Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and this week on Game Of Thrones dying is thirsty work.
We got one of the best Arya Hound scenes I’ve seen all season and a ton of really big moments
from the books.
Important announcement too, there’s no new episode next week because of Memorial Day.
I’m also going to be traveling but I’ll still do a bonus video.
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This episode made me so happy, so let’s do top 5 moments and then my review.
Time to Fly, Careful for spoilers from the episode if you haven’t seen it yet.
Here we got.
Number 5 - The Hound explains why he and Arya are the same.
It was both heartbreaking and adorable watching the Hound lick his wounds like a real dog.
But then he just breaks down emotionally in front of Arya.
She had just done her big nothing is nothing dark jedi in training speech so seeing her
be so genuine with him seemed a little strange.
I love the two of them together, they push all the right fandom buttons.
But if she were really turning into a stone cold killer, she wouldn’t feel sentiment
for the Hound.
She wouldn’t have offered to treat his wound.
Fire or no fire.
In case you didn’t remember, we learned the Hounds story about the Mountain burning
his face during the tournament where they fought.
Way way back when everyone was still alive.
I think someone was explaining it to Sansa.
I’m surprised given their similar family upbringing that the Hound and Tyrion never
became friends.
Tyrion learned to deal with all the hate by being witty, but it seems like the Hound just
turned everything inward and it became this festering psychological wound.
Number 4 - Melisandre and Selyse
How surprised were you that Melisandre just copped to perpetrating a lot of bullshit.
It seemed like 99 percent of her vials were full of tricks.
But there was that one, the one you don’t want to touch.
So it’s not all BS.
I wonder what’s in that one.
Also, we can’t escape that scene without staring at the black hole that was her boobs.
I enjoy nudity on game of thrones as much as the next pervert.
But were you surprised at how long the camera lingered on her in the tub.
It’s like Melisandre was forcing Seylse to look at her naked.
Like she has power over all flesh.
It’s hard to tell if Melisandre was trolling her or not.
Because she dropped a huge bomb.
Remember how last season she talked about the power in royal blood and the Gendry escaped.
I think they might be changing things from the books and taking Shireen with them because
Melisandre wants to use her for something.
It’s not something that happens in the books.
But I’m really really curious to see where they take that sub plot.
So don’t forget about Shireen, she just got way more important.
Number 3 - Podrick and Brienne enjoy some Hot Pie
I love Hot Pie so much, I’m so glad they brought him back this early.
I actually just thought they were making a subtle reference to Harrenhaal in season 2
and the Brotherhood in season 3 but they went full on and he spilled his hot pie guts about
Arya.
You can tell he must be starved for conversation.
Or maybe he just talks that much with all his customers.
I like the idea of a chatty Hot Pie baking direwolf bread just enjoying his simple life
away from all the intrigue.
Like he’s the only character on the show that gets a happy ending.
That would be hilarious.
But this whole situation was a huge win for Podrick, because he’s the one that did the
Math and figured out the Hound would be taking Arya to the Eyrie.
When they were at the crossroads, did anyone else think that bandits would jump out and
stab them?
Anytime things get too quiet and characters start looking around like they’re lost I
expect a sword to just materialize inside their guts.
This is what happens when you watch too much Game of Thrones.
Number 2 - Oberyn agrees to be Tyrion’s Champion
The way they acted out that scene and the music cues they used made it feel like a huge
battle had been won.
Like the end of episode 5 when Ghost came back to Jon and you could just hear the whole
world cheering at the same time.
I loved Oberyn story about visiting Tyrion at Casterly Rock when he was young.
That’s actually from the books.
One of several book moments in the episode.
There was even the shout out from when Cersei almost yanked off Tyrion’s dick.
I wince every time I read that part.
Wow she’s horrible.
When is her reckoning coming?
If you didn’t see, Oberyn was actually crying a little when he was talking about using Tyrion’s
trial to begin his quest for Justice.
The Mountain is just the first person on the list.
It sounds like he plans on killing a lot of people.
Not just Lannisters.
I appreciate the level of detail they went to with how Cersei described Tyrion being
a monster.
Claws, Tail and a giant head.
and my number 1 WTF moment - Littlefinger makes Lysa Fly
All of the Eyrie Sansa scenes were straight out of the book, from the Snow Castle of Winterfell,
to the Littlefinger kiss to the Moon Door.
They really sped that plot up too, because it’s from book 4 and back in King’s Landing
the trail is a book 3 thing.
I totally don’t mind, as creepy as Littlefinger was with Sansa he gets a lot of the best speeches.
That should actually be a contest, see who gives the best speech each season on Game
of Thrones.
Sansa is getting in deeper and deeper with Littlefinger.
She had no idea what was going on with the Purple Wedding plot, but this time she had
ringside seats for Lysa’s Murder.
And she is a really terrible liar.
Plus they have to deal with King Robyn.
As long as Littlefinger can keep the other lords of the vale from taking over his stewardship,
Sansa will probably be okay.
Because Robyn is very Joffrey-Like in his mood swings.
And the Moon Door is always going to be a threat hanging over everyone’s head.
It’s like the ultimate prison sentence.
Like the Arryn’s can just push all their problems into a nice little circular death
hole.
But now it’s your turn, let me know what your favorite moment was.
And to all the book readers out there.
How do you feel about Arya being so nice to the Hound?
That’s one change from the books that I’m actually pretty happy about.
It seems like they’re making his character much bigger than he was in the books, just
because those two work so well together on screen.
Just so we don’t forget about Daenerys or anything else going on, here’s a couple
things to keep track of.
First off, Daenerys is sending Daario to subdue all the Wise Masters in Yunkai.
I loved that he was so restless.
He actually does have desires beyond Daenerys, but yeah.
That look on her face made me laugh so hard.
Daario was already confirmed for season 5, so he’s not going to die or anything.
But we’ll have to wait and see what happens with the Wise Masters.
Then the other big thing is the defense of Castle Black.
Alliser Thorne pretty much ignores Jon Snow’s warning.
He and Sam are basically going to sit on top of the Wall until that Wildling Raiding party
comes within eye shot.
But they will be able to see them coming.
So at least Jon will get that “I told you so” moment.
Remember, Castle Black isn’t fortified from the South.
I explained why in my bonus video from earlier today.
I’ll have a link to that in the description if you want to learn more about it.
Overall the episode was actually pretty happy.
I gave it an A minus just because I’m trying to reserve A’s and A pluses for the best
one or two episodes of all ten this season.
It was really an episode of strong character moments, yes Lysa flying through the Moon
Door was mostly a shocking moment.
But the rest of the episode was surprisingly positive.
I couldn’t feel better about the Hound and Arya, it’s like a few episodes ago she thought
he was the worst human being on the planet, and now she’s taking care of him.
Even Jaime and Tyrion were acting like they were little brothers trying to play a prank
on their dad.
Like they were two little boys just trying to get a rise out of Tywin.
That look they shared, it was like they were remembering their entire childhood.
I always love the way the show mixes these really strong character moments with the oh
shit Moon Door scenes.
Even Littlefinger’s speech to Sansa was really touching, about getting revenge for
Catelyn and the Red Wedding.
He kind of took back all that good will when he kissed Sansa in that creepy way.
But for a minute his heart was in the right place.
Let me know if there’s any big moments that you think I left out.
Actually I just remember Lolly’s, it’s funny and a bit dark when you remember what
happened to her that led to marrying her off to Bronn.
Also remember, there’s no new episode next week.
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