No dragons, no problem, the brief scene where we saw Dany was mostly focused on Jorah and Barristan. The two knights were jabbing each other back and forth foreshadowing a butting of heads in the future.
While out on Dragonstone with King Stannis we were introduced to two new characters this week in Selyese (wife) and Shireen (daughter) Baratheon. In our encounter with Selyese Baratheon we see that she is a hardcore follower in the Lord Of Light who also has kept her dead babies in glass jars. Her ‘collection’ of dead babies looks like something out of the Walking Dead but it mostly reminds here that she could never give Stannis the boy he always wanted. Stannis’ actual living daughter though, well she has a disease called Greyscale and is kept in her own chambers away from everyone else.
Finally on to the King’s Landing scenes, here is what was the big twist of this week’s episode. Thanks to Lord Littlefinger’s handy work Tywin Lannister learns that the Tyrell’s mean to marry Sansa Stark to Loras Tyrell. This is promptly snuffed out when Tywin informs Tyrion that he is to marry Sansa and Cirsei is to marry Loras. The Lannister’s all come to a head in this scene when Tyrion and Cersei argue with their father’s plans but are quickly reminded who holds the actual power in the family.
This week’s episode was great because of not what only transpired in the paragraphs above but an addition of two heartfelt scenes. The first scene is when Gendry informs Arya that he intends to stay with the Brotherhood Without Banners ultimately telling Arya that they could never be “family.” The second scene is between Jamie and Brienne, Jamie Lannister fresh off getting his wound fixed up takes a bath with Brienne. Jamie goes in to a speech on why he killed the Mad King/earned the named King Slayer.
As the episodes of the best this episode was a set up episode for what surely will be an action packed episode next week.
– John McAuliffe (@John_Mac310)
