Holy bloody matrimony! In the land
of fire and ice, marriages can be detrimental to your health. While wedding preparations
were going on at Kings landing, we learn that Ramsey Snow is still at his
sadistic games. I really hate this character. He releases his hounds on a poor
maiden and laughs while she is torn apart.
Theon Greyjoy, who is a shell of a
man in ways both physical and mental, is now called Reek. Roose Bolton is not
happy with Ramsey’s treatment of Theon, but Ramsey has a ‘get out of jail’
card. Reek under torture reveals that Bran and his younger brother are alive,
and now Roose wants the boys hunted down.
Bran Stark, who is mind melding
with wolves, befriends a tree and receives a message. “Go north and look for me
under the tree.” Unless this is one of the Ents from the Hobbit, I’m wondering
if the tree is giving the right directions. Bran, Rickon and the rest of the
merry band of misfits head north.
Dragonstone Island
Never say three is a crowd with
this group. The scene opens with Stannis Baratheon and his black magic witchy woman,
Melisandre are having themselves a barbeque with the neighboring heretics. It’s
either Melisandre’s god or death.
What a strange arrangement between Selyse and
the red witch. It seems they don’t mind sharing the bed with Stannis, but
Selyse does want hubby to crack down on the poor princess, Shireen. This poor
kid can’t get a break. She has a birthmark that covers the entire left side of
her face and now she has to listen to the red witch teach religion.
Kings Landing
And now it’s time for the wedding
between spoiled rotten, sadistic, Joffrey and kind and gentle Margaery. Tyrion is warned that
his true love is in danger and he is forced to send Shae away, leaving us to
share in their heartbreak.
While Tyrion
and Jamie bond and chat about their futures under the king, Cersei is taking
her disappointment over being the former queen regent out on others. She disses
Brienne and guesses correctly that Brienne is in love with Jaime. When Margaery
tells the servants to give any left-over food to the poor, Cersei secretly
directs them to throw the food to the dogs. What a bitch! She should run for
Congress; she hates the poor as much as they do.
Joffrey is sullen during the
festivities except when he’s doing harm to others. He trashes Tyrion’s gift, a
book of the history of kings and he takes glee in embarrassing Tyrion in front
of the other guests. As much as I hate the character and think he is truly the apple
of his mother’s tree, I love the young actor, Jack Gleeson. This kid has made
every fan of Game of Thrones want to personally throttle him with our bare
hands, which is what he was supposed to do and he did it so deliciously.
Conclusion
It wasn’t the Red Wedding, but it
will be remembered as the wedding of excesses. Money was spent on lavish buffoonery,
while the poor starved in the streets. Joffrey was poisoned and Tyrion is
blamed. What will happen to Margaery, Brienne, Sansa, and Tyrion? No one is
safe at Kings Landing. Oh, and you might as well keep the wedding gift. It won’t
be needed
