After almost one year of waiting, the Game of Thrones is
finally back in television for its fifth season. The fourth season left off
with a high note with several deaths and cliff-hangers. Everyone must have been
excited, but the premiere turned out to be not as thrilling or explosive as
hoped for. Yes, there were still loads of butts and tits showing, but the
entire episode seemed a downer. Well, here are the events in the fifth season
premiere (“The Wars to Come”) of the Game of Thrones:
Fortunes for young
Cersei. The episode begins with Cersei when she is still a very young girl,
roaming around the forest with a frightened friend. This scene clearly shows
that Cersei has always been that headstrong, fearless and arrogant person. So in
the forest she wanders and finds the witch who tells her her fortunes – she will
become queen and bear three children to a king who will father 20 children,
but a younger and more beautiful queen will rise and take everything she holds
dear. Spoiler alert from the witch!
Sons of Harpy. In
Meereen, the huge golden statue overlooking the entire region is finally
toppled down. With its fall is the rise of a new resistance group which call
themselves as the “Sons of Harpy”. Already, they murder an Unsullied named
White Rat in a brothel. This leads to Missandei questioning Grey Worm if the
Unsullied really frequents the brothel to which he does not answer. She has a
point though and in her mind, she might be screaming “Why the hell does
castrated men visit whores”?
Fear at The Wall.
Even after the epic battle at the Wall which ended with Stannis Baratheon
seizing Mance Rayder and his army of wildlings, there remains a shadow of fear
in the hearts of those left to survive. For Gilly, she fears she and her baby
will be sent away and Sam then gives her assurances. For Jon Snow, everyone
must be prepared for “Winter” to come and so begins training new recruits. For Stannis,
it is an opportunity for forging allegiances and purging any opposing forces.
The fighting pits.
The new Queen Daenerys is tested when Hizdahr zo Loraq brings up the idea of
reopening fighting pits for which the Wise Masters will turn over their power in
exchange for it. Initially she denies it, but during an after-sex chit-chat with Daario (should we expect more
of these scenes in the future?), she seems to have a change of heart. Afterwards, she visits her two dragons
Viserion and Rhaegal in the dungeon, and her babies have already grown big and
fierce that they almost incinerate her. The other dragon, Drogon, is nowhere to
be seen yet.
Funeral at King’s
Landing. Following Tywin Lannister’s death, there is a circus of royalties and
spectators in the King’s Landing as they partake in the funeral. Cersei and
Jamie are having sibling’s (or lover’s?) quarrel over their father’s death. Cousin
Lancel has become a renewed person as “the sparrow” and reminds Cersei of her
sins. Loras Tyrell and Olyvar are still fucking everywhere while Margaery
flirts with the new king.
Plot at Pentos. After
living inside a crate and shitting through holes, Tyrion Lannister arrives in
Pentos with Varys. After some ideological conversation, Varys somehow convinces
Tyrion to travel to Meereen and support Daenerys for her return to the Iron
Throne.
Death of Mance Rayder.
Perhaps, Mance Rayder’s death on the fire is the single most exciting moment in
the episode. Not that death is fun or Mance is popular, but torture and
gruesome deaths are trademarks of Game of Throne and only at that point that I could
finally say “I’m watching Game of Thrones!” Funny thing is that this happened
at the last seven or eight minutes of the show. Well, Stannis offers land and
freedom to the wildlings if Mance Rayder will bend to his knee, acknowledge him
as the true king and have the wildling army support his cause. But nah, he is
strong-willed, and as a result, lady Melisandre ignites the wood that burns him in
front of everybody. He is crying throughout this eerie process but Jon Snow
shots an arrow through his chest, ending his agony.
FINAL THOUGHTS. The season five premiere of Game of Thrones is quite
sleepy, lucking surprises and blood but not nudities. There are no shocking
revelations as well and nothing much has happened to the characters, maybe
except for Tyrion who has gone back to being drunk again. The dark Sansa remains
a mystery as Lord Baelish takes him to a place where Cersei will not reach her,
leaving the clumsy Robin under the tutelage of someone called Lord Royce. In a brief
instant, Podrick and Brienne argue over their relationship (duh!). And nothing
more…. So in the end, what I remember about the episode is the burning man before
the show’s closing credits.
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