Winter is Extremely Very Coming
May. 26th, 2011 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
netgirl_y2kI have now watched episodes six and seven of Game of Thrones, a fact that I'm sure will come back to bite me when Monday rolls round and I don't have a new episode to watch. Spoilers for both episodes, obviously, as well as most likely for the books, because by this point I honestly can't remember what's just the show, what's the books and what only happened in my head. I must be overdue for a re-read.
-"Sometimes ownership is... an abstract concept." I adored everything about Tyrion blagging his way out the Eyrie. I'm loving this show, but sometimes I do think it could do with a touch more levity. So, well done there, show. I think the Eyrie might be my favourite set yet, especially the sky cells. I remember being terrified by them in the books, because how long could you really stay in one of them before going completely doolally and/or flinging yourself over the edge.
-Needed more Cat, though.
-Meanwhile, across the narrow sea, Dany is eating a heart. Dude, I've heart about pregnant woman having cravings but... Oh, I see, it's a test. I'd so fail that.
-"There is only one God, and he is Death. And to Death we say only one thing: Not today."
Arya is back! My favourite little cold blooded killer in training! I adore all her scenes, but especially the ones with Syrio. I read that Maisie Williams is naturally right handed, but learned all her swordy stuff with her left because that's how it is in the books. God, how depressing is it when people are much cooler than you will ever be by the age of about twelve.
-Sansa. Oh, Sansa. I adore Sansa, but sometimes I do want to bang her head against a brick wall until she learns to use some common sense. I have argued - and will still argue - that Sansa's actually quite a bright cookie, that's she's actually one of the more astute of the Starks, it's just that she's painfully naive and has been brought up in such a way that has in no way prepared her for the people she later finds herself surrounded by. But buying into Joffrey's apology so quickly, that's willful stupidity if I ever I saw it.
I'm slightly more forgiving of book!Sansa, who didn't see through Joffrey until after the events of of the first book, but for show!Sansa it was a very quick 180.
Although, "I don't want someone brave and noble and kind, I want Joffrey," was a great comic moment, especially with the identical look of exasperation Ned and Arya shared.
-Shut up, Theon!
-Much like I've appreciated the show adding layers to Cersei, I've enjoyed the way Viserys has come across as desperate and pathetic, in addition to being cruel and sadistic. I think both Lena Headey and Harry Lloyd have done terrific jobs with characters that could easily have been very one-note. How painfully young he seemed when he thought he was going to get his crown and when he was asking Dany to save him were what stopped me cheering at his death.
Speaking of, the utterly cold look on Dany's face. Guess the Targaryen crazy gene didn't entirely skip her after all.
Oh! I also liked the way Dany's servant? handmaiden? sex slave? tried to step between her and Viserys and Dany wouldn't let her. Yup, still shipping it.
-And in a fit of hypocrisy, because I don't always like one-note villains being given more screentime/motivations: Shut up, Theon!
-I liked Renly's rant at Robert out in the woods, I like that we're getting to see more of Renly, because in the books I was prone to forgetting that he existed. He got a bit lost in the sea of people who wanted to be king. But I really quite like him here. The kicker with Renly is, that he would make a better king than Robert (Who wouldn't?) and in another time he might have made a great king, just not in this time where there are Starks and Lannisters at each other's throats, White Walkers and the Oncoming Daenerys Targaryen.
-You know who else would have made a good king? Ned Stark. Well, no he wouldn't, he'd have bankrupted the country in a fit of nobility, but when he was giving Beric Dondarrion his orders, I had chills.
-Hey! Jaime's dad is Lord Vetinari! I'm sorry, that's who Charles Dance will always be to me now. Although, could anyone else have lived without Lord Vetinari gutting that deer throughout the entirety of that scene?
-"You address your betters by their proper titles."
"And what's that?"
"Lord."
"Why?"
Okay, it turns out I'm fine with Theon having scenes as long as they involve him getting verbally smacked around by random women in chains. Also, the elderly. Every day is abuse Theon day!
-Is it just me or was it much more explicit in the books that Cersei had set up Robert's "accident"? Because here it seemed like Robert was already gone before Cersei knew that Ned had discovered her secret, so she had no reason to off Robert, at least no reason that she hasn't had for the last seventeen years.
-Robert's deathbed confession that he should have spent more time with Joffrey teaching him how to be adrunken letch man. Ah, well. Too late now, the kid's already a little psychopath.
-"Do you take me for a servant?" Jon is, like Sansa, a character who I adore, but who I really think would benefit from a skull meets brick wall incident. I mean, I get that his life's been far from ideal, but in a world that seems designed to be relentlessly cruel to bastards, it's been comparatively charmed, even compared to most of his brothers in the Nights Watch. Even the legitimate former heir to House Tarly seems to have had it tougher, speaking of I'm really loving Jon's friendship with Sam, I think the companionship of someone who doesn't take life so relentlessly seriously could do Jon the world of good. And I like the touch of levity Sam brings, I loved his observation that while there's not much honour in being a steward, there is food.
-I take back everything I've said about Aidan Gillen being miscast as Littlefinger, he was utterly perfect in this.
-"I did warn you not to trust me." And this was about the point where I started regretting cheating and watching this early. Is it time for episode eight yet? No? Woe, tragedy, insufficient cupcakes etc.
And getting my happy thing for Thursday in as well, Vote Dachshunds! For truly adorable world domination.
-"Sometimes ownership is... an abstract concept." I adored everything about Tyrion blagging his way out the Eyrie. I'm loving this show, but sometimes I do think it could do with a touch more levity. So, well done there, show. I think the Eyrie might be my favourite set yet, especially the sky cells. I remember being terrified by them in the books, because how long could you really stay in one of them before going completely doolally and/or flinging yourself over the edge.
-Needed more Cat, though.
-Meanwhile, across the narrow sea, Dany is eating a heart. Dude, I've heart about pregnant woman having cravings but... Oh, I see, it's a test. I'd so fail that.
-"There is only one God, and he is Death. And to Death we say only one thing: Not today."
Arya is back! My favourite little cold blooded killer in training! I adore all her scenes, but especially the ones with Syrio. I read that Maisie Williams is naturally right handed, but learned all her swordy stuff with her left because that's how it is in the books. God, how depressing is it when people are much cooler than you will ever be by the age of about twelve.
-Sansa. Oh, Sansa. I adore Sansa, but sometimes I do want to bang her head against a brick wall until she learns to use some common sense. I have argued - and will still argue - that Sansa's actually quite a bright cookie, that's she's actually one of the more astute of the Starks, it's just that she's painfully naive and has been brought up in such a way that has in no way prepared her for the people she later finds herself surrounded by. But buying into Joffrey's apology so quickly, that's willful stupidity if I ever I saw it.
I'm slightly more forgiving of book!Sansa, who didn't see through Joffrey until after the events of of the first book, but for show!Sansa it was a very quick 180.
Although, "I don't want someone brave and noble and kind, I want Joffrey," was a great comic moment, especially with the identical look of exasperation Ned and Arya shared.
-Shut up, Theon!
-Much like I've appreciated the show adding layers to Cersei, I've enjoyed the way Viserys has come across as desperate and pathetic, in addition to being cruel and sadistic. I think both Lena Headey and Harry Lloyd have done terrific jobs with characters that could easily have been very one-note. How painfully young he seemed when he thought he was going to get his crown and when he was asking Dany to save him were what stopped me cheering at his death.
Speaking of, the utterly cold look on Dany's face. Guess the Targaryen crazy gene didn't entirely skip her after all.
Oh! I also liked the way Dany's servant? handmaiden? sex slave? tried to step between her and Viserys and Dany wouldn't let her. Yup, still shipping it.
-And in a fit of hypocrisy, because I don't always like one-note villains being given more screentime/motivations: Shut up, Theon!
-I liked Renly's rant at Robert out in the woods, I like that we're getting to see more of Renly, because in the books I was prone to forgetting that he existed. He got a bit lost in the sea of people who wanted to be king. But I really quite like him here. The kicker with Renly is, that he would make a better king than Robert (Who wouldn't?) and in another time he might have made a great king, just not in this time where there are Starks and Lannisters at each other's throats, White Walkers and the Oncoming Daenerys Targaryen.
-You know who else would have made a good king? Ned Stark. Well, no he wouldn't, he'd have bankrupted the country in a fit of nobility, but when he was giving Beric Dondarrion his orders, I had chills.
-Hey! Jaime's dad is Lord Vetinari! I'm sorry, that's who Charles Dance will always be to me now. Although, could anyone else have lived without Lord Vetinari gutting that deer throughout the entirety of that scene?
-"You address your betters by their proper titles."
"And what's that?"
"Lord."
"Why?"
Okay, it turns out I'm fine with Theon having scenes as long as they involve him getting verbally smacked around by random women in chains. Also, the elderly. Every day is abuse Theon day!
-Is it just me or was it much more explicit in the books that Cersei had set up Robert's "accident"? Because here it seemed like Robert was already gone before Cersei knew that Ned had discovered her secret, so she had no reason to off Robert, at least no reason that she hasn't had for the last seventeen years.
-Robert's deathbed confession that he should have spent more time with Joffrey teaching him how to be a
-"Do you take me for a servant?" Jon is, like Sansa, a character who I adore, but who I really think would benefit from a skull meets brick wall incident. I mean, I get that his life's been far from ideal, but in a world that seems designed to be relentlessly cruel to bastards, it's been comparatively charmed, even compared to most of his brothers in the Nights Watch. Even the legitimate former heir to House Tarly seems to have had it tougher, speaking of I'm really loving Jon's friendship with Sam, I think the companionship of someone who doesn't take life so relentlessly seriously could do Jon the world of good. And I like the touch of levity Sam brings, I loved his observation that while there's not much honour in being a steward, there is food.
-I take back everything I've said about Aidan Gillen being miscast as Littlefinger, he was utterly perfect in this.
-"I did warn you not to trust me." And this was about the point where I started regretting cheating and watching this early. Is it time for episode eight yet? No? Woe, tragedy, insufficient cupcakes etc.
And getting my happy thing for Thursday in as well, Vote Dachshunds! For truly adorable world domination.
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Date: 2011-05-26 09:00 am (UTC)The Eyrie was really fantastic - I also loved how it turned up in the opening credits (which are amazing anyway, but much love for the Eyrie).
Speaking of, the utterly cold look on Dany's face. Guess the Targaryen crazy gene didn't entirely skip her after all.
Oh, this. I've been fairly ambivalent towards Dany's plotline so far, but that gave me chills.
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Date: 2011-05-26 12:47 pm (UTC)The credits are completely amazing, and the Eyrie, especially the moon door was fantastic. If you lived there you'd always walk round that bit of the floor, wouldn't you?
Yeah, I tend to be fairly indifferent to Dany as her plot takes place too far away from
the Stark womenthings I care more about. But I do love that we're starting to see that she's actually, in her own way, scarier than Viserys.no subject
Date: 2011-05-26 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-27 07:28 am (UTC)I hadn't quite realized the map was on the inside of a hollow globe with the sun/astrolabe in the center, though.
Neither did I!