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- Book!Cat: Ned, you must go to Kings Landing to help Robert and find out what happened to Jon Arryn!
- HBO!Cat: Ned, stay here with me!
- Book!Cat: <during the King in the North scene> Robb, let's trade for the girls and sue for peace. You can't bring your father back.
- HBO!Cat: <during the same scene> ::silent::
- Book!Cat: Look, Robb, I know you don't want to negotiate with the Lannisters but you have to give them something. Okay, those terms aren't exactly what I was thinking but you're the King.
- HBO!Cat: ::strangely missing from the negotiation table::
- Book!Cat: I don't care what you say, Robb, I'm not going home I'm staying right here by any means necessary. Also if you're going to negotiate with Balon Greyjoy you shouldn't give up our only hostage.
- HBO!Cat: You can't trust Balon! I want to go home!
- Book!Cat: Trying to forge an alliance with Renly Baratheon could be a good idea.
- HBO!Cat: Okay, Robb, I'll go negotiate with Renly, but I really want to go home.
- Book!Cat: <<discusses strategy and tactics with Renly>>
- HBO!Cat: <<gets dismissed to her tent by Renly>>
- Book!Cat: Releases Jaime after hearing about Rickon and Bran's "deaths", hoping to get back Sansa, who besides being her beloved daughter, is also a useful political piece (as Tywin *and* Robb would later note) and at that moment Robb's heir
- HBO!Cat: Releases Jaime because all her children are held captive and she wants them back
- Book!Robb: Forgives his mother because he has also done something "dishonorable"
- HBO!Robb: LOL HOUSE ARREST
Can we talk about Catelyn Stark for a minute? Because holy shit she has rocketed up the list of my favourite characters in this show lately. She was flawless in Sunday’s episode.
I mean she has a screaming match with the lord whose son Jaime killed because she knows that if Jaime dies, this foul fucking man whom she loathes with every atom in her body, if he dies so do her daughters. She is constantly trying to get people to listen to her. But NO ONE EVER FUCKING LISTENS TO HER. Not Robb’s lords, not Robb himself half the time, not Stannis and Renly, not even the damn soldier guarding the cells.
And how can she fight for her land and her people and her family when no one will even listen? Because she can’t fight like men fight, she has to use her words. (For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.)
And there is so much sorrow in her (I am a creature of grief and dust), but she can’t for a second let herself feel it, indulge it, she can’t not be strong because while everyone is fighting to tear Westeros apart she feels like the only one trying to hold it together. And the only weapon she can use to do it is her love for her children and her wisdom and her empathy and her incredible force of will.
Jaime is right; this woman is a she-wolf, savage, feral. She has no other recourse.
This is what a woman’s courage looks like.
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And I thought we were done, but he said, “Turn back around.”
dyyiiinnnngg
AUGH, I know it’s been ages since it aired but I cannot get over this scene because my god, their FACES. Their BODY LANGUAGE.
I mean okay, the literal second the words “I can’t believe you’re real” leave Jorah’s mouth his face just FALLS and it is so PERFECT because you can see ‘fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck’ scrolling through his brain, not because it’s something he shouldn’t have said, but because saying it revealed too much. And then Dany lets out this little huff of breath and looks away and he knows that she realizes what he really means, knows now just how in love with her he is. If that gif was just a little longer you’d see how after his head just drops like that he brings his fists to his mouth, just for a second, almost as if he’s praying, and he’s out of focus in the background but it’s still perfectly clear that he’s upset that he BETRAYED himself like that, and he’s steeling himself for whatever she’s going to say next.
And jesus jones the things that happen with Dany’s face in the span of about 2 seconds. Just. God. She is so at a loss. Daenerys is used to awe, they’ve just been talking about respect and fear, but love? From this man?
So then Dany makes the decision that they are going to ignore what he just said, and they try to go back and be all business, but Dany’s voice BREAKS when she asks what he would advise, and Jorah twists his body away from her and puts a hand to his face and oh my god I love that so much I can’t stand it. He is so EXPOSED that he has to physically gather himself back up. And the shot is set up so that they’re at opposite sides of the frame and there’s all this SPACE between them but they’re both incredibly hyper-aware of each other and it’s all just so painfully, deliciously awkward.
ROMANCE!!!
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Is he secretly taking scrunchy-face lessons from Robb?
Protective growling dog-mode.
That is the best stink-eye I have ever seen.
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Okay. Reasons that this scene is the best thing ever include but are by no means limited to:
- how well Maisie Williams is holding her own here, I mean here she is playing against this amazing veteran actor and she’s just bringing it
- the way this is like her fucked-up revenge fantasy of what she wishes her brother could do to the Lannisters
- but she’s already disillusioned enough to know it’s a fantasy
- because “anyone can be killed” is an implicit threat to Tywin but it’s also an acknowledgement of the fact that she or Robb or anyone else can bite it at any time
- (because apparently Arya has already read ASOIAF and knows how fucked they all are)
- and let’s talk about the fact that this kid just threatened Tywin Lannister
- TYWIN FUCKING LANNISTER
- whose own kids can barely look him in the face when they’re talking to him
- his kids who are grownups and have killed kings and won battles and run kingdoms are terrified of him
- and he looks at Arya and thinks “why aren’t my kids awesome like you”
- “you’re like five years old and you just threatened me, you little badass”
- (‘cause don’t think for a second that Tywin doesn’t get the subtext here)
- “why do my children have to be such cringing little asshats”
- (but of course Tywin is the one who made them into cringing little asshats.)
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Jon Snow is prettier than your daughters.
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We had three Starks to trade. You chopped one’s head off and let another escape. Father will be furious. It must be odd for you… to be the disappointing child.
#AN EMMY FOR YOUR FACE #omg the gymnastics her expressions perform through this whole episode #all her power and control stripped away by his brother and his father and his son #all she can do is flinch at his words and look away because he will never get the fact that she couldn’t do anything because she’s a woman #and then she regains part of that control with littlefinger #POWER IS POWER #ugh to me you’re perfect
PERFECT TAGS
Mother of Dragons.
Men play the game; women know the score.
The women on this show/in these books are my FAVOURITES. Their narratives, almost without exception, are about how they navigate an intensely oppressive and sexist world, how they learn to scrape together some semblance of power and autonomy in a place where just surviving is an exceptional feat for a woman.
I think that’s what makes all these women so much more profoundly impressive and interesting as characters, and it’s definitely why I love them.
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The next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands.
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