Game of Thrones Episode 4.02: “The Lion and the Rose”

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It’s one of those shocker episodes (seriously, don’t google “Purple Wedding” unless you’re ready to be spoiled, probably for all of season four.) Wedding season in Westeros would make for some dramatic cover stories for bridal magazines. :P

Penned by George R.R. Martin himself, the entire episode—not just the big stuff—has some great pacing and tension. Also the non-subtle dramatics that we’ve come to expect from the show, but that’s mostly par for the course. My gripes are few.

I might suggest, that even though this hour packs a mean punch, its real upset lies with the dominoes it topples over, that will send multiple characters in multiple new directions. But in general, at the moment, Westeros’s standing power dynamics are still pretty stable. That being said, I was so excited to see “the domino effect” for my favorite character, started here, that I named a work password after it. :P But I can’t tell you what it is up here, because of spoilers! In fact, I should probably wait a whole other episode, so /zips lips.

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