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In the books, the war of the boy king is Catelyn’s story, subverting tropes of the dashing young hero who beats the odds and triumphs over all. She adds an emotional level to the story, as the mother who worries for her children, but she’s also a strategist and deeply pragmatic. She’s one of the few figures who realizes that they’re not merely playing at war, and understand what that must mean. In the show, however, Catelyn is merely the mother of the king, and no one wants to see what the mother is thinking or doing when the true hero is elsewhere.

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It’s Sunday (or Monday) and friends are coming over to watch the episode:

You demand silence during the show and they’re all:

So, you’re all:

Because you know you’ll just watch the episode five times later.

And then the theme starts playing as the opening credits roll and everyone is all:

And soon there’s mayhem on screen and your one friend is pissed off by a major storyline change and you’re going:

Because it is a really fucked up change.

And then something amazing/glorious/epic happens and everyone goes:

And then the episode is over and you realize that you have to wait another week for a new episode so you’re all:

But a good time was had by all so you just sit there going:

And you don’t live in Westeros.

The End.

Bran is starting to see past, present and future… “No more climbing” and “Promise me” echoing and him falling, not flying but all I’m seeing is a lot of LOL Cat pushed Bran out of a tree. Buzzkill in dreams. Mother of the year! when clearly Bran has some things to work through while he sleeps/wargs…

Anyone wanna take a stab at further interpretation of Bran’s dream?

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So…which Stark(s) do you guys think is/are sitting out of tonight’s episode?

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Tomorrow Night? … Diretrouts!

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Even in its abridged-for-TV version, this show has a kajillion characters. We don’t even get to check in on every major storyline in each hourlong episode. (Missed you this week, Danerys!) So to keep us watching, and to help us keep everything straight, the characters must be compelling. They don’t have to be likable, obviously, but they have to be interesting. And honestly, Lady Catelyn just hasn’t had that much to work with since Season 1. The show did not allow her to indulge much in her grief over Ned (bringing his bones to her at Renly’s camp—really?), and they couldn’t show her internal anguish about leaving Bran and Rickon for months.

All of which leaves her looking not just cold, but boring. The revelation might upset fans, but it doesn’t change that much. She’s still a flawed woman. Proper and honest and honorable and fiercely protective of her (trueborn) children, but flawed. But by admitting that, and by saying that she blames herself for her family’s considerable recent woes, she’s opened herself up just enough to make us curious about her.   

                                                            -Rachel Larimore, Slate

…the controversy over the very idea that Game of Thrones might be taking Catelyn on a different path than the books has overshadowed what Catelyn’s confession means for the show, and I’d like to ignore the books entirely to discuss why the scene –- which I’d argue was Michelle Fairley’s best scene as Catelyn to date –- was so significant for her character on the series.

Over the course of the series, we’ve seen Catelyn lose her husband, believe she’s lost her sons Bran and Rickon, and fear for Sansa and Arya’s fates as the hostages she believes both to be. That’s an immense amount of loss for any one character, but the idea that Catelyn has been holding herself responsible adds new resonance to her desperation to make things rights – a desperation that led her to release Jaime Lannister. Game of Thrones is set in a cruel, senseless world, in which a character like Ned Stark can end up beheaded due to the whims of a sadistic young boy. Given the immense powerlessness of her situation, it’s heartbreaking to watch Catelyn blame herself for all the tragedy that has befallen the Starks since the series began. We know, as Catelyn doesn’t, that the tragedy that has befallen the Starks was caused not by a moment of personal weakness or the anger of her seven gods, but by the deliberate actions and machinations of a series of people. Catelyn calls herself a murderer, but we’ve repeatedly seen what murder means in Westeros -– even murder abetted by a god –- and Catelyn isn’t guilty.

                                                      -Scott Meslow, Think Progress