This episode sees Cersei move to weaken House Tyrell; first she dispatches Mace Tyrell, her Master of Coin, to negotiate with the Iron Bank in Braavos then she arms the High Sparrow's fanatical followers, reforming the ancient Faith Militant, who set about killing or imprisoning anybody they consider degenerate; including Loras Tyrell; the brother of the new queen. Margaery implores her husband to have him released but he is weak when it comes to confronting High Sparrow's followers. In the North Melisandre attempts to seduce Jon Snow and Sansa learns that her protector Lord Baelish is going to leave her in Winterfell while he returns to the capital. In the South Jaime Lannister and Bronn reach Dorne and soon come into conflict with local soldiers.
Across the Narrow Sea in Essos Tyrion learns that his captor is Jorah Mormont and that he is taking him to Queen Daenerys not Cersei; something that comes as a relief. Meanwhile in Meereen Daenerys is still having problems; people are still petitioning her to reopen the fighting pits and even more worryingly the Sons of the Harpy are rising in force to attack those loyal to Daenerys, including her army of unsullied.
The opening three episodes only featured a limited amount of action but here there are multiple scenes of violent action; the Faith Militant's attacks in King's Landing, Jaime and Bronn fighting a quartet of Dornish troops and finally the fight between large numbers of the Sons of the Harpy and several Unsullied. These action scenes were impressively filmed and rather exciting. Away from the fighting there was the usual scheming; most notably Cersei's moves against the Tyrells which shows Margaery that her power, through her husband, isn't what she thought. As expected the cast do I fine job; I particularly enjoyed some of the quieter scenes such as those between Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau and Jerome Flynn as Jaime and Bronn; Peter Dinklage and Iain Glen as Tyrion and Jorah Mormont; Sophie Turner and Aidan Gillen as Sansa and Lord Baelish and Kit Harington and Carice van Houten as Jon Snow and Melisandre these could be seen as relatively minor parts compared to the action and more obvious scheming but they were still enjoyable. Overall I'd say this was a really good episode; certainly the most exciting of the season so far.
Across the Narrow Sea in Essos Tyrion learns that his captor is Jorah Mormont and that he is taking him to Queen Daenerys not Cersei; something that comes as a relief. Meanwhile in Meereen Daenerys is still having problems; people are still petitioning her to reopen the fighting pits and even more worryingly the Sons of the Harpy are rising in force to attack those loyal to Daenerys, including her army of unsullied.
The opening three episodes only featured a limited amount of action but here there are multiple scenes of violent action; the Faith Militant's attacks in King's Landing, Jaime and Bronn fighting a quartet of Dornish troops and finally the fight between large numbers of the Sons of the Harpy and several Unsullied. These action scenes were impressively filmed and rather exciting. Away from the fighting there was the usual scheming; most notably Cersei's moves against the Tyrells which shows Margaery that her power, through her husband, isn't what she thought. As expected the cast do I fine job; I particularly enjoyed some of the quieter scenes such as those between Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau and Jerome Flynn as Jaime and Bronn; Peter Dinklage and Iain Glen as Tyrion and Jorah Mormont; Sophie Turner and Aidan Gillen as Sansa and Lord Baelish and Kit Harington and Carice van Houten as Jon Snow and Melisandre these could be seen as relatively minor parts compared to the action and more obvious scheming but they were still enjoyable. Overall I'd say this was a really good episode; certainly the most exciting of the season so far.