What did Arya give the captain? What was the significance?
Sooo…is Stannis’ new army just awesome, or do the wildlings suck? That was a massacre.
I did not expect it to be Brienne who kicked Hound’s ass. Brutal fight, but staged well.
Meh on the “killed on the crapper” ending for Tywin. Was hoping for something cooler.
So what now? Tommen is king, but he needs a new Hand. Jamie? Loras? Littlefinger?
Arrya is off to become a first level assassin. Normally that requires an evil alignment…hmmmm…
The iron coin J’aquen gave her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBV0uOLx8jM
It was the iron coin she was given by Jaqen Hgkar the faceless man whom she helped escape from the cage and who murdered three people for her. He told her that if she wanted to go to Bravos that she should give the iron coin to any Braavosi captain and say “Valar Morghulis” – everyone must die.
I don’t see how the Hound could possibly survive.
He himself said barring there being a Maester behind the rock he was dead.
I’m wondering about the hint that the Mountain will survive but he’ll be “different”.
Stannis brought fresh, trained, experienced, and equipped mercenaries. The wildlings are just raiders who have brought their entire communities with them, not professional soldiers.
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Besides the giants (and I assume they were off taking shits in the woods or something), I don’t think it was much of an army, but rather a horde of 100,000 men (many of whom were armed), women, and children. A few thousand trained cavalry would make mincemeat of even a huge unorganized rabble.
Agreed. Very cool fight. If the Hound wasn’t already wounded, I think he probably would have won.
I thought it was rather pleasantly anti-climactic.
What did the “previously on” give away? I didn’t feel like it spoiled anything for me.
Unlike CalMeacham’s douchebaggery.
It basically gave away that Stannis was going to show up and save the day.
It also gave away the Jaquen Haddar reference that would come up.
Except I’m always suspicious when someone is “left for dead” instead of actually being killed.
Ya know, if the Hound hadn’t started listing all the tucked up things he did trying to get Aryan to kill him, she might have done it out of mercy. I laughed when he tried to snatched the money bag back. Old habits.
My favourite part was right after Varys put Tyrion on the boat. He turned back to King’s Landing, heard the bells, and his face said, “fuck that shit” and he spun on his heel to get on the boat. You know it’s going to be bad when a guy as savvy as Varys is thinking, “hell no!”
I hope he used a new box for Tyrion. The one the wizard arrived in must have been rank.
I thought the same thing.
She always seemed to waver between thinking he was a good guy who sometimes did bad things and a bad guy who sometimes did good things and I think he convinced her of the latter.
True enough, but surely Mance Rayder would have posted sentries, sent scouting parties to watch his flanks, etc. At least he shouldn’t have been taken completely by surprise like that.
And where are the white walkers? Lots of tasty meat/potential recruits running around.
Shifting gears—forgot to mention the skeleton fight earlier. Really liked it. The skeletons looked good and moved better than I expected. Also liked the tiny magic user’s fire spells. Might have to log on to my WoW Mage and re-spec fire in tribute…
Once again, I think the interesting thing will be to see if the Mountain is still alive and if the other Maester heals him, presumably through something like black magic, how it will make him “different”.
I thought she was throwing something, not outright magic.
In a shocking turn of events from every other season of GoT so far…
…he’ll have a new actor.
Eh. It helped me make the connection, when the obviously well-trained, disciplined troops showed up, that they were Stannis’s. But I didn’t see the bit in the “previously on” about Stannis and immediately think, “Oooh, he’s going to swoop down and stir up shit!” (Which, incidentally, is more what he did than “save the day”.)
I was a bit meh on this episode. It was fine as an episode, but as a season-ender (with the previous episode), it was a bit of a let down. Felt more mid-season than end, despite the significant deaths. I’ve been conditioned for the penultimate episode to be the gutpunch/“holy shit” episode, with the final tying up strings and setting us up for the next season. This time, the penultimate was, “Oh, there was a fight w/ a bunch of people I don’t much care about or really even know,” and the final felt more like a mid-season place-setting episode. YMMV, of course.
Very Ray Harryhausenesqe
There are some who call her…Tim?