The Starks are not known for backing down from conflict or considering the long-term implications of their actions. In the name of Robert of house Baratheon … I charge you to bring the king’s justice to the false knight Gregor Clegane.” “I cannot give you back your homes I can give you justice in the name of our King. By rolling the dice in the Eyrie, Tyrion gained his freedom and Bronn’s questionable loyalty, but the best moment came with Lysa’s disappointed remark: “You have no honour.” This from a woman who dispatches justice at the whim of her prepubescent son via the terrifying Moon Door. “I’m a vile man and I confess it … I have lied and cheated and gambled and whored.”Īt least Tyrion is aware that his relationship with Bronn is firmly based around money and a similarly cynical outlook on life.
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The quarrel with Robb was a neat illustration: Theon, boastful and callow, was generally wrong throughout – yet the brash and naive Robb was equally wrong to highlight his friend’s errors, ramming home that their bond of brotherly friendship may go only skin deep. The way in which the problems inherent in that situation are being teased out is fascinating. His position is interesting – he’s been bought up as a brother to Robb yet is ultimately more captive than ward.
Some US critics have questioned Benioff and Weiss’s portrayal of Theon but I’m enjoying it. There are echoes of the long-ago friendship between Robert and Ned, but Theon is too impetuous and in too precarious a position to play Ned’s role of adviser and right-hand man with much ease. We were also given an interesting glimpse into the relationship between Theon and Robb. “It’s your duty to represent your house when your father can’t.” “Yes, but it’s not your duty because he’s not your father.” To gain a level of control Dany had no choice but to cut herself off from the one person she has known all her life. Emilia Clarke also deserves credit: her final line showing the moment a frightened girl became a queen – and suggesting that power will come a lessening of humanity. That Viserys could rouse such feelings after six weeks of pretty despicable behaviour is testament to Harry Lloyd who has taken a fairly one-note character and given him depth even in his most vile moments, Viserys was understandable. He might not have been much of a man but surely he deserved a better end then this? Viserys, as we had repeatedly been shown, was weak, abusive, cowardly and half-mad – yet when he met his brutal end, literally crowned by the man he had dismissed as a savage as he called piteously to his stone-faced sister, it was difficult not to feel for him. The trembling moment when Viserys realised that his sister would not come to his rescue was all the better because it was so deserved.
The most powerful scene, however, belonged to the Targaryen siblings. “He was no dragon, fire can not kill a dragon.” We saw Ned and Robert desperately try to reclaim their former closeness in the light of the former’s resignation, it became clear how fractured Robert’s relationship with Renly actually is, we watched Tyrion form a bond with brother-under-the-skin Bronn, and learned that, while Robb and Theon have grown up together, their friendship might be more fragile than either realises. This was an episode all about brotherly relations, actual or platonic.
“I never loved my brothers … you were the brother I chose.”
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