In tonight's Game of Thrones
episode, "Mockingbird", we learned a great deal of things but what
stuck out during this episode was that in a world “built by killers”
Littlefinger might be the most terrifying of them all and Tyrion might still
have one friend in the world. We know the official theme
song of the Lannister clan is the Rains of Castamere but it easily could have
been Gil Scott Heron’s classic “Home Is Where The Hatred Is” as with our scenes
with the shows unofficial hero reveals just how deep the hatred runs in house
Lannister.
The show began with Jamie
Lannister, super pissed, berating his baby brother for taking a dump on the
deal struck with their father which would have sent Tyrion to the wall and made
Jamie heir and lord of Casterly Rock. Both fully aware that their father was
getting his way if Tyrion would have stuck to the plan, both seem pretty
pleased that they managed to screw their father who has in many ways screw them
up beyond counting.
Tyrion’s next visit was from Bronn, dress uncharacteristically smart and well bathed. Only one conclusion
could be deduced from his apparent station: he sold Tyrion. Sure enough we
learn that the sellsword had married into money thanks to Cersei epic push to
see her brother die from anything but natural causes. While Tyrion was
disappointed by Bronn’s actions, Bronn, reminded him that he is a sellsword
which Tyrion understood as Bronn declines Tyrion call to go up against The Mountain.
In our last scene with young lion, Peter Dinklage once again shows why many are already pulling for him to win another Emmy as his scene with Pedro Pascal's Oberyn Martell was a zinger. The great people behind this great show do a great job across the board but for casting they deserve special praise as barring a few minor missteps, the casting has been excellent.
Pedro Pascal has been a brilliant addition to the cast as he has been menacing and unpredictable but thanks to his great acting, we understand all this cloaks a deep sadness caused by a wrong he's determined to atone for.
The Mountain, as many have referred
during the course of this show’s has a fearsome reputation and we get gruesome glimpse
at how he earned as he slicies and dices his way through a gang of King Landing’s
prisoners. Cersei has a very very short conversation with the beast of a man which
he barely says anything besides grunting “who do I fight” and shaking his head
when Cersei ask him does he care if who going up against and if you were him,
you wouldn’t either.
The show has run through the
gamut trying to cast The Mountain but it looks like they struck gold as this
one more than fits the bill as he looks like world strongest man champion and
the tallest man rolled into one gruesome ensemble of brutality and brute
strength.
Scenes with Arya and the
hound have often been among the best bit of a shoe full of them and “Mockingbird”
continued the trend. Were with Arya and The Hound riding through the war besotted
countryside where the Hobbesian nightmare War against all has taken place and
life has become nasty brutish and short.
The duo happen across a man
with a nasty gut wound laying against a stonewall apparently waiting for death
to take him away from his troubles. After a brief chat about nothingness and
hard work involed with death, The Hound puts the stricken man out of his misery
and jams a blade into his heart ejecting from he hell that become a whole
continent.
However, it not too long after
the hound is pounced on and bitten by an attacker which he deals with swift
brutality. Another attacker, a familiar face from season two, mainly for his
threat to Arya to “fuck her bloody” which comes back to haunt him as Arya, expertly,
plunges needle into his heart.
Scenes at the nightswatch
have been among the weakest of Game of Thrones and this week’s installemt was
no different. We learn nothing beyond what we already know such as the wildings
are coming, the nightswatch are preparing and Ser Alister Thorne unbridled hate
for Jon Snow is endless as well as unjustified.
It was hate at first sight
for Thorne from the moment Jon Snow arrived at castle and showed off his
superior combat skills. This week, he continued sustained but so far fruitless
campaign to undermine Jon’s rise among the nightswatch ranks even to the point
of shutting down ideas of defence which make perfect sense given the crows are
heavily outnumbered and are under serious of being overrun on both sides of the
wall.
While short scene wasn’t a
bad scene it was largely pointless as we know Thorne hates Jon Snow’s guts and
we largely didn’t learn anything other than Jon Snow had come back from his
excursion after taking care of the mutineers in “First 0f His Name”.
"My
sweet silly wife, I have only loved one woman, only one my entire life,"
he told her. But just as she took this as a declaration of love, he clarified,
"Your sister [Catelyn Stark],"
If Game of Thrones season 4
belonged to any character it would be hard to argue against Littlefinger as
while we always knew he was a dangerous schemer but in “Mockingbird”, we saw
the true depth of murderous ambition. This season we’ve learned in Baelish’s
role in starting the war of five kings, the ensuing mayhem and finally of his
major role in the poisoning of king Joffrey as we saw this master chess player
move pieces around to his liking. However in this episode we see him for the
time ever literally move piece off the with his own as he kills Lysa Arryn by making her “fly” out
the moonroof.
I’m no master storyteller but
the way they moved so quickly to establish once again that Lysa and Rob Arryn
aren’t exactly the most stable people in the seven kingdoms mad it quite
obvious from my standpoint that Lysa Arryn and son her were dead as fried
chicken the moment we laid eyes on them.
Save Theon/Reek, the gods ( otherwise known as
David Benioff and D.B Weiss) and have been ridiculously cruel to Sansa who has
suffered hell and much worse at the hands of the Lannisters and without
Littlefinger’s “intervention”, would had have more of the same physical and
mental torture she endured at King’s Landing. While no one will cry for mad
Lysa, it’s another loss of a family member, a family member who largely responsible
for misery of a whole continent and much of her own, but a family member
nonetheless.
Then again, with family like
that, who really needs enemies?
All in all, a pretty solid
episode. Till next week!!!
Episode Rating:
8/10
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