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.
Last episode ended huge. Jaime Kingslayer Lannister getting his hand cut off was amazing. That scene was intense, the knife digging into Jaime’s eye and then so quickly moving to cut through his wrist. Last week is going to be a tough act to follow but we also will be seeing the results of Jamie losing his hand, Dany selling a dragon for a slave army, Theon getting rescued again, Arya’s journey, and what’s going on north of the wall.
The Good
- Jamie…seven hells man know when you are beaten. Watching him just get it worse and worse is rough. He has fallen so far from the first episode of this show.
- The origin of Varys The Spider and his revenge. I really did not expect the crate to contain a person, I figured some scrolls or something to give him a leg up in the game.
- Nice to know that Ros is trying to do good, and is pretty damn smart. Which means she’ll probably die or have more awful things happen to her.
- Wow, the Sept of Baelor is a pretty amazing set piece. Also the continued creepiness of Joffrey and the “interest” of Margaery.
- “The Boy” has one creepy ass smile, Iwan Rheon really is good at being a creep.
- Twyin tells it how it is. Hard to hate the guy.
- Shit, imagine if Twyin and Olenna Tyrell teamed up? Un-fucking-stoppable.
- “You are a bastard, a daughter fucking, wilding bastard.”
- LORD BERIC DONDARRION!
- Oh look Dany speaks Valyrian.
- That look from Missandei!
- Dracarys… Muahaha you know she was never really going to give up her dragon. Ever.
The “Bad”
- Theon seems to have recovered shockingly well from being tortured.
- Not a fitting end for the Old Bear.
- Beric doesn’t look much like I imagined him, no purple, no lightning. Still a bad ass.
- Valyrian sounds like whatever language Leeloo speaks in Fifth Element.
So I think the ending of this episode may overshadow the rest of it. Dany showing that she knew what the asshole slaver was saying all along and then melting his face is going to stick strongly in everyone’s minds. With that said, the mayhem at Craster’s was a pretty damn big deal. Lord Commander Mormont is dead and The Watch has lost so many men. Also Theon never really being rescued is incredibly fucked up. The boy who brought him back just played with him the entire time and knew enough about his past to do it well. Next week is going to very interesting as well, Sandor has his trial and we will see more of Jon and Robb.