Sugar Puffs? Star Wars? or Game of Thrones? Raff picks the latter, but was it a wise choice? Find out in her review of The
Laws of Gods and Men.
So, today, I woke up at
08:30, the same as I do every Monday. I went downstairs, got my
morning brew and my cereal, and then I went back upstairs, booted up
my Apple TV to watch this week’s episode of Game of Thrones.
The (what feels like 5
minutes of) credits started and then I woke up 2 hours later covered
in tea and sugar puffs. I don’t know what happened. I must have
fallen back asleep.
At this point, my
impromptu nap was not a reflection of the episode. I was just
knackered because I have been watching Angel before bed and it has
been an emotional roller-coaster for me. The night before last, so
much happened that I just curled into a ball and rocked gently
backwards and forwards. It has destroyed me.
But you are not here
to hear about Angel (in fact starting this Thursday we'll be looking back at Angel in depth from episode 1 - Ed), you're here because you want to know what I
thought about this week’s episode – “The Laws of God and Men.”
For the first time
since I have been writing these reviews, what I thought about the
episode is not good. I was bored. I found myself playing Angry Birds
Star Wars on my iPhone during the episode. So, maybe my great sugar
puff nap was a premonition.
When the episode
started, I had high hopes for it. We were looking down onto a boat,
with what I thought were dragons flying around it. They weren’t
dragons. They were seagulls. Devastated!
Stannis Baratheon
What we were looking at
was a boat with Stannis and Davos on. Yawn. Stannis is so boring. He
is my Jar Jar Binks of the Game of Thrones world. He was going to the
Iron Bank to ask for money for his war. Not surprisingly, since
there are no DNA tests in this world, they thought he was a joke and
refused him. After 10 minutes of icy staring and a flash of Davos’s
fingerless hand, they gave him some money.
I just thought this
scene was a joke. The Iron Bank would not be persuaded by a speech
from the Onion Knight, who is a smuggler. I did like Davos’s bottle
and sometimes naïve cheek, when he answered the bankers back and
corrected them about the difference between a pirate and a smuggler.
Reek/Theon Greyjoy
This week we were
treated to Yara Greyjoy trying to sneak up on Ramsey Snow whilst he
is, shall we say, “distracted,” which is an immense failure. She
tries to get Reek out of the dog cages and make him see that he is
Theon, but Theon is lost somewhere deep inside Reek and he runs back
to his cage.
Ramsey appears
shirtless and covered in blood splatter, which the detective in me
thought; arterial blood splatter means he has slashed the throats of
her men. Yes, I know, I watch too many cop shows.
I hate Ramsey Snow so
much. If this was real life, that dude would be in a mental
institution right now! He is seriously off his rocker. Then he went
on to give poor Reek a sponge bath whilst he tries to talk him into
playing the role of Theon again. I was so disturbed by this scene
that if my sugar puffs had survived the morning, I would have had to
push them away.
Daenerys Targaryen
This was my favourite
scene of the episode. We got to see Drogon. You all should know by
now that I love Dragons and I want my own. The fact that we saw
Drogon fry some goats didn’t even put me off. I love Drogon so much
and I love the way that he pops up when you least expect him to. I do
wonder about the other two dragons though. We hardly see them.
Daenerys has to
compensate the farmer “thrice over” for his goat loss, and then
she seems to blink in terms of her rules about the masters being
crucified, by letting one be buried. I think this episode showed that
even though she is smart about rules and has a sense of morality, she
still has a lot to learn about being Queen. Is this a clue about what
is to come?
In reference to
Daenarys, I loved it when Cersei completely disregarded her in the
meeting with the Small Council. I hope this leads the way for Dragon
fried Cersei.
******SPOILERS********
Book readers, wasn’t
Jorah Mormont banished by now in the books? Varys did mention in this
episode that Jorah is his spy, so maybe that is to come, but I
thought that happened early on in Mareen. I could be mistaken though.
If this is another thing that the TV show is changing for the
‘butterfly effect,’ then this has massive connotations for other
storylines!
******SPOILERS********
Tyrion’s Trial
I loved Tyrion’s
speech at the end when he demands trial by combat. Peter Dinklage was
epic. He looked so angry and evil that it was brilliant. I wanted to
cheer because Tyrion seems to have his mojo back. He has seemed
broken in the last few episodes.
I did enjoy that Jamie
stood up to his Dad and made a deal in exchange for Tyrion’s life,
which was probably Tywin’s aim in the first place. Cersai managed
to get on my nerves even though she hardly said anything and just sat
there scowling.
Seeing Tywin sit on the
Iron Throne just reminded me that he is the one pulling the strings.
Poor Tommen is just a pawn and has no idea what is happening around
him. It just made me shiver with dread. It was kinda like the feeling
that I got when we first saw Anakin Skywalker turn into Darth Vader.
I had a Star Wars
marathon yesterday.
When Shae takes the
stand and testifies against Tyrion, I was enraged! She looked
guiltless. When Tyrion asked her not to do it, I almost cried. How
could she? Even if she had been coerced into testifying, you would
see some regret in her eyes. There was nothing. It was like she
wanted to do it. She knocks me sick.
Rating
Even though I was bored
for most of this episode, I do think that it is still better than
other things on TV right now. So, I am still going to give it 7/10
There are only 4
episodes remaining in this season now and I'm left wondering how they are
going to leave it. Sometimes, I think that they are going through the
books so fast, but other times I think there is so much left to
happen.
Check out the trailer for next week’s episode, Mockingbird.
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