Game_of_thrones_season_4_finale_a_recap_and_discussion. Dan Kois: Hey Willa!
We’ve been talking about Game of Thrones all season on the Slate Plus members’ only podcast. But now the season’s over and I thought we should IM about the characters we lost this episode and the season as a whole—and also weigh in, as we do weekly on the podcast, on the Worst Person in Westeros. (Cue Arya: “You’re the worst shit in the Seven Kingdoms!”) Which corpse do you want to talk about first: The strangled one, the crossbowed one, the soon-to-be corpse with the broken leg and no ear, or the one blown up by a teensy elf who throws fireballs? Willa Paskin: I think he was actually mercy-slaughtered by his sister, but let’s start with him: Jojen, the one I care least about.
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Martin has done it again: There was another game-board shake-up in Westeros during Sunday’s Game of Thrones finale, as the country’s acting ruler Tywin Lannister took a crossbow bolt to the chest at the hands of his long tormented son Tyrion. The dark twist was compounded by Tyrion strangling his ex-lover Shae for her apparent betrayal — testifying against him at his trial and then sleeping with his father. After being falsely accused of murdering King Joffrey, fans have wondered nearly all season if Tyrion would escape execution.
Now we know the answer: Yes, but not without committing deeds that will haunt him forever. Showrunners on those season 4 finale twists. Warning: Game of Thrones finale spoilers below…Game of Thrones arguably concluded season 4 with its strongest finale yet, which is what showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss promised last week.
In fact, the duo are so proud of this hour, it’s the only episode this season that they are submitting for Emmy consideration in the writing category. Below, the showrunners talk about a few of the finale’s twists and turns, with more to come tomorrow. Game of Thrones, Mockingbird, review: 'treading water' I’m not sure what the rules are concerning penises on television these days (and you can make your own Top Gear joke) but as Game of Thrones is the current standard bearer for TV nudity we can use it as a case study.
And this week’s episode strongly suggests that men aren’t required to reveal as much as women. I draw your attention to the moment when Daario stole in to Daenerys’s boudoir and she decided that yes, actually, she was feeling a little frisky, and demanded he derobe. All we got was a scarred torso, and then the camera went all bashful and cut to buttocks. If it had been a woman in a king's bedchamber, I would bet you all the gold in the Iron Bank that the camera would have remained full frontal. Game of Thrones, The Laws of Gods and Men, review: 'Tyrion goes thermonuclear' The excellent production design amply conveyed the message: the banker’s thrones were oversized monoliths, unflashy, but bigger than any throne you’ve ever seen, like a Lego man sitting on a brick.
The room was also vast, no dancing girls or frippery. We’ve had intimations in recent episodes but basically, this one static tableau told you that the Iron Bank runs everything. Compared to the bank, family feuds, power politics, and individual aspirations are all so much fluff. In other words, it’s just like the real world. We’ve all been there – the humiliation of having to admit that no matter how smart your suit and smooth your patter, your income is piddling.
Game of Thrones, First of His Name, review: 'Westeros belongs to the women' Although on the face of it Game of Thrones – a series in which people break necks with their bare hands, fight bears with their bare hands and sometimes, as in the unfortunate case of Jaime Lannister, lose their own bare hand – is hardly a feminist utopia, increasingly it is becoming a woman’s world.
Charlotte Runcie has written with brilliance and brio about feminism in the show here before, but as an unreconstructed schlub that’s way beyond my ken. I’m referring to the female performances – in the main they’re belters and though last night’s episode was more about plot positioning than roistering whoopee action, it acted as a showcase for several of the best. Game of Thrones, Oathkeeper, review: 'repellent scumbags to suit every taste' Ultimately though these questionable confessions – Tyrion denying it to Jaime; Littlefinger and Olenna confessing it to Sansa and Margaery respectively; Cersei drinking heavily and blaming everyone she’d ever met for things that haven’t even happened yet - meant that a large part of the episode was spent wading through expository two-handers, telling not showing.
I appreciate that Game of Thrones is complicated – a lot of games, quite a few thrones, only so much spare synaptic capacity late on an evening to try to remember which Ser hornswoggled whom in which kingdom. But my sense is that away from the bravura set-pieces there’s been a little too much hand-holding this series. Plus, just when I thought we were in for some buckling of swash last night, when Jaime gave Brienne a sparkling new sword she went and called it ‘Oathkeeper’. It sounds like a muesli. Game of Thrones becomes a murder mystery: but who did it? Motive: Before his death, Joffrey had just spent the whole of the episode attempting to humiliate Tyrion in ever more elaborate ways, even when Joffrey was supposed to be concentrating on his own wedding.
Previously, Tyrion won the Battle of the Blackwater for Joffrey and got none of the credit. And Tyrion hates pretty much every member of his own family apart from Jaime, so really he should be prime suspect if any of them suddenly snuff it. Plus the victim himself believed him his killer – a wobbly finger was pointed at the dwarf in Joffrey’s final moments. The Game of Thrones Re-Casting Nobody Is Talking About. This post covers plot details from George R.R.
Martin’s books. Please don’t read if you don’t want to know anything about what’s coming on Game of Thrones. Everyone’s been talking about two major re-castings in Game of Thrones this year. Upcoming GAME OF THRONES Episodes Reveal Big Plot Plans and Maybe-Spoilers. By Alicia Lutes on April 22, 2014 As anyone who watches Game of Thrones knows, the most mundane of details (and often the episode titles) can give insight into big things to come on the fantasy epic’s horizon.
And now that HBO has revealed the episode titles for May’s forthcoming installments of the series, we’ve got a few more details to dissect and speculate on. Now, remember, there are spoilers ahead, so don’t get crabby if you see something you didn’t want to. Why the “Game of Thrones” rape scene caused fans to respond in the worst possible way. This piece originally appeared on Pajiba. (Spoilers for Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad below.) By the final episodes of Breaking Bad, there was no doubt in most people’s minds that Walter White was a bad man. 'Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer teases what's next for Margaery. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Oath-Keeper.
STRONG AS OATH: Brienne holds down the ground with her mighty moral compass on 'Game of Thrones' Quests, rousing speeches, White Walkers, conquests, direwolves, dragons and a pyramid to top it all off. This week's episode was such a full-fledged fantasy show I half expected elves and orcs to battle in Mirkwood for a ring of power. And yeah, I know we didn't actually see the dragons, but we got everything else, and I'm sure they were around there somewhere. It was an hour of exciting high-fantasy elements in a series that typically delights in brutally subverting such tropes.
Not that every single scene was full of swords-and-sorcery glory, of course. Meereen: We open with a few familiar Thrones devices: images of fire and a literacy lesson. So to penetrate Meereen, Dany has Grey Worm lead an amphibious commando unit of former slaves to sneak into the city. GET EW ON YOUR TABLET: Subscribe today and get instant access! Which leaves us feeling let down that more wasn't shown. Game of Thrones Season 4: Episode #3 Preview (HBO) Game of Thrones Season 4: Ice and Fire: A Foreshadowing.