The long travel to King's Landing is finally over.
I didn't expect palm trees. I marvel what happens when winter comes. The throne itself is an ominous presence. It just looks befitting a king, but rather someone who is helping a grave punishment.
Considering the bequest of that throne, perhaps I am onto something there. We get not heard any stories near the dominion of a happy king, have we?
In meeting Lord Baelish, we hear that Catelyn Tulley, despite the viewers dissatisfaction of actress to represent the role, was rather the collar when she was single.
Baelish fought Ned's brother for her hand. He seems so much younger than the other fellows, and especially Cat. Is the casting wrong or if I'm placing the values of our culture onto that of Westeros?
My favorite wussy Prince, Joffrey, knows full well he is of no importance but Cersei tries to establish him up into something neither of them can ever accomplish.
The way she pushes him frightens me, and I marvel what sort of man he will turn into. I fear he will always be an overconfident man-child with no pity and inexhaustible resources. Frightening indeed.
I ground it pathetic watching Joffrey talk like a man about taxes and peasants as he only finished flinching from the position of a Q-tip on his nearly healed wound. The Lannisters' only redeeming quality is Tyrion.
I adore the way Sean Bean portrays Lord Eddard Stark, Hand of the King, and Ned Stark, father to Sansa, Arya and others. So much humanity is infused into the role.
His demeanor completely changes from his duties as the Hand, his conversation with Sansa and then, finally, his sensitive approach with Arya. As he attempts to excuse to her the ways of their world, his heart and dearest of home is clear. As clearly as is his need to do good by the land in his duties as the Hand.
Once again, when Peter Dinklage graces the test as Tyrion, my eyes are riveted. Such an interesting character. Son of one of the most powerful Lords in Westeros, brother of a queen, but still an outsider because he is an "imp." It makes his position so crucial to the story of the story, and Jon's as well.
They have been brought up amidst the real best and the real worst than life has to offer, giving their characters the opportunity to truly discern what is happening around them. Somehow, through the love and tolerance of her father, Arya, too, is capable to describe the honest measure of mass and their truths and lies.
Their three perspectives will become important as the narrative progresses, as they see things with such moral clarity. It seems odd to say that some three such different characters, but their hearts are key to bringing sense to the events that come around them.
As Ned watched as Arya began her sword training in earnest, he gazed upon her with a haunted look. Now that he has interpreted the character as Hand, I marvel what he believes it will do to his family, and whether he wishes he had taken more time to ponder exactly that.
Dany is finally embracing her character as Khaleesi. It was a splendid moment when Viserys realized, even in his idiotic brain, what he had done by "selling" her to the Dothraki as their Khaleesi. All the force he formerly held over her, the care he counted on to see her, is fleeing.
Where will that leave Viserys? Not a wise man, he is good of pride, he seems to be in constant danger of cutting off his wind to injure his face. Now that she is pregnant, any promise he had of maneuvering Dany back under his sway is gone.
Is it me, or are the names of the episodes sorely deficient in alignment with the real material covered? While Jon did learn being high born doesn't hold its privileges when in the Night's Watch, there was small to describe the full record in his name (sarcastic as it was).
There are two stories told in "Lord Coke" about what will occur when winter finally comes. It sounds like a terrible time, days of neverending darkness, supposedly only lit by the moons reflection on the snow. The stories have surely sucked me in, and I cannot expect to get out exactly what winter in Westeros will actually be like.
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