What I Saw: Game of Thrones, Season 5, Episode 1, Wars to Come
Once upon a time in Mereen, there was a lady statute with a flower pot on her head. Now that flower pot for heads was once upon another time a very fashionable head dress, but times have changed in Mereen and that Passé Fashion had to go, along with Slavery.
So down she came the Mereen WaterPark Slide.
Well at least she enjoyed the slide down.
Danys, our Silver Lady, Emancipator of Slaves is not having that much fun in Mereen. She is a good General and War Leader, but oh that Governing Thing. Danys is much like Ulysses S. Grant. She likes horses and the large scale battlefield manuvering. The political battling, she is not much good at. Hey, she is like the Most Gorgeous King of the North Ever, Robb Stark. Don't attend weddings, Danys.
Danys has won the Slave State of Mereen and freed the slaves, but now she is in the middle of Reconstruction and people just don't want to change. Danys now has the Mereen Klu Klux Klan, called the Bronze Faced Boys
running around lynching and terrorizing the slaves and the Unsullied. The birth of the Mereen Nation is rough going.
And not only are the Mereens acting up (Mereens/Marines, oh now I get it), but Kermit the Green Dragon and Red Sonya are very upset with their Mommie Dearest.
Just who the hell does Danys think that she is? Ariel Castro?
Tyrion escapes the Wrath of Cersei, Jaime doesn't seem to be that broken up about Tywin's death and no one says a word about Shae, by going on a confining sea voyage to Pentos with Viserys*. Tyrion was boxed up in a crate to save on the cruise ship charges.
Tyrion complains about pushing his shit through the holes in the crate. Viserys* counters with his complaints about cleaning up Tyrion's shit, all of it.
Tyrion has got the shit smeared hands.
But instead of washing his hands and freshening up, Tyrion heads to the table and big gulps down some wine with his shit smeared hands.
Viserys*, ever discreet, makes a big display of washing his hands.
Hint, Hint, Tyrion! "Wash your shitty hands before handling the food and drink!"
Tyrion ignores it and spreads his feces around. Pentos had an outbreak of chlorea and dysentery right after Tyrion and Viserys* left town.
Stannis is in town, so to speak at the Wall, with his family, his daughter Shireen and his wife, Cranky.
They get to watch Melisandre barbeque Mance Raydar because he won't do knee bends for Stannis.
One thing that I've noticed on this show. Women and fire are paired together. Danys and her dragons of fire, Melisandre and her Fire God. Maybe this connects with fire in a home's hearth and the women who tend it.
* The name for the bald eunch is Varys not Viserys (he wears the crown of gold that Drogo gave him). These names are too much alike.
Screencaps by me. And they are a pain to make.