tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post5963463640470498037..comments2024-03-28T14:54:12.661-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Game of Thrones: MockingbirdBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-46946878727943058672014-05-21T10:17:41.861-04:002014-05-21T10:17:41.861-04:00Regarding the scene with Daenerys and Daario, reme...Regarding the scene with Daenerys and Daario, remember how she changed her relationship with the Khal by first changing the nature of their sex (IIRC, first by learning the words to say she wanted to see his face)? Whatever her motivations may have been, I expect she easily noticed the change it had on their relationship everywhere else - if she hadn't already anticipated them.<br /><br />So I wouldn't be surprised if part of her motivation with Daario, both with the sex and how she initiated it, stems from her reasoned need to control him when she lacks faith in him. What isn't clear is how aware she is that Daario might eventually do likewise with her as she did with the Khal.I-ku-unoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-9389418922531609352014-05-20T18:59:33.350-04:002014-05-20T18:59:33.350-04:00Sir Friendzone, just give it up man. Daenerys isn&...Sir Friendzone, just give it up man. Daenerys isn't the same innocent girl you fell in love with. There's plenty of other fish in the sea, time to shove off and find clearer waters my friend.<br /><br />Further into the world of death Arya goes. The ease with which she took that man's life. Where will she end up by the end of this series? I can't say but I doubt it's gonna be anywhere good. Maybe she'll have her revenge, but sill it have been worth it standing on a mountain of corpses. Hopefully there will be some kinda turnaround somewhere down the line, but this series is so dark it doesn't seem likely. On the plus side, it seems like everyone else is killing off the people on her list for her. At this rate all she'll need to fight is The Hound.<br /><br />So, Littlefinger's pretty gross yeah? I guess years of running a whorehouse have left him a bit rusty on the finer arts of seducing a woman, but telling a young girl she could've been your daughter and then planting one on her doesn't seem to be the most sexy approach. He did kill for her though, some chicks in Westeros dig that.<br /><br />I feel like when the Wildlings finally arrive at The Wall it's just going to be very awkward for everyone involved. Like what do you say when a giant's finally crushing the gates in it's bare hands as a hundred thousand barbarians rush in? "Well, Lord Snow, the giants aren't THAT big."Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11265555641080269765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-48189256801704379832014-05-20T11:36:35.894-04:002014-05-20T11:36:35.894-04:00Excellent first review!
I watched Games of Thrones...Excellent first review!<br />I watched Games of Thrones and Orphan Black on the same day and found it interesting that both had scenes where a powerful woman basically forces a man to have sex with her. For Once, Games of Thrones was the more subtle of the two.<br />I loved Hot Pie appearing again, but where is Gendry?<br />Jonathan, I think you're right that Littlefinger wants to marry Sansa and gain control of Winterfell as well as the Eyrie, as most of the characters at this point believe that all the Stark men are dead and Sansa is heir to Winterfell. Tyrion also mentioned it when trying to bribe Bronn into being his champion - he suggested carving a territory out of the Northern lands for Bronn. <br />There were so many good scenes in this episode - Arya and the Hound, Brienne and Pod, Tyrion and Oberon - you don't even realise how many characters don't appear. No Tywin or Cersi, for example.<br />I know where this is going, having read the first three books, and it's going to be great.<br />Otherwyrldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02506842114953905519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-51015076223465168622014-05-20T06:49:03.435-04:002014-05-20T06:49:03.435-04:00Great to have a review from a non-book reader! I t...Great to have a review from a non-book reader! I tend to have to avoid speculation cause, well, that wouldn't really work.<br /><br />Loved Hot Pie coming back. I love even more that he's still alive. Part of me hopes the final episode of the final season shows everyone having massacred each other/been killed by dragons, with just Hot Pie standing in the rubble and bodies, the lone survivor! (OK, not really. But I hope he stays alive!)Juliettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203399623895589924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-1965026569923712292014-05-20T04:17:33.105-04:002014-05-20T04:17:33.105-04:00I don't even think the scene auntie Lysa made ...I don't even think the scene auntie Lysa made at the Moon Door forced Littlefinger to act ahead of schedule - I think it was part of Littlefingers plan. When he kissed Sansa, he immediately looked up, to the place where Lysa was standing. He knew she was there. He wanted her to act out, to give him an excuse for killing her. And I think it is also all an act, to win over Sansa. Maybe he eventually wants to marry her (thinking Tyrion will be out of the picture soon), to gain controll over Winterfell as well as the Vale. Does that make any sense?Jonathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-34867709550304305292014-05-20T04:17:13.914-04:002014-05-20T04:17:13.914-04:00I don't even think the scene auntie Lysa made ...I don't even think the scene auntie Lysa made at the Moon Door forced Littlefinger to act ahead of schedule - I think it was part of Littlefingers plan. When he kissed Sansa, he immediately looked up, to the place where Lysa was standing. He knew she was there. He wanted her to act out, to give him an excuse for killing her. And I think it is also all an act, to win over Sansa. Maybe he eventually wants to marry her (thinking Tyrion will be out of the picture soon), to gain controll over Winterfell as well as the Vale. Does that make any sense?Jonathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-75223849442947218012014-05-20T00:24:26.093-04:002014-05-20T00:24:26.093-04:00Excellent review, JD!
These past few episodes hav...Excellent review, JD!<br /><br />These past few episodes have felt like a lot of set-up to me, but that might be because I have some sense of what to look forward to in the rest of this season. So it's the little things that I love--this week, it was Hot Pie. I giggled my way through his speech about kidney pie. Josie Kafkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17892717530356699008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-62644298168601394102014-05-19T17:00:00.236-04:002014-05-19T17:00:00.236-04:00I doubt that Littlefinger will have to worry about...I doubt that Littlefinger will have to worry about Robin. He is still too young to rule, and as his stepfather Littlerfinger will now be Lord Protector of the Vale. I'm sure this is what he planned all along. He probably had Lysa's death all planned out before he even left King's Landing. Her attempt to Moon Door Sansa simply forced him to act ahead of schedule. Mark Greighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12984193299389764649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-68735572917849718852014-05-19T16:43:31.645-04:002014-05-19T16:43:31.645-04:00I'm afraid Game of Thrones is showing me to be...I'm afraid Game of Thrones is showing me to be a psychopath. Nice of them to make you disregard Robin as a mad little psycho, only to catch yourself enjoying the sight of Lysa flying every bit as gleefully. Oh, how I laughed and laughed! Not even a tinge of disgust or discomfort as with Joffrey earlier in the season.<br />I even smiled when Arya stabbed that man so matter-of-factly.<br />And now I'm seriously horrified of myself for enjoying murders this much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-52429906043987968702014-05-19T15:03:42.316-04:002014-05-19T15:03:42.316-04:00Nice review! It's always fascinating to read t...Nice review! It's always fascinating to read the musings of someone who hasn't read the books ;)<br /><br />Actually we learned why the Hound is afraid of fire back in season 1. Petyr tells the story of the Mountain and the Hound to Sansa during a tournament. Amalienoreply@blogger.com