A Bear There Was! A Bear! A Bear!

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-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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Jaime/Brienne, the het ship so awesome even slash and femslash only fans ship it!

TRUTH!