Watch Game of Thrones Season 4 Episode 1 Online
Game of Thrones Season 4 Episode 1 The
longest winter is finally over and with spring comes the fourth season
premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Fans lucky enough to score tickets to
a New York-area fan event got to see “Two Swords” a full two weeks
before the official air date. Plus some bonus Hodor time. But after the
lines and surprise guests, what people really came to see was how such
cultural landmark television was going to come back from last year’s
infamous Red Wedding.
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Major spoilers for the episode after the
cut, book spoilers are also fair game in the comments. And some very
NSFW quotes. Be warned.
We got a taste of what comes after the
Freys’ and Lannisters’ epic betrayal of the Starks in last season’s
“Mhysa,” but this is the first hour fully in a post-Robb Stark world. To
drive the point home even further, we open with a triumphant Tywin
supervising the re-forging of Ned Stark’s Valyrian steel greatsword Ice
into two lesser swords meant for lesser men. Watching the Stark heirloom
disassembled to the tune of “Rains of Castamere” makes it that much
more bitter for people who, you know, have some decency and like the
Starks despite their poor decision-making.
No wonder Sansa’s so sad, she won’t even eat her lemoncakes.
One half of Ned’s sword goes to Jaime—and
he’d be the first to say he’s less honorable than Ned—who is finding it
more difficult to get back in the swing of things upon his return to
King’s Landing, newly maimed to boot. I look forward to the gifs of
Jaime’s awkward golden hand in use. Tywin’s the first to tell him he’ll
“never be good” again. Not with that attitude, Lord Asshole. The biggest
blow to Jaime is Cersei’s rejection of him. “You took too long,” she
spits, feeling like she was abandoned while he was held captive. As if
Jaime could prevent her wedding to Loras? Maybe if he killed him, but
Jaime isn’t that person anymore. I felt bad for Jaime until I remembered
that he’s missing sex with his twin sister.
Game of Thrones season 4 Jaime Cersei
The other, way, way, more appropriate
star-crossed lovers in tonight’s episode were Jon Snow and his wildling
fling Ygritte. It was nice to get a scene from Ygritte’s perspective, as
we watch her and Tormund march on the Wall from the south as Mance
Rayder closes in from the north. Separated by borders and vows, letting
us continue in Ygritte’s world as it moves towards a fateful battle
against the Night’s Watch makes the growing tension unbearable. It’s
also an opportunity to introduce more of the wildling in-fighting as we
meet a really nasty clan of Thenns.
In warmer climes, Dany lounges with her
dragons, who are swiftly outgrowing her ability to control them. Drogon
even snaps at Dany. “No one can control a dragon, not even their
mother,” Jorah says, from his fixed position in the Friendzone. This has
ominous implications, but not before we get to the last of the great
slaver cities, Meereen, on a road paved with dead slaves. Dead kids are
pretty much what it takes for Dany to stop flirting with new-Daario.
“Where’s Daario?” she asks. Oh, he’s in
The Transporter prequel, but here’s some new bearded guy with whom you
will have exactly zero chemistry. New-Daario is a hundred times less
smug and a hundred times more boring. And he still doesn’t even have
Book-Daario’s stupid blue beard. Bah. I’d much rather watch the
burgeoning background love of Missandei and Grey Worm. I miss Rakharo
and Irri.
So all of that’s good for a bit of set-up
and exposition for future episodes, but what everyone will be talking
about after seeing the premiere is 1) Arya and 2) the new sword in town,
Oberyn Martell.
Let’s just put it out there: Oberyn has
one of the best introduction scenes in this show’s history. He’s built
up in the beginning of the episode before we even see him and when we
finally do meet this fabled hot-headed playboy prince of Dorne, he
delivers. The Red Viper and his equally adventurous, amorous paramour
Ellaria Sand are totally allowed bisexual sexposition scenes in
Littlefinger’s brothel.
When he tells Tyrion that “Lannisters
aren’t the only ones who pay their debts” a stadium of seven thousand
people whooped and cheered. I’m officially in love.
Going into the season premiere, I was
expecting the hour to be a little slow, to be honest. There are some
events looming that are as big as the Red Wedding, but I knew by the
episode title list that this episode wouldn’t contain any of those. So
what’s left?
While there isn’t anything as
earth-shaking as Robb and Cat’s death here, there is a really great
victory for at least one Stark. Fucking finally. Seven hells. Arya and
Needle are reunited in heartwarming, neck-stabbing fashion. The Hound
gets some of the best lines of the night and basically steals the show
from sexy princes, cannibalistic wildlings, and freaking dragons. And
all because one man stands between a Clegane and his chicken dinner.
From “What the fuck’s a ‘Lommy’?” to “If any more words come out your
cunt mouth, I’m gonna have to eat all the chickens,” Sandor and Arya lay
waste to an inn in a fight scene that is by turns comic, gruesome, and
so compelling, that same arena of thousands was stunned into silence
before thunderous applause.
As we leave Westeros for ten months, major
Game of Thrones characters have died in shocking ways, new characters
have gained prominence, and alliances have unexpectedly shifted. Exiled
Daenerys Targaryen, once her brother’s meek pawn, is now a goddess
figure freeing slave cities, while Theon Greyjoy has gone from a proud,
oversexed Stark ally to a broken-down prisoner. (The Unsullied would
never let him and his mewling into their elite cadre of hard-ass
eunuchs.)
Meanwhile, cute little tomboy Arya Stark has grown into a
bitter killer of men, while the Kingslayer, who pushed a kid out a
window, might now actually be the most honorable man in the land,
especially sans hand.
So many different characters have gone
through extreme changes — and more are yet to come in season four, as
the show moves on in its adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of
Ice and Fire” series, which is no longer hewing to a strict book-by-book
strategy. HBO previously announced that the third book, A Storm of
Swords, would be broken up into seasons three and four, but the last ten
episodes strayed beyond Swords, indicating that next season will also
draw from books four (A Feast for Crows) and five (A Dance with
Dragons), with timelines shuffled, characters amalgamated, and other
tweaks and trims. Given what we know about roles being cast and the
story elements that would seem to be necessary to include them, we’ve
made our best guess about what’s coming up next, aided by some experts —
our Red Wedding round table mega-fan webmasters. (Some spoilers ahead
for the non-book readers, though we have kept them vague and teaser-y so
as not to ruin any enormous surprises on the scale of the Red Wedding.
