Monday, August 16, 2010

Bran • Tyrion

Back and Winterfell, Bran voltrons with a gigantic dim witted servant named Hodor. It sucks for Bran because he has to do all the annoying lord paperwork but gets none of the usual benefits. He can't joust or swordfight or climb or even dress himself anymore. However, not many knights get to ride a 7-foot tall Hodorse. If Sir Lancelot had a choice between riding an ordinary horse and Shaquille O'Neal, he'd pick Shaq every time. Despite this, Bran still gets made fun of by the douchebag Frey kids, and Maester Luwin shuttles him off to talk politics and business. The lesser lords are doing their best to sell Bran on their coins and ships, especially Fat Wyman.

Afterward, Bran hangs out with Osha. Apparently, despite an attempted kidnapping and murder, the Starks think it's okay to let Osha be alone, naked, with one of their 8 year old princes. Then the chapter talks about bastards and widows and other inheritance stuff that I don't particularly understand. Martin must have a huge excel spreadsheet to keep track of who marries who and who is lord where. Anyway, we learn that Bran has selectively blocked out the traumatic experience of Jaime shoving him out a window. But at the end of the chapter Cley Cerwyn discusses the Stannisfesto's twincest claim, which causes Bran to dream about the incident that night. The important thing here is not that Bran remembers, but that Mr. Cerwyn has successfully peformed inception. Cue loud foghorn noise.
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King's Landing is not doing great. Everyone fears that King Bob's brothers will march on the city at any moment. The Lannisters have enemies everywhere and daddy Tywin can only be in once place at a time, much to Cersei's dismay. Thus, Tyrion must set out and win alliances for the Lannisters, through letters and marriages and Littlefinger's cock. We get some backstory on Pedo Petyr, who turns out to be quite the social climbing businessman, multiplying the king's fortunes and debts while simultaneously inserting his own cronies. He also nonchalantly brags about stealing both Tully sisters' "maidenhood," though probably not at the same time. Littlefinger is attempting the rare mother sister daughter trifecta with Cat Lysa and Sansa, impressive. Play on, playa. Tyrion offers him a big castle, and that's enough for Littlefinger and his virginity stealing cock to be on the next ship to the Vale.

Next, Tyrion details his plan to give the Prince of Dorne the killer of his sister. I don't even know who Doran Martell is and had to look at the map to find Dorne, but the guy must be important if the Lannisters are considering giving up GREGOR. Supposedly Tywin ordered GREGOR to rape and kill Doran's sister and her child. While that does sound like something GREGOR would do, let's not convict an innocent man. Remember, we're talking about GREGOR here, who is not only a knight but also happens to be the single greatest academic mind in all of Westeros. Are we sure he killed Elia? Someone call Ser Johnnie Cochran.

19 comments:

  1. Possibly your best entry yet. Thank you.

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  2. Absolutely brilliant entry.

    Just found your blog a couple of weeks ago and blitzed through them all.

    I really enjoyed the Inception comment :)

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  3. Enjoyed as always -- keep it up!

    So what did you think of the one, two, three?

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  4. Well, I suppose you can defend GREGOR in this rape/killing matter;)

    Keep up the good work.

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  5. I have been enjoying your blog so much. I'm so happy to see you continuing with it. :) I would love it though if you could share more of your thoughts of what you think of the story instead in addition to your very humorous recaps.
    -Michelle

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  6. In today's court system, GREGOR would get off on an insanity plea and the Martell's would launch a civil suit against Tywin.

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  7. Highly amusing post as always, keep it up!

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  8. don't worry about Dorne, we all had to look at the map to make sure it existed and where it was :P Another lesson to learn from Martin: if is is the map, it'll be used.

    Keep reading and blogging, your legion of fans await! and I'm sure the ones who write here are only the tip of the iceberg.

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  9. Awesome as always!

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  10. Glad you're back! Great job as always.

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  11. a month between chapters, you lost interest in the books?

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  12. If only he had read further, he would instatnly change from Gregor fan to Oberyn fan :P

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  13. Come back and discuss the TV series!

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  14. GREGOR alwats brings out the best of your writing

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