brienne of tarth

Some GoT thoughts

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My relationship with Game of Thrones has had… ups and downs shall we say, but for this final run I’m actually relieved I stuck with it.

Episode 1:

– At this point, very early on in the final series, I suddenly remembered Daenerys is essentially a villain now! And then I sort-of loathed her for the rest of the episode. This is an odd kind of loathing where I respect her as a character but look forward to her inevitable death.

-Seriously, when she tells Sam what she did to his brother, ugh. Villain. Villain who’s gonna be torched by her own dragons if there’s any justice in Westeros, which there is not.

-Nice to see Arya sticking up for Sansa, aww, what a long way those two came.

-Sansa is still my favourite. But I don’t want her on the Iron Throne, I want nobody.

-At one point in the brothel (obviously there is a scene in a brothel) one of the women starts talking about a red-haired soldier called Ed (or something like it) who was burned in that last battle with the dragons. Wait a minute –

ed

Ha!

Episode 2:

-Oh Missandei, I missed you. I hope you survive.

-Same to you, Gilly.

-There’s so many people in this episode whose names I don’t remember and sorry! But this was actually A LEGITIMATELY BEAUTIFUL EPISODE!

-Brienne’s knighting is probably the best moment the show has ever done, and I loved it, and I wish there had been more moments like it in the earlier days of the show.

-The Arya/Genry scene in a way feels WRONG because we knew her as a kid and ARGH but it was actually rather tastefully done. Didn’t even see anything. Nice to know the show has matured in that regard, thank god.

-The final marching-to-war montage felt like a rip-off of Return of the King, and it probably was. Didn’t stop it being a lovely, lovely moment. Oh god I love that melancholy song and I must download it now and keep it for ever. God damn it, show. A lot of the time I don’t care for you, just some of your characters, but then you go and do shit like this. That gorgeous sad song. Argh.

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ahintofthesea:

“Fighting is better than this waiting,” Brienne said. “You don’t feel so helpless when you fight. You have a sword and a horse, sometimes an axe. When you’re armored it’s hard for anyone to hurt you.”– “Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.”

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onionjulius:

A Classic Hollywood Fancast of Ice and Fire
     » Charlotte Greenwood as Brienne of Tarth

With her long face and prominent chin, Greenwood was not pretty in a conventional sense … — tcm.com.

… she was a tall, leggy gal who played second banana to the leading women of film, usually musicals, and Charlotte never got the man. — findagrave.com.

Greenwood was known mostly for her comic roles in both silent pictures and talkies, but I believe she was able to grab some serious roles too.  This idea came from twohandedengine and pitselly—thanks guys!

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