Yeah, definitely the highlight of the episode. Dayne was a savage and didn’t give a fuck when he found himself surrounded. The way he calmly and methodically dismantled that entire squad was legendary. I also love the stance he took 1v1 against stark with his inverted grip on one of his swords.
I laughed how the “honorable” Ned Stark didn’t get too upset at his friend for saving his ass in a less than honorable fashion. Fast forward 20 years later to his duel with Jamie and gets a spear to the back of his leg.
I remember hearing that the guy they were looking to have play Dayne either had some fencing/swordplay skills, or had worked on a bunch of fight choreography like that before, so it’s possible that’s partly why he was able to come across looking so good.
Tower of Joy scene ending right as Ned got to the stairs was a pain in the ass, also Bran slowly turning into Ezra Miller means the character should be getting killed off soon.
To be fair, it’s not like the fight against someone ends when you get in one good lick! Dayne should start paying attention to his surroundings and not assume a guy’s down for good just 'cause he fell over once. Reed was on his feet, not just quickly stabbing Dayne in the foot from prone position. And he was IN the fight, which never started out as a duel. I would maybe call it MILDLY dishonorabu. No worse.
This is what five Souls games have taught me: No matter how much you git gud, if you get cocky YOU DIED.
Anyway, Ramsay continues to be the luckiest asshole in Westeros (HOW many people in the north are okay with backstabbing crazy bastards by now?), and Tommen… Oh boy. Dude’s like clay in literally everyone’s hands.
I hope Tommen is actually playing the High Sparrow and setting him up for the surprise double-cross. I could see it as pretty plausible too, both Cersei and Olenna Tyrell would be more than willing to mastermind using him that way.
But I really kind of want to see him pull it off under his own initiative. See some of his relative’s jaws drop when their own schemes fail and he manages to take down the Sparrows on his own.
Having refreshed my memory about the Tower of Joy, and going on all the fan theories, I’m gonna go ahead and call that in the next Flashbax von Sydow, we’ll at the very least get
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some very strong hints, if not an outright answer, to Jon Snow’s parentage.
Also, I laughed when Jaime made that jab against The Mountain, wondering if he could understand him at all, only to have this 7ft tall zombie turn and look directly at him.
Yes, he was sitting over on the love seat and I was on the couch. I looked over at him like, what the hell, man? He just kinda shrugged and kept watching. I didn’t want to make anything of it and interrupt the show, lol.
I was already kinda mad at him because he said I looked like Sam and he and my fiancee were laughing at me.
Looks like it, unless they’re going to reveal it later or introduce it in a separate thing. The montage here just seems to show Arya getting progressively Better At Blind.