Knee-jerk reaction to “No One:” five best and worst moments
FLEA BOTTOM BROWN (WORST) MOMENTS
FLEA BOTTOM BROWN FIVE: Lady of steel. I thought I’d witnessed some pretty severe injuries delivered to Arya by the Waif last week, yet she seems to bounce back like a pro after an amateur patch job and some milk of the poppy. Is that how you repair horrific internal injuries? Maybe the Waif can’t hit vital organs? A person with a bad hemorrhoid might well suffer more than she did.
FLEA BOTTOM BROWN FOUR: The boys never really got started. Tyrion and Varys are breaking up again? This superb dynamic duo has been criminally underused in Meereen, so when I saw them chatting in their fancy duds I was thrilled. And then they split up again? Gah! And the last lingering shot of Varys looked like a ‘this is the last time you’re gonna see this character alive’ shot if I’ve ever seen one. With Varys gone, Tyrion returns to his one-man standup comedy and drinking routine in Meereen. At least Gray Worm and Missandei were more playful this time (go easy on that booze, Missandei!), and I did laugh at Tyrion’s fly in the wine joke, so sue me. The Imp gets a good moment here and there, but I can’t get over how these Tyrion-drinking-alone-at-the party scenes have smelled like filler to me.
FLEA BOTTOM BROWN THREE: Robbed again. Did they have to kill the Blackfish offscreen? I suppose it provides some suspense in the ‘is he really dead?’ department, but I really would have liked so see that tough old bugger go down swinging. He deserved a final battle. And they killed the Waif offscreen, too.
FLEA BOTTOM BROWN TWO: The dragon cavalry arrives again. Oh, come on. Meereen is under siege and Dany shows up at exactly the right moment, dismounting from Drogon (I assume it was Drogon) to save the day? Okay, technically it appears as though the Unsullied could have held out in the pyramid for months, but it felt like a cliffhanger, and is seems like this “appearing in the nick of time” stuff is happening more often on Game of Thrones this season, and it isn’t that kind of show…is it?
FLEA BOTTOM BROWN ONE: The Waif is actually the T-1000. I swear I suffered flashbacks to Terminator 2: Judgement Day during the final Waif/Arya chase sequence, in the way the Waif lowered her head, plowed through people, ran, and then slowed down when certain of her pursuit. Of course she allows Arya to escape to her lair and draw her sword and of course we don’t see what happens. And then Jaqen H’ghar is glad to see Arya announce her name and walk away? Its all a jumble to me now. Unless the Waif killed Arya and swapped faces so she could go live in Winterfell. Yeah, that makes sense.
WRAP IT UP AND PUT A BLOODY BOW ON IT: A number of story lines re-intersected (the Hound and the Brotherhood without Banners, Brienne and Jaime, Bronn and Pod, plus Dany and the Meereen gang for an instant): it was great fun but some connections felt forced. It’s all good Game of Thrones story, but this one jumped around a bit too much to connect the dots and lost some cohesion and believability in the leaps.
What did you think?