Scoring for this episode is fantastic. I find it so cool how music was highlighted in several important scenes showing us how the bells play an important role in the city and how drums were present in battle.
This episode is amazing! So thrilling and suspenseful.
The hound fucking kills it in all aspects, this episode is an absolute classic. It is the OG and maybe best??? battle episode of the series and showed GoT's full and awesome potential with creating these epic scenes. Tyrion was on his shit back here in season 2, gotta say I missed it, and Cersei is maybe the most classic Cersei, I'll remember her as. All in all this is easily a top 5 GoT episode maybe top 3
Joffrey Baratheon: "Dog, I command you to go back out there and fight!"
Tyrion Lannister: "You're Kingsguard, Clegane. We must beat them back, or they're going to take this city! Your King's city!"
Sandor Clegane: "Fuck the Kingsguard. Fuck the city. Fuck the king."
This episode is aesthetically fantastic. All the action of the fire sequence consuming the ships, soundtrack, cinematography. Impeccable. Tyrion cemented his importance as a man, and also for the series' narrative. He won the war. And before I forget: fuck the king, that damn coward.
i don't know how i feel about this episode i kinda wanted the lannisters to lose ...but it was a good episode
And thus began the tradition of the ninth episode of a season being one of the most shocking or most memorable.
Talk about the ultimate payoff of a season-long . The first time I watched the show, when Lancel was first forced to tell Tyrion about the wildfire, I kinda figured it was a misdirect meant to make the audience imagine a terrible weapon that'd turn out to be as underwhelming as Greek fire has usually been in visual mediums. Especially since Tyrion and Bronn considered it a myth that was as destructive as a cap gun.
I was not expecting to see that ship's hull leaking green goop, or what happened right after. I can't even count how many times I've rewatched the shot of Bronn's arrow arcing over the ships to hit its target over the last 12 years; the whole sequence is so fucking cinematic, it's breathtaking. I was already used to high quality shows with great production value on HBO, but this was an entirely new era of epics being condensed into a regular TV season schedule. The green mushroom cloud forming right after is the cherry on top.
When Joffrey "Baratheon" is smiling while Sandor Clegane looks horrified at the death and destruction in front of them, you know something fucked up just happened; if it's enough to upset The Hound -- yeah, I know, he's got a well-founded fear of fire, but still -- shit seriously just got real.
And then comes one of Peter Dinklage's best performances on the show that doesn't contain the line "I am guilty of being a dwarf!"
"Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!"
This show can even make violent battles boring. There's no end to the meaningless conversations held among the cast of thousands. There's not a redeeming character in sight, so I have no investment in any of them. They all deserve to die brutally hideous, sadistic deaths.
Cersei being terse with the Grand Maester is top tier
Best episode ever, Hands down! I really feel sad for Stannis
this is the dance of the war!
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There are many great things about this episode: Tyrion's strategy and bravery, Joffrey being a coward, the Hound showing his humanity, Shae and Sansa - but the absolutely best part is drunk Cersei.