What a twist?! I'm loving this show!
Omg she did it, said the name of the show
I always knew game of thrones was a good show, I could just never be bothered to watch it as it seemed long and boring, but I think now I’m hooked.
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is in the middle ground.”
Baelish, you bastard. I wanted to say that trusting this fucker was Ned Stark’s only mistake, but it wasn’t. In the end, Ned’s morality was one of his biggest enemies.
This show just has everything that I've ever wanted in a TV Series. it is a gripping medieval high fantasy that incorporates gruesome scenes and for once you don't actually know who the good guys are. This episode was just brilliant and I can see we are gearing up for a massive finale.
I will say, however, that I did think that the brothel scene was very unnecessary.
This episode featured a lot of iconic scenes from the first novel in the series, even though I have read the book beforehand and knew what was going to happen, there was still a lot of tension. Though the brothel sequence with Littlefinger was rather unnecessary.
Littlefinger: "You know what I learnt losing that duel? I learnt that I'll never win. Not that way. That's their game, their rules. I'm not going to fight them. I'm going to fuck them. That's what I know, that's what I am, and only by admitting what we are can we get what we want."
Ros: "And what do you want?"
Littlefinger: "Oh, everything, my dear. Everything there is."
there's still something i'm missing in the show... i can't tell what it is, but it's that something that still keeps me from saying that i definitely like the show. i'll see the last episodes of the season and then give a final judgment.
This episode marks the moment when Starks reach the point of no return. Starks and Lannister take huge gambles and in the end, only one House will win.
Even after repeated viewing, the pacing is just top notch. I was still on the edge of my seat. And this episode truly improves with repeated viewing.
As Syrio Forel (Arya's "dance teacher") famously quotes, the death may look imminent for one of the Houses, but "not today".
The venerable Charles Dance as Tywin was some of the most inspired casting on this show. Dude spends this entire scene cleaning and skinning a dead dear while dropping hard truths on Jaime and proving he was the Tywin Lannister.
"The future of our family will be determined in these next few months. We could establish a dynasty that will last a thousand years. Or we could collapse into nothing as the Targaryens did."
Well, at least he was half right about the future of House Lannister.
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Ned, you poor honorable fucking moron. That's not entirely fair, of course, because he really didn't understand "the game", but showing his hand that blatantly to Cersei was the dumbest thing he could've done, even after trusting Littlefinger
Ned: You've always hated Robert.
Cersei: Hated him? I worshiped him. Every girl in the Seven Kingdoms dreamed of him, but he was mine by oath. And when I finally saw him on our wedding day in the Sept of Baelor, lean and fierce and black-bearded, it was the happiest moment of my life. Then that night, he crawled on top of me, stinking of wine, and did what he did, what little he could do, and whispered in my ear, "Lyanna." Your sister was a corpse and I was a living girl, but he loved her more than me.
Fuck, that had to hit Ned harder than his realization about Robert's offspring's parentage.
Ned: I've made many mistake in my life, but that wasn't one of them.
Ned, you're currently making the biggest mistake of your soon-to-end life by telling Cersei to flee King's Landing with her incest kids.
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Ros: Why don't you join us, my lord?
Littlefinger: I'm saving myself for another.
Ros: What she doesn't know won't hurt her.
Littlefinger: A stupid saying. What we don't know is usually what gets us killed.
Apart from his little speech about being so good to convince others enough to overcome their very nature, "what we don't know usually gets us killed" is the very essence of Petyr Baelish.
Littlefinger: Do you know what I learned losing that duel? I learned that I'll never win, not that way. That's their game. Their rules. I'm not going to fight them, I'm going to fuck them. That's what I know.
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God, ignoring Jason Momoa's great physique, it's no wonder he became such a bankable action star. Here he was delivering an incredibly powerful monologue in a spoken language that didn't exist just a couple years earlier like it was his native tongue. Yeah, I know, editing and ADR probably covered up his flubs, but still...that great of a performance from an actor trying his best to make the gibberish (to him) come off natural still blows me away 13 years later.
"King Joffrey?"
"King Robert is gone, the gods give him rest."
Fuck, Bean was so good in this moment. You can tell how much Ned is dreading what he has to do, and knowing how bad that'll be for Robert's "children" and Cersei. Ned never enjoyed violence or delivering justice, but he knew the ramifications of his "testimony" would probably end with a lot of bloodshed...just not how he imagined.
Janos Slynt: We stand behind you, Lord Stark.
God, I can't wait to see how Tyrion "handles" Slynt and how he finally earns his punishment at Castle Black.
Ned: Ser Barristan, I believe no man here could ever question your honor.
Ned, that is why you lose the game of thrones.
When Cersei said: "So this is it... I guess we are playing some kind of Game of Thrones?"
I was left speechless.
"When the queen proclaims one king and the Hand proclaims another, whose peace do the gold cloaks protect? Who do they follow?
.....The man who pays them.
Great episode and ending, but the pointless sex scenes keep this show from being a 10/10 so far.
-peak GoT is ruthless and unfair episode
-poor Ned was doing the right thing and Littlefinger and Cersei were smart af
-Tywin's intro was so classic and fun to watch, can't wait to re-experience this character
How do u actually watch these shows???
Shout by ellaBlockedParentSpoilers2016-07-05T12:30:09Z
that plot twist at the end omg i'm wordless af