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Yeah, this was a crock of shit in my book.brewing love triangle thing with Jaime/Cersei/Brienne
Yeah, this was a crock of shit in my book.brewing love triangle thing with Jaime/Cersei/Brienne
Kind of a lame episode.
Especially when they casually change Jaime and Cersei banging in the sept into a fucking rape scene.
That scene was painful. Just unnecessary.
Once again, Arya/Hound is the clear standout. Pure joy.
I do love the tense and smoky Sansa/Littlefinger open, as well as Oberyn's shit-talking.
The winners of tonight's episode:
2. Sansa/Littlefinger
5. The dude who looks way different than the previous actor, who winked at Daenerys and will probably get to have great sex with her
The losers:
3. Jon Snow - Fuck this guy, he's lame
6. Those three other dudes who Daenerys doesn't want to fuck as much as she wants to fuck that one dude who looked way different last season
Especially when they casually change Jaime and Cersei banging in the sept into a fucking rape scene.
That scene was painful. Just unnecessary.
Maybe it's because Joffrey is dead, but the episode was the most lackluster yet. Sansa's story is finally moving along but that's all. And the hell is winter going to come after all the hype from Ned Stark and those white walkers? Also that scene in the pleasure house was also pointless and didn't advance anything. Just an excuse for being gratuitous, that's all.
Completely unnecessary and undoes all the strides in character Jaime made in S3. I'm not going to quibble over changes to the books because they're two separate entities and many changes have been positive (famously the Arya and Tywin scenes in S2). I don't give a shit at all that they cut Strong Belwas entirely and had Daario fight the champion of Meereen, for example. I just can't even fathom why making Jaime a rapist was a good idea though. It took a lot to get people to root for him after the attempted murder of a child, but that's why his arc is so great. Now all the good in him will be overshadowed by turning a consensual (but admittedly in poor taste) sex scene into a rape.
Well, it becomes consensual by the end, because anything for them ultimately results in a turn-on, especially a power struggle. Nobody really wanted to talk about what was going on between the two characters, so we had a rehearsal that was a blocking rehearsal. And it was very much about the earlier part with Charles (Dance) and the gentle verbal kidnapping of Cersei's last living son. Nikolaj came in and we just went through one physical progression and digression of what they went through, but also how to do it with only one hand, because it was Nikolaj. By the time you do that and you walk through it, the actors feel comfortable going home to think about it. The only other thing I did was that ordinarily, you rehearse the night before, and I wanted to rehearse that scene four days before, so that we could think about everything. And it worked out really well. That's one of my favorite scenes I've ever done.
I wouldn't call Sansa a winner. Yes, she's out of the snakepit that is King's Landing. But ending up with Littlefinger might not be much of an improvement.
How come? He did very well in my eyes. Showing some leadership, probably pissing off Alisser Thorne (the acting Lord Commander). OK, pissing him off might not be that preferable, but at least he thought things through.
She'll be safe in a whorehouse? Really Sam?
She'll be safe in a whorehouse? Really Sam?
Well, until Jon Snow shoves Longclaw through his throat next week.