The other day I watched a couple of episodes of GOT for the first time. I had no idea what was going on, since apparently this show has been running for a few years, and it has very long story arcs, but I was pretty impressed. I liked it a lot.
And I was very pleasantly surprised to see one of my favorite actresses, Sibel Kekilli, in what I think is a pretty prominent role. She’s the girlfriend (“mistress” might be a better word) of the character played by Peter Dinklage (Tyrion?).
I have a vague memory of posting about her a few years ago in a thread about beautiful but unknown (to Americans) actresses. She’s still astoundingly beautiful. Looks like she’s had a nose job, though, and I can’t figure out why she would do that. She had an incredibly beautiful face (still does, but not quite the same face).
He did assert his shit back at Castle Black and told the maester recognize, bitch! In his own way.
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I was also under the impression that Shadowbaby was made from, ahem, other bodily fluids from Stannis in S2. But maybe Shadowbabies made from that method don’t have enough range or something.
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Milesandre said that Stannis was no longer powerful enough to make another shadowbaby.
Really they have to be careful with the whole magic blood shit. Otherwise it will turn into a giant deux ex vaginia.
It was especially funny because Joffrey is railing about how his father was out conqueroring (sp?) and everyone at that table knows that Robert wasn’t his actual father.
Also, the one time I felt bad for Joffrey was when he talks to his father on his deathbed. Joffrey looked devastated.
I think “concubine” is more apt given the power & status differential between them. Even though they technically mean the same thing “mistress” makes it sound like he has her set up in a house somewhere when she’s literally working as a maid.
Not to mention that Robert became king by leading a successful rebellion *against a king *who took his subjects’ obedience for granted and also though everyone was his to torment. Clearly modern history wasn’t Joffrey’s best subject.
Good episode, all in all. I liked Roose’s and Walder’s chat in the great hall of the Twins as the blood was mopped up, and Tyrion’s and Tywin’s chilly discussion about duty to family. I’m digging the dynamic between the Hound and Arya; he’s only mildly annoyed that she took his knife and didn’t tell him what she had in mind with the four Frey mooks; he really seems to admire her for her guts. Good to have the Bolton bastard finally identified. A very nice scene with Varys urging Shae to leave, too.
A whole 'nother season behind us, though, and still no big, LOTR-scale, army-against-army battle scene. You’d think they could afford the CGI for what’s supposed to be a continent-wide war, after all.
Heh. “Murder genie.”
Clearly he hasn’t seen many Mafia movies, or Westerns.
Yes, he and Brienne are just about the only two (almost) unreservedly “good” characters of the whole epic. I love Davos.
I missed that. Good catch.
Exactly. That is one conflicted hawt ginger Wildling.
Exactly. I thought Stannis was gonna have whiplash from how quickly she was shifting his geopolitical focus.
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A whole 'nother season behind us, though, and still no big, LOTR-scale, army-against-army battle scene. You’d think they could afford the CGI for what’s supposed to be a continent-wide war, after all.
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Personally, I don’t particularly mind the lack of Giant Setpiece Battles. Character development, plotting, and even individual fights that I can actually follow the action in are more interesting to me. But that aside, I think the war is in a bit of a “sitzkrieg” phase right now anyway; there are no giant battles on screen because there are no giant battles taking place in Westeros.
Jojen Reed: Sorry, we’re headed to the place we’ve been plodding towards all through Season 3, an actual plotline in Season 4.
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and…
Gendry: Um, I’m a virgin, who just a season ago, was being sent to a celibate order of guards and then Red comes at me totally NSFW. Any man with a penis would be helpless to resist.
I’ve read all of the ‘things that will not be mentioned’. But I’ll be damned if I remember much of anything about the series beyond the show timeline. Most of my mental space is reserved for my coursework, and I remember SFA (sweet fuck all) beyond the current TV series. It’s kind of thrilling to have that memory block, and to be a reader and watcher at the same time. I’m lovin’ it.
*and there really is no spoiler here. I couldn’t tell you Davos’ disposition if my life depended on it. Too long, too many courses, and too many beers ago…