Game of Thrones: The Mountain and the Viper

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Don’t read any of this if you haven’t seen “The Mountain and the Viper” yet.

So I watched last Sunday’s episode of [Game of Thrones] and oh boy! I definitely enjoyed the episode. There’s not a lot of things on TV or in the movies that I have watched that have left an impact on me beyond a few hours. However, even after 3 days I am still thinking about that episode.

I found a video on Youtube where a fan took it upon himself to re-edit the climax of the episode. It is funny and I understand where the guy is coming from creating it. I saw this video 2 days ago and it only have 1.4 million views at the time. Now it has over 4.5 million. That’s pocket change compared to Gangnam style, I know but for a T.V. show edit, that seemed like a lot to me.

I don’t usually like to discuss shows that are in their current season as I hate to be the one to ruin anything for someone. I consider myself a pretty clever individual and even a hint of what might happen in an episode is enough for me to guess pretty close to what will happen.

In this case I saw a picture on my facebook wall where someone was applauding Pedro Pascal for his role as Oberyn Martel. To me, that was a “good-bye dead guy.” Add that to the fact that Tyrion had a trial by combat already where the fast guy beats the big, armored guy and I knew even before I saw the facebook picture that Oberyn was probably going to be killed.

So I gotta say that during the fight, when he actually stabs Gregor in the torso, I was surprised. Then he starts the interrogation and I knew that was it, he’d lose. Sure enough I was right. What a way to go! Sure it looked fake but wow was it graphic.

It will be interesting to see how Tyrion gets out of his death sentence. I could be wrong but I feel like he won’t be dying this season. We shall see. I must say, I find most seasons of [Game of Thrones] to be a bit slow. This season has kept me very interested.

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One more link and this one is fun! The satirical website The Onion has an article written by George R. R. Martin that I thought was amusing though it’s from last year. [Check it out!]