Osha and Meera squabble over rabbits Jojen has a seizure brought on by his visions, and Bran begs everyone to get along. Just south of it we get yet another brief scene of Bran Stark and his band of misfits. Speaking of which, we'll clamber further north to The Wall.

Scary stuff, but important given where this story goes. Ramsay Snow is one of the few truly wicked people in the story-he's like Joffrey if Joffrey had nobody to keep him at bay. This is one of the more gruesome scenes so far in the show which, I suppose, is fitting given how grim and terrible Theon's storyline is in book five of Martin's series. His mysterious tormenter (Ramsay Snow, the bastard of Bolton) is playing a game with the son of the Iron Islands: if Theon can guess where they are, who his tormenter is, he 'wins.' Speaking of menace-and Boltons, for that matter-we ought to fly as the raven flies, north, to a dark torture chamber where poor Theon Greyjoy hangs tied to a cross.

His calculation and menace is beginning to soak through. I'm glad to see Bolton taking a larger role in the last couple episodes. Bolton is either afraid that the Lannisters will pay their debt by placing Bolton's head on a spike (or chopping off a hand, perhaps) or he wants something more.

To the south, in Harrenhal, we can glimpse another front in this collapse: Lord Roose Bolton agrees to send Jaime Lannister back to King's Landing, asking only that he vouches for Bolton to Tywin Lannister. Everything is veering toward disaster and betrayal. Catelyn, remarkably, stays silent.įor those of you who've read the books, it's a painful deliberation to watch. If Lord Frey is going to lend Robb his men, after Robb broke his vow to the old lord, he wants a formal apology and he wants Edmure to marry his daughter. Just to the north, at House Tully, we have two of the many Frey offspring setting terms with Robb Stark and Edmure Tully. His has quickly become one of my favorite performances in the show. On a side note, Paul Kaye continues to make Thoros a far more fascinating character in the show than in the books. Now Arya has a very good reason to run off: Beric and Thoros have betrayed Gendry and she has no reason to trust them. Why leave when she had essentially a free ticket home? The Brotherhood seemed like good enough men. Yes, they planned to ransom her to her brother, Robb, but that was the quickest way home. In the books, Arya escapes the Brotherhood but I found her reasoning a bit baffling. In some ways it works better this way, at least in terms of Arya's character. In fact, Gendry is knighted Ser Gendry of Hollow Hill by Beric Dondarrion in the books. In book four, A Feast for Crows, Brienne meets Gendry. I checked to see if it was even possible that it occurred off-screen, but there's no way. For a couple bags of gold and because their God said so, Beric and Thoros sell Gendry down the river.

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