More Game of Thrones recaps
"Children fight, it's over," says the king, and sensibly decides to have both parents disciple their own kids. Stark is relieved, but Cersei still wants blood -- kill a Stark direwolf. And if not Arya's missing wolf, than Sansa's pet Lady. Arya -- and here's why she's awesome -- comes to Sansa's defense, saying her sister's wolf "wasn't there, you leave her alone," despite Sansa having just betrayed her.
Ned, as always, is quick to volunteer to be an executioner. We also learn that the butcher's boy was killed too after Joffrey's bodyguard The Hound ran him down. "He ran," says The Hound. "Not very fast." Hahaha, murder humor.
What happens next is the kind of unexpected, yet harshly logical, story moves that sets Thrones apart from other fantasy stories. Twice this hour we've seen direwolves save the Starks from danger. So this seemed to be a show where the Stark kids will each have their own pet superwolf, and that they'll all have adventures together in Westeros fighting the evil Lannisters. But that's too neat, too cliche, and Martin loves to take fantasy storytelling conventions and kick the crap out of them. So Ayra had to chase her wolf away. And now here comes Ned Stark to execute his daughter's pet Lady.
Will he really do it? Yup. And many miles away, Bran awakes. I suspect some of you will be more even disturbed by this ending than last week's.
So what happens next? What will Bran say? How will Ned react to Catelyn's suspicions about the Lannisters? And will Doreah now teach Dany how to perform Reverse Cowgirl, the Jack Hammer and the G-Spot Jiggy?
James the Blogger hereby turns this conversation over to you. My thanks to those who wrote kind comments about my first ever EW recap last week, and a big thanks for keeping the comment thread 100 percent spoiler free about what's to come in future episodes, let's be sure keep that going out of respect to those who have not read the books. Some business: You can follow me on Twitter here and/or bookmark EW's Inside TV blog for news about your favorite shows. And if you missed EW's recap of the first episode of Thrones, that's here.
"First you must learn, Khaleesi"
UPDATE: Somebody made the Tyrion-Joffrey smack-attack gif! Here:
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