For the last few episodes, Dany's wander through the red wastes and her eye-candy trips Watch video Game of Thrones Season 2, Episode 8 The Prince of Winterfell On HBO. Free Download Video Game of Thrones 20th May 2012 Online Tv Live Streaming Video .Online Watch Game of Thrones Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV .For the last few episodes, Dany's wander through the red wastes and her eye-candy trips to Qarth have been a bit underwhelming. Yes, the city is interesting to look at, and Quaithe (the woman in the metal veil) is intriguing with her magical henna tattoos and awesome metal face wear, but when you compare Dany's haggling for ships and being flirted with to the War of the Five Kings and Theon Greyjoy's madcap murder romp through the forests of Winterfell, well... it's no wonder Dany's whole plot comes off as oh-so-pretty and pretty vacant at the same time. She got advanced in a hurry this week, with the promise of getting her leather kittens back next week! I was getting lulled to sleep a bit by her and Qarth, but things certainly flared up out beyond the Red Wastes, and I'm feeling as puzzled as Jorah Mormont right now; call me crazy, but killing someone's friends and stealing their dragons doesn't seem like the best way to climb up the social ladder.
Last night’s episode, “A Man Without Honor,” could refer to any number of characters. Hell, practically every character not named Stark, as it becomes more and more evident how awful Westeros and the realm beyond it really is. And we haven’t even met the Bastard of Dreadfort yet. Thankfully, the title refers to Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who has unfortunately taken a backseat and really been a forgotten man up to this point in season 2, but that all changes with this episode, and perhaps it’s not a coincidence that this was the best all-around episode of the year thus far.
Theon wakes up to discover that Osha, Bran, Rickon and Hodor have escaped, in no small part due to his copulation with the wildling the previous night. He takes out his frustration on one of his men, and thus continues the Sad, Angry Ballad of Theon, in his quest to piss off and make everybody hate him. Theon and his men go off to try and find the escaped heirs to Winterfell. If Rodrik still had a head, this would’ve been the time to take back the castle.
Beyond the wall, Jon Snow wakes up with his, ahem, soldier, at watch, if you get my drift. Ygritte isn’t oblivious to it, and has a point when she realizes why crows are always so miserable (because they can’t lay with a woman). She finds out that Jon has never been with a woman and spends the rest of the episode mercilessly toying and flirting with him in an attempt to bed him, or escape, or both (Rose Leslie is wonderfully entertaining and in a sea of awesome accents, hers stands out). By the end of the episode, we learn her objectives, and get to hear the first uttering of her immortal line.
At the accursed Harrenhal, Arya serves Lord Tywin mutton. The meal itself is unimportant, but it’s a sentence I couldn’t resist typing. Tywin forgoes the mutton (he’s not a fan) and lets Arya eat in his company, where he gives her a history lesson and details how Harrenhal became ruined remains and a stain on the realm. Arya surprises Tywin with her breadth of study, and whether he actually buys her act as low born or not, it’s clear the head of the Lannister family is tickled pink by his cupbearer. The stellar scenes between Charles Dance and Maisie Williams (“most girls are idiots”) have become my favorites of the show, even if they don’t really have a ton of implications in the overarching storyline to this point. Regardless, Tywin questioning his legacy in front of one of the heirs of one of his biggest enemies unknowingly is great stuff.
Game of Thrones is a show that relies heavily on its writing and actors. This week, penned by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, was beautifully sharp on the dialogue front. From Theon Greyjoy dismissing a manhunt as a simple game to Jon Snow and Ygritte's flirty banter (or Robb Stark's flirty banter with the foreign Florence Nightingale), Thrones and its creative crew have been working very hard not to make any character one-note. Cersei is a horrible person, but she loves her children. Even Joffrey, though she knows she's screwed up when it comes to him. Jaime has honor, but so many conflicting oaths that he's thrown it all away out of love for his sister. Tywin is a brilliant tactician and warrior, a mediocre father, and a loving mentor to Arya, who would like nothing more than to cut his throat in spite of how well he's taken care of her.