Anyway we open with the traumatic scene of Joffrey's death- and even though I fucking hated him I sort of loved him for being someone so completely despicable. Like, how often do you come across someone with nearly no redeeming features, but at the same time- this character is so real. He's not just a master-mind villain in a comic book- he's like, the living nightmare. When he started choking on screen I knew it was his death scene, and I thought "about time" because God I hate Joffrey but then as the scene played out, I was kind of horrified because I realized I didn't like watching people die- even Joffrey. Because in my mind it's like... if I like watching people suffer as they struggle for life, then I'm like Joffrey, and that's just not cool. I didn't really feel like I was watching Joffrey die, even though he was being a colossal dick only a few minutes ago, in the moments of his death, he looked so young, so helpless and SO FUCKING SCARED that I almost shat myself. So yeah, that opening to s4e3 was a dreadful reminder.
Then the next memorable scene was when Jaime fucks Cersei in the Sept of Baelor- I guess it's the GoT equivalent of a church altar. I thought it was a super awkward scene because there was the body of their dead son, right next time them, and Jaime's just like "whatevs". Tumblr and Twitter are in an uproar over the scene, because apparently it wasn't a rape scene in the books but in the show Jaime rapes Cersei and some people are like "but she consented in the end" and other people are like "wtf but she said no at the beginning at he kept going and that's rape". Then there was a lot of rage at the writers of the show because there was meant to be brotherly and sisterly love and Jaime was a knight and he would never rape Cersei blah blah.
Mmm, I don't know how I feel about it all, tbh. To me the show definitely depicted a rape scene because of how she kept on trying to push him away whilst being all "NO NO STOP NO". Having read the passage which describes the scene in the books, I guess I do see the contrast between the book and the TV show. Except... I don't know, I don't see it as a murder of Jaime's character just because he did what he did to Cersei. I think people are mad about the episode because the topic of rape is a super-sensitive one, like it was never a good thing but with feminism on the uprising I feel as if the topic as become another sort of taboo. The current consensus on the topic is that rape, under any circumstance, is totally unacceptable and there is a very clear and distinct border between what is rape and what is not. And I guess that view is totally fine, but even though I saw a rape scene in GoT, I also felt Jaime's desperation, loneliness and grief. I don't think the show "murdered" Jaime's character- I think the show's trying to say that Jaime loves her, very deeply, knowing that she is a hateful woman, a woman who wants him to kill his own brother. And Jaime will do anything- anything to be with her- he doesn't care about the Gods, or their father- and he won't even let her oppose him because he wants her THAT much. I see it as a really twisted and horrid kind of love, and I call it love but maybe it's borderline obsession- I can't really say. Sure, it's not justified or right by any means, but I'm not saying Jaime did the right thing- I'm saying that he did what he did because that's his character. I don't think Jaime is the good guy in the show... Like, remember that time he pushed Bran out of a window?
"The things I do for love."
Anyway, setting that ugly business aside- we move onto my favourite scene- the scene where Sansa gets on Petyr Baelish's ship and she's horrified to discover that Sir Dontos didn't really save her because he was grateful- he saved her because he was promised gold by Petyr Baelish. It was kind of tragic watching Sansa make the same mistake as Daenerys Targaryen- like how Daenerys thought she saved that witch but the witch ended up murdering her baby and leaving her husband in a catatonic state. So Sansa thinks she saved Sir Dontos but I'm so glad that the worst he did was sell her off to Petyr Baelish. I mean, for most people that's already a tragic event in itself because Petyr Baelish is creepy as fuck- but I love Petyr Baelish. He is like... my favourite to win the Iron Throne and if I were Catelyn I would've chosen Petyr Baelish over Ned Stark any day. I think in a man like Petyr Baelish love is far more valuable because he's so clever and so dangerous- you can (as Ned sadly found out) never trust him because he's never sincere. Which is why I felt that if a character like that DOES love someone then their love is worth a lot more because of how out-of-character it is.
So uh what I'm saying is my OTP is Sansa and Petyr Baelish and I totally want them to rule Westeros together and for the mockingbird to become the royal sigil. And it's great that both of them are currently on what looks like a ghost ship because symbolically it's also like "AH-HAH, MY SHIP HAS SET SAIL". I mean sure it's weird how he used to like her mom but she looks like her mom so it's not that weird for him to be attracted to her, and I think if they ended up together it'd be sweet because Petyr is far less likely to fuck things up than anyone else. Yeah I'm weird I know but I've been like this ever since I started using tumblr and I'm just happy that there are people out there who also think Sansa and Petyr would do well together.
Then the rest of the episode is just Daenerys being her usual badass self and the new actor who plays Daario being a complete heart-throb. I always find it amusing how GoT manages to recruit all these good looking actors. Like in the books Oberyn Martell is meant to be the embodiment of sex- well in the TV show the actor who plays him just oozes sexiness in his every action and expression and I'm just all "I can't go for the entirety of this scene without a nosebleed". Anyway I'm looking forward to the scene where Daenerys just caves into Daarios advances because goddamn that man is hot and I'll just feel sorry for Jorah Mormont in the aftermath because even though the actor is way too hot to be playing the ugly hulk that is meant to be Jorah anyway, he's still in the permanent friendzone and I just feel bad about how loyal he is to her.
And here concludes my "review" of the episode- I just couldn't resist writing about it- because even though a lot of people are mad about the episode and whatnot- I just thought everything was beautifully done and every plot line was terribly intriguing- I really can't wait for next weeks' GoT.
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