This review will contain spoilers, anything going beyond the scope of the episode will be done in white text and will be preceded by *Spoiler*, episode spoilers will not be prefaced.
Solid episode all around. We caught up with everyone we hadn’t seen since last season. Jaime and Brienne were a lot of fun, as was seeing that Theon is fucked. Arya being caught and then outed was pretty great and a good pay off after her close calls last season. Robb and Cat was pretty light but I think this was more of a building episode for them seeing as they are on the way to Riverrun. So far this season feels like a slow build to me, I assume we will see a pretty great payoff.
The Good
- Robb lying to his mother about the fate of “Bran” and “Rickon” with the immediate cut to Theon on something that looks very much like Lord Bolton’s flayed man sigil. That scene made me cringe.
- The return of Jamie and Brienne! “It’s a shame the throne isn’t made out of cocks, they’d of never got him off it” *Spoiler* Super excited for the way this goes and the bear and maiden fair*
- The Tyrell girls making Sansa not hate her life, particularly Lady Olena. She’s not taking any bullshit. They’ve taken a lot of her dialogue straight from the books.
- Cat telling Talisa about how bad she feels about how she treated Jon Snow was pretty great. *Spoiler*
- The Warg, Orell.
- Dolorous Edd.
- Pretty much everything in the North.
- Lots of love for the direwolf this episode.
- *Spoiler* Jojen motherfuckin Reed waltzing up without a fear in the world. Today is not the day he dies.
- Arya and The Brotherhood Without Banners! Walking up singing Rains of Castamere.
*Spoiler* Hello Ramsay.- Jojen explaining Warging and other weird stuff to Bran and us.
- Return of The Hound!
- Jamie and Brienne fighting.
The Bad
- Badish, not really a bad thing but damn Bran is growing up quick. Always a problem with teenage actors, we can’t expect them to stay the age of their characters.
- Joffrey seems to be jumping back and forth between “I’m the King and I do what I please” and squirmy embarrassed teen.
- *Spoiler* Thoros of Myr looked nothing like he has been described in the books. The way he acted I thought he was Tom o’Seven Streams.
Well folks what’d you think? Awesome? Awful? Let us know
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