2/18/2023 0 Comments Home alone 4 final battleShe is then summoned to his bedchamber to lie back and think of Oldtown, as the king makes assiduous, dutiful, yeomanlike love to her. This, it seems to me, is the Goldilocks Response - it's just right.īack at the Red Keep, Alicent tends to the growing number of Iron Throne ouchies that the king's steadily accruing, none of which seem to be healing well. Rhaenyra, for her part, rolls her eyes and shrugs her shoulders, accepting that the common folk need their outlet. A tyrant like GoT's Joffrey would order the players' heads on pikes, while a weaker ruler might sulk and stew that the people didn't love them enough. This, by the way, is the showrunners telling us that she's possessed of the proper temperament to rule. They witness a playlet which lampoons the royal family, and the struggle for the Iron Throne, and Rhaenyra, mostly, rolls with it, even when the crowd boos the notion of naming a woman rightful heir. It's exotic yet grimy: Cirque du Soleil meets Circus Circus. They make their way together into the narrow streets of King's Landing, which are alive with pyromancers and tightrope walkers and fortune tellers and drunks and peasants rutting away in alleys. She outfits herself in pageboy drag, skulks through the catacombs and finds her way to Daemon, waiting for her in an inconspicuous hood and cloak that's hilariously conspicuous. In her bedchamber, Rhaenrya finds a bundle of old clothes and a diagram pointing out a secret door behind her bed. Where did you sleep last night, and was she worth it? "Marry me you're little!" Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) and Daemon (Matt Smith) get weird by the weirwood. (We get a nice quick shot of the perpetually worried Tyland Lannister looking worried, again, still, some more.) It seems that Corlys Velaryon is fixing to wed his daughter Laena (remember her? The 12-year-old in the white Harpo wig?) to the son of a Lord of the Free Cities, effectively turning his back on the Seven Kingdoms. Even in HD, it's impossible to say for sure.Ĭut to: the Small Council. Then again, the guy's eyebrows are the same color as his skin, so maybe he does waggle them. He doesn't quite waggle his eyebrows at her when he mentions "pleasures," but that's clearly the subtext. There follows a scene between Daemon and Rhaenyra in which Daemon urges his niece to see marriage as a political arrangement that leaves one free to pursue whatever pleasures one wishes. (Given Viserys's flatulence in the prior scene, there's a "squeezing out airs" joke to be made here, but let's us just soldier on, you and I.) The hits just keep coming, but Alicent takes them all in stride she's out here turning more cheeks than a plastic surgeon. Rhaenyra and Alicent get a moment together to admit how much they've missed each other, but not before Rheanyra also suggests that the queen's life of "squeezing out heirs" doesn't interest her. In the Red Keep's godswood courtyard, Viserys gets happily drunk and gassy and is thoughtlessly rude to his queen. Don't feel too bad for him that thing looks like he found it at a surf shop between the driftwood seagulls and the cage of hermit crabs. Now that he's conquered the Stepstones, they call him King of the Narrow Sea - but he promptly kneels before Viserys and gives up his crown. He's sporting a kicky new 'do - Jim Jarmusch by way of Johnny Bravo - and a crown of what seems to be bamboo and seashells. On her way back to King's Landing, her ship is overtaken by ol' Uncy Daemon, astride Caraxes, who gives her sails a love-tap as he passes by.Īt the Iron Throne, a crowd gathers to watch Daemon's return. Rhaenyra's had enough of this sword-measuring contest, and cuts off the tour two months early. That hatred flares up anew in the throne room, and Ser Squeaky prevails, gutting Bracken like a river trout. Which is a nice touch, as in the books, Blackwoods and Brackens have hated each other for generations. (Kidding: House Blackwood, technically.) He quavers out his pitch, and promptly gets trash-talked by a jerk from House Bracken. Next up, Ser Squeaky Voiced Teen of House Simpsons. The elderly, pompous Lord Dondarrion of Blackhaven is blathering away about his castle's "deep, dry moat," like the shameless flirt he is. I'd guess we're instead at Riverrun, the seat of House Tully.) But as most of the suitors lined up before her are from Houses in the Riverlands - Frey, Mudd, Blackwood, etc. (I first assumed that this was meant to be Storm's End, the seat of House Baratheon, given that that's Boremund Baratheon seated at Rhaenyra's side, walking her through the process.
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