Game of Thrones: The Mountain and the Viper (2014)
Season 4, Episode 8
10/10
Shocked!
1 June 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Oh my God, George RR Martin is completely sick! It's been 30 minutes since the episode finished and I'm still numb in my seat. Before getting into the so expected part, this is a great episode which you can see the development of Sansa character, where she finally turn into a more mature woman, deciding to lie for the sake of her and Lord Baelish life instead of messing up things. The Castle Black part also create a lot of expectation, since the war with the North Beyond the Wall is even closer than before. And I enjoyed Arya laughter at the point she find out her aunt is dead. It is so ironic. All her family beside Sansa and Jon Snow is dead, so what is one more relative dead? It's so tragic it becomes comic. Nothing to say about Sir Jorah Mormont, his relationship with Daenerys was always faded to an end, I don't really enjoy his scenes. And of course, what was this EPIC DUEL? Oberyn was a really amazing character, motivated by revenge of his sister. He is a bisexual, oriental, light armored fighter who awoke interest in most of audience precisely for being so exotic. Tyrion hadn't much expectation about his combat skills, mostly because the opponent was a 2.06m monster. Instead, he showed outstanding agility and dexterity fighting The Mountain, but before finishing up his enemy, his pride and anger diverted his attention, resulting in one of the most shocking scenes I have seen in Game of Thrones series. Until this point, you can see a sketch of a smile in Tyrion's face. But when The Mountain grabs Oberyn and smashes his head it was really heavy, I felt it so deep because the short happiness created when Oberyn pierce Mountain's body turn out into despair: Tyrion is going to die. Well, 10/10, surpassed all my expectations.
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