→ June 2, 2013
Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow!
And you thought last episode's wedding was awkward...
Man.
Just, man.
Still shaking.
If you're a fan of HBO's Game of Thrones who hasn't read the books, you've made it. You've made it through the scene. And if you've somehow managed to make it through pure, without anyone on comment boards or social media knowingly or unknowingly spoiling it for you over the past three years, congratu-freakin-lations! We only wanted you to experience the shock and trauma that we all felt after reading the "Red Wedding" scene in A Storm of Swords. Just an exquisitely awful event that managed to out-do the unpredictable and horrifying death of Ned Stark back in Season 1.
And one of the things this episode, "The Rains of Castamere," did to throw you off the scent of the oncoming bleakness was to actually lighten the mood a bit. With the reveal that Roslin Frey was actually beautiful, and Walder giving a look to Robb in the crowd, as if to say "See, you could have had that." And then Blackfish awkwardly turning from the remaining Frey girls, who were smiling their homely smiles at him. I'm sure many tears were shed throughout this magnificent, game-changing episode, but for me, I was just tense. Just tense and cold the whole time. And it's a scene so powerful that, all in all, it really can't be done wrong - but I'm still so glad it was done right.
From Robb watching his wife and unborn child die, to Cat watching Robb die,
to Cat then, in a final act of futile defiance, slitting the neck of Walder's
wife before meeting her own end, this was just a domino trail of agony. On a
show that features unrelentingly cruel things, the ugly and dark-hearted Walder
Frey has now risen up the ranks to be this show's top monster. With help, of
course, from the Lannisters and the turncoat Lord Bolton, who revealed to Robb,
during the Young Wolf's death, the true architects of the scheme.
Lord Tywin didn't even have to send an army after Robb, or protect his castle in the west. He simply had to gain enough power to turn all other avenues against Robb and then have others do his dirty, foul work. Yes, I fear even those who've read the books and knew this was coming could never be fully prepared to see it all transpire on screen. It just leaves you shaking. Especially the silence that accompanied the end credits. With the actual "Rains of Castamere" song, which has been used to close out a couple episodes before, only being used as the musical cue from the band to signal the attack. And the cue for Cat to take notice that something was awry.
Now for me, in this really big and emotional episode, what really wound up getting to me, tears-wise, was when The Hound knocked out Arya and dragged her away from the slaughter. It was thuggish and brutal, and yet you still got the sense that he's safest person for her to be with. And that he cares for her, despite now not having anyone to trade her to for gold. And Arya, already having been mocked by The Hound for being overcome with fear due to being so close to getting home, now has watched, in person, her hopes ripped to shreds right in front of her. And while being so courageous too; she was actively running in to help. We can only assume that Arya will be in a really dark place now. And this is a girl who already threatened The Hound with "Someday I'm going to put a sword through your eye and out the back of your skull." But Arya being carried away from the carnage, having been so close to her mother and brother, was the absolute definition of heartbreaking.
Moving from wolf to wolf here (and it's hard to imagine that other great
things also happened in this awesome
And you thought last episode's wedding was awkward...
Man.
Just, man.
Still shaking.
If you're a fan of HBO's Game of Thrones who hasn't read the books, you've made it. You've made it through the scene. And if you've somehow managed to make it through pure, without anyone on comment boards or social media knowingly or unknowingly spoiling it for you over the past three years, congratu-freakin-lations! We only wanted you to experience the shock and trauma that we all felt after reading the "Red Wedding" scene in A Storm of Swords. Just an exquisitely awful event that managed to out-do the unpredictable and horrifying death of Ned Stark back in Season 1.
And one of the things this episode, "The Rains of Castamere," did to throw you off the scent of the oncoming bleakness was to actually lighten the mood a bit. With the reveal that Roslin Frey was actually beautiful, and Walder giving a look to Robb in the crowd, as if to say "See, you could have had that." And then Blackfish awkwardly turning from the remaining Frey girls, who were smiling their homely smiles at him. I'm sure many tears were shed throughout this magnificent, game-changing episode, but for me, I was just tense. Just tense and cold the whole time. And it's a scene so powerful that, all in all, it really can't be done wrong - but I'm still so glad it was done right.
Lord Tywin didn't even have to send an army after Robb, or protect his castle in the west. He simply had to gain enough power to turn all other avenues against Robb and then have others do his dirty, foul work. Yes, I fear even those who've read the books and knew this was coming could never be fully prepared to see it all transpire on screen. It just leaves you shaking. Especially the silence that accompanied the end credits. With the actual "Rains of Castamere" song, which has been used to close out a couple episodes before, only being used as the musical cue from the band to signal the attack. And the cue for Cat to take notice that something was awry.
Now for me, in this really big and emotional episode, what really wound up getting to me, tears-wise, was when The Hound knocked out Arya and dragged her away from the slaughter. It was thuggish and brutal, and yet you still got the sense that he's safest person for her to be with. And that he cares for her, despite now not having anyone to trade her to for gold. And Arya, already having been mocked by The Hound for being overcome with fear due to being so close to getting home, now has watched, in person, her hopes ripped to shreds right in front of her. And while being so courageous too; she was actively running in to help. We can only assume that Arya will be in a really dark place now. And this is a girl who already threatened The Hound with "Someday I'm going to put a sword through your eye and out the back of your skull." But Arya being carried away from the carnage, having been so close to her mother and brother, was the absolute definition of heartbreaking.
"Rickon, you're in my shot."
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