Newstar
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Yes! That was classic.
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Aidan Gillen's hilarious faces were the best part of the episode for me, although I did love Sweetrobin throwing the bird out the Moon Door, and Sansa's disturbed expression after he did it.
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I personally don't mind the Jon Arryn reveal coming this early. I hated that exposition dump in the books prior to the murder attempt: cheesy villain(ess) monologuing, very clumsy writing. This breaks it up a little. It's still clumsy, but it won't break up the tension in the scene where Lysa is trying to kill Sansa with a bunch of expository villainess monologuing explaining in great detail exactly what Lysa's deal is. Likewise for the scene with Sansa in this episode where Lysa shows her crazy, jealous side early on.
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Jojen's bit of dialogue with Bran also reeked of potential book spoilers: Jojen: We're only here to guide you. He's waiting for you. We have to find it. You have to make it. Bran: We will. Jojen (to Bran): This...this isn't the end. Not for you. Not yet. Meera: How...will we know the end? Jojen (looks at his hand, which is burning): You'll know. It almost seems like the show is implying that Bran and/or Meera die by burning, but I doubt the show would be that on the nose.
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Did he toss it out the Moon Door in front of the person who had given him the gift because he's just that thoughtless and spoiled, or because he's genuinely disturbed? Hard to tell.
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I did like the touch of Sweetrobin merrily accepting his gift and then just as merrily tossing it out the Moon Door. It was an elegant way of showing how thoughtless and spoiled he is. Also liked the mention of the chaos in Yunkai and Astapor, and of Cleon.
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Oh, crap, it just occurred to me that with the wedding left out, there was no rape attempt on Sansa from a "Marillion"-like character. That could happen later, though, I guess. Aidan Gillen's nauseated "Do Not Want" faces while Lysa was all up in his business were pretty hilarious.
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Bit of a sop to the TV viewership, who would probably interpret "maiden" to mean "young woman" as opposed to "virgin." Margaery and Cersei looked so pretty in that scene! They always look pretty, obvs, but something about the lighting made them look radiant. Oh, also, Dany's decision to stay in Meereen officially exhausts her ASOS storyline, with the exception of Jorah's banishment.
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Yup. We really need to start a thread for the show spoiling the books, because this shit is getting out of control...in the best possible way as far as I'm concerned, but still. ...Also, maybe I'm desensitized, but what was the super-gory, disturbing death this episode the Director of Photography said they had to keep toning down? Locke's?
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He already looks like he's at death's door. I was sort of watching the episode intermittently, and when I checked back, Jojen's hand was on fire! What gives? Eh, I can't complain when they're throwing dual-wielding sword fights at us.
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Who's to say his, er, little finger had anything to do with it? The problem with Lysa's cray being fully on display in this episode is that it will come as a shock to precisely no one when she tries to kill Sansa a few episodes down the road. A nice detail I liked, sort of retroactively: when Brienne and Pod rode off in 4x04, you could see Brienne riding well and Pod weaving all over the place, to the point where I wondered "Why is Pod riding so badly? It's so distracting." That tied in nicely with Pod's terrible riding in this episode.
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Bryan Cogman-written trial episode next week, GET HYPE. In other news, Sansa's STILL wearing her wedding ring? The fuck?
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Fire cannot kill a Jojen.
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LOL at Isaac Hempstead-Wright's long-ass legs.
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Sand Snakes in show canon yessssssss. Man, this episode looks GORGEOUS.
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Yasssssss the Hound calling bullshit on Syrio Forel being dead! THANK YOU, SHOW.
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Yasssss crazy Lysa!
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Man, I've missed Lysa's crazy ass. And her wig game is on point (that's what auburn is supposed to look like, geez).
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It JUST occurred to me that Joffrey threatened to give Tommen the Scott Tenorman treatment.
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BURN!
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The closeup shot of Pod smiling excitedly at the idea of going off with Brienne on her quest made me unexpectedly emotional, knowing how Pod ended up at the end of AFFC (although I think--hope?--that he's still alive).
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That is how I choose to interpret that and I refuse to believe anything to the contrary. Sansa icing Littlefinger: get hype!
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Honestly, all I could think was "reverse Loki."
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The hell?
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Yup. You know what this show doesn't need? More gratuitous rape and sexual abuse scenes.
