![]() ![]() This is medieval Risk, but on a most humanistic and at times even mundane scale. Relationships matter every ounce as much as alliances do. Of course, Game of Thrones has always been every bit as much about word play as sword play. In a land that has a surfeit of badasses, no one is learning how to play the game more quickly than Arya. The overwhelmed and under-sexed men of the Night's Watch held off their fortress while being outnumbered 1,000 to one and without a woolly mammoth in their arsenal.Īnd irrepressible Arya Stark, the most unsinkable vessel on either shore of the Narrow Sea, at last rid herself of Sandor Clegane, a.k.a., "the Hound" and, for the first time since she was frolicking with the butcher's boy early in season one, unwanted adult supervision. A cripple, Bran Stark, advanced all the way to the under-root lair of the three-eyed raven while a brigade of skeleton soldiers straight out of a Sinbad matinee failed to stop him. A pair of giants perished while a midget turned the tables on the godfather of the Red Keep. Let the record show that in the final two episodes of this season of GoT, the underdogs got the better of the overwhelming favorites. Tyrion Lannister, who has long provided the viewer's perspective to this empire primeval, not only got a stay of execution but exacted vengeance on the two people who most egregiously betrayed him: his father (on Father's Day, no less) and his former lover, Shae. Martin, was served on Sunday night's season four finale of Game of Thrones. Justice, a concept that is so often ephemeral if not outright invisible in the world of author George R.R. A man can only take so much belittling-particularly a dwarf. ![]() "I was always your son," replied Tyrion, who put two arrows from a crossbow into his father's chest after a lifetime of negligence and abuse. "You are not my son," the Lannister patriarch said to the dwarf whom he'd sentenced for the murder of King Joffrey-Tywin's grandson and Tyrion's nephew-even though he'd known he was innocent. The self-proclaimed wealthiest man in the Seven Kingdoms died while answering nature's call in the middle of the night at the hands of the man he'd sentenced to death two episodes ago: his younger son, Tyrion Lannister. How fitting that Tywin Lannister, who has essentially ruled Westeros the past three seasons without actually sitting on the Iron Throne, met his end on another type of throne. ![]()
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