episode reaction : tell me how you feel.

[bond-girl.livejournal.com]

After you have watched-along at our flawless affy comms (give some love to ontd_asoiaf and game_thrones!), come share your thoughts about Renly and/or Loras scenes and developments in this episode:

~1x07 You Win or You Die~



I will go first (because I have no willpower and I have already seen it last week)!

Gethin was amazing, all Renly's insecurities and convictions were all over his face. I was so PROUD of Renly's speech to Ned. He started out really nervous but then he went from zero to hero. "Stannis is not a king. I AM. Do you still believe good soldiers make good kings?" (finally, Loras' subliminal suggestions pay off!) YOU GO RENLY COCO. I'M PROUD OF YOU. LORAS IS PROUD OF YOU. EVEN LITTLEFINGER IS PROBABLY PROUD OF YOU SOMEWHERE AS HE PINES FOR NED'S WIFE WHILE DIRECTING A PORN MOVIE.

Sans Ned bashing (I love my Starks!), his dismissal of Renly was one of his biggest tactical mistakes. Clearly, the hands-on war experience doesn't live up to its hype when it comes to battles of another kind. All he did was to eyeroll as if Renly was a child speaking out of turn. THWARTED BY DOUBLE STANDARDS AGAIN, NED. If this were an episode of Survivor, you would have already been voted off the island!

MOST IMPORTANTLY, WHERE THE HELL IS LORAS? Gathering the rainbow posse? Sending ravens to Papa Tyrell? Recovering from the reunion sex? DISCUSS.

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[aurelminuial.livejournal.com]

EVEN LITTLEFINGER IS PROBABLY PROUD OF YOU SOMEWHERE AS HE PINES FOR NED'S WIFE WHILE DIRECTING A PORN MOVIE.
OOOOOOOOOOMG That was such a strange scene! Him talking about such things while directing two women on how to please their payers! haha He really is a pervie pervXD

All he did was to eyeroll like Renly was a child speaking out of turn.
Well, he kind of really is a child speaking out of turn in Ned's eyes. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have the right, and a damn fine point to make^_^

(Personally, I'm just glad that we get to see Jon Snow and the happenings on the Wall in this episode. I've missed him!)

Also, Robert's death is REALLY sudden, and goes by REALLY fast... it irked me. Does it work that way in the book, too? I haven't gotten that far.

I hate how this episode ends, btw. Littlefinger! GAH! This show is too good at these cliffhangers u__________________u

[ereini0n.livejournal.com]

The Tyra Banks speech is beyond cool!

:D

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

his dismissal of Renly was one of his biggest tactical mistakes.

I think so too, but Ned is not about tactics, he is about honour. ** Sigh ** As much as I am sad about what is happening to Ned, everything is so logical.

[peripety]

Ned is maddening - maddening! If only he'd listened to Renly he could have at least have had a shot at holding the Seven Kingdoms together.

[lcacbc.livejournal.com]

God, Ned should have listened to Renly. He was perhaps his only genuine ally in Kingslanding and he refused him! And the penny really should have dropped when Ned found out that Renly had fled - that's telling you something Ned! *facepalm*

I was so hoping to get a shot of Loras in this ep, maybe making his getaway with Renly, but noo :( And we're not going to see either of them until series 2 now, right?! Devastated tbh

[roboticduck.livejournal.com]

I just rewatched the scene where Renly is trying to talk some sense into Ned:

"we all know what Stannis is"
A LOBSTER!

Seriously though, the speech builds up, he's giving such good tactical options, not just for his own sake, but looking out for the welfare of the kingdom, when Renly does say "He's not a king. I am" I totally bought it. Here's the political savvy that both Robert and Ned lacked.

Loras' subliminal suggestions
That makes me think Loras used ~pavlovian methods~ XD

No Loras sighting, but I did like how Varys specifically mentioned that Renly had fled with "Ser Loras Tyrell" because we needed to know!