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“Good Matrix joke, Gabe. Very timely, relevant, and it makes a lot of sense.”
“Thanks, Littlefinger!”
Game of Thronessssssssss! Man oh man, this show. Like, what? So good, THAT IS WHAT. I read the books a long time ago (ladies, find me on LinkedIn*) but I basically forgot everything that happens. So much happens! Basically, everything happens? In case you missed most of the season, here’s a brief recap: the wall, rape, Prince Joffrey, and a girl eats a horse heart. That pretty much covers it. Now that you’re all caught up, can we talk about the season finale? GOOD SEASON FINALE! History buffs love it. I know that the big “thing” that “happened” was in the second to last episode, because that is the way you do it. That’s how The Wire did it. The second to last episode of The Wire was always the most intense one. But OK so now there are so many wars and Arya Stark is a little boy, a little black boy, King Joffrey has been watching Hostel 2, apparently, and like I said, I don’t remember what happens in the books, but I sure hope King Joffrey becomes Dead Little Boy Joffrey in season 2. ASCEND TO THE IRON HEAVEN, YOU DICK. Meanwhile, that wildling up at Winterfell clearly got a fourth hour Today Show makeover from Al Roker since we first met her because YOWZA she was looking much better! Love those sensible shoes and that sharp haircut. Tyrion Lannister: Emmy Award Winner. Jaime Lannister: Rock to the Head Winner. Jon Snow is a true brother of the night’s watch now. Fun Fact: the brothers of the night’s watch only have three movies on DVD to watch at the wall: There’s Something About Mary, Wall-E, and Tokyo Drift. Of course, the most exciting development in the season finale was when that old man talked about fucking kings for an hour and a half just kidding. What was that scene, though? Like, pretty sure we already knew that guy was really old? Got it. This is the season finale of a sprawling, epic fantasy and you are going to spend two hours with an old man forgetting where he put his keys (they are on top of your head, silly!)? Fair enough. No, but, THE DRAGONS. Hello, dragons. You know, I didn’t really think that I had a “type” before, but it turns out I totally have a type: naked blondes covered in soot who are surrounded by three baby dragons. MARRY ME, KHALEESO!
Game of Thrones, you guys. Right? Right!
*You will never find me on LinkedIn.
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yeah it was pretty good i guess
HODOR
That’s all
Arrested Westeros! I am absolutely obsessed.
I could do this all day, but I’ll restrain myself after this one.
http://arrestedwesteros.tumblr.com/
The Best.
This only slightly relates but when I saw poor Drogo, all I could think of was Leo on Twin Peaks with his intermittent, “New shoes.”
My favorite one:
Every time I’m pressured into watching this, I’ll pull this banner picture out of my wallet and say “Yep, a baby dragon. This show is NOT for me.”
Now back into my TARDIS into a world of hard Sci-Fi. Allons-y!
Jeez. A good man went to war! What more do you want?
Never thought I’d be the guy to threadjack a Game of Thrones thread with a Doctor Who gif, and yet, here we are.
GTFO wanker
That scene was actually meant to show that the old guy was not as feeble and doddering as he appeared, but you knew that.
That scene was actually meant to show you how GIF-able the old guy is.
Exactly
Bonus: that diaphanous négligée! I hope this spry old dude smothers Prince Jerkoffry in his sleep.
Watch out for that pointy, inbred chin. It could cut your papery skin.
When I watched that scene, I actually said to my friends (no humblebrag) “Thus sprang forth a thousand GIFs.”
So it’s like that Chinese guy in the Prestige? That’s the real trick!
spoiler alert: maester pycelle is a major dick!
I was annoyed by that scene until I realized it was a GOTCHA! (Btw, take a cue on how to do gotchas, The Killing. UGH). So that got me wondering if this old dude was maybe intentionally leading Ned down the path of treason by showing him the gigantic book and hinting at what the former King’s hand had been up to? Anyway, I’m guessing he will have a much more important role in season 2.
I…didn’t get that? From that? I mean sure the old guy was able to get through SEVERAL sentences, but by the end of them he forgot what subject he was raising in the first place, and that is kind of EXACTLY how you dodder?
Who owns the whorehouse? Surely this guy would know who owns the whorehouse. (Carcetti owns the whorehouse.) It would stand to reason that a doddering old fool would raise no eyebrows whatsoever to the prostitute who is DEFINITELY going to report to her boss about the very high profile client, and potential rival of his, that she has just serviced. He said exactly what he needed to in order for her to go back to him and say “Nah, that guy’s nuts.”
WATCH OUT FOR THIS DICK IN SEASON 2. — Sean Bean’s head
Thank-you, hugemistake, for clarifying. Rara – MINUS ONE FOR EMPTY CLEVERNESS.
Meh, I read all the books, and I don’t think Grand Maester P is all that important. It’s like the Gay scene earlier on with Renly and Lorras: also not in the book and inconsequential to the plot.
THAT WASN’T IN THE BOOK? THAT ISN’T IMPORTANT TO THE PLOT?
I’m so sad now.
if it makes you feel better, it was hinted at in the books!
I’m really glad you made this post Gabe, infact i’m too excited that i didn’t exactly think this through and create a funny and relevant comment to post. But now that i’m here i might as well say that the season fianle was amazing, and the dragons and the night watch and sansa being the new LANNISTER slave aside this was the best part:
Varys: I must be the only man in the city who doesn’t want to be king
Baelish: You must be the only man in the city who is not a man
OH whaaat? snappity snap snip. game of burns.
FUCK. finale*
Did you not get chills when Rob was hailed as, “KING OF THE NORTH!”? Of course you did. This episode was just so packed full of awesome that you forgot that part.
Robb just moved up into the #1 spot of “The Bangable: Game of Thrones edition 2.0″. I’m still upset Rara didn’t include him on his first edition.
“King of the North!”
“KING OF THE NOOOOORTH!”
I can forgive you for forgetting about Rob because this whole show was too packed with awesome to remember everything.
Fucking christ. Sorry for the double post, I thought the facebook connect thing killed the first one.
YES! I did forget about this but while watching it felt that sweeping feeling when you know something epic is happening right in front of you (like every second scene in lord of the rings). It was great. I love Robb, i have a bad feeling about his future though.
I want Joffrey to get beheaded and eaten by the direwolves so bad.
I think everyone wants that fate for Joffrey, lol! That kid is King Twerp of the decade.
He also looks super fucked up. just sayin.
“You won’t hear my screams!”
“I WILL.”
Ya burnt, witch. Literally.
Ha, that reminded me of a moment from the Simpsons Beer Baron episode:
Rex Banner: [overlooking the city] I’ll get you, Beer Baron.
Homer: [distant] No, you won’t!
Rex Banner: Yes, I will.
Khaleesi cannot marry you because I called her first. I don’t care that gay marriage is outlawed across the sea in horse land or that neither of us are lesbians, I shall charm her with my wit and a banana in my pocket.
As Chekhov said, “If you’re going to have Dragon eggs in the season premiere, they better hatch by the season finale”
Gabe – the point of that scene is that the feeble old man is not actually feeble, but that he maintains that appearance when around other people, including his regular prostitute. It’s his way of appearing harmless so that his head stays attached to his shoulders with each new change in the monarchy.
Oh man. I am tooooo sloooow.
Or are you just pretending, so you can keep you human head on your robot body? Hmmm….
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I’ve made a huge mistake
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Ha! Apparently I cant do anything right today either.
WAIT, THIS show was good? I don’t NEED MORE TV to watch, TV. RERUN SOME Happy Days and GIVE ME time to CATCH up!
The reviewer at AV Club suggested it, and i think that we should start an internet campaign to have Sean Bean come back and play Stannis in season 2.
Man, I really shouldn’t have read this because I haven’t seen the show but can pretty much infer what happened. Also, is it possible to watch this without thinking “Boromir” the entire time (I never read these books, sorry!)?
Bringing him back as Stannis would be futile. Sean Bean has to be killed in anything he stars in. Partridge in Equilibrium, Alec Trevelyn in Goldeneye, Boromir in LOTR, The Hitcher in The Hitcher, and now Ned Stark. Pretty much if Sean Bean is in a film, he’s got a better than 50-50 chance of dying. I think it’s in his contract somewhere…
Spoiler alert! I was planning to watch Equilibiruiminium sometime in the future and now I can’t un-know that.
Highly recommend Equilibrium. It’s hilariously absurd.
Yeah, Game of Thrones has really left me wanting more Sean Bean in my life, but I don’t know if I can handle watching him die over and over again. Movies that Sean Bean lives through is apparently a very small subgenre of Sean Bean movies.
Sean Bean.
Well, it helps that Sean Bean’s master thesis at acting college was on the art of death scenes. Kind of a dead give-away, really, if you know what to look for.
“Sean Bean has to be killed in anything he stars in. ”
So, he’s like the Steve Buscemi of tabletop gamers?
“ASCEND TO THE IRON HEAVEN, YOU DICK.” – Gabe
reminded me of
“I just know that Hitler’s looking down from Heaven now, going ‘GRRR! You got me!’” – David Cross, Mr. Show
my one major beef with this show is mostly logistical. like… there’s this huge, sprawling, epic war going on. and we’re never going to see any of it. robb stark led 18,000 men against jaime lannister’s 30,000+ and not only did he win, he captured the man who is supposedly the greatest swordsman in the realm. it was really hard to do! and they didn’t show it! i understand that staging and filming battle scenes like that is probably cost prohibitive, but come on, hbo… you’re killing me.
also, i think i’m more bummed about drogo than ned. case in point…
I read somewhere that the books don’t even show/explain those battle scenes. However, there are plenty more battle scenes coming and I’m sure we will get to see at least one next season.
The battles get bigger and better, and yes, they are described in the books. You’re gonna love it!!
I’m not that far in the book yet, but I think they don’t film stuff that isn’t explicitly written in the original story. That’s how it’s been for the first half of the series. The show leaves out some detail that’s just impossible to get to, but it is VERY faithful as far as putting important scenes from the book on the screen. Can anyone help me out? Are there major battle scenes in the book that went into action sequence detail that the show suffered from leaving out? My assumption is that there weren’t.
The book is always from a first person perspective (it hops from narrator to narrator). So any battle is seen either in a historic context, or from that character’s perspective. They do have some big battles that are shown from multiple perspectives later on, but it’s more about chaos of the fight, with a person just doing their small part.
They have included some scenes that weren’t in the books (i.e. the stuff where someone like the Maester or Littlefinger, etc are ‘alone’ because anything where one of the main characters isn’t present isn’t shown. I think some of the scenes were rearranged from stuff existing in the book. (i.e. the scene where Littlefinger describes his back story while ‘directing’ a lesbian porn film, was from a later book where he tells one of the ‘narrators’ about it instead of just some of his whores).
The stuff that ussually gets described is small scale stuff, which we did see (Snow vs. Zombie, Brom fighting to save Tyrion, Tyrion and Caitlyn vs. Ambush, Dancing Instructor vs. Mooks, various Dothroki fights). And, having Jaime captured offscreen, which also happens in the books, is a mix of suprise, but also maintaining his baddass nature.
I believe there is a battle scene in the next book that is narratively impossible not to film. There are also flashbacks that I would imagine they will show in the coming seasons. Russel Crowe and Chris Hemsworth for young Robert and young Ned, respectively!
It was a great finale. Only I kind of wished we got some more retribution. Not saying it would be better, but all we got was some fantasy that Sansa was going to push King Joff off a ledge (which was kind of awesome though) and some witch woman who kind of warned her that saving him was sort of a bad idea was burned alive (which was also kind of awesome). Still, I would like one of the horrible jerks to get their comeuppance this season.
Dany’s brother was handled in fun fashion.
Gabe, I don’t know if your planning a post or not, and I’m sorry for bringing it up in this one (I have not watched Game of Thrones due to my lack of HBO, but I really need to from all the great things streets been sayin’ ’bout it), but I just need to say “Fuck ‘The Killing.’” There, I said it.
Did it ever become anything beyond Gritty Twin Peaks.*
*I never saw the show and that is a total knee-jerk reaction based off of the subway posters. Science!
So you just save yourself the trouble of watching things and jump right to discussing them with people on the internet? Cool discussion. Cool hobby.
It was a joke! Relax, technojeremy!
I feel so alone in liking The Killing.
i like the killing too, doctor. you are not alone in this world.
Ditto. Thought it was great.
All of my coworkers watch this show on Mondays (LAME), so I have to wait until tomorrow to watercooler their faces completely off. It’s torture! I like talking loudly about TV and using my hands too much!
Anyway, I loved Game of Thrones. Do you think they’ll call the next season Clash of Kings? OMFG dragons. Secondly, Robb is the best, but really Jon is the best. But Bran could be the best? Maybe Arya is the best. Yep, Arya is the best.
I was on the bleeding edge of my uncomfortable IKEA loveseat when Sansa inched out on the wooden catwalk while Joffrey’s back was turned. You may wear your hair like a southern woman, but your veins run chill with the BLOOD OF THE NORTH!
I’m breathing heavily just thinking about it all again.
Winter is coming!
I watch them on Monday nights because I’m a 75 year old woman who goes to bed at 8pm, but I read the books so I am impervious to spoilers!
I began as a member of the Sansa hate club like everyone else but i feel a bit terrible for her now. 13 and already just a Lannister play thing? I hope the Hound keeps her safe.
i vote incredimarc for writer of weekly Season 2 GoT recaps!
seconded. or at least have him blog-duel with gabe for badass-est recap.
I VOTE THIS TOO MY LORD
I didn’t know that it was possible to have an addiction to incest, but Cersei Lannister has proven me wrong.
Yeah, that was like, damn girl, you can’t sit still, can you!
Needs more Hodor
did anyone else reeeeeeeeeeally want to see the freak baby with the bat wings and the falling off skin? that would have been awesome.
eh. he probably looked something like this…
I think the old dude scene was about how he pretended to be really old and foolish but is actually totally fine, he does his part to remain a part of the king’s counsel just like Littlefinger and Varys. It might have even more implications because he was at Littlefinger’s whorehouse but that will probably become clear next season. It was a really great finale. I watched the last two episodes in a row since I missed last week’s the first time it aired and it was so intense. Really wished Sansa was able to push Joffrey off the ledge but then she’d be dead and I would be sad.
I was totally expecting early on in the season that the finale would finally see Ned Stark have to take on Drogo. Man did I have this show Pegged wrong.
Yeeeeeah finally a Game of Thrones review! Thanks Gabe!
For those of you who can’t wait to see Joffrey get his comeuppance, this video might suffice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTt8_09b0QY
I know we’re all supposed to root for the badass naked dragon blonde, but um, Team Witch? Literally Team Witch 100%. For real.
Yeah, one thing that did nag at me was the witch. Like it doesn’t occur to anyone that the woman whose entire town was slaughtered might have ulterior motives?! Like maybe she wants to see the Khal die? Come on, Daenerys, you’re smarter than that!
YOU GUYS! My books arrived today and I am going to read them right away even though I have many other things to do. Whatever, obligation! It’s time for Game of Thrones.
The people I love will just have to DealWithIt.gif for a few weeks while I shut myself away and devour these books.
FOUR THOUSAND PAGES
It’s amazing that you took the time to gamma-correct this so we can see exactly how Hurley fell.