More unsullied reactions.
I can’t remember the sequence of events at the battle, I remember there was a big fire and Ygritte gets killed, but that’s about all.
I wish they’d hurry up and get Sam back to the wall, his arc is pointless.
Ok, that was really hard to watch.
So I’m guessing Talissa was not a spy. I was kind of disappointed she wasn’t. Also, her death was brutal.
Yeah, it’s hard to tell whether the changes made the scene more brutal or less brutal.
Catelyn doesn’t kill an innocent harmless retarded boy, but she does kill Frey’s innocent young wife.
Catelyn doesn’t shred her own face with her nails, but Talissa gets brutally shanked in the pregnancy. (I was half-expecting to see a tiny baby hand sticking through the bloody gash.)
No killing of brave and graceful Dacey Mormont just as she’s trying to get a guy to dance with her.
Grey Wind’s killers are safely outside the cage.
Also it isn’t too clear in the show that most of Robb’s men are too drunk to put up a fight.
I’m curious how they’re eventually going to introduce the Martells.
I think Talissa was set up for those of us who had read the books. She was an unknown factor for us, which was sort of nice.
I both liked and hated how they put Arya in a position to watch Grey Wind die. It was painful to watch, but it seems like they might be setting it up to begin having her wolf dreams, which they have ignored. They seemed to focus on Grey Wind’s eyes as he died, perhaps only to show his life fade, but I’m hoping it’s more to open Arya’s eyes to her Warg abilities. I hope they’ll start the next episode with Nymeria’s pack and the Brotherhood coming on Cat’s body as seen through Arya in a dream, then bookend the episode with Lady Stoneheart appearing. They could do a cliched Arya jolting out of the dream sort of thing, but twist it at the end and have Lady Stoneheart do the same thing as she takes her first breath. Then cut to black.
When does Tyrion off Tywin and make his escape? Is that the same night as Joffrey’s wedding?
No it’s after Tyrion’s trial
Dammit, I keep coming into this thread and reading spoilery things and then getting mad at myself for spoiling it for me. The Red Wedding and Ygritte’s eventual death* were the only spoilers left in my head. So I saw mention of Lady Stoneheart and what do I do? Go to wiki and look it up. I should just go ahead and read the damn books.
*actually, this was spoiled for me on another site where I was looking at “You know nothing Jon Snow” memes and someone actually had a pic of the part of the books where she says this and promptly dies. So that one was an accidental spoilering.
I don’t get why they did the Jeyne to Talisa change if they WEREN’T gonna have her be a spy too. My theory is that she WAS a spy, but getting pregnant wasn’t part of the plan and Ned Jr needed to be disposed of.
I think it was simply removing more background characters, if she was a Westerling you’d need a whole Westerling cast and to follow up on their story afterwards.
I wished they would have kept the plot device of the band being sort of awful for the entire reception leading up to the reveal that they’re actually bowmen fudging their way through the music. I think that would have worked nicely on TV. Playing “Rains” was good too, just not what I would have chosen.
I also found the reception hall too small and sparsely populated. Could they not get the actor who played Greatjon in season one?
Finally, I was disappointed that they skipped the flaming collapsible army tent for the northmen outside. Instead we got a single picnic table of drunken northmen getting knifed.
I did like it overall, and I was pleased with the small change of Arya not getting magically KO’d with the flat of a axe (and not crack her skull). That was such a weak cliffhanger - better to just have her KO’d.
Based on the preview for next week, which spoiled my hope for how it will start:
It looks like they’ye probably starting with the carnage outside. They show Arya already awake and watching everything burn and there’s a scene where she and The Hound race through it on a horse. There’s also a shot of Hodor about to shout down the well (yay) and a shot of Sam with Pyp (…?..).
Damn, I’m feeling stupid now, I must’ve read ASoS at least four times over years, but I never made connection between the musicians being bowmen and the music being awful until now. :smack:
They played the Rains of Castamere in the book.
It’s possible. She may still have been a spy - under duress due to threats against her family, or willingly - but got knocked up, and Tywin then wanted to make sure there’d be no heir of the Young Wolf. Perhaps she hadn’t sent any reports in awhile, and Tywin realized he’d lost his hold over her. She never had a chance, before the bloodbath began, to try to bargain for her safety, but was the first killed. Lannisters always pay their debts.
I don’t think Talisa was a spy- the writers certainly wanted viewers to suspect she is, but I think that was a red herring. Everything Tywin, Roose, and Walder Frey wanted to accomplish could have happened without a spy in Robb’s camp, much less a spy in his bed.
It’s probably a reference to Lady Stoneheart, since Mysha means mother. I’m thinking the season will end with her reveal.
Well I for one am a bit impressed (and somewhat disappointed in a ghoulish way) by the lack of Unsulllied in the other thread going over the deep end about the Red Wedding. I was sure the thread would be full of rage-quitters.
I was hoping for Joffrey’s wedding as the last episode of the season but it doesn’t look like it from the previews.
It’s the Ghiscari (I think) word for it and exactly what the slaves of Yunkai chant as she goes through the city. Really weird to have that in a separate episode than taking the city, IMO.
Yes, I’m coming around to it being the unCat reveal. I really really hope not. It’s not nearly a long enough time to dwell on the Red Wedding.