I loved how the Hound didn’t really object to what she did, only that she didn’t warn him.
Theon is going to find it difficult to ‘become excited’ from now on. His dad’s a dick for basically saying Theon can beat it.
I love he let her slip off the horse and let her go do what she felt like she needed to do before coming back to clean up.
I’m looking forward to a million “dick in a box” meme pictures.
Yeah, not much impact for a finale. I wanted a stunning image, like the White Walker or something…to tide us over until next season. Didn’t really get much of anything, other than Arya going stabby. Could really do without the Theon torture porn. Don’t really care about his sister coming to “rescue” him…not much left to rescue, nothing deserving of the effort at this point.
The funniest bit for me was Sam saying to Bran, “I’ll do anything for you,” to which Bran replied, “Take us north of the wall.” You could see Sam wanted to say, “Anything but that.”
Have you seen his wife?
[sub] no, really. She must be lying around there somewhere. [/sub]
There was a line where Sam said to Aemon “you can see…” and the pause was hysterical.
What was the significance, if any, of the coin that Arya had?
Jaqen H’gar (the murder genie) gave it to her last season. I forgot what he told her, but it was something along the lines that if you ever need help give it to someone from Braavos.
Jaqen H’ghar (the assassin) gave the coin to Arya. IIRC, he said she could use it to find him. (That was last season, so I don’t remember.) He is also the one who taught her Valar orghulis (‘All men must die’).
Those are some seriously shitty instructions. What happens then? Does he appear in a puff of smoke? Does someone give her his mailing address?
That was it.
And I left out the ‘m’ in my response.
I thought the best was Tyrion saying something to the effect of “Killed some puppies today?”
Meesa thinks this one good episode!
I thought sending the elder Greyjoy Theon’s prick was ridiculously stupid, in the context of the Westoros society. One of the, if not the most important things a son can do for his family is produce more heirs, preferably male heirs. That’s why Tywin is pressuring Tyrion to screw Sansa, her willing or not. So a son without a cock is not a very useful son. And given that Theon was not raised with his family, it would be logical to assume there is not a LOT of family feeling there. So Theon’s fathers’ response was logical and kinda predictable.
Now, if they had sent Theon’s finger or his ear, Theon remains a valuable playing piece for his father. It raises his value and makes him a more effective blackmail tool. Plus sending a finger raises the possibilty that Theon’s cock might be cut off. Having already cut it off and sent it to his father, Bolton has wasted that threat.
Very, very stupid, strategically speaking, but I guess that’s what happens when you send a psychopath to do a man’s job.
Really liked the episode…but yeah…when it went to the credits I said “Wait-what?”
Now that “no one is safe” I wasn’t expecting Jon to make it away from the pond. And then I was really worried for Gendry.
My dream team of King Stannis- Gendry as heir- Davos as hand seems to have fallen apart.
The Tywin/Tyrion scene and the Stannis/Davos scene were interesting for hitting the same beats. Tywin saw the Stark massacre as more “moral” since it would save thousands and Stannis was still willing to sacrifice Gendry to save thousands.
With the white rat story its safe to say Walder Frey is due for a reckoning. I expected it to come in the next scene, bit it looks like we’ll have to wait.
Seeing Robb’s body with the wolf head actually felt like a gut punch.
I am curious if Arya’s forgiven the Hound or if she’s still on his list. I am also curious what the Hounds wants with her now.
Season 1 & 3, yes, but season 2 ended on the White Walker army marching toward the wall. Turns out it was a very, very, very slow march. Dany’s final scene in the season 2 finale was when her little draglets roasted the sorcerer guy alive. “Undying,” eh? Not quite.
I did like Dany’s new title, though: The “Unburnt.” heh.
I’m rooting for Joffrey in the contest between Joffrey and Tywin, and was hoping Joffrey would have guards come in and chop Tywin’s head off.
Sure, the Lannisters would almost immediately crumble into anarchy and be easy pickings for Stannis, but I have no particular rooting interest in the Lannisters. I just think the most interesting storyline for the Lannisters would be Tywin’s realization that Joffrey is way more psychotic than he ever imagined.
I really liked many of the individual scenes, but as a whole, this felt a little administrative for a finale. Lots of “we need to tie up this section of the plot, and we need to move these chess pieces here for next season, and people will be mad if we don’t check in on this person” kind of stuff.
I did LOVE the scene with Jaime returning to Cersei. It’s a short scene with one word of dialog, but you could sit someone down who knew nothing about GoT to watch it, and they’d understand almost the whole story between the two. Was it just me, or did their final looks communicate that she isn’t as thrilled as she would be to have all of him back?
Arya prison-shanking that Frey was pretty harsh (not that I felt bad for him). It’s not the first person she’s killed, but this time it was less panic and more planning.
To be fair, he did somehow change the entire structure of his face in seconds around that time, so literally thinking he could appear in a puff of smoke wouldn’t be too irrational.
Hey, at least we found out that Sam has more “dragon glass” knives and didn’t just leave an important weapon behind…
I liked the episode - yes, Dany’s scene was tacked-on at the end.
I have NOT read the books or read stuff online, and here’s my conjecture: Dany is being positioned as, hmm…“inevitable”? - as the powerful, magic, charismatic leader destined for the Iron Throne. So that means something will happen next season to throw all that in doubt. Meanwhile, the Starks have been left without leaders, power or hope - which suggests that Sansa will end up rising up as a not-so-innocent political insider getting tips from Tyrion on how to wield influence - and Arya will continue on her road to take-no-prisoners badassery.