Post by Melifeather on May 6, 2019 14:12:15 GMT
Strange name for last night's episode, which I thought should have been named 'Dracarys'. Lets go over the 'high notes' before discussing what may or may not be book spoilers.
The episode opened with a mass burning of the dead loved ones. No idea where they got all the wood or what they did with all the wights that came down from the Wall, but well, this is tv folks. Daenerys kissed Jorah's face while Sansa tearfully gave Theon a Stark pin - I'm assuming this is her way of designating that he was a Stark. Sam looked down sadly at Dolores Edd while Arya just looked at Beric Dondarrion. Jon gave a little speech and then everybody got lit.
Hoping to score political capital, Daenerys dubs Gendry Lord Baratheon of Storm's End. Gendry goes looking for Arya who he finds practicing her archery. Foreshadowing perhaps? Excitedly he proposes to Arya thinking now that he's a lord he's acceptable to his Lady, but she gently rebuffs him saying she's 'no lady'.
Tormund tries to drum up support for Jon to become 'king', and Daenerys looks sad and jealous. When it becomes apparent she can no longer keep it together, she gets up to exit the feast leaving her Starbucks cup behind.
Tormund tries to get close to Brienne, but is headed off by Jaime who has staked his claim. Tormund goes off to cry, but is easily comforted by a serving wench.
Jon goes off in search of Daenerys, who whimpers that Jon is getting all the attention. Jon indulges Dany and insists she still has his support and loyalty. Daenerys pouts that Sansa is being a big meanie, and makes Jon swear not to tell anyone he's Aegon Targaryen.
In the war room, Sansa and Dany glare at each other. Sansa wants to give the army time to recover and get healthy, while Dany wants them to hobble on and march on Kings Landing. Jon makes a big display of supporting Danaerys. After everyone leaves, Arya tells Jon - bro, we need a word wit you. As Bran knowingly looks on, Jon promptly tells Arya and Sansa he's Aegon. Two minutes later Sansa plays telephone and pretty soon Varys and Tyrion know too.
Randomly - there's a new mysterious Prince of Dorne that Dany can count on.
Jon leaves Ghost - who is missing an ear - without even a pat on the head. He then says his goodbyes to Tormund. Apparently the wildlings are going back north to settle Castle Black (wat???). He next runs into Sam and Gilly who's baby bump got in the way of their hug. Sam mutters there wasn't much to do in Oldtown. Seriously? The Citadel and it's library was an utter waste of time???
Tyrion declares Brienne a virgin during a drinking game. Embarrassed, Brienne makes her excuses, followed by Jaime in full rut. After two nights together, Jaime missed his sister. (I actually suspect they are setting Jaime up to be Cersei's valonqar).
After Brienne's bedding Jaime brags to Tyrion who in turn begs for the dirty details. Bronn shows up and punches Tyrion. Tyrion exclaims, "You broke my nose!", but Bronn's like, "Nah, if I wanted to break your nose I would have punched you harder. Alls I did was give you a bleedin' nose, you hoser." Cersei promised Riverrun so Tyrion upped the ante with Highgarden. Jaime objects saying "no cutthroat is getting Highgarden", to which Bronn retorts, "All you dumbfuckers started your Houses as cutthroats, so you two morons better hope your side wins or you're fucked".
Sandor is sitting alone when he's visited by two 'ghosts' of Christmas past. The first ghost 'little bird' is quickly replaced by smirky-steely-eyed Sansa, with the second ghost (Arya) magically appearing next to Sandor to give him a little startle on horseback. I suspect they are setting up Clegane-bowl, but I'm not quite sure who or what Arya's going to shoot with that bow and arrow, but lets hope it's somebody shocking. I think D&D want us to believe Arya is going after Cersei, but it's a feint so they can surprise us with Jaime. Maybe Arya will shoot Maester Qyburn? Neither Sandor nor Arya expects to live through whatever their plans are.
Euron's fleet manage to stay in place under full sail just around the corner and out of sight at Dragonstone and the Crow's Eye shot Rhaegal right out of the sky. Daenerys played a short game of chicken before swerving away. I don't know why the hell she didn't see those ships when she was flying or why she didn't come at them from behind. Their sails were up, so I don't think those big dragon killer crossbows would have had a clear shot if they were forced to spin around. Euron turns all his fire power on Dany's fleet and sinks them all with his arrows. Grey Worm struggles to shore and immediately searches for Missandei who has gone missing.
Euron magically appears next to Cersei in Kings Landing to give her the joyous news that he's killed a dragon, and he brought Missandei back as a gift. Cersei thanks him by saying he's her baby-daddy. Euron looks to Maester Qyburn who offers him reassurance that Cersei is telling him the truth.
Daenerys and Tyrion sail to Kings Landing with a puny color guard to parly at the Red Keep, which magically is outside the walls of Kings Landing. Very reminiscent of Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail when King Arthur comes upon the French holding a castle. Qyburn farts in Tyrion's general direction so he walks upwind to approach the castle in order to reason with his sweet pregnant sister who briefly looks away with feigned hormonal emotion. She allows Missandei some final words which turn out to be a singular 'Dracarys', which I thought was supposed to be Dany's little secret signal so apparently Missandei was signaling Daenerys to burn the city down. Ser Robert Strong stood in as the vicious bunny rabbit, steps forward with his very sharp teeth and takes off Missandei's head. Dany and Co back away carefully.
Tyrion plead with Dany not to be rash, but to wait for Jon and... Jon aand...Jon aaand...I cannot recall who was leading an army along side Jon! Anybody remember? There doesn't seem to be too many people left. And I cannot believe Jon left Ghost behind!
So yeah, an episode full of stuff to catch us all up. That's all folks, until next week!
The episode opened with a mass burning of the dead loved ones. No idea where they got all the wood or what they did with all the wights that came down from the Wall, but well, this is tv folks. Daenerys kissed Jorah's face while Sansa tearfully gave Theon a Stark pin - I'm assuming this is her way of designating that he was a Stark. Sam looked down sadly at Dolores Edd while Arya just looked at Beric Dondarrion. Jon gave a little speech and then everybody got lit.
Hoping to score political capital, Daenerys dubs Gendry Lord Baratheon of Storm's End. Gendry goes looking for Arya who he finds practicing her archery. Foreshadowing perhaps? Excitedly he proposes to Arya thinking now that he's a lord he's acceptable to his Lady, but she gently rebuffs him saying she's 'no lady'.
Tormund tries to drum up support for Jon to become 'king', and Daenerys looks sad and jealous. When it becomes apparent she can no longer keep it together, she gets up to exit the feast leaving her Starbucks cup behind.
Tormund tries to get close to Brienne, but is headed off by Jaime who has staked his claim. Tormund goes off to cry, but is easily comforted by a serving wench.
Jon goes off in search of Daenerys, who whimpers that Jon is getting all the attention. Jon indulges Dany and insists she still has his support and loyalty. Daenerys pouts that Sansa is being a big meanie, and makes Jon swear not to tell anyone he's Aegon Targaryen.
In the war room, Sansa and Dany glare at each other. Sansa wants to give the army time to recover and get healthy, while Dany wants them to hobble on and march on Kings Landing. Jon makes a big display of supporting Danaerys. After everyone leaves, Arya tells Jon - bro, we need a word wit you. As Bran knowingly looks on, Jon promptly tells Arya and Sansa he's Aegon. Two minutes later Sansa plays telephone and pretty soon Varys and Tyrion know too.
Randomly - there's a new mysterious Prince of Dorne that Dany can count on.
Jon leaves Ghost - who is missing an ear - without even a pat on the head. He then says his goodbyes to Tormund. Apparently the wildlings are going back north to settle Castle Black (wat???). He next runs into Sam and Gilly who's baby bump got in the way of their hug. Sam mutters there wasn't much to do in Oldtown. Seriously? The Citadel and it's library was an utter waste of time???
Tyrion declares Brienne a virgin during a drinking game. Embarrassed, Brienne makes her excuses, followed by Jaime in full rut. After two nights together, Jaime missed his sister. (I actually suspect they are setting Jaime up to be Cersei's valonqar).
After Brienne's bedding Jaime brags to Tyrion who in turn begs for the dirty details. Bronn shows up and punches Tyrion. Tyrion exclaims, "You broke my nose!", but Bronn's like, "Nah, if I wanted to break your nose I would have punched you harder. Alls I did was give you a bleedin' nose, you hoser." Cersei promised Riverrun so Tyrion upped the ante with Highgarden. Jaime objects saying "no cutthroat is getting Highgarden", to which Bronn retorts, "All you dumbfuckers started your Houses as cutthroats, so you two morons better hope your side wins or you're fucked".
Sandor is sitting alone when he's visited by two 'ghosts' of Christmas past. The first ghost 'little bird' is quickly replaced by smirky-steely-eyed Sansa, with the second ghost (Arya) magically appearing next to Sandor to give him a little startle on horseback. I suspect they are setting up Clegane-bowl, but I'm not quite sure who or what Arya's going to shoot with that bow and arrow, but lets hope it's somebody shocking. I think D&D want us to believe Arya is going after Cersei, but it's a feint so they can surprise us with Jaime. Maybe Arya will shoot Maester Qyburn? Neither Sandor nor Arya expects to live through whatever their plans are.
Euron's fleet manage to stay in place under full sail just around the corner and out of sight at Dragonstone and the Crow's Eye shot Rhaegal right out of the sky. Daenerys played a short game of chicken before swerving away. I don't know why the hell she didn't see those ships when she was flying or why she didn't come at them from behind. Their sails were up, so I don't think those big dragon killer crossbows would have had a clear shot if they were forced to spin around. Euron turns all his fire power on Dany's fleet and sinks them all with his arrows. Grey Worm struggles to shore and immediately searches for Missandei who has gone missing.
Euron magically appears next to Cersei in Kings Landing to give her the joyous news that he's killed a dragon, and he brought Missandei back as a gift. Cersei thanks him by saying he's her baby-daddy. Euron looks to Maester Qyburn who offers him reassurance that Cersei is telling him the truth.
Daenerys and Tyrion sail to Kings Landing with a puny color guard to parly at the Red Keep, which magically is outside the walls of Kings Landing. Very reminiscent of Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail when King Arthur comes upon the French holding a castle. Qyburn farts in Tyrion's general direction so he walks upwind to approach the castle in order to reason with his sweet pregnant sister who briefly looks away with feigned hormonal emotion. She allows Missandei some final words which turn out to be a singular 'Dracarys', which I thought was supposed to be Dany's little secret signal so apparently Missandei was signaling Daenerys to burn the city down. Ser Robert Strong stood in as the vicious bunny rabbit, steps forward with his very sharp teeth and takes off Missandei's head. Dany and Co back away carefully.
Tyrion plead with Dany not to be rash, but to wait for Jon and... Jon aand...Jon aaand...I cannot recall who was leading an army along side Jon! Anybody remember? There doesn't seem to be too many people left. And I cannot believe Jon left Ghost behind!
So yeah, an episode full of stuff to catch us all up. That's all folks, until next week!