Tyrion’s journey through the halls of power was compelling (and his fall from grace touching) as was Arya’s battle of wills with Tywin. Without the sense that both were driven despair their choices became more selfish than grief-stricken, and thus less understandable.Īll of which makes me sound like a moany old witch and I would stress that I have loved this season, flaws and all.
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I’m not sure why the writers decided not to have Robb and Catelyn believe they were dead but it lessened both Catelyn’s decision to free Jaime and Robb’s to marry. The most mishandled storyline of all, however, was that of Bran and Rickon.
When it did reach its endgame we were barely aware of the very real conflict driving his choice. Similarly we trudged endlessly through the snow with Jon yet his storyline barely progressed. That’s not to say that Stephen Dillane wasn’t impressive, more that the force of what he gambled and ultimately lost was lessened by the amount of time he spent off stage.
For example we probably could have done without seeing Dany for a couple of episodes given our brief glimpses of her consisted largely of her shouting about her dragons but by benching Stannis we lost a lot of the power of his tale. Yes, it’s hard to marshal a huge cast and a number of disparate storylines but I felt that the writers often dropped the wrong strands. But, while I agree with him about the innovative structure, this season has not been without its failings.Ĭhief among them was the pacing.
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Todd VanDerWerff, TV editor for the AV Club, makes a compelling argument as to why series two has actually been more impressive than series one. Thousands will die at your command…you will betray everything you once held dear’Īnd so a fascinating if flawed season came to an end with well-paced final episode that left us with the feeling that this story is really only just beginning. For the purposes of this blog we are also going to (hopefully) avoid book spoilers as well. an ending that was not.Spoiler alert: Don’t read on if you haven’t watched all ten episodes of Game of Thrones Season Two. Little did they know that was not the last they'd see of "Lord Snow." A showdown that was promised. "For the Watch," the mutineers said as they stuck their knives into their Lord Commander. The worst was little Olly, who saw his parents murdered by the violent Thenns back when the wildlings and the Watch were at odds, and hates Jon for his perceived weakness. But it all turned out to be a trap, and Jon, while staring at a creepy "TRAITOR" sign, was stabbed to death by all the Night's Watch brothers who didn't care for his policy of inclusion. When Ser Alliser trotted into Jon's office claiming his Uncle Benjen was back from beyond the Wall, we were excited for a long-awaited Stark reunion. After Jon Snow and his Night's Watch brothers successfully integrated the wildlings into their numbers, everything looked extremely fine for our heroes in the North. This episode ended with the biggest cliffhanger of the entire show, and we had to wait nearly an entire year to see how it all panned out. I guess you could say Lysa Arryn really fell out of the story. Bran's visions are also revealed to be way more than visions, since his spectral "presence" in that courtyard all those years ago acted as a bridge through time, causing everything that was happening in the present to irrevocably affect the past.
He and Meera only survive because they tell Hodor to "Hold the door" while they escape, as the child Hodor in Bran's vision (whose name was Wylis!) writhes on the ground when his higher mental faculties leave him. While Bran and the Three-Eyed Raven are looking back in time at Ned Stark when he was a boy, the White Walkers attack the Three-Eyed Raven's tree, sending undead wights in to kill Bran. Those who thought it was a garbled form of "Hold the door" were right (especially once they got a look at the episode titles for Season 6), though few saw its big reveal coming the way it did. There were many theories about what the name "Hodor" could actually mean, from another person's name to a phrase or sentence distorted through time.
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