Friday, May 25, 2012

Game of Thrones at a Glance; Robb Stark’s Flame, and the Mad Prince of Winterfell



The last time we left the stubborn and stupid Theon Greyjoy, he was revealing the charred and battered bodies of two young boys and warning the people of Winterfell that anyone else that got in his way would just suffer the same fate as poor Bran and Rickon Stark. That’s one heck of a big, blustery talk for a brat who is holding the center of the North with just 20 men, waiting for his big sister in order to bail him out with heavy reinforcements. When Yara, who is Asha in the books, does finally show up, but without the 500 soldiers he’s expecting, but with a warning instead. But you have to flee while you still can, and she suggests, now that he killed the Starks boys and basically will have the entire North screaming for his blood when the words get out. The Greyjoys’ power is their ships, and holding a castle miles from sea is not the kind of strategy that wages and wins war. “The Prince of Winterfell” is what she calls him derisively. Every bit of news won't be as surprising as heck s watch Game of Thrones Season 2 Episode 10: Valar Morghulis online this coming June 3, 2012. 
 “I’ve taken Winterfell and I’ll keep Winterfell,” says Theon, never one to back down. Yara tells him a touching story about how she has almost strangled him in his crib when he was an infant because he never stopped crying.
 "Don't die so far from the sea," is her best advice.
Much further up the North, Jon Snow (Harington) has been held captive by the wildings, and when he’s taken before the fearsome Lord of Bones, he’s sentenced to a quick death – until Ygritte intervenes on behalf of her former captor. Snow however couldn’t bring himself to just chop her in half when he had the chance, and now she returns the favor.
 “We're even now, Jon Snow,” she says.

Hundreds of miles to the South, Snow’s half-brother Robb Stark (Richard Madden) has yet to receive word of his younger brothers’ murders at the hands of his former best friend in Winterfell. So he can commit his full attention to Lady Talisa (Oona Chaplin), a beautiful noblewoman who has turned her back on her birthright to tend to the wounded on the battlefield. Of course, Robb is trending on dangerous ground considering he’s betrothed to the daughter of a key alley.
"You're marrying her for a bridge," Talisa says.
"An important bridge," Robb clarifies.

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