Wow, welcome to Melodramatic Island. Those were different than my reaction. Mine was more like when Crosby scored the gold medal goal. Did anybody catch the hipster sipping cherry brandy out of a fucking liqueur glass as well? Yeesh. Fucking kill yourself.
My reaction was more like: Hey, why is the music all dark now? What....what's going on [husband]? Why is he wearing armor? What... [gaping mouth, completely speechless] I cannot put into words how horrified I was. I know this is just TV but holy FUCK that was a brutal scene.
I've seen enough mob movies in my day to see an ambush coming. Everything you need to know to anticipate that was covered in the godfather series. 1. They will send someone you know to set the meeting (rooster/ sal tessio before preemptive christening massacre) 2. Someone always runs out of the door right before the bloodshed(grooms uncle/Don altobello before helicopter attack. 3. It always goes down after the meal is finished (Michael corleone in restaurant with sollozo and mcclusky) The stabbing of Robb's wife in the belly was chunky, baby. Literally.
I don't know if I should like this little actress more or want to smash her head with a brick for how annoying that loop is.
I think she deserves credit for watching the filming, likely watching the scene, and not doing the typical 17-year-old-girl AIEEEE EWWW OMG IM LIKE SOOOO OVER THIS. Shows a (albeit juvenile) sense of humor.
Yeah, not like she's 16 or anything. I bet she's cool people to hangout with. She's killing it as Arya, and best of all, she's not really a horse face. I see an Emma Watson like path for this one.
Yeah, that's my point. I fucking hate teenagers and their retard brain sense of humor. She just acts like a beast and was perfectly cast in a quality show.
An fyi for non-book readers: The Freys would have never done this without protection from House Lannister. If the Baratheon army hadn't been crushed at King's Landing, and the red wedding didn't all but seal victory for House Lannister there would have been major repercussions. As it stands House Frey lost what little respect they had left. Remember too that they're supposed to be banner men to House Tully, so not only did they defy one of the most sacred customs in Westeros, they did it to the house they owe allegiance (and the Starks) during a wedding ceremony that's traditionally meant to signify loyalty and trust between houses. This isn't a major spoiler and will probably be revealed next episode, but just so be safe - Spoiler They strip Catelyn naked and throw her body into the river in a mockery of House Tully funeral customs (remember the scene of her father's funeral). They also sew Grey Wind's head onto to Robb's in mockery of the Stark sigil. The red wedding causes paranoia among the other great houses in Westeros, as they feel without the guest right even being a given anymore, it's far too dangerous to trust anyone.
That ending was disappointing. Season 1: Dragons Season 2: White Walkers Season 3: ...mosh pit? Crowd Surfing?
True that. Well the episode was still pretty good. Did they shoot this season back to back or just the usual schedule and split the books?
One thing about episode 9 that was different: Spoiler There's been a bit of outrage over stabbing a pregnant woman in the belly that didn't happen in the book. However, I think that resolves a bunch of weird plotlines in the book that I don't really remember (safe passage for Robb's wife and a weird, anti-pregnancy potion and a bunch of other fuckery) and it spares them from showing Catelyn Stark from brutally murdering a mentally handicapped person. This is arguably done to preserve Catelyn & the rest of the Stark's perception as noble and honorable people. That said, GET YOUR FAT ASS WRITIN' MARTIN! Also, I heard that they were stretching book 3 into two seasons. Any truth to that?
Survey says...definitely. This was less a season finale than a 4th season preview. Putting the pieces in their place for the game to come.
Yeah, for sure. the Red Wedding takes place about 2/3 of the way through ASOS. I'm personally thinking season 4 is going to be the end of ASOS and a little bit of AFFC - in the books there's this weird storyline split where the first half of AFFC is entirely new POV characters in an entirely new part of the world, and it's weird and off-putting. I'm hoping they're looking to dodge that in the show, because if it follows the exact book-order presentation 2/3 of the viewership will say "What the fuck? Who are these people? I hate this, I'll watch again when we're back to Westeros" when the AFFC season starts.
Spoiler Why the fuck is everyone expecting Lady Stoneheart when this is only like 55% of ASOS and she doesn't pop up until the END of the book? Just checked its the epilogue actually. Calm the fuck down. D26, this was about 55-60% of the third book, A Storm of Swords. Not sure if you read them, but this finale couldn't have been great because the next big thing (not a spoiler, there is always the next big thing) needs way more time to flesh out and set up. And Dorne IS part of Westeros. We just haven't spent a lot of time with them. And if the three sisters are supposed to be as hot as they're talking about in the books, I'm looking forward to mixing the end of ASOS with A Feast for Crows. It all ends up being a big deal. If any of you went to read the available chapter in Winds of Winter, you learn all the Iron Island shit you never wanted to care about all pays off. EVERYTHING PAYS OFF IN THE END. Come on people...
Here is the thing, though. There were still opportunities for reveals: Lady Stonehheart or Cold Hands could have been good character reveals at the end. They don't have to pay off right away... We didn't see White Walkers for a while after their reveal, and the dragons, while important, we're barely seen in season 2. It would've been easy to reveal and then put on the back burner for a while.
Well, the scene with Grey Wolf's head being sewn onto Robb's body was just as unsettling as I imagined it would be when people told me that happened in the books. Though slightly less so cause that was a ridiculously large wolf head, looked fake as all hell. Arya and the Hound keep getting more and more entertaining. Scene of the episode was absolutely Tywin bitchslapping Joffrey. My god, he just owns the screen. His dialogue with Tyrion was fantastic as well.