The Fault In Our Stars (2014) review

The Fault in Our Stars a.k.a TFIOS is a movie based on a young adult novel with the same title written by John Green. I FINALLY HAD THE CHANCE TO WATCH IT. It's romance, which is not my usual favorite type of movie/book, but this one is special, I guess.

I will start with the book first, okay? Okay. (See what I did here?)

I read TFIOS a while ago simply because it's very popular on the internet. And it turns out that I really like it. Yes, the plot is kind of typical romance, but not as cheesy as Nicholas Sparks' books. But what I really like is John Green's writing style. Especially I like his choices of words and quotes. How to describe it huh? Powerful? Idk, but they stuck with you even after you finished reading it. In my opinion, the plot is not that strong, but the characters and the wordings are awesome.

So, with great novel comes great expectations for the movie, right? Yeah I was excited about TFIOS movie. But to be honest, after I watched it, I don't feel the strength of the story, the appeal, as much as when I read the book. Maybe, maybe, it's because, again, the plot is basically standard. Maybe that's what made the movie feel kinda flat, boring, with no intense peak, except perhaps at the twist. 

As for the quotes, thank you writers for putting most of the great quotes in the movie. However, to me there's a difference between reading them and hearing them being said. You see, when the characters said the quotes in the movie, it's like those words just passed through you. But when you read it, it's like you can process it in your brain and you can find the beauty of it. For example, one of my most favorite line in the book, 

“The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory.” 

Gus said it after he told Hazel about his cancer returning. That's some painful bitter truth right there but it didn't get enough appreciation because, well, it only took maybe 2 seconds to say that line. 

Really, read the novel. Way more beautiful than the movie. 

Enough about the things I don't like. I love some aspects of TFIOS movie. One, the way Ansel Elgort portrayed Augustus Waters. He got it. He totally got it. He understood that Gus was one cocky, pretentious dude and Ansel did it justice. Gus always wanted to be a hero, to leave something important so everyone will remember him after he died, and Hazel knocked some sense into him that being important for one other person is enough. 

I didn't expect to enjoy Shailene Woodley's portrayal of Hazel Grace, but I did. The cynical, realist girl with cancer, who found happiness in her bitter life from Gus. I like the way she portrayed the love Hazel felt for Gus. It's not over the top like usual teenagers movie. It fits perfectly with the characterization of Hazel Grace. Well done, you two.

Fun things I'd like to add. It's pretty clear since the beginning about Gus' fate. It's obvious that he's gonna die at the end. Some clues:

• Gus insisted to call Hazel with her long name, Hazel Grace. Maybe this is some kind of a "powerful" metaphor to him. You see, Gus likes metaphors and symbols and stuffs. When Hazel started calling him Gus instead of Augustus, there's a quote in the book where he said “You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.” 

• Gus said “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.” We all know there's no such thing as a roller coaster that only goes up. At some point, it'll go down. And for Gus, it went down the day he discovered that his cancer is coming back and he "lit up like a christmas tree".

• Anne Frank's house is the set where Gus and Hazel kissed for the first time. Anne Frank died not long before the war ended. She was so close to surviving the war but she didn't make it. It's almost the same with Gus, he survived without cancer for months, but then things go unplanned. Damn you John Green. 

One more thing I like is the music. It fits the movie tone really well and it's beautiful.

I give The Fault in Our Stars movie 3.5/5 noise. I love that it stays true to the book, the quotes, the characters and everything. But perhaps for those who haven't read the book, plot-wise it's flat. Also I don't really enjoy the camera work, but I honestly can't pinpoint why. But still, thank you John Green for a beautiful pain that is TFIOS.

An update after a month of hiatus

Hello, and yes I know, it's been more than 1 month since the last time I wrote reviews and updated this blog. Sorry, sigh :(

So, I finally got a job after months of joblessness (is that a word?) and that's mostly why I haven't been writing lately. I suck at managing my time, like, I meant to review GoT finale, PLL season 5 premiere (also the 5th episode which is the 100th episode of PLL series!!), Rizzoli & Isles' new season, but well, I usually get home sleepy and not-in-the-mood-for-writing and then it was too late to write reviews and I'm honestly pissed at myself for that haha. 

That and also I'm soooo behind on movies lately. I haven't watched anything since Disney's Maleficent, which was great, in my opinion. It's beautiful, I enjoyed the not so traditional plot twist, and Angelina Jolie's stellar performance was beyond awesome. That's absolutely perfect casting, she was the soul of the movie and, really if it was any other actress, Maleficent would not be as "enticing".

I haven't watched The Fault In Our Stars yet and I want to so badly. I like the novel, I like John Green's writing style and the reviews are great for the movie so I would love to see (and judge) whether Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley do justice for Gus and Hazel Grace. 

22 Jump Street and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes are also on my list of must watch. As for the new Transformers: Age of Extinction, I've heard about how bad it is, and that made me kinda wanna watch it just to see how bad it actually is, haha.  

Well, well. So now you know why I haven't been here lately. I'll try to write again, probably on weekends, oh and also there's a one-week-long holiday coming up soon so YAYYY :)

Game Of Thrones 4x08 The Mountain and The Viper review

The Mountain and The Viper is the eighth episode of GoT season 4. I know this post is very late but I really didn't have the will to write this week, so yeah.

The title refers to the battle between Gregor Clegane a.k.a The Mountain and Prince Oberyn a.k.a The Red Viper of Dorne which took place at the end of this episode. One word, mind-blowing. Or should I say, head-blowing? 

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The episode opened with the Wildlings (Ygritte and her gang) attacking and killing everyone at the brothel in Mole's Town, the place where Sam left Gilly and her baby in. But for some reason, Ygritte spared Gilly's life. Why? Then we saw Jon Snow and his crow brothers talking about the attack, and the possibility of them fighting the Wildlings army soon.

I guess that scene was some kind of a "prologue" to the big Night's Watch vs Mance's Wildlings battle next week, since based on the preview it seems that next week's episode will be focusing on The Walls. Also next week's episode's director is Neil Marshall, the one who directed Blackwater in season 2. So a great battle scene is to be expected, I guess. 

Also from the north, we saw Reek a.k.a Theon Greyjoy claiming back Moat Cailin (which is a castle ruins) under the command of Ramsay Snow. 

I really really don't understand what happened to Theon tbh. Someone explain it to me please. During his time with the Starks, and when he betrayed Robb, Theon was one proud (a little dumb but still) man. I mean, how could he be completely brainwashed like that? Theon was practically walking back to his army, his fellow Ironborn in Moat Cailin, he could easily join them and fight back Ramsay, right? Instead, he's now Reek, forever Reek. 

Back to Ramsay, he killed all the ironborns at the ruins and presented Moat Cailin to his father Lord Bolton. As the result, his father awarded him with the name Ramsay Bolton, son of Roose Bolton, Warden of the north, from now on. See, Ramsay was a Bolton bastard, and it seemed that he really wanted to be considered as Bolton's real son. So, to me, this change of name felt like a conclusion for Ramsay's plot for a this time. Maybe we won't be seeing his character anymore for the last 2 episodes, but who knows.

Let's move on to The Eyrie. We know that last week Petyr Baelish killed Aunt Lysa, and this week, he was being investigated for it. Sansa, as some sort of the witness, gave viewers a great surprise, though. 

Maaaan, I can't even begin to describe how brilliant this is. Sansa had always been a smart girl, she survived King's Landing and Joffrey's cruelty, for God's sake. But now, she was smart and manipulative as well. 

She started her confession with her real Stark identity, her sad story, how Baelish helped her reach The Eyrie, how her Aunt Lysa was a jealous lady, every single part was real except for the part how her Aunt was killed. And her tears definitely helped the whole situation. Sansa protected Baelish, and the elders (the investigators? idk) totally believed her. Well done Sansa, very well done. All the awards. But why did Sansa protect Baelish?

See, she knew how to play safe now, she knew how to play smart and take charge of her life. Also, Sansa definitely changed in this episode. It's like, she's turned to the dark side. Has she actually decided to go along with Baelish's want for her to be her mother? Or is she playing Baelish now? 

One biggest part of this episode was, of course, the battle of the Mountain vs Oberyn. We know that Oberyn's main goal was to revenge his sister Elia Martell, who was raped and killed by the Mountain. Oberyn started really well and confidently, he was much quicker than the Mountain, he managed to knock off the Mountain's helmet, he even managed to wound the Mountain.

During the battle, Oberyn kept on pushing the Mountain to confess his crime towards Elia. Oberyn repeatedly said "You raped her. You murdered her. You killed her children." You know what, this scene reminded me of The Princess Bride movie, especially Inigo Montoya's battle, haha. 

However, G.R.R. Martin is not GRRM if he doesn't kill a character loved by readers and viewers. Oberyn was already winning, he had the upper hand, the Mountain was already lying on the floor dying, but Oberyn took his time before finishing him off because the Mountain hadn't confessed yet. All of sudden, the Mountain grabbed Oberyn's leg, causing Oberyn to fall down beside the Mountain. This time the Mountain beat the crap out of Oberyn. He knocked off Oberyn's teeth with one punch, and then he smashed Oberyn's head with his bare hands. Dammit.

WARNING THE FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE NOT GUT FRIENDLY

To me this was one of the most disturbing scenes in Game Of Thrones, ever. Seriously. I knew already that Oberyn was going to lose the battle but I never expected this as the way he'd die. Also what will happen to Tyrion now?

Sigh. Oberyn was one of my favorite characters in the series. He stood up to Lannisters' bullshit, he fought for his sister's honor, he was a great character. Also kudos to Pedro Pascal for such an awesome performance that made us fall for Oberyn even though he's only been on screen for 1 season. 

Some other stories from this episode:

• Another big thing came from Daenery's story line. A letter of royal pardon came for Ser Jorah, causing Dany and her team to know that Jorah had been a spy for King's Landing all this time. This caused Dany to banish him from the city. HA! I knew there's a reason why I never liked Jorah.

• There's a bit of romantic scene between Missandei and Grey Worm. I don't really care about this plot but they're cute together

• Arya and the Hound reached the Eyrie only to know that Lysa had died. And then Arya laughed hysterically. 

• In my opinion, this was also a changing point for Arya, like it was for Sansa. For all Arya knew for sure, she had no family left, except for Aunt Lysa. Now that Lysa died, maybe Arya thought she's alone now. Cruel joke of life. But Arya had always been a tough kid. Like Sansa learned how to be manipulative from Baelish, Arya learned how to be tough from the Hound. I'd like to see how this plays out.

• Before the battle between Oberyn and the Mountain, Jamie and Tyrion had a talk in his cell about their cousin Orson Lannister, a simple (dim-witted) who liked to smash beetles, crushing them with rocks. I didn't understand this scene when I watched it, but after the event of Oberyn's death, it seemed funny. The beetles were smashed with rocks, like Oberyn was smashed by the Mountain. Oh. 

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I give The Mountain And The Viper 4.5/5 noise. It's been a while since Game Of Thrones left me with jaw-dropping ending. Just plain awesome. 

X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014) review

X-Men: Days of Future Past is the sequel of X-Men First Class (2011) and also X-Men The Last Stand (2006). This time, original casts from the old x-men trilogy and the newer casts from x-men first class were joined together to save the past and the future, which is a super cool concept I think. Also since The Last Stand was a total mess, this movie kinda "undo and redo" everything. Confusing? Yes.

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X-Men DoFP opened sometime in a future where we met old characters like Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) and Colossus, along with some new characters Warpath, Bishop, Blink, Sunspot, in a fight against robots called Sentinels which job was to destroy every single mutant. 

At first we saw that the mutants were losing the fight, some of them were killed, except for Kitty and Bishop who were running away. Kitty was then seen performing some sort of a mutant thing on Bishop's head and all of sudden everything was gone. What???

An explanation came later on when the group met up with the X-men gang, Prof. Xavier (Sir Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Sir Ian McKellen), Storm (Halle Berry), and of course Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). Kitty then explained that she got the ability to transfer someone's consciousness to the past. So basically in the earlier event, Kitty was sending Bishop to the past to warn them about Sentinel's attack, so they could run away before it happened, thus preventing the fight to ever happen in the future. 

So we got the premise here. Kitty could send someone's mind to that person's body in the past, let that person change the past hence changing the future. But, once that person came back to their present time which was now different, only them could remember the whole thing, no one else could. 

Based on that, Prof X got the idea to send someone back to 1973, where the whole Sentinel thing started. So in 1973, Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) killed Trask (Peter Dinklage), the guy who created the Sentinel program. This made him a martyr, and made mutants the enemy of regular people. Also Mystique got caught after killing Trask, and her DNA was taken and used to further developed the Sentinels. Prof X's idea was to prevent the killing from happening, thus preventing the Sentinels war versus mutant. 

Prof X was supposed to be the one sent to the past since he was the strongest telepath, however his physical body wouldn't be able to withstand the "journey to the past" so Wolverine was the one to go.  

Waking up in 1973, Wolverine then sought out younger Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) who now lived in the empty mansion with Hank McCoy a.k.a Beast (Nicholas Hoult). After the events in X-Men First Class, Charles was a broken depressed man. He lost his "sister" Mystique, he lost his friend Magneto (Michael Fassbender), and he was paralyzed. Beast managed to make a serum to heal Charles' spine momentarily with the cost of his telepathy ability. Which was fine for Charles since he didn't want to hear others' thought anymore.

After a few moments of Wolverine trying to convince Charles to help stopping Mystique, and persuaded him to free Magneto, who was now a prisoner at Pentagon after being involved in the assassination of JFK (although later we found out that Magneto didn't shoot JFK, instead he was trying to save him by curving the bullet), they began the mission to free Magneto with the help of another mutant called Quicksilver (Evan Peters). 

Meanwhile, Mystique had been investigating Trask and found out about him experimenting on mutant. That's why she planned on killing him in Paris. But Wolverine, Charles, Magneto and Beast managed to stop her plan. Moreover, all of sudden Magneto tried to kill her to ensure that humans would never be able to use her DNA against mutant. Weird, in my opinion, because it seemed like Magneto suddenly remembered that he's a villain.  

The event in Paris sort of increased the awareness of mutant's existence among humans. The US president then approve Trask's Sentinel plan out of fear of mutants. The prototypes were to be unveiled at the White House in Washington DC, but before that, Magneto managed to modify the Sentinels and insert metal in the system (??) so he could control the Sentinels. 

Long story short, everyone was now in DC, Magneto flew a stadium to sort of barricade the White House and used the Sentinels to attack people, Mystique was still trying to get to Trask, while Wolverine, Beast and Charles were trying to stop everything. Instead Magneto stopped Wolverine and Charles easily though. He impaled Wolverine with bars and threw him into a river and Charles was trapped under heavy metal post from the flying stadium.

The president and other important people were hidden in a safe bunker, and Magneto pulled the bunker from underground. He then threatened to kill everyone while being watched worldwide. Mystique, disguised as The President, stepped forward and shot Magneto instead. She still wanted to kill Trask, but Charles talked some sense into her, made her release those people and let Magneto and Mystique flee. The Sentinel program was cancelled thus preventing the war in the future from happening. 

Mystique then impersonated Stryker (a military guy who later did experiments on Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and saved Wolverine from the bottom of the river. Then Wolverine woke up in his present time (the future) but now in the Xavier's school instead of the dark place where the movie started. There he saw everybody alive and happy, including characters that died in the future Sentinel war and X-Men The Last Stand (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Rogue, etc).

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A few thoughts on X-men Days of Future Past:

• I was initially confused. Why is Prof X still alive in the future?? I mean, it's clear that DoFP timeline is the continuation of X-Men The Last Stand (when younger Charles saw into Wolverine's mind, he could see Jean as Phoenix), and it was obvious that in The Last Stand, Prof X's body was destroyed by Phoenix. Yes, his consciousness was transferred into someone else in the end, but why does he still have his body??

• I googled it, and it turned out that Prof X was using his twin body (or is it a clone body?? Idk) in the Sentinel's war future. I understand that it might be too complicated to explain this in the movie, but as someone who has watched all the X-men movies (except The Wolverine), but not familiar with the comic, it made me confused.

• Since when did Kitty have the power to send someone back to the past? I thought her power was only to go through walls. 

• Really, there are so many inconsistency between Days of Future Past and The Last Stand. Magneto lost his power at the end of The Last Stand, how did he get his whole power back?

• In The Last Stand, the story was built around the Cure from a boy that could suppress the gene X in a mutant so their mutation would become normal, much like Hank McCoy's serum in this movie. But, in The Last Stand, Beast looked surprised about it whereas he was supposed to easily make one himself . Continuity error, perhaps but idk, in my opinion this made the whole story line of young Charles Xavier could walk again after his spine was hit became unnecessary. 

• At the end of this movie, everyone who died in the original X-men trilogy was seen back alive, Jean Grey, Cyclops, etc. That means, this movie basically erased the whole events in X2 and X3 timeline. This is huge, okay. I get it, X3 was a total disappointment, but erasing the whole story, that's new I think. I can't remember other movie franchise that did this kind of thing. But at the same time, it's a bold and genius step. This opens up a whole wide story line and plot possibilities for future X-men movies. Plus this might bring back my favorite mutant, Phoenix, so well played there, Simon Kinberg and Bryan Singer. 

• 1973 Wolverine didn't have his adamantium claws yet, so I assumed the event in X-Men Origins: Wolverine hadn't happened yet. But since the past had changed, that means Wolverine origins would change as well, right? Plus at the end, it was shown that Mystique was the one who saved him, not Stryker. So, yeah, not just X3 that got erased, Wolverine's series would also get alternated. Awesome.

• Despite of the whole timeline confusion, I really like characterization in this movie. Each big character (Wolverine, Prof X, Magneto, Mystique) went through big parts in the story and yet they didn't overshadow each other. Especially Charles Xavier's character growth, from the broken James McAvoy's Charles, seeing him rebuilding his hopes up, until he got his Sir Patrick Stewart's Charles character back, it was great. 

• A great surprise to me came from Quicksilver, the mutant with super speed ability. In my opinion, he was totally the scene-stealer in this movie. At first look, Evan Peters with medium grey hair was weird, but once they got into action, maaan quicksilver was such a fun character. The Pentagon kitchen scene was also absolutely cool and entertaining. 

• On the other hand, Peter Dinklage was really underused. The whole plot was built on  Tarsk's sentinel program and yet he didn't even seem like the villain, like something was missing. Or maybe it's because I'm more used to him as Tyrion Lannister in Game Of Thrones, where Dinklage's act is beyond superb.

• Magneto, still as over-the-top as always. Really, flying with the whole stadium was unnecessary. Clearly his goal was not to conceal what he did at the White House, since he put the camera to record his actions. So, why the stadium?? But then I remember in The Last Stand, Magneto practically flew a whole giant bridge. So yeah, maybe dramatic flair has always been one of Magneto's characters, lol.

• Other than that, I think this movie was great. Bryan Singer is the one who directed X-Men, X-2, and X-Men: First Class, so his style has been proven great multiple times, I suppose. The transition between past and future scenes were also clear, with a contrast difference between bright 70s set for the past and the dark dark dystopian future. 

I give X-Men DoFP 4/5 noise. For a big movie with such a heavy plot, it was executed really well I think. You might need to think hard to understand a few stuffs, especially if you're not familiar with the whole X-men movies and universe. But overall I think it's enjoyable, great action, clean effects, a nice amount of humor, plus seeing old characters back on screen was very nice.

Game Of Thrones 4x07 Mockingbird review

Mockingbird is the 7th episode of GoT season 4. Fyi, it is also the sigil of House Baelish, because yes, Petyr Baelish had a pretty vital story line in this episode. But overall I felt that Mockingbird is one of the most boring episodes in the whole series, tbh. So this might be a really short review. 

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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.