Game of Thrones/Recap/S1/E09 Baelor: Difference between revisions

Finally, the godswife arrives. She announces that the khal is indeed beyond her healing arts... though not beyond supernatural ones. "There is a spell. Some would say death is cleaner." Even worse, the spell is [[Blood Magic]]: "[[Equivalent Exchange|Only death pays for life]]." Drogo's horse has its throat slit, the blood splashing down over the khal's body. Mirri Maz Duur then banishes Daenerys as well: "Once I begin to sing, no one must enter the tent. The dead will dance here tonight." As Daenerys leaves, eerie wails begin to echo from within, though it may be that Daenerys is the only one who can hear them. Qotho, furious at the spilled blood on her face, begins to enter, but is prevented by Ser Jorah, now armed and armored; the two duel furiously. Jorah wins, settling the "[[Armor Is Useless]]" debate once and for all, but Dany was tossed aside during the madness, and her labor has begun. She is helpless to protest as Mormont carries her inside the tent.

 

 

== "I loved a maid as fair as summer, with sunlight in her hair..." ==

Joffrey steps forward, smugly triumphant. "My mother wishes me to let Lord Eddard [[Reassigned to Antarctica|join the Night's Watch]]. Stripped of all titles and powers, he would serve the realm in permanent exile. And my lady Sansa has begged mercy for her father." He smiles at Sansa, and Sansa smiles back.

 

 

Then it's chaos on the steps of the Sept of Baelor. Everyone on the dais, from Cersei to Varys, yells for Joffrey to change his mind. The only exceptions are Littlefinger, who stands aloof, and Lord Janos Slynt and Ser Ilyn Payne, who hasten to obey His Majesty's orders. Joffrey shakes off the protesters, a smug little grin on his face. Arya stares down at the crowd, appalled at the sight of all these people cheering at the idea of her father's death. She jumps down from the statue and starts hustling towards the dais, one hand on Needle. The crowd is jostling, yelling, heedless. ([[Holy Shit Quotient|Audiences are hardly calmer]].) Slynt forces Ned to his knees whilst Payne advances, donning the black hood of his office. Arya is intercepted by Yoren, who tells her to not look and blocks her view with his body.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Ned. Averted by his son Robb, who turns down a single combat with {{spoiler|Jaime Lannister}} on the grounds that he'd lose. Badly.

** {{spoiler|Averted by Ned too, in the end, when he lies to try and save his daughters from the Lannisters. Unfortunately Joffrey has him executed anyway.}}

* [[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Son]]: {{spoiler|Jaime Lannister is taken hostage by the Starks.}}

* [[Instant Messenger Pigeon|Instant Messenger Raven]]: Averted; the Stark forces shoot down several ravens sent by the Freys, for fear they'd carry news alerting their enemies to their position. Later, news of {{spoiler|Jaime's capture}} is sent, but still hasn't arrived by the end of the episode, and is certainly far too late to make a difference.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Lord Eddard Stark}}

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|King Joffrey}} crosses it at the end of the episode when he {{spoiler|breaks his word to Sansa and has Ned executed}}.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Shae.

* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: Tyrion believes that Tywin placed him in the vangard in an attempt to get him killed, and confronts his father about this. Tywin neither confirms nor denies it, though given his reaction to Tyrion's return in the last episode...

{{quote| '''Tyrion''': [[Deadpan Snarker|Surely there are ways to have me killed]] [[Gallows Humor|that would be less detrimental to the war effort.]]}}

 

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