Tom Chivers reviews the third episode of season four of Game of Thrones and finds the characters still reeling from the events of the Purple Wedding. CONTAINS SPOILERS
The third episode of season four – Breaker of Chains - started exactly where the last left off, with Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) dumbly picking up the cup which apparently killed King Joffrey, as Cersei (Lena Headey) got stuck between cradling her dead child’s head and screaming for guards to arrest her brother for his murder. Meanwhile, Ser Dontos, the fat jester, was whisking Sansa (Sophie Turner) off to a rowing boat while Lannister guards closed the city. As the Telegraph has noted elsewhere, with this list of likely suspects and motives, not only does no one know who killed Joffrey, everyone has a motive. Fans of The Simpsons will be powerfully reminded of the episode Who Shot Mr Burns?
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At the moment, it seems, the only person we can reasonably rule out is Cersei, who for all her many and various faults very much loves her children. As Tyrion, by this stage sitting forlornly in a cell, told Pod (Daniel Portman), “Cersei is the only person I know who didn’t do it, which makes it unique as King’s Landing murders go.” The whole episode had a morning-after-the-night-before feel, shocked and raw and tender. But it had a few moments of its own. Notably, there was a stab at a “most shocking thing so far in the series”, which is getting ever harder to achieve, as Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) raped his twin sister, Cersei, next to the cold corpse of Joffrey, the offspring of their twincest. Mary Whitehouse, thou shouldst be living at this hour. The new, one-handed, shorter-haired Jaime, by the way, looks vaguely like a Nineties-vintage Bryan Adams.
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t wasn’t all in King’s Landing - we popped up north to see Sam struggling with the responsibility of his new sort-of family, and a bunch of wildlings slaughter a village; and we followed Arya’s increasingly strident but still fruitless efforts to tame the Hound. Oh, and we rowed out into the sea off King’s Landing where Sansa was taken to meet Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish (Aiden Gillen), who has for some reason upped both the Irishness and the creepiness of his accent, so that now he sounds like Colin Farrell doing a heavy-breathing phone call. But mainly it was in the capital, in the shocked aftermath. But not everyone is shocked. The marvellously lizardlike Tywin (Charles Dance) stole an early scene: with one grandson lying dead beside him, he calmly asked the other, Tommen (Dean-Charles Chapman, a new casting), what the most important attribute is for a king. He dressed it up well, but in essence the answer Tywin wanted was “doing what your grandfather tells you”. Tommen, meanwhile, who had what might well have been his first lines in the show, was also pretty calm about the whole thing, and generally seems far less of a crazy person than his older brother was. Which is a shame, really
News Source:www.telegraph.co.uk
The third episode of season four – Breaker of Chains - started exactly where the last left off, with Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) dumbly picking up the cup which apparently killed King Joffrey, as Cersei (Lena Headey) got stuck between cradling her dead child’s head and screaming for guards to arrest her brother for his murder. Meanwhile, Ser Dontos, the fat jester, was whisking Sansa (Sophie Turner) off to a rowing boat while Lannister guards closed the city. As the Telegraph has noted elsewhere, with this list of likely suspects and motives, not only does no one know who killed Joffrey, everyone has a motive. Fans of The Simpsons will be powerfully reminded of the episode Who Shot Mr Burns?
READ: Game of Thrones becomes a murder mystery
At the moment, it seems, the only person we can reasonably rule out is Cersei, who for all her many and various faults very much loves her children. As Tyrion, by this stage sitting forlornly in a cell, told Pod (Daniel Portman), “Cersei is the only person I know who didn’t do it, which makes it unique as King’s Landing murders go.” The whole episode had a morning-after-the-night-before feel, shocked and raw and tender. But it had a few moments of its own. Notably, there was a stab at a “most shocking thing so far in the series”, which is getting ever harder to achieve, as Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) raped his twin sister, Cersei, next to the cold corpse of Joffrey, the offspring of their twincest. Mary Whitehouse, thou shouldst be living at this hour. The new, one-handed, shorter-haired Jaime, by the way, looks vaguely like a Nineties-vintage Bryan Adams.
VIDEO: Game of Thrones: the most shocking episode yet? I
t wasn’t all in King’s Landing - we popped up north to see Sam struggling with the responsibility of his new sort-of family, and a bunch of wildlings slaughter a village; and we followed Arya’s increasingly strident but still fruitless efforts to tame the Hound. Oh, and we rowed out into the sea off King’s Landing where Sansa was taken to meet Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish (Aiden Gillen), who has for some reason upped both the Irishness and the creepiness of his accent, so that now he sounds like Colin Farrell doing a heavy-breathing phone call. But mainly it was in the capital, in the shocked aftermath. But not everyone is shocked. The marvellously lizardlike Tywin (Charles Dance) stole an early scene: with one grandson lying dead beside him, he calmly asked the other, Tommen (Dean-Charles Chapman, a new casting), what the most important attribute is for a king. He dressed it up well, but in essence the answer Tywin wanted was “doing what your grandfather tells you”. Tommen, meanwhile, who had what might well have been his first lines in the show, was also pretty calm about the whole thing, and generally seems far less of a crazy person than his older brother was. Which is a shame, really
News Source:www.telegraph.co.uk
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