Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Sansa • Tyrion

Sansa's having a grand time in King's Landing as Joffrey's betrothed. She gets front row tourney seats, wears nice clothing, and has the honor of receiving the occasional royal beating. She's guarded by Arys, one of Joffrey's bodyguard knights who frankly is kind of a pussy. He compliments Sansa, talks about gossip, and even hits her with less enthusiasm. Come on man, grow some balls. How can you call yourself a Kingsguard if you can't even beat a teenage girl properly?

The tourney is quite lackluster. This time, there are no pretty boys like Jaime or Loras. There are no badass GREGOR-induced deaths or exciting Hound interventions. It sucks so much that Joffrey almost kills a drunkard out of boredom, but Sansa saves the poor guy. The incident all but proves that Joffrey is a psychopath. The kid beats his girlfriend, almost kills a guy for being drunk, laughs when his brother falls off a horse, and doesn't seem to remember that his "father" King Gored Bob died quite recently. The tourney is interrupted by Tyrion's arrival to the city. Despite Tyrion's kind words and gentlemanly behavior, Sansa doesn't trust him. I can't imagine why -- he's only a hideous dwarf with mismatched eyes from the family that executed her father. What's not to trust?
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Tyrion was sent to King's Landing to help rule, but he first must gain entrance to Cersei's council meeting. In his way is pop singer turned actress turned Kingsguard Mandy Moore, who doesn't really obey Tyrion as much as the two dudes with swords that Tyrion brought with him. Cersei isn't happy that her father named Tyrion Hand, but she can't really do anything about it, as her actual power lies in Tywin's army, not Joffrey's title. Tyrion immediately dismisses the council and tells Cersei that he has a plan to get Jaime back by trading Sansa for him. Robb probably loves his sister, but he would have to be beyond stupid to trade Jaime for her. She doesn't even have a wolf anymore. If I were Robb I'd offer to trade Jaime back for half of Tywin (the upper half) and half of Cersei (the lower half). That way the Lannisters are deprived of their two greatest assets. Brilliant, I know.

We also found out that Joffrey just arbitrarily decided to execute Ned, despite agreeing to allow post-confession Eddard to go to the Wall. Joffrey apparently didn't even tell anyone, and on the day of the pardoning just decided "meh, let's execute him" as if he changed his mind about ordering eggs or pancakes. Cersei can't control him, sounds like one of those parents who just proclaims "what am I going to do with him!?" as if she had nothing to do with the fact that her son turned into a gigantic asshole. What Joffrey needs is a good old fashioned spanking, and Tyrion thinks he's the one that can do it.

Tyrion gets triple slapped for making twincest jokes, but knowing Tyrion, he probably likes it so its win win win. Tyrion goes off to clean up the city, using the patented two step Tyrion motivational technique: 1) make joke, 2) threaten death. Tyrion makes his way to his clansmen and Shae and has a WTF VARYS moment. The dickless King's Landing TMZ already knows everything. After delivering the "I know about your whore" threat, Varys leaves and Tyrion gets down to business with Shae. And by that I mean they have boring sex that totally does not live up to the potential a dwarf-prostitute pairing. Tyrion's falling in love. Again. With a whore. Again. Sigh. When will that dwarf ever learn?

16 comments:

  1. HAHAHAHA...
    The upper half of Tywin an the lower half of Cersei ARE the Lannisters' greatests assets!
    Brilliant...

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  2. Yanno, I feel kinda bad for Tyrion. His whole family's got something awesome and ransomable (Tywin - brain, Cersei - beauty, Jaime - brawn), and Tyrion here gets shafted with his booze and his brothels and all his boo-hoos about life.

    Well, at least they're all blonde.

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  3. A : you're forgetting two thing. Tyrion is the only Lannister kid :
    - who has at least half a brain.
    - who's not a complete psycho (I mean, Cersei is totally crazy and Jaime actually throws kids out of windows).

    Of course, it doesn't get him as much fame, but it does make him less likely to make stupid mistakes. Like throwing a kid out of a window.

    Loved the twincest jokes in that chapter, btw. "Doesn't seems fair that you open your legs for one brother and not the other" => I lol'd.

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  4. Ha ha ha. Slap slap slap = win win win. And the whole "upper half of Tywin and lower half of Cersei" is sheer brilliance.

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  5. Fantastic. I'm glad you started up the blog again. Looking forward to more!

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  6. AWESOME post, you made me chuckle (out loud) several times! Gods, I can't stop imagining this Frankenstein-monsteresque Cersei/Tywin creation! I loved the Tyrion two-step motivational technique. Maybe I should try it!

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  7. It's interesting how Tywin hates Tyrion the most of his 3 children, because of his deformity, but never seems to realise that he's the only one who seemed to get Tywin's intelligence.

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  8. If I were Robb I'd offer to trade Jaime back for half of Tywin (the upper half) and half of Cersei (the lower half). That way the Lannisters are deprived of their two greatest assets.

    Definitely the funniest thing you've posted. Personally I'd like the whole of Cersei but with say Asha's brain. I dunno.

    One of my fave chapters of all time BTW due to the slap slap slap.

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  9. jokes and quips aside, your insight and opinions into/on the plot as it unfolds is what most interests the ppl reading your blog- so don't forget that side of your writing!

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  10. Awesome that he's back again. Jason, you'll like this one much better than the first book because there's much action, and a chapter-long GREGOR rampage.

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  11. Yeah, this is the book where GREGOR gets to relax and indulge in his favourite hobbies

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  12. Zak, don't speak for all of us. Some of us like the jokes and quips to go along with a mundane summary instead of essay-length analyses.

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  13. This blog is making me 20% less bitter about GRRM's slowness.

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  14. Are you going to add to this blog again? Please?! You're hilarious!

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  15. الان يمكنك الحصول علي افضل الخدمات واقل الاسعار من توكيل وستنجهاوس والتي تعمل مع فريق متخصص في اعمال الصيانة من صيانة وستنجهاوس التي توفر احدث معدات الصيانة وعلي ايدي خبراء من صيانة وايت وستنجهاوس في مصر .

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