Game of Thrones Recap: “The Children”

Season: 4 / Episode: 10 ***Spoilers be out here getting their shine on like Lannister Gold*** Gotdamn people! Is this it? The last season 4 recap of Dem Thrones?!?! Say it ain’t so. Well, it is known Khaleesi. Let’s go ahead and embrace the incredible finale this was. And as we talk about embracing things, shit don’t get much more ominous then watching Jon Snow walk past a ton of scattered bodies in the snow, including a bunch of crows pecking at a giant (nicely done director). I don’t know what death looks like up north, but I imagine there are dead giants on the road to it. Jon has got one goal in mind, that’s to kill Mance Rayder and hopefully disband the Wildling army. But considering we haven’t seen Mance in a fortnight, my guess is they gotta thaw your boy out first like Walt Disney before that can happen. This the most pleasant “our people just got done killing each other and this shit ain’t done yet” conversation I’ve ever heard. I do wish we got this much development from Mance at least one more time since the last time we saw him, but this scene was great regardless. Even if it looked like Mance was about to re-introduce the Princess Bride battle of wits scene on Jon for a minute.

When the ruse is finally revealed that Jon came there to kill Mance, none of it matters because Stannis Baratheon brought the crew up North for some ice fishing and kingdom ruling. And if you don’t mind me sayin, Stannis is a little cocky ain’t he? He rolled up on the King in North lik…