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The episode opened with Tyrion and Jaime talking in Tyrion's cell. Basically Jaime's pissed because Tyrion didn't follow their deal, but Tyrion was glad because he didn't want to see his father's plan work out. Come to think of it, it's true the deal was made to be a win-win situation for Tywin Lannister, and lose-lose for Tyrion. That sneaky old man.
Now that Tyrion had requested for a trial by combat, he gotta pick a champion to fight Cersei's champion, who turned out to be Ser Gregor Clegane a.k.a The Mountain a.k.a The Hound's brother. We got a scene where he slayed weaker men for some unknown reason. Buuuuut, that scene where Cersei walked over the victim's spilled intestines without even a glance, yes that's how a queen walks. Bow down to Cersei, y'all.
Tyrion initially wanted to ask Jaime to be his champion this time. However, Jaime didn't think he was good enough now that he'd lost his sword hand.
So Tyrion picked his second best choice, Bronn. However,
Poor poor Tyrion. Bronn was literally his last hope. It was an end to a surprisingly interesting friendship, but it ended well because Tyrion was a good guy and he understood. But now that Bronn refused, Tyrion seemed to lose hope.
But of course G.R.R. Martin wouldn't let Tyrion fight The Mountain, would he? No. Later on Tyrion got a surprise visit from Prince Oberyn. Here we got a little story from Oberyn, about the first time he visited Casterly Rock when he was little and Tyrion was just born. He told Tyrion (and viewers) how Cersei had hated him ever since he was born, because their mother died after giving birth to Tyrion. He told us about how much Cersei wanted Tyrion dead. And this was Tyrion's response.
Heartbreaking. Really this is such an emotional episode (season, let's be real) for Tyrion, okay. But, a little surprise came right after that. Oberyn told Tyrion about his revenge. About how Oberyn wanted justice for his sister and her baby that were killed by The Mountain. And this lead to him telling Tyrion that he would be Tyrion's champion. We could actually see Tyrion's sigh of relief and this, again, was heartbreaking. Oh Tyrion.
Another big vital story line came from The Eyrie, where Sansa was. We knew from last week that now Sansa was staying at the Eyrie with her Aunt Lysa and Petyr Baelish. First part was between Sansa and Robin, her cousin/to-be-husband. Srsly, what is it with Sansa and shitty arranged marriage?
Things started off pretty nicely. Sansa was building a snow Winterfell and Robin came and they had a little talk. But then Robin started to be a little brat, destroying the snow winterfell and screaming until Sansa slapped him. Oops. But really this kid is like a younger, not cruel version of Joffrey. Spoiled boys, smh.
You think the slapping brought troubles for Sansa? No. Petyr showed up after the slapping and he, as always, started talking to Sansa in a creepy way. Very uncomfortable scene. Long story short, he ended up kissing Sansa and Lysa saw all that.
Blinded with jealousy, Lysa then tried to kill Sansa by throwing her through the moon door.
Petyr came to the rescue, BUT PLOT TWIST.
Damn Littlefinger, let me say it again, you truly are the most dangerous man in Westeros. Goodbye forever Aunt Lysa.
A few other seemingly less important things that happened in this episode.
- Daenerys and Daario Naharis finally did the frick-frack thing (but I really don't get the point of this scene, oh well)
- Ser Jorah, of course, didn't trust Daario fully (also jealous, I guess). He pointed out that Daario killed his 2 captains before joining Dany's team. Then Dany said that she didn't trust him either, so she sent him to Yunkai to slay all the masters there. Cruel Dany was cruel. But then Jorah managed to change her mind, to give the masters a choice, whether to live in her new world, or die in their old one. Well done, Jorah.
- A quite long part of The Hound and Arya's brotherly moment. Seriously they're like a team now, which is cool.
- Brienne and Podrick met Hot-Pie! Funny part of the episode, actually, with Hot-Pie talking nonstop about kidney pie.
- Brienne told him that they're looking for Sansa Stark but Hot-Pie didn't tell them anything at first. Later on, he decided that he could trust Brienne, so he told her about Arya, and the possibility of Arya being at the Riverrun. But later Podrick thought that the girls might be at The Eyrie instead of Riverrun, since their Aunt was there, so it seemed that there's where they were heading now. Smart Podrick.
- A few minutes of Melisandre and Stannis' wife (whatever her name was) a.k.a a few minutes of nudity. Basically, the wife didn't want them to take Shireen (Stannis' daughter) when they left Dragonstone. But Melissandre simply said that "The Lord needs her". Plot point? Maybe.
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I give Mockingbird 2.5/5 noise. Boring. Dull. Emotional perhaps for those who root for Tyrion but other than that, nothing really stood out, except for the death of Lysa and Prince Oberyn volunteering as Tyrion's champion. The next episode will be on 2 weeks from this episode and the Oberyn vs The Mountain battle should be on it, right? I know how it ends, but I'm still excited to see how it will play out on TV, haha.
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