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Game of Thrones 1.10 Fire and Blood
Hot damn. It's over. Ten entire weeks and now we'll have to wait a whole 'nother year for Clash of Kings Game of Thrones S2 to come out. I think I made a post -- ah yes, it's right here -- with a bouncing-minions macro and "please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck" just before the first ep came out. Now it's over and I can let out the last fraction of my metaphorical breath and say, no, it didn't suck. It quite didn't suck. It was very good. And it was probably the most successful faithful adaptation of book-to-screen that I've seen.
- In general I feel like I don't have as much to say about this one because it seemed like it went faster than other episodes, but that could have just been how many important events happened in it and how it raced through them. Overall it was very faithful to the pacing and emphasis of the ending of A Game of Thrones, I thought, with some changes.
- I think the main change that crossed my mind was putting King in the North earlier and therefore less emphatically in the episode -- I wasn't surprised, given they spoiled it in the previews, but it was the very last scene in the book. However, it was fine, and the addition of Theon's lines was both suitable and cute. They're really going out of their way to make TV!Theon sympathetic, given we won't have his internal monologue to explain his jerkish actions.
- My favorite scene, about which I was delighted and relieved, was Sansa's scene with Joffrey, Sandor, and Meryn Trant. It was straight from the book and it was pitch-perfect, including Sophie Turner's incredible faces -- her moment of considering murdering Joffrey and her grim determination after, and Sandor stepping forward to intercede, just, aaagh. Also, the series in general is doing incredibly well by Sandor, so I'm pleased with that. But I'm so relieved that my girl Sansa's final scene packed such a punch and foreshadowed her coming character arc. In a way A Game of Thrones is more like a prologue to the storyline of A Song of Ice and Fire, and definitely it is in terms of Sansa's story.
- My least favorite was the weird scene with Pycelle and the hooker, which was not so much dreadful as it was bafflingly tertiary. I have no idea why that was in there.
- TV is doing well by Cat and Robb both, I think: her scene with him when he's taking out his griefstricken rage on the tree ( :(((((((((( ) and he tearfully swears he's going to kill them all and she's like, no, we need to get your sisters back -- and then we'll kill them all? Best Cat moment in the season. She loves Robb. Also, her expression when his bannermen declare him King in the North -- pain knowing the risk this puts him at, pride watching him grow up, overwhelmedness about it all, biting it all back with stoicism and composure -- yeah, it's hard not to admire Cat at this point in time.
- In general the Dany storyline's improved leaps and bounds in the past 3-4 episodes, and so has Dany's acting, thank God: I really believed that she loves Drogo and in her devastation at what becomes of him, augh, it was really, really sad. Jorah's shirt keeps inexplicably opening (I don't think anyone is complaining). The pyre-and-dragons scene was awesome, and an awesome finale, and for once I didn't think the nudity of a female character was intended to be objectifying, as she seemed neither alluring nor awkward and ashamed. Daenerys Stormborn. Your enemies will die screaming. Yeah.
- Jaime scene was well-placed and well-handled! Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is great at delivering his lines in the bitterest, most sarcastic and self-hating way, which is good, because I feel like given how much else that's going on in the show a lot of people might not catch the first hints of his true personality unless they gave him ample opportunity to show it. "There is no one like me. There's only me." No, Jaime, there is no one in Westeros quite like you. But probably not the way you mean. I also appreciate a woman getting to punch a man on TV in a non-ridiculous way, as a side note, TV and movies are full of how ladylike women's punches are always going to fall like babies' silly flailing on manly men -- when it's like, no matter what RPG stats would tell you, warrior or not, an adult human being hitting another adult human being will pretty much always hurt. And Catelyn ain't no invalid, as Jaime notes. Why yes, he does like violent women. In a manner of speaking. ♥ ♥ ♥
- Yoren is so endearingly gruff. Arya is cute as a boy, though, I must disagree with her bullies, she does in fact look exactly like a boy. Arya/Gendry is going to be awkward now that they've made Gendry a little older than he was and Arya... not, I must say. Not so much older that I don't feel awkward about my own attraction to Gendry, though. It's not my fault, I'm not to blame.
- I definitely would've chosen to have my fingers cut off, personally, I'm pretty sure the tongue is much harder to fashion a rude replacement for and much more likely to cause me to choke to death on my own blood, but that's, as they say, neither here nor there. Also, I like my tongue! I use it for things. A lot of people would miss it.
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relia and I both wished that Jon had been the one to get smacked with the tree branch. He's being a total dick to his boyfriend Sam at the moment (but when isn't he). Also watching Jon Snow ride into a tree branch would've been inherently funny. Altogether, though, his friends care about him way more than he deserves, and he's damn lucky they do.
- One of the men with Yoren in the wagon had to have been Jaqen H'ghar! I don't think it's much of a spoiler to say that Arya Stark gets all the best mentors.
- It's like Shae's written role in the script and single instruction from the director was "be as inexplicably dislikeable as possible," a choice I really don't understand. Also, there was no Bronn. :( There could've been a bit where Tyrion was like "and you come with me too!" But there wasn't. Always more Bronn.
- Speaking of, Tyrion and Tywin's scene was interesting, fraught, and I think pretty spot-on for Tywin's distinct personality as a horrible, abusive father; he's not every horrible, abusive father, he is exactly the particular man that he is regarding the Lannister family, and has shaped his kids accordingly. But not quite the way he planned. Yes, yes to all of it.
- Fantastic use of the theme in the full ending credits, damn.
- I wonder who'll get first billing in the credits next season?
I think once I get my act together I am going to put together my full thoughts on Season 1 of Game of Thrones, regarding which I was withholding judgment as a work until it was finished: there were a lot of things difficult to rate episode by episode outside of the context of the whole story. Now we have at least the first part of that. The task is a little daunting.
Hunh, it's over.
- In general I feel like I don't have as much to say about this one because it seemed like it went faster than other episodes, but that could have just been how many important events happened in it and how it raced through them. Overall it was very faithful to the pacing and emphasis of the ending of A Game of Thrones, I thought, with some changes.
- I think the main change that crossed my mind was putting King in the North earlier and therefore less emphatically in the episode -- I wasn't surprised, given they spoiled it in the previews, but it was the very last scene in the book. However, it was fine, and the addition of Theon's lines was both suitable and cute. They're really going out of their way to make TV!Theon sympathetic, given we won't have his internal monologue to explain his jerkish actions.
- My favorite scene, about which I was delighted and relieved, was Sansa's scene with Joffrey, Sandor, and Meryn Trant. It was straight from the book and it was pitch-perfect, including Sophie Turner's incredible faces -- her moment of considering murdering Joffrey and her grim determination after, and Sandor stepping forward to intercede, just, aaagh. Also, the series in general is doing incredibly well by Sandor, so I'm pleased with that. But I'm so relieved that my girl Sansa's final scene packed such a punch and foreshadowed her coming character arc. In a way A Game of Thrones is more like a prologue to the storyline of A Song of Ice and Fire, and definitely it is in terms of Sansa's story.
- My least favorite was the weird scene with Pycelle and the hooker, which was not so much dreadful as it was bafflingly tertiary. I have no idea why that was in there.
- TV is doing well by Cat and Robb both, I think: her scene with him when he's taking out his griefstricken rage on the tree ( :(((((((((( ) and he tearfully swears he's going to kill them all and she's like, no, we need to get your sisters back -- and then we'll kill them all? Best Cat moment in the season. She loves Robb. Also, her expression when his bannermen declare him King in the North -- pain knowing the risk this puts him at, pride watching him grow up, overwhelmedness about it all, biting it all back with stoicism and composure -- yeah, it's hard not to admire Cat at this point in time.
- In general the Dany storyline's improved leaps and bounds in the past 3-4 episodes, and so has Dany's acting, thank God: I really believed that she loves Drogo and in her devastation at what becomes of him, augh, it was really, really sad. Jorah's shirt keeps inexplicably opening (I don't think anyone is complaining). The pyre-and-dragons scene was awesome, and an awesome finale, and for once I didn't think the nudity of a female character was intended to be objectifying, as she seemed neither alluring nor awkward and ashamed. Daenerys Stormborn. Your enemies will die screaming. Yeah.
- Jaime scene was well-placed and well-handled! Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is great at delivering his lines in the bitterest, most sarcastic and self-hating way, which is good, because I feel like given how much else that's going on in the show a lot of people might not catch the first hints of his true personality unless they gave him ample opportunity to show it. "There is no one like me. There's only me." No, Jaime, there is no one in Westeros quite like you. But probably not the way you mean. I also appreciate a woman getting to punch a man on TV in a non-ridiculous way, as a side note, TV and movies are full of how ladylike women's punches are always going to fall like babies' silly flailing on manly men -- when it's like, no matter what RPG stats would tell you, warrior or not, an adult human being hitting another adult human being will pretty much always hurt. And Catelyn ain't no invalid, as Jaime notes. Why yes, he does like violent women. In a manner of speaking. ♥ ♥ ♥
- Yoren is so endearingly gruff. Arya is cute as a boy, though, I must disagree with her bullies, she does in fact look exactly like a boy. Arya/Gendry is going to be awkward now that they've made Gendry a little older than he was and Arya... not, I must say. Not so much older that I don't feel awkward about my own attraction to Gendry, though. It's not my fault, I'm not to blame.
- I definitely would've chosen to have my fingers cut off, personally, I'm pretty sure the tongue is much harder to fashion a rude replacement for and much more likely to cause me to choke to death on my own blood, but that's, as they say, neither here nor there. Also, I like my tongue! I use it for things. A lot of people would miss it.
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relia and I both wished that Jon had been the one to get smacked with the tree branch. He's being a total dick to his boyfriend Sam at the moment (but when isn't he). Also watching Jon Snow ride into a tree branch would've been inherently funny. Altogether, though, his friends care about him way more than he deserves, and he's damn lucky they do.- One of the men with Yoren in the wagon had to have been Jaqen H'ghar! I don't think it's much of a spoiler to say that Arya Stark gets all the best mentors.
- It's like Shae's written role in the script and single instruction from the director was "be as inexplicably dislikeable as possible," a choice I really don't understand. Also, there was no Bronn. :( There could've been a bit where Tyrion was like "and you come with me too!" But there wasn't. Always more Bronn.
- Speaking of, Tyrion and Tywin's scene was interesting, fraught, and I think pretty spot-on for Tywin's distinct personality as a horrible, abusive father; he's not every horrible, abusive father, he is exactly the particular man that he is regarding the Lannister family, and has shaped his kids accordingly. But not quite the way he planned. Yes, yes to all of it.
- Fantastic use of the theme in the full ending credits, damn.
- I wonder who'll get first billing in the credits next season?
I think once I get my act together I am going to put together my full thoughts on Season 1 of Game of Thrones, regarding which I was withholding judgment as a work until it was finished: there were a lot of things difficult to rate episode by episode outside of the context of the whole story. Now we have at least the first part of that. The task is a little daunting.
Hunh, it's over.
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OKAY I AM GLAD I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO SAW THIS.
Ahhhhh Jaime Lannister is just kind of, like, the exact character type that makes me wave my hands with emotions. I have pretty much been having the same reaction to him as I did to Roy Mustang in FMA: Brotherhood. "Oh okay you're supposed to be kind of a douchey badass that's fine I guess-- WAIT SHIT NO ALL THE FEELINGS sdijiojshiohs." I GUESS I WILL JUST HAVE TO START READING THE BOOKS NOW TO FILL IN THE NEXT YEAR. *worst fan*
Re: wow i super suck at comments that are interesting sorry
Re: wow i super suck at comments that are interesting sorry