A Bear There Was! A Bear! A Bear!

[netgirl_y2k]

-Jaime and Brienne continue to make me happy in my heart. Like Dany's destruction of Astapor, the bear pit was another scene that was exactly as awesome as I needed it to be.

-The Theon stuff was already edging dangerously close to torture porn, and this. Yeah. No.

Partially unrelated, but while ship and let ship is of course the platonic ideal, ever since Iwan Rheon appeared on our screens my scrolling finger has been getting a lot of exercise scrolling past Ramsey/Theon on AO3 and the kinkmeme.

-Dany! I would crawl over broken glass on my belly for Dany, but fucking hell, she's scary. Also, while the sacking of slavers bay is her best plot, and it's an interesting character note that while she loved Drogo and embraced being a khaleesi, being sold to him really seems to have affected her. But she spend the entirety of last year demanding/begging for ships to go home, so part of me was going: Take the ships the nice slaver is offering you, go to Westeros, and we can get this plot going.

-The Sansa & Margaery scene was a thing of beauty to behold. Shipping it like its my job, to be honest. The rose, the pretty girls comment... thank you, show.

I have been following a discussion in fandom about how manipulative and fucked up Sansa/Margaery is or isn't as a ship. And at the moment I think it's three parts I care for you and genuinely don't want you to be sad, to six parts Hmm, the future lady of Casterly Rock and Winterfell will be a useful friend and ally to have, to one part If you think a secret lesbian affair might help you deal with your unhappy marriage, call me.

I did like the canon acknowledgement that Peter Dinklage is much easier on the eye than book!Tyrion. Though, when Maragery said her son would be king, and sons learn from their mothers... that sound you could hear in the background, that was Cersei Lannister laughing bitterly.

-Speaking of everyone's least favourite psychotic boy king, his attempts to intimidate his grandfather were laughable, and how easily Tywin brushed it off was pretty funny. The weird thing is, though, that Joffrey - and I can't believe I'm saying this - was correct in everything he said, he should be in small council meetings, even if he has to be dragged there by the ear, Dany is a threat that should be taken seriously.

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[karatam]

Margaery and Sansa just knocked it out of the park. Natalie Dormer's face when she was looking at Sophie Turner's just heartbreaking expression was amazing.

Also, "Pretty girls" WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING, MARGAERY, AND WE WOULD PREFER IF YOU DID THAT RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY.

I couldn't stop giggling through Dany's scenes, because holy shit she's scary but also so hilarious. I also love how tiny Emilia Clarke is, because it makes the fact that everyone is terrified of her just that much better. Also, yay! All the dragons were there!

How is Joffrey the only person in Westeros who takes the threat of Dany seriously? Which means that no one will ever take the threat of Dany seriously until she burns down half of the country upon her arrival.

[likeadeuce]

It is kind of weird that they went from 'Robert wants to have Dany murdered' to 'I guess she's over there, NBD.' I feel like in the books this is lampshaded as Cersei being shortsighted, but I don't know that there's ever a good explanation for why Tywin isn't more concerned.

[netgirl_y2k]

Remember a few weeks ago when Tywin was berating the three finest spymasters in the realm for being unable to find Jaime? He perhaps should have been less surprised seeing as they also haven't noticed that not only are Dany's dragons the real deal, but she now has an army and has conquered most of an archipelago.

[netgirl_y2k]

EXT. WESTEROS

EVERYBODY: Well, what dragons?

(wall to wall fire and blood, everyone dies)

EVERYBODY: Oh... those dragons...'kay

Also, no one will ever convince me that when Margaery was talking about women being hard to satisfy, that she hasn't been on both sides of that equation.