Game of Thrones (S5E07) -- "The Gift" -- 5/24/15
 

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Episode 7 of 10


Ratings are going to drop because of all the people bailing after last week. :D;)

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That's a picture of Jon after finishing last week's episode.

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Sweet! No break for Memorial Day weekend. I predict all the people that 'bailed' after last week's episode will be watching tonight. :D

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Man, people are going to freak out tonight when Sam gets gang raped by wildlings.

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The internet might break tonight now that Tyrion and Dany have met.

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great moment!

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So it seems like Tyrion has been a prisoner for half the series, and we've seen Jamie held prisoner before... but is this the first time we've seen Cersei held?

Bad times for the Lannister siblings... all three held at once.

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I guess the whole point of the sand snakes scene was to see boobies?
Not that I'm complaining...

Glad it was the cute pixie-cut one, and not the tough-talking one who looks like the before photo in a proactive commercial.

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Good episode, but it was a bit dumb to give Bronn the antidote in the exact scene where we find out he was poisoned.

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Huge return to form this week. Seeing Tyrion meet Dany was perfect. The scene between Oleana and the High Sparrow was truly great. Seeing Cersei get what she had coming was so nicely set up and knocked down. Damn that sand snake is hot. Damned good TV.

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The Kingslayer has become a useless, ineffectual bitch this season.

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Damn you, Reek.
Farewell Aemon.
A little too convenient for Ghost to show up right then.
Melisandre has some competition for best titties.

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This episode had a whole lot of elements that I don't care a lot about, but then seeing Cersei get hers more than made up for all of it. That was perfection.

I am glad Sam & Ghost helped avoid yet another rape this week. We need to at least go for every other week please.

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That was a packed episode, we saw almost everybody this week. Glad to know Bronn is still in action.

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I expected Ghost to be bigger.

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Khaleesi must really love her bed sheets.

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They were pretty spectacular though for some reason Carice seems to get hotter each year.

They had better not actually do what is suggested with Shireen. I could not handle that. Especially since she seems to play a really large role in the books to come.

Fighting pit was convenient, but good to have Dany and Tyrion together. My guess :

End was great and pretty close to the books.

Alistair Thorne is maybe the most improved character from the books to the TV show. He has tremendous depth. They are also setting up a little better I think.

Solid return to form after an off episode last week.

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I wish Benioff and Weiss had advised GRRM on how to quickly resolve a boring part of the story with Dany and Tyrion.

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Lots of good this week!

*Damn that Reek for giving up the old lady/sansa. Theon has to redeem himself, otherwise the whole goings on between Ramsey/Sansa/Theon was just a waste of time

*Nice to see Tyrion/Dany meet. Could make a great team.

*Man, I feel bad for Sam, like Thorne said, he doesn't have anymore friends left, even guys like Grenn/Pyp etc are long gone as well.

*Sam getting Gillys goodies after 'stepping' up for her honor, nice. Also Ghost with the Save, I guess Sam still has some allies.

*Loved the Queen of Thornes. Now her and Little Finger are going to be working together.

*Feel bad for Tommen & Margery. Cersei got what was coming to her, what the heck did she expect was going to happen?

*Freaking knew it that Melisandre was going to try and sacrifice Shireen, When Shireen/Stannis had that bonding moment, Game of Thrones just loves to sucker punch you right in the nuts by doing something like that.

*Sand snake breasts, Pretty solid, although not sure why she gave the antidote to Bronn? Was it a game to them?

*Sansa grabbing the cork screw? Looked like a potential weapon, good girl. Also Sansa trying to stir up trouble between Ramsay and Roose, playing the game.

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Dani got a set of infamous L-shaped bedsheets.

And, yeah, GRRM had a lot of trouble with what to do with Dani. It's allegedly what held up the books for so long, the "Myreenese knot."

Cersei found herself caught in her own trap. She really isn't as clever as she fancies herself.

Doesn't look good for Sansa at the moment; her saviour was flayed and crucified, but Brienne and Pod are still out there. Presumably something is going to come of that. And Sansa has already met Brienne, so she knows she's on the level.

Some nice scenes between Cersei and the Sparrow, Olenna and the Sparrow, and Margaery and Cersei. I actually quite like Margaery -- she's certainly a schemer and social climber, but she's also rather guileless for someone so ambitious.

And the short-haired Sand Snake (Tyene?) went from my least favorite to my favorite.

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(Not really spoilery, just speculation, but...)

Never occurred to me that

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Daenerys.

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One day you are trying to kill the Lanisters and the next you are showing them your lady parts and healing them. Yeah Bronn isn't a Lanister but he works for them.

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Ghost was the runt of the litter.

( Here's the Season 1 scene finding the Direwolf pups with Ghost at the end )

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Good thing Bronn has a nice singing voice.

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One thing I don't get is how Ramsay figured out that it was the old lady who was trying to help Sansa. All Sansa said to Theon/Reek was her family has friends in the North and all she has to do is give a signal with the candle in the tower so they will come rescue here. That alone doesn't give away the old lady because Sansa could've made that plan with Northerners before she even got to Winterfell.

And what was the object that Sansa picked up from the castle wall when she was outside with Ramsay the Bastard?

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Cersei is finally learning the hard way that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

(Although because it's Cersei, despite getting caught in her own web she probably still won't learn that lesson.)

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My crazy Shireen theory...

(Contains a book spoiler, so don't click unless you know how the novel "A Dance with Dragons" ends...)

(Sorry, no way around this...)

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Also book spoiler:

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Good ep. last night, but no performance of "Rastafarian Targareyn". Disappointed. :(


It's a damn shame Martin doesn't know how to get the point like D&D. Book spoiler question:

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Those two posts are directly connected narrative-wise.

"Any gratuitous nudity scheduled for this episode?"

"Just an old flayed lady." *

:hscratch:

"(Sigh) Fetch the Snakes. And Bronn."

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*Speaking of the Boltons, just figured out their favorite chef.

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:lol:

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Bronn with blond hair! So maybe he's a secret Lannister or Targaryen!

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I can't believe they didn't drag that out any longer. Shocked really.

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Somebody has to invent the stocking cap for those poor fuckers in the north.

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The oddest thing about that video is when he sticks his finger in his partners mouth.

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