So many revelations this season!  Daenerys is a straight baller.  Jamie actually has a conscious…and a heart.  Robb seems to have the stones to actually lead his army and make the tough decisions.  Cersei finally had that smug smile slapped off her face by dear old daddy.  Margaery may not be evil, but even if she is I don’t care because her grandmamma is divine.  And of course Jon Snow knows nothing.  With all of the things that have happened so far that have made me rethink my opinion of certain characters, I’m happy to see that some things haven’t changed.  Sansa is still making bad decisions in the name of a fairy-tale romance and Joffrey is still the douchiest of all douchebags.

With all of these revelations, this season has proven to be one for the books.  I honestly can’t really think of a poor episode.  Aside from the whole Theon thing that’s going on, the rest of the season has been stellar and this latest episode is no exception.  That being said, we now have a two-week wait until the ninth episode of the season.  Thinking back, it’s the ninth episode that leaves viewers speechless.  The ninth episode of the first season dealt with Ned’s demise and the ninth episode of the second season was the incredible battle of Blackwater Bay.  I can’t even speculate on what’s to come.

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This latest episode was probably the quickest hour of television I’ve watched in a long, long time.  Written by George R.R. Martin himself, this week gave us plenty to think about until the next episode.  This week also was all over the map location wise.  Normally we’re treated to longer segments in a few locations, but this episode gave us shorter segments and hit upon pretty much every character who currently has a story going.  That’s pretty impressive if you ask me.  I know I say it every week, but it’s true.  This show just keeps getting better and better with each passing episode.  You know this though, because you watch it too so I’ll stop waxing poetic and get to the meat of it.

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It’s pretty impressive when a show can wrap you in its embrace and hold you hostage for an hour even when it’s not quite on par with the previous two episodes.  That’s exactly what “The Climb” did.  Sporting a title of multiple meanings, this week may not have had the sex or violence of episodes past, but it still managed to capture me in all of its verbose glory.  A lot can also be said for a character who’s on-screen for maybe 10 seconds, if even that, doesn’t say a single word, and still makes you want to rip his face off and feed it to him.  Dear God, my hatred for Joffrey cannot be measured.

The flip side of that hatred however is my love for all things Arya, Jon Snow, and Jamie and Brienne.  All who happened to be present this week.  Sadly however, there was no Daenerys, which means no dragons or Jorah, but that doesn’t mean it still wasn’t a fantastic episode.  The pieces are moving on the chessboard and things are finally falling into place.

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I think this is the episode that everyone who’s read the books have been waiting for.  We’ve been hearing all season about the impending war, but this second to the last episode finally brings the battle to King’s Landing in the true fight for the Iron Throne.  Normally the episodes, as well as my recaps, are split up by location.  There is so much going on all over Westeros and beyond that the story is  told in bits and pieces.  This week however, marks the first time that the GoT series focuses on one location for the entire episode.

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss bravely and wisely stepped back from this episode and instead turned over the writing duties over to the man himself, George R.R. Martin.  It’s rather fitting for the man behind the Song of Ice and Fire series to pen this episode considering it’s the biggest one so far.  Neil Marshall took over directing duties and if his work on The Decent shows anything, it’s that he’s capable of doing a lot with very little. 

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Only two episodes are left and with them, the war that has been raging finally looks like it’s going to hit the shores of King’s Landing.  This latest episode felt like it could and probably should have been a two-hour episode.  With so much going on all over Westeros, little time was given to characters who would have benefited from a little more screen time.  We haven’t seen Stannis in the last couple of episodes and we only get but a snippet of him this week.  However, that being said, the small scene he did have, gave us more insight into his character than the sum of his screen time as a whole.

Every story has characters that you will loathe.  But for me, it’s a rare occasion where there is a character whose face I wish I could rip off.  It happened in the Harry Potter books, and it’s happening again now.  Theon make me so mad I can’t even see straight.  The final shot of last week’s episode where he hoisted the remains of the young boys up for all of Winterfell to see left me shocked and angry.  Once I calmed down however, I questioned on if the remains were actually those of the Stark boys.  We get the answer to that question in this latest episode and the action picks up in Winterfell.

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After last weeks episode being so strong as far as story and pacing goes, I went into this episode wondering if we’d get another stong episode.  While I still love this show as much as I did at the very beginning I have felt at times that this season hasn’t held up as well as the first.  There have been a few episodes that blew me away, while others not so much.  This week we get to visit several places again and even get to see a face we haven’t seen since the season premier which was great.  I felt that this episode flew right by once again, but it didn’t suffer from the same jumbled feeling that episode five did. 

What this episode did have however, are some very powerful quieter moments.  It’s those moments that show the quality that goes in to making something of this caliber.  Not to mention the talent that lies within the actors who have to carry those moments on their shoulders.  This week starts in the same place as last….in Winterfell.

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After much anticipation (on my part anyway) and a heavy-handed ad campaign, HBO’s new series Game of Thrones premiered last night with the episode titled “Winter is Coming.”  The series, based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin will follow the first book of the same name.

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