S2 EP8 - The Prince of Winterfell

[Spooky]

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[AdmiralDigby]

Rattleshirt !

[Spooky]

Love the banter with the Kingslayer and Lady Tarth. Exactly the way I pictured it when reading.

[Eric]

A review which I think mirrors what Tink and I have been feeling:

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/review-game-of-thrones-the-prince-of-winterfell-fear-itself

Excerpt I found interesting:

*****

Varys has learned to view the politics of Westeros as a game, but the series itself often feels structured as one, where the goal of each episode is as much about moving the pieces from place to place as it is about servicing the characters. In the show's best outings last year and this one, it managed to do both at once, but there have definitely been times in season 2 — and particularly during a late-season entry like this one — where it feels like the game has taken precedence over the people playing it.

Or maybe it's that the game is being played so slowly and carefully this year, and also that it involves so many players. By bouncing from region to region, character to character, season 2 often creates the illusion of forward movement that isn't really there. We've spent a fair amount of time with Jon Snow and Ygritte over the past three weeks, but even though the power has passed from one of them to the other over that time, it still feels like they've been wandering around that glacier for far longer than they have. We jump in on them, or on other characters, and hear them engage in variations on the same discussion, over and over. When it's a good combination of characters — say, Arya and Tywin, or Tyrion and anybody they put Tyrion with — the repetition doesn't matter, but even the good moments (of which this episode had several) can't stop me from feeling like we've spent eight hours putting everyone in position for when the next phase of the story will actually start.

*****

[TinkTanker]

...but even the good moments (of which this episode had several) can't stop me from feeling like we've spent eight hours putting everyone in position for when the next phase of the story will actually start.

So much this. This entire season to date seems like they are moving their pieces in the game, slowly, methodically, glacially, ploddingly, getting ready for the actually story to begin, any minute now. We promise.

There have been great scenes throughout the season, teasing me that the story would actually progress at some point. Perhaps stuff has been happening and had I read the book, I'd see that.

The scene with Stannis served basically to remind the viewer that he in fact was still in the story and important to the story and to remind the viewer that even though we have not seen him in three or four episodes, he had not been killed off when they blinked.

[Pearl@32]

Are we going full-on Blackwater in Ep19 or will there be House of the Undying interspersed? Or must we wait for dragons till the last ep A-GAIN?

[AdmiralDigby]

Just finished .
Getting ready to watch again .

[Spooky]

Are we going full-on Blackwater in Ep19 or will there be House of the Undying interspersed? Or must we wait for dragons till the last ep A-GAIN?

I've read that Blackwater will be 15 minutes + onscreen, so there will be plenty of time for other things, but I have a feeling they want to end the season with what transpires inside the HotU.

[Spooky]

I want to be Charlie Chaplin's grandson in law.

[Eric]

I want to be Charlie Chaplin's grandson in law.

The Red Cross chick did have some nice curves.