. (See
Stark, Ned: execution) So thank you for that, my friend!
But yes, I was completely shocked that rather than finally
being lauded as the One True Lannister, he’s locked up in an attic. I guess the
hint was back in season 1, in the scene where Tyrion faced Tywin in his tent as
Tywin was skinning a deer. I don’t remember much of what was said in the scene,
since my eyes were fiercely trained on the ghastly nature of Tywin
skinning a deer, but it was clear that he respected Tyrion’s
mind, but Jaime was the beloved one.
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And while I’m watching the battle scene last week and
thinking that Tyrion was a true hero, even in the moment where he appears to
have vanquished the baddies, the others are yelling, “Half Man!” to cheer him
on. Not exactly the chant any Lannister would want their house associated with.
Tyrion might have won, but he made a grave error in Tywin’s eyes: he was seen.
Tyrion’s mind is important, and Tywin wants him to use it, as long as he stays
in the background and works out strategies so heroes like Jaime can execute
them. Tyrion is NOT meant to be paraded in front of the world, reminding them
all that Tywin’s sperm helped create a dwarf. Tyrion is supposed to be the
brains behind the operation, and Jaime is the one to be lauded publicly as the
true hero.
Tyrion is well fond of the phrase, “A Lannister always pays
his debts.” And I’m thinking that, in his eyes, Cersei and Tywin have some
serious repaying to do.
I, too, am really enjoying Varys this season. As you
suggest, it’s not clear if he’s on the up-and-up – we’ve learned to question
everything that man says – but he really does seem sincere when he speaks to
Tyrion, and the scene with Ros was very interesting. (That actress doesn’t get
enough credit for having to shed her clothing every time she’s on screen.) His
vengeance really does seem to spring from his hatred for Baelish. They seemed
like two sides of the same coin last season, but as that analogy would suggest,
two sides of one coin would never actually see eye to eye, and while they smile
at each other, there’s always a seething resentment that each man harbours
toward the other.
It’s understandable that Varys would then align himself with
Tyrion, since Baelish has already declared Tyrion his enemy. Baelish clearly
seems to relish Tyrion’s comeuppance in this episode, when King
Asshat Joffrey grants him Harrenhal. You’ll recall that a
few episodes ago, when Tyrion was pulling the old trick of telling three
different stories and seeing which spy would run to Cersei, he promised
Harrenhal to Baelish. The smirk on Baelish’s face speaks volumes.
And then Queen Margaery steps up and expresses her desire to
wed Joffrey, which Joffrey accepts. There’s so much to say about this I don’t
know where to start, but while her move is definitely political, is she cunning
enough to know what a sick bastard Joffrey is? Also, isn’t she about a decade
his senior? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that…) Will she know how to
handle him, or will he shock her? She seemed to see right through Renly and was
able to control that situation as best she could, so maybe Joffrey may have met
his match. If that’s the case, I can’t WAIT to see what Queen Margaery has up
her sleeve for season 3.
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Sansa, meanwhile, puts on the stricken face for the courts,
but can’t contain her overflowing joy very long as she quickly shuffles out of
the king’s court, a huge smile on her face and the relief palpable. At first
she even had me tricked, thinking she was truly scared; I mean, if her father
was executed for being a traitor, and Joffrey clearly loathes her and now she
can’t offer him anything, couldn’t he just kill her and be done with the
Starks? But Baelish is the smarter one – see, as far as they know, Jaime’s
still a prisoner of Robb Stark, and Sansa must be kept close. That doesn’t mean
Joffrey can’t do to her what he already did to Ros, and defile her in nasty,
sick ways. What better way to get back at the traitor Ned Stark than to ruin
his eldest daughter? She should have gone with the Hound…
Back over to Winterfell, which, sadly, is no more, here’s my
next (possibly dumbass) question for you: Theon was bemoaning the hornblower
outside, and was saying he was going to kill that guy and the 500 Stark men
that were surrounding Winterfell. But when Bran and Rickon escaped with Hodor
and Osha, there are no men. I was discussing this with people at work and this
scene came up, and it had left people very confused: where did they all go? Did
Theon’s men really beat them all?
To be honest, when I watched it, I assumed they’d just
tricked Theon the whole time, and there were no men. I thought one of them was
blowing the horn to drive him insane, since we already know the Stark forces
are far away. But other people didn’t read the scene that way, and a friend of
mine reminded me that he was often looking out the window, as if he could see
the troops. Can you shed some light on what happened, Chris?
Christopher: Really not,
unfortunately. Perhaps they blew their
budget on “Blackwater,” and couldn’t afford to depict another siege. I don’t
know. And as much as I’d love to share what happened in the novel, I’m afraid
of inadvertently giving spoilers—suffice to say, what we saw of Theon’s fate
this week is not how it happened in the book, but I have no idea whether they
plan on re-merging with the original storyline in season three, or how. So I
will remain frustratedly mum (not to be confused with comfortably numb) for the
time being. Do you plan to read A Clash of Kings now? If so,
we need to talk when you finish it about the way they ended Theon’s story this
season, and perhaps offer a spoilery blog post. Of all the things they’ve done
on this show, this was one of the most puzzling. I was expecting something very
different, and those who have read the books will know what I mean when I say
they’ve been preparing the groundwork for Theon’s story to follow the way it
happens in the novels.
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But to return to King’s Landing: what did you make of
Joffrey’s little pantomime about having sworn an oath to Sansa? That
was pretty much exactly as it feel out in the novel, and I
was never sure what I thought of it then, either. Was this a ritual series of
denials before the king finally accedes to his new betrothal? Or is Joffrey
really just being that truculent, reluctant to give up his plaything? As
Littlefinger points out, he can pretty much do with Sansa as he pleases, but he
might not know that just yet.
I am VERY curious to see what happens with Margaery and
Joffrey now … their betrothal in the novels isn’t that surprising or odd,
considering that she is just a year or two older than him there. But casting
Natalie Dormer in the role means we have a much older and more worldly-wise
Margaery, so I’m guessing we should expect some interaction between her and
Joffrey in season three that we do not see in the books. Which, in the
aftermath of her rather frank discussion with Renly, is quite promising …
But we’ve skirted two of the big events of the last episode:
Jon Snow joining the wildlings, and Daenerys getting her mojo (i.e. dragons)
back. His long side-journey with Ygritte was not in the novel. In the book, he
lets her go and rejoins Qhorin; and when it becomes clear at a certain point
that they are going to be taken by the wildlings, Qhorin tells Jon that he must
join them in order to find out their intentions … and that to convincingly do
so, he must kill Qhorin. I’m glad they kept that part—though we don’t see much
of him, Qhorin is a great character, and his duel with Jon is a brilliant and heartbreaking
moment of sacrifice.
I guess my final question to you is: what did you think of
the Daenerys sequence? I wasn’t impressed at first … and then she walks into
the snowy ruins of the throne room at King’s Landing. And then through the gate
in the Wall, and into a tent to see … Drogo! Drogo, sitting there with their
son! I do confess, I squeed a little …
Nikki: And I squeed a LOT. As I put it to
my work colleagues, after kind of boring me all season long, the Daenerys story
went out with a bang this season. Her dream walk through key landmarks on the
show was fascinating — she walks through the burned ruins of the king’s court
at King’s Landing; the doorway of the Wall; the tent where she and Khal had set
up house (complete with baby and Khal!!). First, she’s never seen King’s
Landing first-hand, so this is some sort of vision that’s showing her a
possible future with her dragons, I’m assuming. (I hope in this scenario
Joffrey’s death was even more slow and painful than the one suffered at the end
of Brienne’s sword this week.) But the scene with Khal was astounding. I gasped
aloud, I was SO HAPPY to see him again, but that scene was very painful to
watch. Sitting before her are the two people she longs for more than anyone —
her beloved husband, and the baby that never had a chance to be born. But her
reaction shows just how determined this woman is: she walks away. We see the
saddened look on Khal’s face as he’s left behind, less important to her than
her destiny. She recognizes that he’s not real, but that the destroyed King’s
Landing very well might be. So she’s going to make that happen.
I wasn’t surprised when her dreamwalk ended with evil Abed
chaining her up, since I knew that wasn’t going to last very
long. The SFX on the dragons was amazing. They reminded me of a cross between
my daughter’s geckos (their heads and faces) and our cats, in the way they cock
their heads and their movements.
Note to HBO: You want to get fans to pony up and pay a ton
of money on merchandising? Make us some dragons. I WANT ONE.
I was literally cheering when the dragons blew the fire
through Daenerys and killed the warlock, and the way she triumphantly walked
out of there with all three of them hanging off her. What she did next was
shocking (I’ve already covered that above) but it shows that she has gone from
an innocent girl to a nasty force to be reckoned with.
And so, we move to season 3:
-Daenerys is coming, and she’s on the hunt with dragons that
now know how to breathe fire.
-Joffrey is still a little shit, and yet one I don’t want to
be killed off right away because I’ve realized just how much I enjoy hating
him.
-Theon, on the other hand, I can no longer stand, and wish
someone would just off him. And those teeth of his, which look like they belong
in The Big Book of British Smiles from The Simpsons
-Sansa is no longer betrothed to Joffrey (oh, and to answer
your question, I believe that he was being overly dramatic on purpose,
pretending that he was being talked out of something, but basically humiliating
Sansa in front of the court, which seems to be his only mandate these days).
Now she must find a way to escape King’s Landing.
-Arya is on the road, minus Jaqen H’ghar, but she does have
a direct line to him should she ever need him. She’s filled with vengeance, and
could be the one Stark who finally manages to make the Lannisters pay their
debts.
-Tyrion is locked up in a tower with the ever-loyal Shae at
his side (oh, how I loved that scene between them!) and the control he’s had
over his sister and her son all season has been snatched from him. I’m worried
about the comeuppance he’s about to face.
-Tywin is back, and seems to have put his own pride in his
virility over common sense.
-Cersei will continue to drink herself stupid and be
generally miserable until Jaime returns.
-Jaime’s on his way back, but he’s been a disgrace and I
wonder if anything will change when he gets there. Or… is it possible he won’t
get there?
-Brienne continues to be totally awesome
-Catelyn is under house arrest by her son, Robb, who feels
betrayed by her. As he spits at her in this episode when she questions him
breaking his betrothal vow: “Father is dead, and the only parent I have left
doesn’t have the right to call anyone reckless.”
-Robb has just married Talisa and broken the vow Catelyn was
talking about, which will destroy a very powerful alliance.
-Baelish has just been given more power, which is always
dangerous.
-Margaery is betrothed to Joffrey, which could turn out to be
bad for her, or bad for him. But one of them is going to trump the other, and
I’m thinking Joffrey doesn’t know what’s coming.
-Rickon and Bran are wandering through the countryside with
Hodor and Osha. Winterfell is gone, so they have to find Robb.
-Jon Snow has effectively joined the wildlings.
-Stannis has retreated from the battle despite his amazing
fighting skills, and he’s angry with Melisandre for tricking him into thinking
he was going to win (he almost chokes her to death). However, when she reminds
him that her god is inside him, he steps back, and realizes maybe he’s got to
come at things a different way. She tells him he’s the warrior of light, and he
will be king. Between him and Daenerys, the Game of Thrones might come down to
just who wants it more.
-Oh, and to bring it all back to where we started,
TERRIFYING SNOW ZOMBIES ARE ON THE WAY!!!
Wow. And all that in 10 episodes. Game of
Thrones is starting to make 22-episode network TV look ridiculously
inefficient.
Thank you, once again, Chris, for being our eye into the
book version of this. Last season I said I would definitely read book 1, and
then I didn’t because I didn’t want to affect our banter, but now that we’re
two seasons in, I might just give in. I don’t think it’ll affect our banter
much, it’ll just mean we can both speak on a similar level, but bringing two
perspectives to everything.
And thank you to everyone who has been reading along. We
will see you again in season 3!
