Little fucker!
I mean, Littlefinger is quite charming, isn't he?
His character and Papa Lannister owned episode 7. It was very enjoyable even though not evry surprising (Daenerys' husband deciding to cross the sea and go to war was to be expected from day one, and Littlefinger basically said at the beginning of the episode that he would fuck Ned Stark).
The scenes did work well. Robert/Ned, Cersei/Ned even Jon/Sam, but the two best scenes were the Tywin/Jamie one and the Littlefinger/whores one. Yes the sapphic scene was quite gratuitous (Roz' breasts have to be showed though!) but his teaching them how to do it was fun and Littlefinger was making a point so it was a sort of soft-porn meta.
As usual, it's the Dothraki stuff that worked the least for me. So cliche, so over-the-top, so silly, and the acting can't compete with the performances in King's Landing (I keep wanting to type Knots Landing!). The guy playing Drogo is terrible.
Anyway, I liked this episode, much better than the previous one that felt like a letdown after a really good fifth episode. I hope that the show will be less uneven in the future.
ETA :
here's the extract from Richard III Littlefinger's speech reminded me of when he said he lost the duel, and any hope to be loved by Catlyn and knows that he can't play their game, being not very physically impressive, and that he doesn't want to fight them but will fuck them all:
"But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other: And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false and treacherous, This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up, About a prophecy, which says that 'G' Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be."
Read more: William Shakespeare: Richard III, Act I - Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/t/lit/shakespeare-plays/richardIII-act1-1.html#ixzz1O30G9ixm
His character and Papa Lannister owned episode 7. It was very enjoyable even though not evry surprising (Daenerys' husband deciding to cross the sea and go to war was to be expected from day one, and Littlefinger basically said at the beginning of the episode that he would fuck Ned Stark).
The scenes did work well. Robert/Ned, Cersei/Ned even Jon/Sam, but the two best scenes were the Tywin/Jamie one and the Littlefinger/whores one. Yes the sapphic scene was quite gratuitous (Roz' breasts have to be showed though!) but his teaching them how to do it was fun and Littlefinger was making a point so it was a sort of soft-porn meta.
As usual, it's the Dothraki stuff that worked the least for me. So cliche, so over-the-top, so silly, and the acting can't compete with the performances in King's Landing (I keep wanting to type Knots Landing!). The guy playing Drogo is terrible.
Anyway, I liked this episode, much better than the previous one that felt like a letdown after a really good fifth episode. I hope that the show will be less uneven in the future.
ETA :
here's the extract from Richard III Littlefinger's speech reminded me of when he said he lost the duel, and any hope to be loved by Catlyn and knows that he can't play their game, being not very physically impressive, and that he doesn't want to fight them but will fuck them all:
"But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other: And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false and treacherous, This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up, About a prophecy, which says that 'G' Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be."
Read more: William Shakespeare: Richard III, Act I - Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/t/lit/shakespeare-plays/richardIII-act1-1.html#ixzz1O30G9ixm