Weekend Stuff

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 - Terrible, awful, no good storms Saturday night.  My poor puppy was shivering and trembling the whole time.  Poor baby was terrified.


-  GOT.  Not a lot to say as the episode was one big battle.  But THERE WAS A MAMMOTH!  (I don't know why I was always insistent that they use them.  But I wanted one on screen.  Mammoth!!!)  ETA:  Damn, y'all.  I just thought about it.Where's Stannis?  BTW, I totally get why they didn't end with his showing up.  Too much Gandalf LOTR and too much 'Tywin and Tyrells at the Blackwater,' which was only a short while ago.  It would've been too pat.  This way Jon got his hero moment, and Stannis gets his own story next episode.  I understand why the producers chose to execute it this way.I guess the episode was pretty good as I JUST this morning thought about that on-screen choice.

- Watched "Thor: The Dark World"... well, I partially watched it.  I...er... got bored.  Lots of CGI but, eh.  I laughed at the Capt. America cameo.

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I'm getting quite cavalier about GoT spoilers, seemingly. Earlier today, for instance, in a fit of the grumps about what happened with Dany and Jorah last episode I went and spoilered myself about what happens next to Jorah, and must say, if they do some of that stuff with him next season I will be very pleased indeed. Lots there for an actor to get their teeth into.

As for Stannis, I thought he was in Braavos.

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I haven't been worried about Jorah. I've actually been looking foward to Jorah's plot. There's so much potential there to be Hound/Arya roadtrip only better. Pairing up those actors is going to be awesome.

It's always been sad that Jorah/Dany parted ways, but it's not going to hurt Iain Glenn's participation in the series one bit. (though I think we've seen the last of him for this year.) In fact, it should give him more exciting stuff to do!

(Tangent: and I still hope they'll pair up Jaime and Bronn. Didn't happen in the book but there's little reason it cannot in the show. By making Bronn Jaime's training/dueling partner, they've already half-merged Bronn into the character who accompanies Jaime, so I hope we'll have a Jaime+Bronn pairing too). Books can survive on a lot of one-sided internal dialog. TV shows need people to say stuff out loud so they need someone to bounce dialog off of. Plus, they'd be a fun, useful pairing.)

Braavos was a layover for Stannis. They left Dragonstone because of the vision that they were needed at the Wall. So the Wall has been their ultimate destination for a while now.

It would've been too Gandalf/too Tywin at the Blackwater for him to arrive at the end of this battle though. And the center of this episode really was about Jon (and Sam to a lesser extent) ascending to manhood and more commanding positions at the Wall (After all, as Sam asks, who is left to give orders? Aemon is lovely... but he's a really old dude in poor health.)

There is a TON stuff they're going to have to do in the next episode though.

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I've been looking at some of the casting news for season 5. Seems the woman Bronn is due to marry will appear in season 5. I hope he won't be too horrible to her.

Btw, I just realised something. Last night's ep must be the first one of the entire series where no one got naked.

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Re: Bronn's marriage

He seems reasonably fair to her from all we hear about it (since none of them are POV characters, it's all stuff we piece together from tidbits). In the book, though, Lollys is REALLY -- understandably -- messed up.

In the scene where Sansa was nearly raped by the crowd and The Hound saved saved her, Lollys was actually gang-raped in the mob. Lollys then turned up pregnant (and Shae was HER lady's maid. Shae's lack of any sympathy whatsoever for Lollys always pissed me off. Show!Shae is a nicer person that book!Shae). Anyway, Lolly's 'ruination' is the reason her titled family allowed an arranged marriage to a jumped up sellsword like Bronn. I vaguely seem to think that all that was left of her immediate family was her mother and her (at any rate, there was no one Tywin et. al felt was strong enough to maintain their estate and lands during the war), so it was basically presented as an equal exchange for all the parties involved.

Bronn would be instant head of the family, titled, and well-situated in exchange for accepting Lolly's bastard baby as his own son, legitimizing the babe and raising him as his own heir and for protecting the two women (as well as ostensibly being reasonably tolerant and undemanding towards them) -- and more importantly to the Lannisters ...protecting the Stokeworth estate. Bronn always seemed pragmatic and relatively good-natured about it, and the general impression was that the primary parties were reasonably satisfied by the arrangement.

The one sidenote that always made me smile was that when Lollys' child was born, Bronn gave Cersei the metaphorical middle finger by naming his 'son' Tyrion! :D

Since the gang rape didn't happen on the show, I don't know if any of that will be included at all. I don't think they'll forever resist Bronn's heir being named Tyrion, though. That's hard to resist. It might be his own son eventually named that, however.

And, since Bronn becoming castellan/caretake is visually less interesting to follow for TV, they can still marry him off to Lollys and have him tag along with whatever they're doing with Jaime (which rumors are is detouring from the books for a while anyway).

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Well, I'll be glad for anything that keeps Bronn around. I do enjoy the character.

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Stannis gets his own story next episode.

The problem is that there's SO MUCH other story they have to cover in the next episode that I think it will be incredibly rushed. And Jon could have had 99% of the episode with some set up in the previous episodes, but as it is, I feel like they totally neglected the Wall storyline until now, so the sense of impending doom just never … impended? Eh, I'm not one for the big action episodes/sequences anyway - they always end up just being me thinking "hey, that CGI is pretty good!" (e.g. my favorite part of the Battle of Helm's Deep is Theoden King putting on his armor :P)

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I have to admit that I'm usually bored by The Wall plots and zoned out a lot through the battle of the wall while reading.

But I do think that having it end with and Stannis arrives to save the day would've seemed too similar to Tywin/Loras arriving at the last moment during the battle of the blackwater.

I think they should've sold the end of this harder as "just the first skirmish" with more evidence of the fight being ongoing for the end of this episode, but I don't actually mind Stannis arriving in the next one to avoid Gandalf and Tywin similarities.

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The Mammoth and the giants were creepy, almost gave me a heart attack. Talk about Attack on Titan. I just found out that my sister has a thing for The Crow and I was like Jon Snow, for real? Well, don't have to worry about her snatching my boyfriends because we have totally different tastes.
I loved Thor: the Dark World, it's my fav out of all of them. I don't like Capt. America, I don't even know why I keep watching those movies.