Game of Thrones, Season 3, Episode 6
May. 7th, 2013 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessI had some minor surgery yesterday morning which has left me pretty wiped. But before that, I took some general notes on the episode, which I forgot to post, so here you go:
1. Was it my imagination, or did we – gasp, gasp – get a hint at a bit of future plot in Melisandre's dramatic "WE SHALL MEET AGAIN" bit with Arya? Given that Arya's working for the Many Faced God and Melisandre's working for the Lord of Light I don't see this as an overly friendly meeting, but given the comment I do see it happening in a later book.
2. Speaking of which, dropping the obvious seductress aspect of Melisandre has managed to make her both hotter and somewhat more compelling to watch. I still don't think the actress is getting her – mostly because I'm not getting "absolute fanatic" from her performance, which comes across more clearly in the books – but she's less annoying to watch this season.
3. Speaking of annoying, the Theon torture porn is not getting any easier to watch, HBO. While I'm complaining, a friend who hasn't read the books is completely confused by the entire Theon storyline and also wants to know if anything is going to happen beyond Theon just hanging there and getting tortured. THIS IS A HINT, HBO.
4. Speaking of hanging bodies – auugh, Ros! I didn't even like the character, but I do find it kinda sad that she was killed right after she found something to do other than take off her clothes, and right after she warned Shae to watch over Sansa (not that Shae seems able to do much.)
The kinda horrible touch that Joffrey shot Ros in the same places where Arya shot the straw dude – Erk. Between that and Melisandre's hints I think Our Little Assassin is going to be very fond of arrows.
5. Speaking of arrows...no, I got nothing.
6. The whole "Edmure must marry a Frey girl" turns out to be even more irritating on the show than it was in the books. At least the books gave a sense that Robb slept with Jeyne in a very bad moment when he was wounded AND grieving his young brothers AND feeling rage against Theon, and felt that he was honor bound to make it up to Jeyne, even as other characters bluntly and correctly note that it would have been kinder, long term, to everyone, for Robb to just skedaddle and leave her pregnant.
(I've speculated on this before, but my guess is that it was only partly honor, and more Robb's friendship with Jon (whatever the actual blood relationship), that caused Robb to decide to marry Jeyne – he'd seen what having a bastard could do to family ties, not to mention the number it did on the bastard, and he didn't want a repeat of that. But...I digress.)
Here it's, well, Edmure, you owe me for screwing up the war even though I kinda failed to tell you my strategy so you had no reason to follow it, so, to make up for that, I'm asking you to make up for the considerably worse screw-ups of me (marrying for love instead of the woman I'm betrothed to) and my mother (releasing Jaime Lannister, even less understandable in the show since she hasn't heard that her sons are dead) by marrying a 19 year old stranger. Geesh.
I mean, yay for Robb agreeing that this is unfair, and I realize that plenty of people (hi, Sansa!) are about to enter into far worse marriages (if safer weddings, ahem). and life in Westeros generally sucks, but, grr.
7. JAIME AND BRIENNE TOGETHER 4EVER YAY! Martin, you're going to break my heart over this one, aren't you?
I must say that this is coming across even stronger on screen than it did in the books.
1. Was it my imagination, or did we – gasp, gasp – get a hint at a bit of future plot in Melisandre's dramatic "WE SHALL MEET AGAIN" bit with Arya? Given that Arya's working for the Many Faced God and Melisandre's working for the Lord of Light I don't see this as an overly friendly meeting, but given the comment I do see it happening in a later book.
2. Speaking of which, dropping the obvious seductress aspect of Melisandre has managed to make her both hotter and somewhat more compelling to watch. I still don't think the actress is getting her – mostly because I'm not getting "absolute fanatic" from her performance, which comes across more clearly in the books – but she's less annoying to watch this season.
3. Speaking of annoying, the Theon torture porn is not getting any easier to watch, HBO. While I'm complaining, a friend who hasn't read the books is completely confused by the entire Theon storyline and also wants to know if anything is going to happen beyond Theon just hanging there and getting tortured. THIS IS A HINT, HBO.
4. Speaking of hanging bodies – auugh, Ros! I didn't even like the character, but I do find it kinda sad that she was killed right after she found something to do other than take off her clothes, and right after she warned Shae to watch over Sansa (not that Shae seems able to do much.)
The kinda horrible touch that Joffrey shot Ros in the same places where Arya shot the straw dude – Erk. Between that and Melisandre's hints I think Our Little Assassin is going to be very fond of arrows.
5. Speaking of arrows...no, I got nothing.
6. The whole "Edmure must marry a Frey girl" turns out to be even more irritating on the show than it was in the books. At least the books gave a sense that Robb slept with Jeyne in a very bad moment when he was wounded AND grieving his young brothers AND feeling rage against Theon, and felt that he was honor bound to make it up to Jeyne, even as other characters bluntly and correctly note that it would have been kinder, long term, to everyone, for Robb to just skedaddle and leave her pregnant.
(I've speculated on this before, but my guess is that it was only partly honor, and more Robb's friendship with Jon (whatever the actual blood relationship), that caused Robb to decide to marry Jeyne – he'd seen what having a bastard could do to family ties, not to mention the number it did on the bastard, and he didn't want a repeat of that. But...I digress.)
Here it's, well, Edmure, you owe me for screwing up the war even though I kinda failed to tell you my strategy so you had no reason to follow it, so, to make up for that, I'm asking you to make up for the considerably worse screw-ups of me (marrying for love instead of the woman I'm betrothed to) and my mother (releasing Jaime Lannister, even less understandable in the show since she hasn't heard that her sons are dead) by marrying a 19 year old stranger. Geesh.
I mean, yay for Robb agreeing that this is unfair, and I realize that plenty of people (hi, Sansa!) are about to enter into far worse marriages (if safer weddings, ahem). and life in Westeros generally sucks, but, grr.
7. JAIME AND BRIENNE TOGETHER 4EVER YAY! Martin, you're going to break my heart over this one, aren't you?
I must say that this is coming across even stronger on screen than it did in the books.