Game of Thrones Season 2: Episode 7: “A Man Without Honor.” There are only two more episodes left in season two. Doesn’t it seem like just yesterday we were reeling from Ned’s beheading? All I know is that, with all this build-up, the battle for the Iron Throne better rival the battle for Helm’s Deep. The Contenders Daenerys Targaryen Oh, Dany. Dany, Dany, Dany. The Mother of Dragons is flailing. She doesn’t know whom...
Game of Thrones Season 2. Episode 6. “The Old Gods and the New.” “I don’t know if we’ve ever been cursed with a vicious, idiot, boy-king!” After last week’s foundational-plot-laying-palooza, last night’s episode wasted no time grossing us out! So I will waste no time grading it up: The Contenders Daenerys Targaryen With her expectant suitor Ducksauce by her side, Dany beseeches Fatty Spice for ships in order to sail for Westeros. However this...
Game of Thrones Season 2: Episode 5: “The Ghost of Harrenhal.” “Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you one.” Were you guys as bored as me during this episode? Aside from one ghost murder and the ongoing brewing of magic fire potion in the basements of King’s Landing, the plot felt weighed down by …well … plot. As everyone guns for the Iron Throne, a balance between exposing motives and consolidating storylines needs to...
Game of Thrones Season 2: Episode 4: “Garden of Bones” “My husband is the king and the king is my husband.” We’re on the fourth episode of the season and HBO’s pre-episode recap is already clocking out at almost four and a half minutes. The odds are a bit better than those on the battlefield: 5 dead Lannister men for every dead man under the Stark banner vs. one minute of recap for every...
Game of Thrones Season 2: Episode 3: “What is Dead May Never Die” “Maybe magic once was a mighty force in the world. The dragons are gone. The giants are dead. And the children of the forest forgotten.” This statement from Maester Luwin seems like sound, sage advice. However, we know the dragons aren’t gone; the introduction of Brienne (and Hodor’s hulking presence) suggest the giants aren’t dead; and the children of the forest,...
Game of Thrones Season 2: Episode 2: “The Night Lands” “Another king? How many is that now? Five?” “Sometimes those with the most power have the least grace.” As the race for the Iron Throne gains speed, the show sacrifices gore for sex and political prowess. Who’s making what moves (and on whom) and which strategy will prove successful? Let’s jump on this week’s episode like Theon Greyjoy on his homely “salt-wife.” House Stark...
Game of Thrones Season 2: Episode 1: “The North Remembers” “There’s a king in every corner now.” Season Two of Game of Thrones begins exactly as we want: Sweeping views of Westeros, from the ice of the north to the fire across the Narrow Sea. We settle in King’s Landing; enter Tyrion Lannister, whose season one wit earned him his new appointment (and an Emmy) as The Hand of the King. Tyrion marches into...
I know what you’re thinking. Really, I do. It goes something like this: There are so many characters. So much happened. How do we succinctly recap last year’s killer season? By house? By character? By deaths? Births? Sex? Secrets? Battles? Counts of incest? What’s the best way to cram all of season one into your brain like a hot dagger through the eye? Like a 10-year old out a window? Like an imp’s _____...
Season One of HBO’s newest show was quite nearly perfection. It pleased diehard fans of the books, enticed viewers new to Martin’s sprawling, epic quest for power and left everyone wanting more. The show successfully connected characters distributed throughout a vast realm, many of whom have never met, into one understandable, coherent plot line. However, with so many characters, the end-of-season report card is like a roster at an over-crowded New York City public...
Game of Thrones Season 1: Episode 10: “Fire and Blood” “Then you shall see exactly what life is worth, when all the rest is gone.” Last night ended Season 1 of Game of Thrones. The news of Ned’s death reverberated through the Stark family, clearly escalating the war between the Starks and the Lannisters. However, in what I think defined this episode as the best of the first season, it also strategically positioned Jon...
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