Game of Thrones Season 5 Episode 9 recap: 'They hurt little girls'Why, Stannis? Why? How could you? Do you see these tears? They began when that dear little girl looked up at the pyre and asked for her father to help her, and you did not go to her. YOU DID NOT GO TO HER. Those tears have not stopped since. Carice van Houten as Melisandre. OK, except for the part where - sweet Lord Almighty - the dragon showed up. If I sound garbled, it's because I am as discombobulated by that episode as my foster kittens are by the laser light chase game I downloaded onto the i. Pad for them. Everyone else though.. I want to fall into the arms of my beloved Throners, so we all may weep for darling Shireen, a strong heart torn from us, the wound gaping and bloody. I want to throw back several bottles of Double Strength Braavosi Bitter and give Arya a run for her money in the . I want to ride Drogon rough and hard, maybe whip him a few times, and scratch my nails down his leathery back. Look, I never said I was rational. And reason goes out the window when writing a Raven On recap about such a hardcore episode of Game of Thrones. Spoiler warning: You're on your own, jerks. Season 5, Episode 9: The Dance of Dragons aka . Yes, we've seen girls hurt this season - Sansa being the most heinous example - but there was a concentrated stream of violence against females that stung at my eyes and forced another torrent of rage from my ranty feminist throat. Then I realised that not all will end as Shireen did, pointlessly sacrificed for a man's ambition. In the end, the little girls you hurt will hurt you back. Let's start in Dorne, where the warm, dappled sunlight belies a chilly undertone as Jaime Lannister meets with the Martells. As an experienced man whose illness has left him incapacitated, Prince Doran wants to spare his people the pain of war. His somewhat sister- in- law, Ellaria, wants to spill Lannister blood as easily as she spills wine from a goblet, her drop- the- mic insult when asked to toast King Tommen. Jaime insists he only wants to protect his niece - even from the weather, as he comments on her scanty gown - and he meant no insult to the Martells by sneaking into their country and attempting to kidnap their legal ward. Prince Doran agrees to return Myrcella Water to King's Landing, but only if Prince Trystane goes with her, their engagement stands, and Trystane takes Oberyn's place on Tommen's Small Council. Jaime them gives his word, which I guess it what he does now that it's a bit hard for him to shake on it. Ellaria's response . Doran's response shows him to be just as rattley- snakey, telling her to back off or else. Dorne is a place where little girls don't get hurt. Big girls - well, maybe. Particularly if they're Sand Snakes and like slapping the crap out of each other for fun. While Nymeria and Tyene's Game of Knucklebones showed the Sand Snakes as regular sisters attempting to one up each other, but also as canny and capable fighters potentially capable of being divided just as much as being united. Nymeria blamed her eventual psych- out on luck, but Tyene is wily and possibly the most dangerous of the three (Obama, sorry Obara, is the least vocal, a simple . Is she suggesting Jaime convince Cersei to leave the capital and head south, where they can, ahem . But Ser Alliser Thorne in My Side proved himself to be almost human, raising the tunnel gates to let our favourite incredibly- hot- zombie- hunter back in, along with a few hundred wildlings. And through my career in the media. OK fine, I like to whinge, shut up, we all have stuff going on. But Jon has such a lovely friend in Sam, who points out that there's a fair few people who have Jon to thank for getting them out of the way of a rampaging pack of snarling death monsters. Even STAMPY THE GIANT, who triumphantly returns for what we can only hope will be a sitcom spin- off called . Hilarious. There's a fleeting moment where we see Tormund moving along with Awesome Chick's two orphaned daughters, and goodness, what lies ahead for them. Hopefully Tormund will act as their protector, at least until they're old enough to stab zombie wights for themselves. Finally we see Jon smile at the sight of Olly, his young steward. There is Jon, so battered, so downcast, so unbelievably in need of some tender and pantsless care from a Mother of Kittens. Remember Syrio Forel, Arya's dancing master from Series One? We have to go back that far - Arya believes Ser Meryn killed Syrio, even though we all know the first sword of Braavos is out there somewhere because frankly he was too awesome to die. Regardless, Trant is worth killing just for breathing the seven gods' green air, so I'm pleased we might see movement on this front. He dutifully follows Mace Tyrell around as he sucks up to a pack of bankers, praising their incredibly realistic CGI central branch, and even sings at them. Oh Mace Tyrell, you really are that guy, bless you. Why not pick up a guitar and strum out a few chords that no one asked you to? Arya fobs Jaqen H'ghar off saying the Thin Man is not yet ready to die, giving her more time to follow Trant around Braavos' best brothels. On the creep scale, Trant managed to zoom past Littlefinger with just two words: . His parade of prostitutes actually made me feel physically ill, and when the madam pushed the unsuspecting servant girl - clearly no professional sex worker - in front of him, I retched a little. This is where Game of Thrones gets you, right in the bile ducts, right in the gag reflex. ![]() Find listings of daytime and primetime ABC TV shows, movies and specials. Get links to your favorite show pages. Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 4, Game of Thrones S06E04, Full, GOT S6E4: HBO’s Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 4 release date, IMAX Trailer : Hello guys. Welcome to Episode: your home for interactive, visual stories, where YOU choose your path. If you haven't checked it out yet, start reading PRETTY LITTLE LIARS. This kind of transaction is the one that we all know is happening in the grimy corners of our own dark, ethically bankrupt world. It is not a fantastical one we can distance ourselves from, like the zombies at Hardhome or the dragons at Meereen. All over our world, they hurt little girls. You just know Arya will make herself available for the unpleasant task of being Ser Meryn's whore, no matter how much we scream at her to stay away. All we can hope is that Arya, the Faceless Man, will strike first. If only Shireen had some of Arya's skills. Oh, Shireen, darling girl. Ramsay Bolton's attack on Stannis' camp was so effective they didn't even need to call the actors for that day's filming. How about that flaming horse, hey? Talk about Char Lap, am I right? Too soon? The surprise raid forced Stannis' hand towards a direction hinted at two episodes ago and firmly suppressed by all of us who had come to believe Stannis was kind of an upstanding guy. Well, as upstanding as someone who never smiles and bangs 8. Kate Bush could be. It all started going downhill when he asked Ser Davos to ride back to Castle Black to demand fresh supplies. Stannis needed Ser Davos' powers of persuasion at The Wall. He also needed him out of the way because Ser Davos would never, ever, in a million years, tolerate what was about to happen. In one of the sweetest scenes this season, Davos thanked Shireen for teaching him to read by presenting her with a small hand- carved wooden stag. Delighted, Shireen asked him to carve her a doe too so the stag would have company. She kissed him, and he bashfully told her to stay safe. ![]() Season nine of the reality competition series America's Got Talent premiered on May 27, 2014 and was won by magician Mat Franco. Nick Cannon returned for his sixth. Game of Thrones Season 6 Full HD Free Download. Download Game of Thrones Season 6 Full HD Free with High Speed Downloading. SD Movies Point. Season Overview. How could youby the old gods and new, how could you? Do you see these tears? They began when that dear little girl looked up at the pyre and asked for her father. We also had a scene in which Shireen spoke to her father about the book she was reading, The Dance with Dragons, and how the conflict it outlines came down to people choosing sides in the first place. Oh, but sometimes people have to choose, Stannis says. Sometimes they have to do things they really don't want to, because the have to fulfil their destiny, like, you know, getting the Iron Throne. It is at this point in my notes where I just have the words OH NO. Shireen asks her father if she can help, and golly Moses lord above, it turns out she can. Of course, she should have been specific and asked . Surrounded by soldiers, and yet completely alone, she cries out for her father, who emerges from a tent to watch, but not intervene. Shireen cries louder as Melisandre binds her and starts reciting incantations to the fricking Lord of fricking Light. Stannis' face seems to reflect the pain of Shireen's deeply upsetting screams, but he does nothing. His wife, Selyse, the one who always hated Shireen, tells him it's the right thing to do, the necessary thing. And then something clicks in her, and in a moment she comes close to redeeming herself as a mother. The strangled cries of her child awaken an instinct long since dulled by disappointment that Shireen was not a boy, and she throws herself through the crowd towards the pyre. As Shireen cries . It is gut- wrenching, it is agony, it is wrong and it is just bloody unfair. The betrayal, devastation and rage I feel at Stannis comes with a real sense of heartbreak that this genuinely loving father- daughter relationship (one of the few semi- functional ones on the show until this point) has come undone. All for the sake of Stannis' pride. Question - if Shireen had been a boy, would Stannis have sacrificed a son? He was happy to turn Gendry over to Kate Bush for sex and leeches, but that was his illegitimate nephew. WHAT'S THE LINE, STANNY? All in all, I'm suiting up in my best bad- ass leather spy gear to come after you, Stannis, because in the words of Taylor Swift: Now we got Bad Blood. You know we used to be Mad Love. But take a look what You've Done. Stanny, now we got Bad Blood. And it's nothing Stannis can get past either. Bandaids don't fix bulletholes, as our Lady T- Swizzle says. If you live like that, you live with ghosts. And Stannis is going to be haunted so much by his crime he'll have both Macbeth and Hamlet saying . Thanks Dad, I know it's been a close call sometimes. I promise I'll try to remember your birthday this year. The upshot of all of this is with the sacrifice giving a boost to Stannis' army, he is going to lay siege to Winterfell and the Boo! Boltons and I DON'T KNOW WHO TO SUPPORT. As Shireen said, maybe I shouldn't pick a side. Maybe they can all stab each other's bollocks off and rot in the fetid outpourings. As long as Sansa and Ser Davos live, everyone else can be a feast for crows. Because It's Riverdale, Finding Jason Blossom's Murderer Wasn't the Big Reveal of the Night. We finally found out who killed Jason Blossom last night. Of course, why he was murdered is still up in the air and a whole new mystery popped up. But none of that matched the episode’s big reveal, which snatched the crown of weirdness from any other contender. And, in this show, that’s some seriously stiff competition. There was never a chance that F. P. Jones (Skeet Ulrich), Jughead’s dad, was the actual killer of Jason Blossom. And if you had to pick someone to be responsible, you’d pin it on one of the wonderfully bananas Blossoms, right? Either Clifford (Barclay Hope) or Penelope (Nathalie Bolt) seemed creepy enough that they’d kill their son, although Veronica’s (Camila Mendes) imprisoned dad Hiram, a bitter foe of the Blossoms, was also a candidate to have hired someone to do the dirty work. We spent way too much time with the gothic horror that is the Blossom family—or, as Alice Cooper (M. For a bit, Cliff was being relatively reasonable and Penelope was acting unhinged, so it looked like it could be her. Then Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) asks her mother what it was that made Jason run away. If Clifford didn’t care about his relationship with Polly Cooper (Tiera Skovbye), then maybe it was a big secret about the family’s maple syrup business? And that’s when Penelope grabs her daughter Cheryl and drags her out to a barn (???) near the house filled with maple syrup and yells, “There it is. There is the sticky, dark, dirty truth. Maple syrup. Drown in it, why don’t you?”This, at the time, made even less sense than usual for Riverdale. Did Penelope mean the drugs when she had her breakdown? The Blossoms are so screwed up, she could have just been losing it. Also, oh no, is the local economy of Riverdale in trouble because of a drop in the maple syrup market? Is that why Cliff turned to running drugs? Will it ever stop being funny that everyone on this show treats maple syrup with deadly seriousness? So, at the end of the episode another Blossom is dead—now poor Cheryl’s lost her brother and her father—and Jughead’s dad is cleared. And yet, the best and weirdest revelation of the night had to do with maple syrup. Betty’s dad Hal Cooper (Lochlyn Munro) sneaks back into his own home to be met by his wife with her gun (what the hell, Alice?), where he explains to Betty and Alice that the reason the Coopers and the Blossoms loathe each other isn’t just business, it’s blood. Betty’s great- grandfather, who, remember, was swindled out of his share of the maple syrup business and killed by Cheryl’s great- grandfather, was actually a Blossom. They were brothers.(Also, everyone says “grandpappy” with the same gravitas that they say “maple syrup” and I have no idea how the cast makes it through any of this.)So the Coopers picked their name to separate their branch from the Blossom family tree. Unfortunately for Polly, genetics don’t change with estrangement, so Polly and Jason’s relationship was a form of incest. And since the Blossoms are a Victorian horror story of a family, that revelation leads the Coopers to go get Polly back tout suite (prior to Cliff’s hanging). Of course, the Blossoms are full- on weird about this, too. Penelope’s got the same view on it that the ancient Egyptians had, saying that “Nothing could be more purely Blossom” than Polly and Jason’s babies. Cliff says to spare him the “middle- class morality” because it wasn’t like they were brother and sister, just distant cousins. Actually, I think Cliff was doing that; I think Penelope was fully on board with a Blossom- Blossom hybrid child. She is clearly missing a bunch of screws and it sucks for Cheryl that this is her only remaining family member right now. I’m predicting Cheryl moving in with the Coopers in season two. She clearly cannot stay with Penelope. The death of Cliff and the continued issue of Hiram Lodge will probably take up much of the finale next week, since this episode feels like it closed out the major driving factor for the season. So no doubt the last episode has a big old twist and cliffhanger in it. Most of this episode was about the kids figuring out the adults, which meant it was a lot less about them than it was their reactions to their parents’ various complex plans and insane actions. Betty’s “I’m a Blossom” face sums it up: Hopefully, the season finale re- centers everything on the kids. Random Shout- Out: Kevin’s Serpent boyfriend takes a bus to San Junipero, the title of and location featured in the best episode of the cult- favorite show Black Mirror’s most recent season. Which is an interesting shout- out and leaves me with all sorts of questions about how the Riverdale and Black Mirror universes interact.
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