Well a much cooler on-screen birthing than say, X-tro… it would have been great if they had Davos whisper, “Stannis??” at the end.
— Alan
Edit: And again EW is full of good lines this week: “Beware. Melisandre’s ladyparts are dark and full of terrors.”
Or “Look over there at those banners”?
“Wait, what banners? Are we even on a field? It looks actually looks more like craggy-”
“Alright, continuing as though we’d looked over at banners…”
Well, that last scene sure freaked my wife, who is thirty-five weeks pregnant, right the fuck out. Good times.
Pogo
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At the risk of being spoiled, I’m coming into this more active thread…
was that supposed to happen, and did Davos know that was going to happen? Or did Davos assume what I assumed, which is just that Melisandre would cast some dark magic shit on Renly’s camp?
Davos had no idea, really. I think he assumed something would happen… probably not that.
— Alan
Jag
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It was supposed to happen and Davos had no clue, he just does what his King commands. You probably should leave the thread now :)
Davos is a pretty practical guy. Up until that point, I don’t think he put much stock in the Red Priestess or her Lord of Light. Remember, he expected the both of them to progress past where the bars were put up. Perhaps he thought there was going to be a clandestine rendevous?
Awesome scene at the end. Totally grossed out my wife, who couldn’t stop saying “EW!” louder and louder the whole time. Mission accomplished HBO! ;-)
That said, the contrast was the scene of Dany at the gates of Quarth. A handful of guards to protect the city’s entire ruling council from a Dothraki group that supposedly has dragons, in front of a wall with nobody on it, and a gate that looks like the back entrance to a minor castle in the Westeros. The whole thing felt very cheap. And the acting, wow, it was like a scene from a Ren Faire. They would have been better off with a scene of Dany simply being welcomed into Quarth with a little parade shot of her group waking/riding up a street lined with curious onlookers and Jorah whispering in her ear not to trust these people, then finally meeting Xaro at the end.
Tyrion’s scenes were once again the best part of the episode. If Peter Dinklage hadn’t already won the Emmy for Season One he’d be a lock for it this season. I also think the actor playing Joffrey is doing a fantastic job, but dear lord, the writers really abused his character this episode. WE GET IT, he’s an evil sadistic little shit. The throne room scene was more than enough to prove that, we didn’t need the whore torture to drive the point home. The defintion of gratuitous.
Chuck
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Perhaps it was there because the scene in the book where Joffrey is killing kittens with his crossbow was cut from the script.
But yeah, much like the sex-scenes: a little over the top.
I think we can make this easy. If you see Roz, you know the scene is going to be gratuitous and at least unecessary.
rowe33
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I agree the Qarth scene seemed to be pretty underwhelming (and poorly acted compared to the usual quality) but those were Unsullied, not just regular guards. Didn’t Dany have a bigger group in the book? Or is that tiny band all that survived the desert trek?
Those probably weren’t Unsullied. Qohor is the city with the all-Unsullied guard.
We may have glimpsed Unsullied in the very first episode, as, in the books, Illyrio had some Unsullied in his household guard, and those guys had the round shields and pointy helms.
rowe33
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Oops getting my Eastern cities all mixed up.
Also, I thought the end scene was really well done. It feels like they’ve been building up Renly as a major 2nd season character so his untimely murder will be pretty shocking to the non-readers. These episodes keep feeling shorter every week…
I haven’t seen the episode yet, but is the scene with Melisandre giving birth to the shadow monster supposed to be in preparation of Renly’s untimely death, or at the other castle, as in the book?
I think the show has changed events to move the Davos smuggling scene to the Renly killing.
Agreed.
And they removed the ‘dead city’ stopping point from Dany’s journey across the desert. These cuts make sense for the medium of a TV show.
I fully expect that all of the subplots involving Stannis’ wife and inept Hands and Robert’s bastard at Storm’s End to be removed/glossed over.
And that would be completely forgivable… the second book is massive, and the show can only branch out in so many directions. Some of the plot lines already feel somewhat thin even if the show as a whole is great.
I had a sudden fear that the shadow-man will possess Brienne, who will then kill Renly. I seriously hope not…
— Alan
You are so in the wrong thread.
