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Game of Thrones- Great ep! In Mereen, Dany is giving Tyrion the stink eye, with Tyrion giving his reasoning why he did what he did. But Dany says its fine, he did what he thought would serve her interests best. Dany wants to crucify the masters and lay waste to their cities, but Tyrion counsels Dany to not be as bloodthirsty as her father. He tells her about the Mad King's plan to raze King's Landing and burn everyone. He's like, kill the masters, sure, but there are plenty of innocents in those cities she wants flattened. If she wants to be a good ruler, she'll stay her hand and take her enemies out with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.
So they meet with the Masters, and of course they do the smart ass thing where Dany and Tyrion are all, "We're here to discuss terms of surrender!" And the Masters think its them begging for mercy. I mean, I guess they had no idea Dany was gone or where she went off to. You'd think they noticed that dragon she arrived on and be a little more perturbed.
But yeah, the smug bastards are all, "run away, and we'll take back Missandei and Grey Worm and the other Unsullied (whom they claim were stolen from who I assume was that jackass who got immolated way back in season 3) to be resold, and then slaughter the dragons you have down in the dungeon!" So of course Dany and gang are all, "Oh, no, we were here to discuss your surrender!" And then Drogon flies to Dany and she mounts it and they fly off. They're joined by her other dragons, who proceed to focus fire and destroy some boats one at a time. Heh,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clevemire and the ex-roomie were wondering why she wasn't just having her dragons sweep though the fleet, but the show quickly explains they want the Masters' boats for her navy.
With the naval siege effectively stalled, Daario and the Dothraki ride in and lay waste to the Sons of the Harpy. Finally, the effin nobody punks! Heh, Greyworm tells the Masters' soldiers with them that they don't have to die for these dicks, they're free to go home to their families. Unsurprisingly, they flee and abandoned the Masters. Anyways, as the three Masters stand there in despair, seeing their attack totally crushed, Tyrion tells them they had made a deal, and they broke it. As such, one of them will have to die as punishment. They offer up the one of them who is lowborn. The man begs for his life, but Greyworm ends up slitting the throats of the other two in one felled swoop. And so Tyrion tells the man he is spared and to go back to his people and tell them what he saw. Heh, between how easily the Masters got trounced once Dany returns, and how readily the Masters turned on each other, particularly giving he, the lowborn one up, I'm sure he'll make an effective deliverer of their message.
With all that done, Theon and Yara show up to make an alliance by offering up their fleets. They just want Dany's help by backing Yara as queen of the Iron Islands and to let them be independent. Heh, when Tyrion noticed they don't seem to have all of the Iron Fleet, the siblings admit the rest of their fleet is loyal to their uncle Euron, and how he's building more ships any day. Dany asks why she should ally with them instead of their uncle, but Yara says its because their uncle will offer an alliance with her, but only if she marries him. Heh, so then Dany is all, and your offer doesn't include a marriage proposal, and Yara is all, hey, unlike my uncle, she's not going to force matrimony, but hey, she wouldn't be averse if these two ladies hooked up.
Dany says she'll let the Iron Islands be free, but they can't be plunder and pillage. Yara says that that's their way, but Dany offers them a new one, and I guess she and Yara lock arms to cement the alliance.
Now on to the meat and potatoes of the ep. So Jon and Ramsey parlay. Jon offers to face Ramsey in single combat for the fate of Winterfell. Ramsey is all, why the eff would I want to do that when my army is gonna win? Sansa tells him to fuck off and rides away, putting an end to the talks.
Jon convenes his war council, and Tormund expresses his fear of cavalry, as that's what Stannis used to break them. Davos says they're building trenches to prevent them from being caught in a pincher attack (heh, he has to explain what a pincher attack is to Tormund several times), and how they should piss Ramsey off and get him to charge their front lines, that will pretend to break and then they can catch Ramsey in a pincher of their own.
The men congratulate themselves on a smart plan, but afterward, Sansa tells Jon his plan is shit and is offended he didn't ask her for her opinion since he knows Ramsey better than any of them. She tells Jon the plan won't work, because Ramsey is a lucky cockroach. He's not going to fall for their plan because he's a master manipulator himself, and he likes toying with people. She reiterates they should have waited until they had more men. When Jon says they couldn't wait because of Rickon, she says they have to just accept he's toast. Unlike the two of them, Rickon is a true born heir, a bigger threat to his rule than they are. There's no way Ramsey lets Rickon live. Now, she doesn't have any answers, she just knows Jon doesn't have them.
The eve of the battle, Jon goes to Melisandre and tries to get her to promise not to resurrect him. She makes no such promise, because she is just a conduit for the Lord of Light. If he dies, she totally is going to try and resurrect him again, and if the Lord of Light needs him to be alive, he will be. Also, since I guess this is the same place Stannis met his end, during Davos' usual pre-battle ritual of walking around, he finds the stake Shireen was burned at. Not that he knows it at first, but when he finds the toy he gave her, you can tell he has questions.
So the battle of the bastards begins by Ramsey bringing Rickon to the battlefield and letting him go to run to Jon... only to start firing arrows. Of course, for dramatic effect, the arrows miss until Rickon is right near Jon. And so poor Rickon is dead. Jon is pissed, and runs towards the enemy lines, tossing any plans they had to shit. So, his men are forced to charge to protect him, so they're all out of position. It doesn't help that Ramsey is a total asshole and doesn't care about his own men, having his archers pepper the battlefield with arrows even though they'll hit their own guys.
Once Jon's people are withered down, they get surrounded by spearmen, who are all ready to literally crush Jon's army under their spears and shields. Just when it seems like they're about to lose, Sansa and Littlefinger show up with the Arryn forces, and they save the day.
Ramsey runs off like a little bitch, with Jon, Tormund, and Wun Wun giving chase. Ramsey thinks he's safe behind the walls, but Wun Wun breaks the door down, but is turned into a pin cushion for his trouble. Ramsey puts an arrow through the giant's eye to finish him off. So Ramsey then takes Jon up on that offer of single combat, but the loser tries to shoot Jon. Jon uses a shield to protect himself and makes it to Ramsey and beats him to a pulp, only to back off when Sansa shows up.
With everything over, the flayed man banner is taken down and replace with a wolf. They place Rickon in the crypt, and Sansa goes to see Ramsey. In a bit of poetic justice, she tells Ramsey his dogs are going to eat him. The cocky bastard says they would never do that to him. Unfortunately, she points out how he said he starved the dogs for weeks in preparation to feed them with Jon and his people. And so, their hunger takes over and they eat Ramsey, much to Sansa's delight.
Game of Thrones- Great ep! In Mereen, Dany is giving Tyrion the stink eye, with Tyrion giving his reasoning why he did what he did. But Dany says its fine, he did what he thought would serve her interests best. Dany wants to crucify the masters and lay waste to their cities, but Tyrion counsels Dany to not be as bloodthirsty as her father. He tells her about the Mad King's plan to raze King's Landing and burn everyone. He's like, kill the masters, sure, but there are plenty of innocents in those cities she wants flattened. If she wants to be a good ruler, she'll stay her hand and take her enemies out with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.
So they meet with the Masters, and of course they do the smart ass thing where Dany and Tyrion are all, "We're here to discuss terms of surrender!" And the Masters think its them begging for mercy. I mean, I guess they had no idea Dany was gone or where she went off to. You'd think they noticed that dragon she arrived on and be a little more perturbed.
But yeah, the smug bastards are all, "run away, and we'll take back Missandei and Grey Worm and the other Unsullied (whom they claim were stolen from who I assume was that jackass who got immolated way back in season 3) to be resold, and then slaughter the dragons you have down in the dungeon!" So of course Dany and gang are all, "Oh, no, we were here to discuss your surrender!" And then Drogon flies to Dany and she mounts it and they fly off. They're joined by her other dragons, who proceed to focus fire and destroy some boats one at a time. Heh,
clevemire and the ex-roomie were wondering why she wasn't just having her dragons sweep though the fleet, but the show quickly explains they want the Masters' boats for her navy.With the naval siege effectively stalled, Daario and the Dothraki ride in and lay waste to the Sons of the Harpy. Finally, the effin nobody punks! Heh, Greyworm tells the Masters' soldiers with them that they don't have to die for these dicks, they're free to go home to their families. Unsurprisingly, they flee and abandoned the Masters. Anyways, as the three Masters stand there in despair, seeing their attack totally crushed, Tyrion tells them they had made a deal, and they broke it. As such, one of them will have to die as punishment. They offer up the one of them who is lowborn. The man begs for his life, but Greyworm ends up slitting the throats of the other two in one felled swoop. And so Tyrion tells the man he is spared and to go back to his people and tell them what he saw. Heh, between how easily the Masters got trounced once Dany returns, and how readily the Masters turned on each other, particularly giving he, the lowborn one up, I'm sure he'll make an effective deliverer of their message.
With all that done, Theon and Yara show up to make an alliance by offering up their fleets. They just want Dany's help by backing Yara as queen of the Iron Islands and to let them be independent. Heh, when Tyrion noticed they don't seem to have all of the Iron Fleet, the siblings admit the rest of their fleet is loyal to their uncle Euron, and how he's building more ships any day. Dany asks why she should ally with them instead of their uncle, but Yara says its because their uncle will offer an alliance with her, but only if she marries him. Heh, so then Dany is all, and your offer doesn't include a marriage proposal, and Yara is all, hey, unlike my uncle, she's not going to force matrimony, but hey, she wouldn't be averse if these two ladies hooked up.
Dany says she'll let the Iron Islands be free, but they can't be plunder and pillage. Yara says that that's their way, but Dany offers them a new one, and I guess she and Yara lock arms to cement the alliance.
Now on to the meat and potatoes of the ep. So Jon and Ramsey parlay. Jon offers to face Ramsey in single combat for the fate of Winterfell. Ramsey is all, why the eff would I want to do that when my army is gonna win? Sansa tells him to fuck off and rides away, putting an end to the talks.
Jon convenes his war council, and Tormund expresses his fear of cavalry, as that's what Stannis used to break them. Davos says they're building trenches to prevent them from being caught in a pincher attack (heh, he has to explain what a pincher attack is to Tormund several times), and how they should piss Ramsey off and get him to charge their front lines, that will pretend to break and then they can catch Ramsey in a pincher of their own.
The men congratulate themselves on a smart plan, but afterward, Sansa tells Jon his plan is shit and is offended he didn't ask her for her opinion since he knows Ramsey better than any of them. She tells Jon the plan won't work, because Ramsey is a lucky cockroach. He's not going to fall for their plan because he's a master manipulator himself, and he likes toying with people. She reiterates they should have waited until they had more men. When Jon says they couldn't wait because of Rickon, she says they have to just accept he's toast. Unlike the two of them, Rickon is a true born heir, a bigger threat to his rule than they are. There's no way Ramsey lets Rickon live. Now, she doesn't have any answers, she just knows Jon doesn't have them.
The eve of the battle, Jon goes to Melisandre and tries to get her to promise not to resurrect him. She makes no such promise, because she is just a conduit for the Lord of Light. If he dies, she totally is going to try and resurrect him again, and if the Lord of Light needs him to be alive, he will be. Also, since I guess this is the same place Stannis met his end, during Davos' usual pre-battle ritual of walking around, he finds the stake Shireen was burned at. Not that he knows it at first, but when he finds the toy he gave her, you can tell he has questions.
So the battle of the bastards begins by Ramsey bringing Rickon to the battlefield and letting him go to run to Jon... only to start firing arrows. Of course, for dramatic effect, the arrows miss until Rickon is right near Jon. And so poor Rickon is dead. Jon is pissed, and runs towards the enemy lines, tossing any plans they had to shit. So, his men are forced to charge to protect him, so they're all out of position. It doesn't help that Ramsey is a total asshole and doesn't care about his own men, having his archers pepper the battlefield with arrows even though they'll hit their own guys.
Once Jon's people are withered down, they get surrounded by spearmen, who are all ready to literally crush Jon's army under their spears and shields. Just when it seems like they're about to lose, Sansa and Littlefinger show up with the Arryn forces, and they save the day.
Ramsey runs off like a little bitch, with Jon, Tormund, and Wun Wun giving chase. Ramsey thinks he's safe behind the walls, but Wun Wun breaks the door down, but is turned into a pin cushion for his trouble. Ramsey puts an arrow through the giant's eye to finish him off. So Ramsey then takes Jon up on that offer of single combat, but the loser tries to shoot Jon. Jon uses a shield to protect himself and makes it to Ramsey and beats him to a pulp, only to back off when Sansa shows up.
With everything over, the flayed man banner is taken down and replace with a wolf. They place Rickon in the crypt, and Sansa goes to see Ramsey. In a bit of poetic justice, she tells Ramsey his dogs are going to eat him. The cocky bastard says they would never do that to him. Unfortunately, she points out how he said he starved the dogs for weeks in preparation to feed them with Jon and his people. And so, their hunger takes over and they eat Ramsey, much to Sansa's delight.
