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Oathkeeper opened with Daenerys' story. Most of the time, Dany's part is always put at the end of an episode, right? Which is reasonable since her scenes always ended in some sort of a bombastic epic stuff but yeah we got her as an opening this time, so maybe the ending of this episode will be even more epic? Maybe.
Apparently, Dany's message and speech last week was not enough to create a revolution for the slaves inside Meereen. But enough to get them talking about it. So the next step was to secretly send in some of the Unsullied, disguised to look just like Meereen's slaves, through a sewer. Inside, the Unsullied gave the slaves a little pep talk about freedom and also some weapons to kill the masters.
So the next morning, the slaves started the rebellion against the masters, killing them and capturing them.
One thing I found a bit funny was that the writing was in common tongue (a.k.a English). The only Unsullied who learned the common tongue was Grey Worm, as far as viewers know, and in the beginning he said "Kill the Masters", so perhaps he was the one who wrote the message. But come on, Meereen people, both slaves and masters, spoke Valyrian, not English. Wouldn't it be more logical is the message was in Valyrian, so everyone in Meereen could understand the threat? Maybe to make it easier to understand for viewers at home? Understandable, but come on.
Moving on, once the masters were captured, Daenerys decided to punish them the same way they killed little girls on the road to Meereen. Ser Barristan actually gave a good advice against it but she was being firm. I actually agreed with Ser Barristan because idk, I have a feeling this act will have a backlash on Dany, but oh well, a queen does what she wants.
Closing frame of Dany's part in this episode was this:
Guess what my laptop wallpaper is now.
Next, we see brotherly moment between Jaime and Tyrion. Bros!
Cersei still insisted on having Tyrion and Sansa killed for murdering Joffrey. Even worse, she actually sent Jaime to find and kill Sansa. Jaime refused to do so since he knew they were both innocent, so he found a way to prevent it, by sending Brienne to find and protect Sansa with his sword, the one made by Tywin from Ned Starks' Valyrian steel sword. Brienne then named that sword Oathkeeper, hence the title of this episode.
Speaking of Joffrey's murder, in this episode WE FINALLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STAGE!
Littlefinger and Sansa were still in a ship on a journey to keep Sansa safe. There, Lord Baelish explained everything.
See, I told you the necklace was important.
Also when Baelish mentioned the word "friendship", the scene directly moved to this two:
One more big part of this episode, that also lead to the end of the episode, was the story from the north. Tbh the north arc has never been interesting for me, so I'll just go over it quickly.
Previously, the Night's Watch had been informed that there were mutineers at the Craster's Keep. So this time, Jon Snow was sent there by the leaders but actually all they wanted was for Snow to get killed there. Guess nobody likes you Snow, haha. Bran Stark also happened to be at Craster's Keep after being captured by the mutineers there. So apparently Jon Snow will be reunited with Bran sometime soon.
One thing though, Jon traveled to Craster accompanied by a man called Locke. He was actually Roose Bolton's guy. Locke was also the one who cut off Jaime's hand last season. Is this some sort of plan so Bolton could kill both Jon Snow and Bran? We shall see.
For those who can't remember who the hell this Craster guy was, he was the man who lived with his wives/daughters. He had a tradition, that if one of his wives/daughters gave birth to a boy, that baby boy would be given to the White Walkers a.k.a the zombie of Game of Thrones.
In this episode, a baby boy was born at the Craster's Keep. The mutineers decided to do the same as Craster did, giving the boy to the White Walkers. At the end of the episode, the same walker we saw at the finale of season 2 seemingly took the baby to a place. Some sort of a ritual table??? Idk but it looked like Superman's Ice Fortress. Then another walker took the baby and changed him into a walker as well.
What the ????? A cool yet confusing way to end an episode, I suppose.
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I give Oathkeeper 3/5 noise. Nothing big really happened, no surprise besides the truth behind Joffrey's death, all in all, nothing really wowed me. It's to be expected though, since in my opinion it's typical GoT season trend, high tension on the first episodes, goes down during midseason, and goes back on climax for the last 2 episodes of the season.
On another note, the stories are getting more complex, and each character is getting deeper. There are controversies about book vs TV especially about the rape scene last week, but personally I hope the show will stick to the book, since the books are awesome.
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