Season 4 Episode 4, Oathkeeper...
•Lots of beginnings and endings
•Dany begins her reign in Mereen by paying the Masters back for the crucified children
•Missandei and Grey Worm have their first scene together
•Bronn prods Jaime into seeing Tyrion where they compare captivities
•Tyrion says Sansa's not a killer...not yet anyway
•Sansa learns more about Baelish's thinking and how Joffrey was killed
•Oleanna tells Margaery how she got the husband she wanted and how Margaery should get to Tommen before Cersei can stop her, oh and by the way, she poisoned Joffrey to save her.
•Jaime gives Brienne his sword, new armor and Pod, and their wacky adventures begin
•Jon and Thorne have another confrontation, but Slynt advises Thorne to let the mutineers take care of his Jon Snow problem.
•Jon meets the new recruit, Locke
•Locke spars with the first black brother I've seen in the Nights' Watch
•Cersei punishes Jaime for seeing Tyrion
•Margaery visits Tommen to give him sweet dreams
•While Jon gets his volunteers for the mission, Bran & company stray too close to Craster's and get caught
•Rast is Karl's whipping boy and gets to deliver Craster's last son to the Walkers
•And we see the Night King for the first time as he makes a new Walker
Winterfell looks so sad still smoldering in the credits. Burn Gormen is really creepy as Karl.
Game of Thrones Season 4 Episode 5 First of His Name
- Tommen gets the crown and Cersei comes to terms with Maraery, for now
- Dany decides that learning to rule is more important than sailing off to Westeros, for now
- Sansa learns how really crazy her Aunt Lyssa and Cousin Robyn are
- Cersei learns the truth about what is keeping the Kingdom afloat - the Iron Bank, not Lannister gold.
- Brienne and Pod have wacky adventures in riding and rabbit cooking. Pod's only real virtues are his cute face and his loyalty
- The Hound and Arya's wacky adventures continue with Arya keeping the Hound awake with her list, which includes the Red Woman and the Bw/oB, the Lannisters and their killers including...wait for it...the Hound
- He is not at all impressed with her Water Dancing either.
- Cersei and Oberyn discuss their lost loved ones and she asks him to give her gift of a ship to Myrcella
- He says they don't hurt little girls in Dorne, she says they hurt little girls everywhere
- Jon and the boys + Locke reach Craster's and just in time to save Meera.
- Karl has a suitably gruesome end
- Rast finally meets his end at Ghost's paws and teeth
- Bran kills Locke with Hodor as his weapon
- Jojen has seen the 3-eyed Raven's tree and even though he doesn't say it, he's seen who does and does not make it. he's looking pretty ill the last couple of episodes.
- Bran desperately wants to be with Jon, but knows he needs to push on.
- And Craster's daughter/wives burn it all down
whoo hoo, I finally made a list!
The trailer for American Gods is up on tvline.
So, I'm about four years behind the zeitgeist of reading and watching Game of Thrones. I've just finished season two of the HBO series and I read all the books.
Of course, I wanted to see what the Buffistas had to say about it back when it aired and I came across this quote from Jessica about the S2 finale that made me laugh:
It's come up a few times, and we did get Sam explaining that three horn blasts mean Others (and the rest of the group being all "Whatevs dude there haven't been three horn blasts in over a thousand years" and he's all "BITCHES IT'S CALLED FORESHADOWING." I mean, that's how I remember it, anyway.)
Also: ita.
Nora, we have a small, mostly-Buffista re-read group on FB, which is mostly a-synchronous and highly distracted. Let me know if you want to join.
ooh, yes please! I just finished season 3 and don't know when I'll be completing the series (my friend who's been hosting our viewing parties won't have the time now that summer's coming to an end) but I'm still super obsessed and would love to re-read the books and/or discuss.
David Simon answered one of my million Season5 Wire questions the other day.(No, it was not "Are you sure you would not consider plural marriage?" sadface.Twitter me is ballsier than me, but there are limits) But I do know that Alma should have written "The building was evacuated of its inhabitants", in news of shit nobody but me rethinks. Would love to buy him a drink and talk further about journalism fakery scandals, as my uni had an international one, like the second before I got there, and cursing the chick that did it was very much the "Thanks, Obama," of my undergraduate years. If I remembered her name, I'd still hate her, right now, AIFG.
