The Game of Thrones Recap No One Asked For!
Five years later, Game of Thrones is still a must watch with for me. This show has endless lessons of strategy, love, power, loyalty. If you take a deeper dive I am sure you and I both can find a way to weave real life experiences into this show. A few other people in my life thought a rewatch was necessary as well, we started a group chat to share our endless commentary filled with our thoughts, frustrations and down right pissed at some of the characters.
Here’s the thing there are so many families, friends of families and alliances you have to keep up with oh its worth keeping up though. It would take me much to long to share every storyline, interaction. So I have broken it down my recap to a few lessons and the characters who I both loved and despised this entire series. Let’s get into this completely unhinged and unsolicited Game of Thrones recap, my way. Here we go my completely unhinged and unsolicited commentary from Game of Thrones.
Three Game of Throne Lessons
Loyalty will get you killed. Literally, Ned Starks had no business dying the way he did. All because he was so loyal and unwilling to side step his loyalty. Not only him be the rest of his family, Robb, Catelyn (Ned Starks wife) and often times Jon Snow. The only ones who didn’t let loyalty have a hold on them as deeply was Sansa and my girl Arya. In humble opinion Ned & Catelyn should have NEVER left Winterfell. Ned couldn’t say no to Robert Baratheon in his request of him being the Hand of the King. Robert was completely unhinged, married to Cersai who was hunching her brother Jaime. The fact that pushed Bran out of that window to cover their lustful, out of control relationship is what sparked all of this talk of loyalty in a way to begin with. Ned’s willingness to leave Winterfell began the spiral into the depth of hell for the Stark family.
The love of POWER is one hell of a drug. Throughout this show name a character and I’ll show you how their love of POWER ruin their ability to make a wise decision. Some characters did have moments of checking their need and desire for POWER but somewhere tangled in there a struggle for power. To attempt to compare who had it worse is way too much. Here are a few characters who I thought were pretty bad in the need of wanting POWER, no particular order of course; Cersai, Joeffrey, Lord Baleish, Daenerys, Stannis Baratheon, Ramsey Snow, Allier Thorne, Enron Greyjoy. These people if not more were so hungry to have POWER they were willing to do anything to have it. I am sure I have left some folks out of course.
There was a whole lot of standing around and gazing for me. People forgetting what they were there to do. Instead of remember your assignment they veered down a path that took them away from what they should have been doing.
Jon Snow should have killed Ygritte (the red head) as he was told to do. If he had of he wouldn’t have spent all that time wandering around, and making love in the cold with a woman who eventually wanted to kill you. Given if Jon would have killed her he wouldn’t have met the Tormund who ended up being a trusted friend and battle buddy.
Jaime running off to go and save his daughter for Cersai. Given it was honorable that he wanted to be the hero dad, save his daughter bring her back safely to her mother. He went fought a battle out in the High Garden only to bring back his daughter’s corpse. Jaime could never stay on his assignment because he was always doing the bidding of Cersai. Died laying next to her because he was unable to rid himself of the need to always save and show up for Cersai.
Bran in my opinion got way too much credit in this show. One unfortunate event happened to him changed the course of his life and all of a sudden he is deem worthy to be the Third Eyed Raven. I didn’t get it but okay. Now this is what made me a bit tee’d off with him. There were people carrying him from pillar to post only for him to not wake up to bring Hodor back to save them all from being killed by the night walkers. The only reason the Night King came to attack was because he was tracking Bran from when he touched him. Mind you Bran went being nosey like he was when he was climbing that wall, Night King touched him in the past vision and boom! I feel Bran’s character was a bit useless esepecially when he saw things wrong and his entire family was gettin’ it out the mud. Just my thoughts.
My Top Moments
There are too many moments to share within the series. So I am sharing a few moments and characters and their stories that I love every time I watch.
Cersai Lannister, I went from hating her, to feeling bad for her to she gets what she deserves to feeling it wasn’t fair in the way she died. She wasn’t answer for all of her sins to the people who mattered most in my opinion, Sansa & Arya Stark. Cersai is one of those people who literally deserved every single thing she got. She didn’t have any control of her horrible son of her was who horrible every moment of his miserable unruly life. Her walk of Shame, Shame, Shame was her own fault after she enlisted the High Sparrow to do her bidding only to have him turn on her. Once she bounced back from that horrific life event she was hell bent on being in power only to die under the rumble of bricks.
Sansa in the beginning worked my nerves wanting to be a queen. A queen to Joffrey no less, I mean she couldn’t have found anyone else, my goodness. She endured endless suffering at the hands of the Lannisters, Cersai especially. Then having to watch her father be killed on public display was too much. Then to feel like you are somewhat safe with Lord Baleish only to be sold as a piece of meat and marry Ramsey Snow, what a life. In all of that to see her rise from the ashes to speak up, take her experience to turn it around on the very person who was the cause of so much agony throughout this show, Lord Baliesh. In the end she continued to protect the north and sit on the throne as the Queen of the North. My goodness can’t do anything but love her story.
Speaking of Lord Baleish he is the epitome of a shit starter. He ran from pillar to post keeping a lie moving about so that he would be eventually be in a place of what?…power only to put families in danger. Carrying bones from house to house. He was always showing up just in the nick of time to be thought as a man full of wisdom. The best line of his demise asked from Sansa; “You stand accused of murder, you stand accused of treson, how to do you answer these charges…Lord Baleish?! “ His mouth dropped, he begged for his life, and my girl Arya Stark killed him. Best moment hands down.
I saved the best for last. Arya Starks’ story from beginning to end was perfectly written in my opinion. She was the only member of the Stark family who finally gave in to journey she was on. Although she would never take it she should have been the one sitting on the throne. Arya had the courage to be kidnapped, faced giants, faced killers, didn’t live with her family for years. She went underground got quiet, got still, remembered what people did to both her and her family. She learned the lesson to become no one which is one of the greatest lessons to teach and even greater to learn as well as be successful in it. Arya had no problem killing who needed to be killed. Never backing down from a fight she was fiercer than many of the men on this show. Killing man I think the best revenge she got was: Lord Baleish for sure and when she killed Lord Frey. In the end while everyone was claiming a throne, Arya claimed to live her life abroad away from the BS. Best decision ever!