FAVORITE MONUMENTAL MOMENTS
I found so many monumental moments in Game of Thrones Season 4. Here, I present my own picks in chronological order—from episode 1 to episode 10.
Episode 1 – Two Swords
THE THENNS | Here comes the Thenns—mythical creatures from beyond The Wall. I suppose they should be big, bald, intelligent, and more civilized. The thing is, they’re not sort of cannibalistic; it’s the ice-rivers clans, who eat the flesh of their enemy. Let’s say these Thenns are ‘bastards’ of real Thenns with the ice- rivers clans; they’re still my favorite, after all.
ARYA GETS HER NEEDLE BACK | Arya and The Hound encounter Polliver and mates. With her reunion with Needle, there’s nothing we can expect but a payback time for Arya.
Episode 2 – The Lion and The Rose
THE PURPLE WEDDING | Royal and luxurious is the royal wedding of Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell. With all fancy lords and ladies as well as ravishing banquet, ’tis is the most extravagant feast in GoT. Yet, “The Rains of Castamere” is always a bad omen (we’ve heard it before The Red Wedding); what makes it more ominous than that? While Sigur Ros performing it, Joff stops it and tosses coins to them. Enough with the entertainments, Joff makes his own entertainment—choked to death after drinking poisonous wine. Leaving his uncle Tyrion with his calamity, Joff’s demise is. What makes it? Sansa’s purple (oh, it’s blue, anyhow) necklace.
BRAN’S WEIRWOOD VISION | For the first time (ever), the show has gone beyond the books—foreseeing moments happen in the far future of Game of Thrones. North of the Wall, Bran Stark finds a weirwood with a man’s face carved just like the sanctuary of the old god. When he touches it, he gets a vision from the three-eyed raven whispering to be found. Yet, that’s not all—we also see series of flashbacks of Bran’s past as well as foreshadows of the future of Seven Kingdoms. What’s there? Weirwood in far north; Iron Throne left empty on a winter night; The Others or White walkers; and dragon flies over King’s Landing. What else to expect?
Episode 3 – Breaker of Chains
AND THEN THERE WAS LITTLEFINGER | Who would have thought that Littlefinger has waited for Sansa in a ship to Eyrie? Of course, his very self. Trust no one but Littlefinger is the second lesson you learn after: sing no Rains of Castamere. Petyr Baelish has schemed everything; departing on early sail (before the port’s shut), hiring Ser Dontos Hollard, and most clearly, setting his sail to Eyrie long before the wedding.
BREAKER (AND THROWER) OF CHAINS | After New Daario Naharis kills the Meereenese champion (thankfully, it’s not Strong Belwas), Dany Targaryen poses her threat to proud masters of Meereen by tossing slave’s chains to the great city of Meereen just before the masters. Dany forces slaves in Meereen to see how ruthless their masters are, with at least 163 chains she collects during her route to Meereen. This action awards Dany an initial way to sack Meereen as her later residence, and another ‘title’ to add to her name.
Episode 4 – Oathkeeper
BRIENNE THE OATHKEEPER | Jaime Lannister awards Brienne of Tarth with a conspicuous yet decent armor before sending her out to find Starks girl. Furthermore, he gives her a sword of him, which is smithed with Valyrian steel from Ned Stark’s sword. Later, Brienne names it Oathkeeper, a symbol of her faith to Catelyn Stark. The fun thing is, Podrick Payne escorts her from King’s Landing—a real deviation from the book. FYI, this moment and the following is taken from the fourth book.
THE NIGHT’S KING? | The series has gone beyond any A Song of Ice and Fire books or any source material again. In the end of episode 4, a pale white walker rides a wight horse while carrying a baby boy of a Craster’s wife—piercing the blizzard to nowhere. In a place that looks like Minas Morgul with icy Stone Henge, that creature puts the baby on a frosty pedestal. At least 13 shadows come out from nowhere, one of them—dressed like a Westerosi knight—goes forward and takes the baby then turns him into something awful. Are they The Others who posses powers to animate the dead? Are they alien or Nazgul? Is is The Night’s King? Questions. That. Has. No. Answer. Yet.
Episode 5 – First of His Name
A LORD BUT NOT A PROTECTOR | Joff’s dead and Myrcella’s been a ward to Dornishmen; The Iron Throne is vacant, leaving only Tywin as the King’s Hand and Cersei as the Queen Regent. Given no choice, the Great Sept finally crowns Tommen Baratheon to be the king. He bears the formal style of “King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of Seven Kingdoms” but not the “Protector of the Realm” due to his age—and that’s funny. What makes more funny of him? He’s portrayed as a taciturn boy that loves his cat Ser Pounce!
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