So The Mountain is John Wesley Hardin? (Hound said his brother once killed a man for snoring.)
Joffrey is such a little shit. I hope he gets fed to a dragon or something, soon.
Sam is a dimwit. Left behind his Dagger +1/+3 vs Undead.
Loved the heads in a sack followed by naked Dany. Guess her new boyfriend has a Vorpal Sword.
Very gentlemanly of The Imp to not boink Sansa. Thinking maybe it was a mistake not to put some blood on the sheets, though. Someone may notice and get him in trouble with Daddy Warbucks.
I’m wondering if Tywin will make Joffrey’s threat a reality if Tyrion refuses to bed her. Joffrey’s reasoning would be sound to Tywin that the only real requirement for Sansa is that she have a Lannister baby.
Tyrion is smart enough to know he’s going to have to at least appear to be trying to impregnate Sansa. Almost surprised he did not smear blood on the sheets…and he should probably explain the situation to Sansa as well. Maybe jump on the bed and have her make moaning sounds so the guards outside can chuckle…and report back to the various spymasters that they heard sounds of sexing.
I’m thinking the sacrificial leeches don’t result in overnight death for the named victims. Melisandre had to do the nasty with a Baratheon and give birth to produce a single one-off demon assassin. Why do that when you could just get a bucket of leeches and kill off a hundred of your enemies?
Maybe the leeches are some sort of curse. The named targets won’t die immediately, but are magically doomed to an unpleasant fate by unknown means at some future time. Unless they have some sort of magical protection, or make a saving throw against death magic, or something.
The name Geoffrey is pronounced Jeffrey, and my assumption is that George RR Martin decided to use the name Joffrey as a joke on people who phonetically mispronounce the name Geoffrey.
I share your outrage. It’s not even an important holiday. I mean, why would anyone want to memorialize the soldiers who died liberating countries no one cares about, like France?
They aired Blackwater last year on Memorial Day weekend and the ratings took a huge dive because people were out partying instead of staying home and watching TV because they had Monday off.
My husband pointed out that it was weird that Joffrey referred to himself as a Lannister rather than a Baratheon since he doesn’t know Jaime is his father (at least I don’t think he does).
That ship sailed a long time ago. Now, Memorial Day is really more like “Yay for Summer Day”, with cookouts, ball games, fireworks, and various social events. You might see a somber story in the paper, maybe a short blurb on the news, or a “Moment of Silence” during a ball game, and one of your friends will probably link some version of “God Bless the USA” on their facebook page (I’ll probably do that), but that’s about it.
Tywin made Tyrion acting Hand. He also names him master of coin, the second most powerful post in the Kingdom and a very important on. He gets him married off to Sansa and gives him a claim to the North. Lord Tywin has displayed throughout the series that his likes and dislikes of his children do not blind him to their abilities.
When the leech-burning scene cut immediately to the scene of Joffrey at the wedding. I was expecting him to start choking on a grape or generally wince in pain, or something. Guess it’s not a fast-acting curse.
Hey, I think I’m pretty up to speed with the magic/supernatural elements of this show except the White Walkers. What’s up with them- I thought they just had to touch humans to turn them into zombies. But Sam wasn’t zombified when he was thrown by the Walker. Is there more to it, maybe it has to be direct contact, and Sam was pretty covered up. Maybe the human actually has to be killed. And a zombified human has bright blue eyes like a White Walker- will it eventually mummify and turn into a WW? Or are the WWs a completely different animal? They look like mummified humans, only taller maybe- the one that Sam took out looked about 7 feet tall.
Dumbass leaves the magic zombie killing dagger behind and he no longer as a sword to deal with regular threats.
Another sex scene where the girl got naked and the guy kept his pants on. :mad: This is getting really annoying. It’s not like Joe Dempsie is a stranger to nudity.
Neither Balon or Robb is vying for the Iron Throne. Both seceded from the Seven Kingdoms and established their own countries (the Kingdom of the Iron Islands and the Kingdom of the North respectively). Only Joffrey, Stannis, and Renly were vying for the Iron Throne itself (well Joffrey already has it, he’s fighting to keep it).
I loved her trying to make sense of what their family tree will look like. But didn’t her and Tywin agree last episode that Loras will join the Kingsguard instead of marrying Cersei?
Didn’t I, Claudius have a similar scene?
Sansa’s never been in much of a hurry to get her clothes off.
I guess Westeros doesn’t have the custom of displaying the nuptial sheets as proof of the bride’s virginity. I was half-expecting Shae to bring in a cup of blood or a small animal with breakfast just in case.
It’s troubling to the networks that would prefer them to stay at home watching their programs. Then again this is HBO and they don’t have advertisers to worry about. :dubious:
Right, it’s not illegal it’s just really rare and HBO isn’t going to do it. Especially not as part of a sex scene. Plus I doubt the actress has a nudity clause in her contract. The producers of Rome had to be extremely careful shooting that scene in the brothel were Octavian lost his virginity because Max Pirikis was only 16. IIRC all we saw was the before, when he had a loincloth on, and the after, when he was covered with a sheet.
I’m pretty sure the wightification process is distinct from a mere Walker’s touch : remember, back when Quorin, Jon et al. ambushed Ygritte’s party, she told them to burn the bodies, presumably to prevent them from rising back up. Even though they’d died from natural causes. Well, natural medieval causes anyway :).
I think being turned into a wight might just be a “natural” by-product of dying in the far North now that magic is coming back. Or possibly in an area X miles around a Walker ? Or maybe the Walkers can just cast Raise Dead on any dead body they find, which would make some sense : some of the wights in the big army back in season 2 looked pretty ripe.
Different animal altogether, I think. Though we don’t really know. Old Nan might
