Jorah & Tyrion is another good pairing of characters that I've been looking forward to revisiting.
Joe Blankenship
2025-03-04 02:26:26 +0000 UTC
Love Margery giving it to Cersei!
Jonathan Blaze
2025-02-09 06:54:18 +0000 UTC
This episode highlights why I hate Margery and also highlights people's hypocrisy towards women. Margery is every bit as conniving and trifling as Cersei but the ladies have ZERO empathy for Cersei while justifying the evils Marg pulls.
Jess
2025-02-08 17:58:34 +0000 UTC
After a horrible day yesterday, listening to you two chatting while watching game of thrones was exactly what I needed to take my brain away from reality for a while. And I've still got the next episode to watch tonight! Thank you! Occasionally you might be more appreciated than you realise!
Nick Grundy
2025-02-07 16:23:46 +0000 UTC
Arya and Jon Snow have a very deep relationship and love for each other in the books. They didn't really have time to establish that in the show in the very short time they were at Winterfell together in the first episode, they just had that small scene where Jon gave her Needle and it didn't necessarily make it clear that their relationship was stronger than any of the other siblings'.
But in the books, from the beginning they're established as having a close connection. They're the only of Ned's children that look like him in the books, dark hair, grey eyes, long face. While all the other Stark children, Robb, Sansa, Bran and Rickon, look like Catelyn and the Tullys, auburn hair with blue eyes.
And they both feel like outsiders, children who don't fit into society, Jon as a bastard, Arya as a tomboy. They keep thinking of each other in the books, more and more as the books go on, missing each other and wanting to come back to each other. It's all very sweet. So Needle is even more important to Arya, it's a reminder of Jon, and by extension Winterfell and her Stark identity.
They really tried to give it everything they had in that scene where Arya debates throwing away Needle, in terms of trying to emphasize the emotional importance, with the sunset wide shot, emotional Stark music and Arya welling up, but it's no wonder that it can't really bring across what they never established. In the show, Needle is mostly just a fun, unique sword and you might even have forgotten that Jon gave it to her if you just watched season 1 once.
And that's not necessarily a criticism of the show, it's hard to convey vague feelings of longing and the inner life of characters more generally in a tv show, especially when, like I said, they just didn't have time to establish that connection in the first place. But that's why they made that scene such a big deal.
Christophe
2025-02-07 14:16:10 +0000 UTC
This time watching the show, the bridge city with buildings on top of buildings reminded me of a really great game, Spiritfarer, where you ride around on a boat with spirits and build houses and orchards and gardens and kitchens.