Commentary on "Fire and Blood"

[Greg Tito]

This is one of those things personally I wasn't sure about. Oh their bantering was great, but it's how you put it, the two 'spymasters'. This is exactly the way it comes off in the show, but Littlefinger isn't a spymaster he's the master of coin. Sure he'll have his own spy network, but Varys is the real spymaster with knowledge that borders on black magic, and a master of disguise too boot! Littlefinger is the schemer who you give two gold coins to rub together and two more will fall out. The show sets them up as Spy vs Spy, but in the source material it's more Wall Street vs CIA. It's not that big a deal really, it just bothers me a little because having Littlefinger as a spymaster too kind of makes Varys redundant. Not only can he do The Spider's job but he's the pimp daddy of Kings Landing to boot!

While nominally Littlefinger is the Master of Coin, he certainly schemes and plots just as much, if not more than Varys. Unlike Varys, he wants to be the one in charge one day, so Littlefinger oversteps the bounds of what is strictly the domain of the master of coin. He also makes it clear that he has as extensive a spy network as Varys, or hopes to anyway, and that makes him a spymaster as much as Varys.

But this is all semantics. The real point is that their scenes together are badass.

Greg

 

[Greg Tito]

A glimpse of Jaqen..... I am so pissed I have to wait for more!!!!!!

I wonder who will play the Onion Knight, and Briene the Beauty. Those are my only worries for the second season.

Great recap.... but I have to ask...

I even thought that Robert Jordan's successor did a better job keeping my interest, which sounds like blasphemy but it was true.

What does that mean?

The new books are amazing... we all know Jordan had his wife write the last few books anyways, eh?

Would you rather the series never be continued?! Or did you miss the 700 page woman's circle talk?

/half kidding

I worry about the casting of Brienne too. I'm afraid she wont be ugly enough. Brienne looks awful in my head and I'm really scared she will be prettied up for television. Like ugly betty style....ooooh shes so "ugly" in her glasses and braces and "WOW" suddenly she is beautiful!

Make her suitably ugly and mannish please. Not a sexy tomboy :<

If the brief glimpse of Maege Mormont in the last episode is any indication, I don't think they will shy from ugly girls. But then again, Tonks is Osha so I got no clue.

Greg