Some of the transitions make sense, particularly a nice match cut where Joffrey and Sansa are getting dressed and discussing (or trying to in Joff's case) the political machinations of various figures in the court regime and one in which we go from Catelyn discussing Jon Snow and Jon Snow himself, freezing with Mance Rayder beyond the wall. While the zig-zagging isn't confusing thanks to the great job the show's done fleshing out the motivations of Brienne and Arya and Jon Snow and the like, it does feel a little scattered. Everyone we didn't see last week appears, and some we saw last week come back for seconds. There's a lot of jumping around this week. Long story short, if Lady Olenna can have one good scene with Tyrion Lannister in which they match wits and crack wise, I'll have a new favorite moment on the show. It's difficult for someone to walk onto the set of a show with a history, let alone a show with a bunch of beloved characters, and make an instant impression. This may be the show's second-best pairing of actor to character, just after Peter Dinklage's Tyrion Lannister (who makes a brief appearance this week). From her very introduction in King's Landing, Olenna is a certified stealer of scenes thanks to Dame Diana Rigg. Martin, and the immediate standout, unsurprisingly, is the Queen of Thorns herself, Lady Olenna Redwyne. it's all because I couldn't love a motherless child.įor a show that's already running over with cast members, it seems crazy to add more people, but it seems as though Benioff and Weiss have picked some of the better personalities from the volumes of words written by George R. And everything that's happened since then, all this horror that's come to my family. I'll beg my husband to give him a true name, to call him Stark and be done with it, to make him one of us".Ĭatelyn Stark: And he lived. I'd condemned this poor, innocent child to a horrible death all because I was jealous of his mother, a woman he didn't even know! So I prayed to all Seven Gods "Let the boy live. He got the pox and I knew I was the worst woman who ever lived. So I prayed to the gods "Take him away, make him die". When my husband brought that baby home from the war, I couldn't bear to look at him, didn't want to see those brown stranger's eyes staring at me. So I sat with him all through the darkness, listened to his ragged little breaths, his coughing, his whimpering.Ĭatelyn Stark: Jon Snow. Maester Luwin said if he made it through the night, he'd live. Many years before that, one of the boys came down with the pox. I prayed for my son Bran to survive his fall. Only a mother can make them.Ĭatelyn Stark: After a fashion. Talisa Maegyr: I'm sorry, I shouldn't have.Ĭatelyn Stark: You can't help because a mother makes one for her children to protect them. Talisa Maegyr: May I help you, Lady Stark?
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