Tommen is crowned King of the Seven Kingdoms. Cersei builds her case against Tyrion. Sansa and Lord Baelish arrive at the Eyrie. The Night's Watch attacks Craster's Keep.Tommen is crowned King of the Seven Kingdoms. Cersei builds her case against Tyrion. Sansa and Lord Baelish arrive at the Eyrie. The Night's Watch attacks Craster's Keep.Tommen is crowned King of the Seven Kingdoms. Cersei builds her case against Tyrion. Sansa and Lord Baelish arrive at the Eyrie. The Night's Watch attacks Craster's Keep.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the first time that Nikolaj Coster-Waldau receives top billing. However, he is only seen in passing and has no speaking lines.
- GoofsIn the fight scene of Karl and Jon, Karl spits heavily at Jon's face. In next scene, there is no trace of spit.
- Quotes
[the Hound wakes up to find that Arya has disappeared. He finds her by a river, practicing her "water dancing"]
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: The hell you doing?
Arya Stark: Practicing.
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: What, ways to die?
Arya Stark: No one's gonna kill me.
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: They will if you dance around like that. That's no way to fight.
Arya Stark: It's not fighting, it's water dancing.
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: [laughs] "Dancing"? Maybe you ought to put on a dress. Who taught you that shite?
Arya Stark: The greatest swordsman who ever lived: Syrio Forel, the First Sword to the Sealord of Braavos.
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: [scoffs] Braavos. Greasy-haired little bastard, was he? They all are.
Arya Stark: [angrily] What do you know about anything?
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: I bet his hair's greasier than Joffrey's cunt.
Arya Stark: It was not!
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: "Was"? He dead?
Arya Stark: Yes!
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: How?
Arya Stark: He was killed!
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: Who by?
Arya Stark: Meryn Trant! That's why Ser Meryn's on my...
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: [incredulously] Meryn Trant? The greatest swordsman who ever lived, killed by Meryn fucking Trant?
Arya Stark: He was outnumbered!
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: Any boy whore with a sword could beat three Meryn Trants.
Arya Stark: Syrio didn't HAVE a sword! OR armor, just a stick!
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: [sarcastically] The greatest swordsman who ever lived didn't have a sword?
[the Hound laughs]
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: All right, you have a sword. Let's see what he taught you. Go on, do it for your Braavosi friend. Dead like all the rest of your friends.
[Arya lunges at the Hound's chest with her sword, but it lodges in his armor. He backhands her across the face, knocking her to the ground, then picks up her sword and points it at her throat]
Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: Your friend's dead, and Meryn Trant's not, 'cause Trant had armor. And a big fucking sword.
[the Hound raises Arya's sword, looks at it for a moment, then hands it back to her]
- ConnectionsReferenced in Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall (2017)
While this season has already given us classics like The Lion and the Rose and Oathkeeper, I feel that this episode one just knocked it out of the park. Every single sequence this episode was extremely well thought out, but I'm going to focus on the three most important things in this episode:
Cersei- at first, I was extremely confused by how she was acting, as the things she was saying were extremely considerate of others, not sounding like Cersei at all. I saw a lot of outrage about this on Westeros.org. However, upon rewatch, I quickly realized that she was manipulating the judges to make so as to gain support at the trial. This was amazingly subtle and very well thought out by D&D. Side note: Oberyn Martell is easily turning out to be one of the most memorable characters of the show.
Eyrie- everything that went on at the Eyrie was amazing. Aidan Gillen was actually really good this time around, and Kate Dicke was great as Lysa Arryn (glad to have her back). The imagery is truly spectacular. Of course, the highlight of these scenes was Sophie Turner- Sansa has become an amazing character this season, and Sophie Turner has completely aced every scene she's been in. The crying scene was particularly memorable.
Finally, Craster's Keep- while some might have viewed this as filler, I found this sequence to be amongst the greatest sequences the show has ever done. Every character, from Bran to Jon to Jojen (MVP of this episode, easily) had really good moments. Sure, it wasn't required for plot advancement. But seriously, seeing how much every other scene in every episode does that, I loved the fact that we got a great action sequence instead this time. Plus, Jojen's vision has become my favourite scene from the show's entire run.
So, my ranking of the episodes so far this season:
1. First of His Name 2. The Lion and the Rose 3. Oathkeeper 4. Breaker of Chains 5. Two Swords
- freypies
- May 5, 2014
Details
- Runtime53 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1