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chavalahMan oh man. If there’s any part of this season where all of my feels reside, it’s here. This is the Sansa Show. OK, fine, there are large set pieces featuring warriors in battle, particularly personified by Jon vs Ramsay. It’s also worth noting the level of detail the showrunners put into production; this was their first, fullscale medieval battle without Walls or water in the way.
They apparently took a lot of inspiration from the American Civil Wars (piles of bodies so high that they were an obstruction on the battlefield) and Hannibal vs the Romans (spoilers!) Though for all of its impressive elements, there is something a little anticlimactic about this battle. Unless you’re a sadist, there’s really no question about who you should be rooting for.
There’s even some time to build up teasers for the final episode, as per the Davos/Melissandre tension and the entire ten minutes we spent in Meereen. And, more harrowingly, there’s a death that really gives me pause about the future books. Too spoilery to get to over the cut, but yeah. Talk about an uncertain world for book readers.
Sansa’s story arc and character development have skewed from the books, perhaps the most out of anyone’s. I have a lot of feelings about that, and about what went down with her this episode. But at the moment, given current entertainment news as I write this recap, I can’t help but think of her as Wonder Woman during THAT scene (not the final one; the other one :P). Or, more precisely, she’s my Wonder Woman, the female character who inspires me more than any comic book super hero (Jean Grey included. :P) We all have our biases—what speaks to us about being heroic in an oft-unjust world.
( Episode Summary and Spoilers )
They apparently took a lot of inspiration from the American Civil Wars (piles of bodies so high that they were an obstruction on the battlefield) and Hannibal vs the Romans (spoilers!) Though for all of its impressive elements, there is something a little anticlimactic about this battle. Unless you’re a sadist, there’s really no question about who you should be rooting for.
There’s even some time to build up teasers for the final episode, as per the Davos/Melissandre tension and the entire ten minutes we spent in Meereen. And, more harrowingly, there’s a death that really gives me pause about the future books. Too spoilery to get to over the cut, but yeah. Talk about an uncertain world for book readers.
Sansa’s story arc and character development have skewed from the books, perhaps the most out of anyone’s. I have a lot of feelings about that, and about what went down with her this episode. But at the moment, given current entertainment news as I write this recap, I can’t help but think of her as Wonder Woman during THAT scene (not the final one; the other one :P). Or, more precisely, she’s my Wonder Woman, the female character who inspires me more than any comic book super hero (Jean Grey included. :P) We all have our biases—what speaks to us about being heroic in an oft-unjust world.
( Episode Summary and Spoilers )
