Thoughts We Had While Watching Game of Thrones “The Sons of the Harpy”
Hello readers! So you saw Game of Thrones Season 5 Episode 4, “The Sons of the Harpy” this week. Congratulations on being a part of the cultural zeitgeist and for not ignoring the show out of some misguided sense of coolness. While preparing our weekly Fan v Fan recap and Easter/Dragon Egg review of the episode, we had a lot of thoughts. And feelings. And emotional quivers. And quite a few jokes! So here is the #FanvFan team (and a few others) weighing on this week’s episode in tweet form.
The episode started off fairly well, with Jorah and Tyrion going on an adventure:
Jorah kicking things off with some GTA style boat-jacking. #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— Peter Counter (@peterbcounter) May 4, 2015
Homeboy Tyrion being "Helen of Troy'd" by Friendzone Knight. Is Gendry somewhere on that boat? #FanVFan #GameofThrones
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Then Jaime and Bronn (or “Stumps and Grumps” as we at Dork Shelf refer to the buddy cop duo as) got in some delightful boat banter:
"All the Dornish want to do is fight and fuck." So I see Donald Draper was inspired by George RR Martin #GameofThrones #FanVFan
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
"Oooooh Dornish women are CRAAAAaaaAAAZY" Bronn sounds like a Menninist #FanVFan #GameofThrones
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
"If I ever see him I'll split him in 2." Oh sweetie, Cersei's not on that boat. Put away that Oscar bait performance GameofThrones #FanVFan
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Then shit slowly started getting real in King’s Landing…
Lord Tyrell with the top tier dad joke. I think it went over well. #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— Peter Counter (@peterbcounter) May 4, 2015
The High Sparrow seems like a reasonable, if un-hygienic man. Cersei's deal with him will only end well! #FanVFan #GameofThrones
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Act Two: Call of the Sparrow. What happens when you give fanatics weapons? #ThisWesterosiLife #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— Peter Counter (@peterbcounter) May 4, 2015
Sparrow uniforms commissioned from a new line of Mugatu wear #GameofThrones #FanVFan pic.twitter.com/1lgsnHqjT5
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Not the ale!!! That was the last straw, you nuts! #GameofThrones #FanvFan #SonsoftheHarpy
— That Shelf (@ThatShelf) May 4, 2015
Okay… That was much worse than wasting all that ale… #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— That Shelf (@ThatShelf) May 4, 2015
NO NO NO WHAT IS HAPPENING #GameofThrones #FanVFan pic.twitter.com/GtfgPi0wGg
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
WHY IS THE FACE CARVING NECESSARY? HOW DID MEDIEVAL ISIS GET ORGANIZED THIS QUICKLY? #GameofThrones #FanVFan
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Watching #GameofThrones this week I'm just like… #FanVFan pic.twitter.com/wU5b3GVO4R
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Tommen: "Mom, stop emasculating me!!!"
Cersei is just like… #GameofThrones #FanVFan pic.twitter.com/MhDwTZKKc6— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Meanwhile at the Wall we fist bumped Sam for his pragmatism and pondered Melisandre’s strange lobbying activities:
SAM: This is what a successful letter writing campaign looks like. #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— Peter Counter (@peterbcounter) May 4, 2015
I don't like how Melisandre is being written. The woman is a goddam witch. Why is she relying so much on her vag? #GameofThrones #FanVFan
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
"Can you feel my heart beating?"
"No, I can't because it's not in your nipple."#GameofThrones #FanVFan— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Stannis also stopped sucking:
Sick Stone Men reference, Stannis! #FanvFan #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/FizIhjdyNi
— That Shelf (@ThatShelf) May 4, 2015
Stannis is angling hard for father of the year. #TeamStannis #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— Peter Counter (@peterbcounter) May 4, 2015
Stannis is the (warm, gooey and adorable) Mannis #GameofThrones #FanVFan pic.twitter.com/nCn50xXthU
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
At Winterfell we saved a ton of money on green screens:
LITTLEFINGER: I knew your aunt back when I was just the mayor of a little kingdom called Baltimore. #FanvFan #GameofThrones #TheWire
— Peter Counter (@peterbcounter) May 4, 2015
Chivalry is dead. Where is *MY* bouquet of controversial murder flowers? Ugh, get it together Millenial Men. #GameofThrones #FanVFan
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Screw sexposition. Game of Thrones returns to the tried and true "crypt-sposition" #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— That Shelf (@ThatShelf) May 4, 2015
So Sansa either relies on Stannis or woos a psycho with her vag, eh? #GameofThrones E4: THE POWER VAG EP #FanVFan pic.twitter.com/Iv6Xdt1ogK
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
I'm WAY more worried about that jilted lover of Ramsey's that gave Sansa the stink eye last week. #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— Peter Counter (@peterbcounter) May 4, 2015
Once on solid ground, Stumps and Grumps… um… we mean Cooper and Darnell, started “Operation Snake Eater”:
JK JK Dornish men are all hotties.#FanvFan #GameofThrones
— Peter Counter (@peterbcounter) May 4, 2015
Time for Jaime's secret weapon: POCKET SAND! #FanvFan #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/M1f22JWfDz
— That Shelf (@ThatShelf) May 4, 2015
Three hands are better than one! #adventuresofjaimeandbronn #FanVFan #GameofThrones
— srh (@trisarahhops) May 4, 2015
Sadly, Tyrion and Jorah do not seem to be heading to Buddy Cop Land:
"Westeros is WEST" Thanks Tyrion. Valuable input. #GameofThrones #FanVFan
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
.@peterbcounter Jorah uses COLDCOCK. It's super effective! #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— That Shelf (@ThatShelf) May 4, 2015
Tyrion is making a lot of really improbable deductions. Did he go to the BBC Sherlock school of mystery solving? #GameofThrones #FanVFan
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Back in Meereen we learned that Rhaegar Targaryan had a lovely singing voice and that people do not take well to their fighting pits being taken away:
The alternate title of this episode is "Everyone Loves Rhaegar" #FanvFan #GameofThrones
— Peter Counter (@peterbcounter) May 4, 2015
IN MEEREEN #GameofThrones #FanVFan pic.twitter.com/n5JDfMia6x
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
WHAT IS HAPPENING MY HEART CAN'T TAKE THIS #GameofThrones #FanVFan pic.twitter.com/nuVqTILuw6
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Ser Barristan is like the Betty White of the Game of Thrones Universe #GameofThrones #FanVFan pic.twitter.com/gGyxe9bKD9
— Young Crone (@ElenaLoweski) May 4, 2015
Those are our Twitter thoughts this week, everyone! Check back next week for more one-liners and observations! If you’d like to join in on the fun, live-tweet with us next Sunday at 9PM!
