Game of Thrones Recap: “Mockingbird”

Season 4, Episode 7 Spoilers be fallin through the Moon Door, b. Watch your step. Ahhh, we’re back up in Dem Thrones again and dare I say, shit is getting real interesting. We start the episode off with the Kingslayer Brothers realizing they will probably never drop a studio album together again as they deal with the fallout of Tyrion dropping the mic on Law and Order: Kings Landing last week. Jaime congratulates him on giving a great speech then reminds him, “Oh yeah, your boy still ain’t got a right hand and I can’t slice through Dornish wine with my left yet either.” Tyrion jokes that if he still fought for him, they could end the Lannister line in one tidy afternoon. They laugh…and then they stop laughing

Apparently, this episode is all about Tyrion not getting ANYTHING he wants, as he hopes that at least Ser Meryn Trant, will be the Crown’s champion against him. Then Jaime drops that bad news… What follows next is what I can only assume is the footage that Spartacus didn’t use and sold for cheap to HBO in case we ever wanted a mini montage of the Mountain disemboweling muthafuckas. I guess if you have a short memory and don’t remember that Mountain BEHEADED A GOTDAMN HORSE in season one, then maybe you needed to see him slice through about 4 dudes from Flea Bottom, but it seemed a bit much to me

After that, its back to our favorite buddy cop show, Arya and the Hound. Is it me or do dying, inconsequential characters tend to give the best monologues on this sh…