I am no fan of the self-proclaimed One True King, but I have to say that, in the midst of all these Wildlings and Crows and Giants and White Walkers, he and Ser Davos really do class up the joint. It’s never comfortable watching Jon Snow attempt to think, so maybe it’s for the best that Stannis’s forces chose that moment to converge on Mance’s camp.
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It’s not much of a plan, and it gets even less attractive when Mance reveals that he’s not actually looking to conquer the Seven Kingdoms-he just wants to park his people behind the Wall for the duration of the winter everyone’s been warning us about for four full seasons now. His goal is to get inside the King of the North’s tent, grab something sharp, and plunge it into Mance’s throat-whereupon, he knows full well, he will inevitably be killed very painfully and slowly. Speaking of the Wall, Jon Snow doesn’t even pause to mourn Ygritte before setting out from it in search of Mance Rayder. Maybe it will cross paths with the one carrying Arya north. I just wonder where that ship carrying Tyrion and, once the bells tolled, the spider-master himself is headed. Whatever hold Cersei may have reestablished over him, it didn’t stop Jaime from plotting with Varys to rescue Tyrion.
I loved her line about how her haters are “so small I can’t even see them,” but what are we to make of this reconciliation between her and Jaime? And how about the symbolism of him sweeping away the book of knightly accomplishments to take her right there on the table? I don’t know how Tywin managed to kid himself this long, but Cersei is tired of pretending. Maybe the only drawback to Tywin’s death is that we never got to see him agonize over the revelation that Cersei and Jaime really are the type to keep it in the family. Poor, poor Tyrion! How does he recover from this experience-the treachery, the imprisonment, the guilt over murdering the love of his life and his own dad, however badly both of them deserved it? And how ironic that it was the word “whore” that gave him the strength to pull the trigger against dear old dad? Even after that double betrayal, even after murdering her himself, he still couldn’t hear a bad word about good old Shae. (Granted, she had also made a few attempts to slash his throat.)īut poor Tyrion.
And what can you say about Shae’s betrayal? This is a character I used to like, even admire, but after catching her in bed with Tywin, I felt remarkably unconflicted about Tyrion’s decision to strangle her to death with her own necklace. Not even a son desperate for his father’s permanently withheld love could believe those lies about how he never intended to allow the execution to happen. Not that anyone could blame him! Tyrion, who-it’s perhaps worth pointing out-has now killed both of his parents-had every reason in the world to kill Tywin. Just ask Tyrion Lannister, who shot his father point-blank with a crossbow while the old man was sitting on the toilet.
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