Comments on: Game of Thrones S04E04: Oathkeeper https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2014/05/game-of-thrones-s04e04-oathkeeper Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 21 May 2023 08:01:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bec https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2014/05/game-of-thrones-s04e04-oathkeeper/comment-page-1#comment-1326575 Sun, 04 May 2014 09:54:58 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=26929#comment-1326575 HOORAY that is the best fanfic I’ve read ever. MORE PLEASE :D

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By: thefatgit https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2014/05/game-of-thrones-s04e04-oathkeeper/comment-page-1#comment-1326384 Sat, 03 May 2014 18:15:55 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=26929#comment-1326384 Ser Pounce took a long drag on a Montecristo and swished his brandy around his broad-bottomed snifter.

“Of course I was glad that little shit got offed. He threatened to skin me! Did I have anything to do with it? Naw. It’s pretty obvious who’s the poisoner now. And who supplied the poison.”

He gulps back his brandy.

“Tommen’s been such a lovely master. Now that Tyrell woman’s sniffing around. She smells nice, but shifty eyes. Any cat would recognise a set of shifty eyes. When she came in to Tommen’s bedchamber…well let’s just say I’m not the last thing he strokes before going to sleep these days. And I know what ‘our little secret’ means around King’s Landing: trouble.”

#3, Babe with the power of voodoo…nice one, Bec!

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By: Bec https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2014/05/game-of-thrones-s04e04-oathkeeper/comment-page-1#comment-1326360 Sat, 03 May 2014 16:21:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=26929#comment-1326360 Locke’s actually a kinda-composite character not in the books at all! He sort of takes over another dude who is described totally differently in the books. They sort of amalgamate a lot of characters in this way (f’rex, Gendry’s sexy bloodletting wasn’t in the books; they used a different Baratheon bastard, Edric Storm).

HA! I didn’t really think of that. Wildling babies must be made of tougher stuff :D Good point about the kingly goblin dude. Though I suppose Jareth the Goblin King (and his childhood-scarring stuffed trousers) is the only REAL GK, amirite?

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By: weej https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2014/05/game-of-thrones-s04e04-oathkeeper/comment-page-1#comment-1326359 Sat, 03 May 2014 16:19:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=26929#comment-1326359 Aside from a few sections near the start and the last two or three minutes, I thought this was the weakest episode so far, in any season. There was an air of “that’ll do” about the middle section – dated SFX, poor locations, mediocre direction – and the scenes in Craster’s Keep were particularly poor – nasty rapists and crying women and that was as complex as it got for five minutes or so. Many sections felt inconsequential after the drama of last week, especially for Dani where a revolution somehow felt like wheel-spinning. Even the bit with the white walker and the baby at the end felt like the show telling us something we already knew. I prefer my monsters to stay mysterious, so I hope they aren’t giving away the show’s secrets to spin out the plot a bit further. Hopefully there will be something more meaty to get stuck into next week.

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2014/05/game-of-thrones-s04e04-oathkeeper/comment-page-1#comment-1326345 Sat, 03 May 2014 15:31:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=26929#comment-1326345 Locke just rocking up at The Wall (you see him in shot for a good few seconds before he first speaks to John) complete with sinister music (at least when he volunteered to join the mission to Craster’s) was great – and further deviation of that character from the books I gather?

The final chilling scenes were something else altogether. Leaving aside the logistics of transporting a newborn baby for what must be hundreds of miles north on a slow undead horse without it freezing to death…the only thing bugging me was how much the kingly ice goblin dude reminded me of the…kingly ice goblin dude in Thor/Avengers – way to stereotype all kingly ice goblin dudes huh…

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