As everyone rushes to their stations atop the Wall, Jon encounters Alliser Thorne ( Owen Teale) who admits Jon was right about sealing the tunnel.
That’s the signal that Mance Rayder ( Ciaran Hinds) has lit the massive bonfire that heralds the attack on Castle Black. He apologizes for sending her there, separating them, and promises her that from now on, “wherever you go, I go too.” It’s a sweet moment, punctuated by the sound of the alarm horn blowing. Gilly is at the gate, having escaped the massacre at Mole’s Town, thanks to Ygritte, and Sam yells at Pyp ( Josef Altin) to let her in. It turns out that Sam’s love isn’t lost at all, though. Nothing like imminent death to make lost love sweeter, right guys? Aemon’s also been in love, in his previous life as a future king. Maester Aemon has guessed that Sam’s in love with Gilly, which is why he’s obsessed with reading up on the torture practices of the Wildlings. Sam and Maester Aemon Targaryen ( Peter Vaughan) run into each other in the library where Sam’s reading up on Wildlings. Though she gets called out by the Thenn for letting Snow live, she claims his imminent death as her own (we’ll see about that).
Her anger at how the Wildlings were invaded and hunted down serves as pretty much the only motivation for why these disparate tribes might be so bent on destroying Castle Black and the Night’s Watch, though we all know she’s got a vendetta against Jon too. And an owl on said Wall, which is being warged into by one of the Thenn cannibals lying in wait.ĭown at the Thenn/Wildling camp, Tormund Giantsbane ( Kristofer Hivju) is also telling erotic tales, this time about his exploits with … a bear? There’s no way, and Ygritte ain’t buying that story. There’s not enough time to talk about missed or lost loves, however, there’s a Wall to be watched. He’s never had the opportunity with Gilly ( Hannah Murray), but Sam has deeply read between the lines of their vows of “celibacy,” and he thinks as long as he doesn’t take a wife or father a kid, they’re in the clear (always thinking, Samwell Tarly). See, Sam doesn’t think they’re going to make it out alive, and he wants the deets on sexy time. We open at the top of The Wall, where Sam is asking Jon to tell him about his escapades with Ygritte ( Rose Leslie). #EmmyForJohnBradley starts now, Team GOT. But this episode, he gets his hero moments a few times over and it’s damn satisfying to say the least.
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Tarly’s always been a delight to watch, and one of the characters easiest to root for in a show full of characters one feels conflicted about rooting for, and Bradley has always played the role with sensitivity and aplomb. If anything, the episode also makes the argument for the possible award nomination of John Bradley, the actor who plays Samwell Tarly, the best friend to Jon Snow ( Kit Harington). It’s not all broad swords and flaming arrows (though there’s a lot of that), as there’s real, profound character development, bittersweet touching moments, and even a few funny or humorous lines, despite all the death and destruction. Hollywood’s Fuzzy Math: Lionsgate the Company Is Worth $4.8 Billion, but the Parts Are Worth $8.7 Billion Marshall, a talented action director, is given essentially an hour-long action sequence to unfold, and with the stakes that he is able to build and pay off throughout the episode, it makes for a profoundly engaging, suspenseful, and entertaining hour of television. And for the most part, it works in spades. Season 3: well, we’re all still recovering from the Red Wedding, aren’t we? So if patterns hold, and this is an even season number, it stands to believe we won’t lose a Stark this go round, right? And while “ The Watchers on the Wall” is a jam-packed bloody affair, it brings less of the shock factor than previous ninth episodes have.ĭirected by Neil Marshall, who helmed “ Blackwater” back in Season 2, “The Watchers on the Wall” is what they call a bottle episode: an episode that takes place all in one setting (in this case, The Wall), without diverging from the action in that place or to any other storylines or characters at all. Season 2: Stannis attacks King’s Landing and Tyrion Lannister proves himself in the Battle of Blackwater. Season 1: Ned Stark gets liberated from his head. Many a beloved main character (usually a Stark, in odd-numbered seasons) finds themselves offed in a horrible and bloody way. It’s a well known fact that the ninth of any season of “ Game of Thrones” is always the most shocking, craziest, bat-shittiest, most traumatizing episode of the season.
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