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May 28, 2012

Game of Thrones – Blackwater (Filthsposition)

This was a pretty good episode. Not my favorite of the season (that still remains Ep 6- “The Old Gods and the New), but I was by no means disappointed. I personally felt that it generated an impressive amount of spectacle, suspense and emotional investment. As such, the hour felt vital and compelling for me in the moment. For that reason, I would hesitate to call the episode ‘pointless’ the way Deer did. That said, I can understand why he described it as such. I figure that it is because the status quo was more or less restored by the episode’s end, instead of the whole show being fundamentally altered the way it was in Season 1′s penultimate episode ‘Baelor’. While ‘Baelor’ was indeed a better episode from a better season, I thought there was still a lot to love in Thrones tonight. The lack of game-changing consequences for anyone in King’s Landing may have taken the wind from the sails of ‘Blackwater’ a bit, but I still think the hour delivered big-time as a self-contained, super-focused roller-coaster ride.

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May 28, 2012

Game of Thrones – Blackwater

Over the past few weeks I have made a big deal out of the admittedly ambiguous – to the point that some would say they’re meaningless – titles given to the episodes of Game of Thrones second season; discussing their potency as phrases, the way at they cast certain characters and the hint at the hidden themes inside that which they are used to name. I’ve discussed them even though none of those titles, hell not all of those titles combined are as big and as powerful and as utterly empty as this one, Blackwater. All season this has been the episode to look forward to, and not just because it was written by Game’s original author George R. R. Martin and directed by feature talent Neil Marshall but because the tale those two would be telling was to be a series defining one.

When the show was first picked up we all heard via osmosis – I did then and still do avoid all series spoilers, but that doesn’t stop information from flowing through – that there were two big moments in the first two books that would either sell you on the series or soil it for you; the death of Ned was one and Blackwater the other. The first of these came to me as a complete shock and succeeded most strongly in solidifying a show that I was already enjoying as something truly special; Blackwater comes at a time when I am questioning that belief and the quality of the show as a whole. For everyone watching this was a massively hyped moment, but for me it was also make or break: did the episode live up to those expectations? Did it redeem all of the wistful wheel spinning of the season to date? Could it ever?

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May 21, 2012

Game of Thrones – The Prince of Winterfell

And so we are given another title that applies wonderfully to many of the shows characters and not at all to the episode in question. The title of Prince could apply to the lost little lost leader Bran who is assumed by the people of Winterfell to now be a burnt corpse ( and in the most stretched out twist revelation ever we are expected to go along with them until the final seconds of this weeks episode, screw SPOILERS that turn was obvious a week ago), it could also stand for Theon, the lost son who has taken the city in question off of one father figure on the behest of another betraying a brother or a few in the process, ensuring that this inter-familial spite stays strong in the blood of the next generation; finally we have Jon Snow who has in the past bestowed the title upon himself in an effort to regain respect and keep his head and has that call echoed this week, but each time that he does so the sounds slip right off him, that surname of his confounding any and all of his efforts to excel, as Arya’s gender do hers. So who then was phone prince?

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