game of thrones 2x02 extremely late review + other things

[janie_tangerine]

1. So, I had actually watched that ep when it leaked, then I figured I'd wait for the actual airing moment to review it and then it was Easter and I didn't, but since I have ~feelings~ about it and tonight's episode will give me EVEN MORE (everyone who read the books and saw the preview knows why) I'll just go over the main things here.

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[janie_tangerine]

First thing, subject me to all the capslocks you need. Capslock is GOOD! ;)

Second:

I want them to run off to the Free Cities and get married and live happily ever after. Because their love is WRIT IN THE STARS.Methinks this should be a kink meme prompt. ;) Or at least THAT IT SHOULD EXIST BECAUSE SERIOUSLY those bits were so perfect I couldn't even

[janie_tangerine]

OMG YES YES YES LET ME LOVE IT LET ME LOVE ITTTTTT gosh I'm so glad he landed that part. Flawless casting was flawless.

... you know, that would be so freaking awesome. SO. FREAKING. AWESOME. His past would make a hell of an interesting story, that's for sure... and well yeah the Watch can't be as impartial as they say. With Arya I had gathered that it had been Ned more or less telling him to do it while they were bringing him to get judged and I'm pretty sure he was on board because of all the reasons you said but I'm pretty sure he knew perfectly about Gendry, too. And if he hadn't he'd had known when the City Watch came searching for him.

Weeell Robb is totally another possible fandom bycicle -nodnod- I tend to ship Jon with more people but Robb totally lends himself to it as well. Though well, saying that Jon is the little black dress of shipping in this fandom has a certain appeal. ;) ;)

ROBB COULD MAYBE CHOKE THEON AGAINST THE WALL, AND IT WOULD BE GLORIOUS, BECAUSE THEON WOULD LOVE IT.THIS TOTALLY AND UTTERLY IS RELEVANT TO

[falafel_musings]

I've been saying that Theon and Arya's S2 stories are the ones I'm most interested in. The second episode confirmed that for me (I love the Iron Islands! And yes I did have a lot of sympathy for Theon) I'm also loving the Tyrion-Cersei-Joffrey-Sansa-Hound-Littlefinger-Varys clusterfuck at Kings Landing. I think it's going to take me a while to feel invested in Stannis and the other new people. I love the Jon/Sam bromance still but I sometimes find it hard to concentrate on Jon and Dany's arcs since they seem so detached from the core story.

I was asking recently on my journal - do you have any good recs for fics about Theon's backstory? Since this has only been referred to in exposition dialogue it's taken me a while to make sense of his history. I'd love to see some of it written in fic form! Have you read (or written) anything about Theon being taken from the Iron Islands after the rebellion and how he adjusted to life among the Stark family (Robb/Theon is welcome!).

[janie_tangerine]

Re the fics: mmmmh I need to dig around, all the Theon related stuff I've written is full of spoilers for late stuff so I can't self-rec. ;) There's this one fic I read that fit exactly your requirements (ie Theon adjusting to live with the Starks) but it was supposed to be a multi-part and the writer only ever posted chapter one. And most of the Robb/Theon stuff around deals with late GOT canon, ACOK canon and ADWD canon rather than being backstory, though now that I think about it I think I read a couple ficlets that might fit the bill. I'm going to go through my bookmarks tomorrow and get back at you on that, it won't be much but it'd be something. And errr wait a moment, how are you with French? Because I just remembered that once I tried to read this fic in French on ff.net which dealt with his arrival at Winterfell and subsequent years, but it was very late and I understood less of it than I usually would, so I can't guarantee on the quality

[janie_tangerine]

Lol, you know that Misha Collins guy who is in Supernatural? He organized a crazy digital scavenger hunt where he gave you a list of insane things to do (ie make websites with US candidates looking drunk and stupid quotes of them popping up or take picture of a shark-killing chair or re-do the Last Supper with action figures etcetera) and the target was getting into the Guinness. And since he had some 600 teams with ten people each (more or less) we totally ended up there and I figured I should ask for my individual certificate. ;)

[kel_reiley]

-that Asha was Asha (sorry, I refuse to refer to her as Yara)

uh, yeah... wtf were they calling her? why? did i miss something?

I think that conversation between Davos and his son was in the book... I clearly remember him saying something about "I made it home and I never prayed" and the son saying "No, but I did."

And yes, you're the only one who was not surprised by that. I dunno why. In the book, Stannis was like... stone, to me. Or something. He didn't *do* things. With people! (Also... have they completely written out his afflicted daughter?)

ARYA/GENDRY (when she grows up) YES. Their scenes were pretty much awesome.

Imma go watch the new ep now ;)

[janie_tangerine]

re Asha: they changed her name because it was too similar to Osha according tothem =____= As if Yara doesn't sound like Arya. Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

Mmmh I'll need to go check that part, because I'm sure that the one about all evil in the world being gods and gods never being on battlefields had been a quote of Stannis'. This deserves more attention.

... well, yeah, but in order to win the war he -had- to give Mel her shadow babies so I figured he was doing it with her as some kind of duty. Lol idk I obviously have a dirty mind. (They mentioned the wife so maybe she's off-screen?)

I KNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW MARRY YOU TWO.

Me too ;)

[kel_reiley]

Yeah, I figured it was something like that. Am I the only one pronouncing Asha and Osha very differently?

Maybe it was a mash of 2 different conversations. I also remember Davos keeping with the 7 gods, even if he didn't consider himself religious. He at least fought to let others keep whatever gods they wanted.

ALSO. I love the actress they got to play Brienne. She is PERFECT.

[itsjustc]

I had an evening class many years ago - Chemistry - that started out in September with about 25 students. By Christmas there were two of us. Two weeks after Christmas, I was on my own and was on my own until the exam in May!

We were the same with swapping numbers.

[janie_tangerine]

Oh dear, that must have felt awkward... though at least I hope that being the only one ends up facilitating the exam. at least that.... but being the only one is just so weird.