The Rains of Castamere (GoT S3E09)

So here we are. The famous red wedding everyone was talking about since the beginning of the show. Even the creators said this is the story they started filming for. Yeah a pretty big shadow to fill ha?
Well if you haven't seen the episode yet, I beg you to go away cause this is probably one of the best TV moments in younger history so I don't to spoil anything for anyone. You are warned.

Like all of the number 9 episodes this one centered around a certain story and characters. This time its the wedding of Robb's uncle Edmure Tully with one of Walder Freys (oh so many names) daughters.
But this time this wasn't all story wise. Little Lord Bran and his gang finally hit the right gear and their story was well played into the one of Jon Snow the ex crow than wildling now again crow. Once again it's the sense of honor that gets my favorite house in danger. The Wildlings wanted Jon to kill an harmless old man because its what they do, even thought the night's watch would probably forgive his crimes in his undercover time, he just couldn't do it. He had to fight his way out of this mess. Gladly enough for him that Bran plus company were sitting in the nearby tower and just discovered his warg powers, by first possessing Hodor (to stop him from hodoring), then shaggy dog and summer to fight the wildlings. Bran saved the day, it seems he is growing up. They now continue their travel beyond the wall with Usher and baby Stark searching safety at another Stark Bannerman.

Speaking of honor, Arya saw herself to be confronted with the hound once more. And she took a good stand when they both showed to know each others fears very well. Slowly I'm starting to get a little concerned about arya's state of mind, she got hard but also very dark. Even though the Hound seems very ruthless he still seems to care for little wolf girls, no dirty thoughts here. So I'm very interested about where this pair will go next. The Dany story was cut very short this week, but the action was nice to look at. Grey Worm, Jorah and Dario infiltrated the city through a backdoor but were surrounded by enemies. Really it didn't look good for them but somehow they made it and took the city. At least thats the next cut we see. This could have handled better but let's wait for next week and complain then.

Now the main story at the Twins. When Robb and his man arrived in Lord Walder's throne room, they were greeted with salt and bread. Which is kind of an big deal in Westeros cause this means you swear to keep you guests away from harm. Well I'm sad to say fair enough here. If it's ok for Robb to break his oath to wed a Frey girl why should he stay true to his words? But maybe Walder's reaction was a bit, let's say over the top. There truly were some comedic reliefs and till the end as a not book reader I didn't saw it coming. In the same moment Kat started to realize, I did. But it seemed nobody else recognized the official Lannister theme song played by the freaking wedding band. Everything moved damn fast from now on. Arrows raining on the wedding guests, Robb's pregnant wife was stabbed in the belly, Robb was killed by Lord Bolton, who admitted the cooperation with the Lannister. Kat took Walder's wife hostage but slit her throat after everything was lost only to get the same treatment and falling to the ground.

I'm still not sure how to feel about all this, even after a whole day to think about. Even thought I'm shocked I have to say this was one badass episode. I still has the Rains of Castamere stuck in my head. Game of Throne proofs once again to be one of the best show on the air.         

Second Sons (GoT S3E08)

First off I won't ever talk about the differences of the show and the books, ever. This has a simple reason, I don't know the books and even if I would there is now way to film this show exactly after them, so just no. My addiction to Game of Thrones started quite late, a few weeks before the second season began to air. To be honest I struggled through the first two or three episodes because there were so many names, history, relations and story. But after the rough start I started to really enjoy the show and I'm hooked ever since. So now to the Episode at hand: Second Sons.


As I mentioned in my earlier entry, this episode was f-ing awesome (yeah I bought that line for 99 cents). So what happened? Long story short: Tyrion got married, the Khaleesi got some Second Sons and Gendry got sucked.





Let's start with the women with oh so many names, Daenerys. Last week the city of Yunkai told the mother of Dragon's some stories about powerful friends and this week those friends arrived as an group of sale swords: the Second Sons (episodes title duh). Even with bigger numbers Daenerys Stormborn tries to convince the Second Sons to fight for the (her) winning team. And she really tried, even for me, in front of my television, it was hard not to get upset about the way the first commander talked to her. Yeah i forgot to mention that the Second Sons arrived with their 3 (2 + one Lieutenant or something like that) commanders to talk with the last Targaryen. As so often in Game of Thrones men, especially not highborn men, show upfront what they think of women. In this case the main commander, which didn't seem to take any seriousness out of Daeny's (thats what i call her) words. The second commander wasn't quite as let's call it "entertaining", as his boss and stayed more in the background. And then there was the other guy which just seems to be different than his more animalistic counterparts, I don't know, I just knew he will becoming more important later, btw his name is Daario. In the end the first meeting wasn't as successful as the women that freed the unsullied had hoped as she told her protectors to kill the rude mouthed commander first.


Back in the camp of the Second Sons, the commanders gave the "fun" girl of the pervy commander 3 coins to determine which one of them had to kill my beloved Deany. Right, Daario got the killing coin, a few moments ago he told us he would fight for beauty and the thrill and now this! The whole coins stuff just looked not so random to me as it probably should have but I can life with that, after all this is Game of Thrones.


And the next thing we see is an ,oh so naked, Deany in the bathtub getting taught how to speak proper Dothraki by her new bff/ ex-slave translator. Of course then Daario appeared, but what kind of gentlemen would he be if he didn't brought some sort of present for our dear Deany? And a present it was, when she stood up from the bathtub, of course I mean when Daario threw the heads of the other commander right in front of her feet. So yeah to sum it up it seems like Deany is now also the leader of the second sons.


Speaking of nudity, the red priestess arrived back at Stannis's castle (I can't recall the name so google it) with her new found king blooded sacrifice Genry. Ok at this point I have to say for me there are almost no characters in GoT that i would call pure evil but for an few exceptions. And in my book every lady that gives birth to some kind of shadow assassin because it's the will of some god of light is such an exception. So I knew this isn't going to end well for poor Genry but he really made it all way to easy for this red haired extremist. All it took was some wine and taking off clothes and he was sold, till she tied him to the bed and placed some leeches on his ,yeah you know where.


Then it got crowded in the bedroom when Stannis and the newly freed Davos entered. Stannis then took the leeches and threw them into the fire while saying 3 names: Joffrey Baratheon (hell yeah), Balon Greyjoy (yeah why not) and Robb Stark (say what?). Ok I see that Robb is an enemy of the crown but he only wants payback for his father's death, which only happened because good old Ned saw Stannis as rightful king in the first place. So yeah this better isn't some killing curse then.

Before I forget, there were two small other things that happened. Really really small ones so here the quick sum up: The Hound is taking Arya to her mother and brother to her uncle's wedding. Sam killed an WhiteWalker with the dragonglass dagger but then let the dagger laying on the ground and ran away. Sam really not the brightest mind there is, now is he?

And finally there was the wedding in King's Landing, which was just completely amazing. 

It started of with soon to be sisters in law Cersei and Margaery, this was my personal best scene of the week. When Cersei told Margaery about the Rains of Castamere, while the whole time threatening her implicitly only to then tell her the best line of this episode: "If you ever call me sister again I will have you strangled in you sleep". It gave me the chills to hear the score of the song in the background and how well this scene was played from Cersei's actor, she definitely lost some nerves in sight of her second loveless marriage. This also came to the surface when she cut Loras down with nothing more than: "Nobody cares what your father told you". 

Then there was Joffrey, well Joffrey, what should I say? Else then I didn't thought it would be possible to hate him even more? Well it is! I really respect Joffrey's actor cause in this episode his every move enraged me, it's almost sad that whatever this talented kid plans to do after Game of Thrones he will always be THE BAD GUY for me. His entree this week was kind surprising when he stood beside lady Sansa, giving her away to Tyrion, you know cause he is father of the realm and beheaded her dad and stuff like that. If that wasn't enough he took the small ladder from the altar which would have been very useful for Tyrion cause you know he is an imp. But the one thing where I was screaming in rage at this little brat on my Television was when he told Sansa that he would come to her chambers later to "help" getting a Lannister baby in her and that it doesn't matter if she would like that, his guards would held her down. WTF, I mean come on, how cruel can this kid be? When he then tried to embarrass his uncle Tyrion even more, Tyrion lost it. He threatened the king in front of the the whole wedding. 

After realizing what he just did, Tyrion played even more drunk than he really was and walked his new bride into their chambers. Poor little, or in some cases way too tall, Sansa then started to undressing seemingly ready to fulfill her duty's but was stopped from her new husband. He told the 14 year old girl to only lay with her when she wants him to. So probably never but this should at least make her see some of the much much good that is in Tyrion, she really could have it worse. Also the fact he didn't touched the girl made Shea a little happy I think. 

An all amazing Episode of Game of Thrones, it wan't the most action or the biggest talks but it was the start of the wedding season. With no Jon Snow or Jaime this week but with a great score and more concentrated on few story lines. I'm so pumped up for the next episode that it really hurts to wait 2 weeks for it. This better be good!