Well you all are in for a treat. With the Season 3 premiere
only a week away, I will be posting four new blog posts this week to make sure
that I finish up Season 2 before the new episode airs. “A Man Without Honor” covers
a lot of story lines and the title seems to characterize the episode well. Each
story deals with someone who trys to maintain honor or someone who completely forsakes
their honor. Jon Snow is still dragging Ygritte around behind The Wall in
search of his fellow Night’s Watch men. Though Snow can battle the most wicked
and evil creatures without a flinch, Ygritte stumbles upon the one topic that
makes Snow uncomfortable: sex. She continuously taunts him about trying to have
sex with her. His uncomfortable responses and his inability to look her in the
eye quickly makes Ygritte realize that Snow is still a virgin. She uses this
fact to her advantage continuing to distract him with sordid details of what it
is like to have carnal knowledge of another. I don’t know why Jon does not
realize that during this entire conversation Ygritte is leading him instead of
Snow leading her. His distraction allows Ygritte to lead him into a trap and
now Snow is surrounded by a pack of Wildlings. Another interesting caveat to
their conversation involves the description of life as a Wildling. Taking a
break from all of the sex talk, Ygritte sings the praises for why it is better
to be a Wildling than a Crow. She remarks that she has freedom to do what she
wants when she wants. Snow quickly retorts that the Wildlings also serve a king
to which Ygritte replies that their king was chosen by the people. It appears
that the Wildlings, though they seem like the most backward of people actually
have the most forward thinking allowing the people to choose their leader.
Jaime Lannister shares a bit of screen time this episode.
Still captured by the Starks, Jaime gets a cell mate, a cousin who he barely
knows. A softer side of Jaime begins to appear as he bonds with his younger
cousin over his first outing as a squire. It makes Jaime seem human and almost
as if he has morals. These feelings quickly dissipate when Jaime kills his
cousin in order to orchestrate an escape. He is quickly captured, however, and
about to be killed by the crowd when Catelyn intervenes. I know that she wants
to keep Jaime alive because Cersei holds her daughters captive but there has to
be another way to get the girls back. Nothing good can come from keeping Jaime
alive and though I love to look at Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, the actor who
portrays Jaime, each week and do not want to see him killed, logically I just do not
understand Robb's endgame.
The mystery of who kidnapped Daenerys’ dragons is answered
in this episode. It is touching to see Daenerys feel so sadden over the loss of
her people. She really does feel responsible for them and is distraught when
she fails to protect them. She is definitely the complete opposite of her
brother who only wanted power and did not care about the people he would rule.
Ser Jorah returns to help Daenerys find her dragons. Their love story continues
in a very soap operatic scene where he professes his devotion to her. She
pushes Jorah back either because she is not interested but more likely because
she feels torn between her devotion to her dead husband and her feelings for
Jorah – literally her knight in shining armor. The kidnapper of the dragons is
revealed when Xaro calls together a meeting of the 13 and announces that he
along with Pyat Pree kidnapped the dragons and put them into the House of the
Undying. Pyat Pree then multiplies and kills the rest of the 13 leaving Xaro to
be king. I must admit this took me by shock. Though I did not fully trust Xaro,
I thought he would be more likely to try to rape Daenerys instead of kidnapping
her dragons and killing her people. I am excited that we get to travel into the
House of the Undying. I can only imagine what we will find in there. 
Theon continues his little boy tantrum once he figures out
that Bran and Rickon escaped with Osha and Hodor. Instead of blaming himself
for being distracted by his penis, he blames his own men and berates them. He
then vows to find the two little lordlings and kill them. He does manage to
track them to a nearby farm where he screams at the top of his lungs (with his
voice cracking) that they should all follow him and produce the two runaway
princes. No one at the farm knows what he is talking about because Bran has a
heart and is smart unlike Theon and refuses to use anyone else in their escape
plans, because he knows Theon will torture and hurt those who help them. One of
Theon’s men does find walnut shells, an indication that the young lads were
there. How he knows that I do not quite understand because other people could
be eating walnuts. However, the episode ends with a shocker: Theon produces the
bodies of two boys to the people of Winterfell that look to be Bran’s and
Rickon’s height and weight, but they are burnt and unrecognizable. Though
everyone on the show thinks these are the bodies of the two princes, I am still
skeptical. I think the capture scene would have been filmed for the show. I
think this is classic misdirection, making the audience think Bran is dead when
really he is still on the run.
One last major story involves Cersei and Sansa. I will say in
this episode Cersei almost seems human and I began to think that maybe I don’t
hate her as much. Sansa “becomes a woman” this episode the one thing she fears
most. Now she is able to bear Joffrey’s children. Though she tries to hide it
with the help of Shae, Cersei finds out and actually provides comfort and
wisdom to Sansa. Cersei also acknowledges that she knows of Joffrey’s faults
and that he is not the best husband or companion (unlike Jaime). Though Cersei
acting like a mother to Sansa is touching, it is Cersei’s later scene with
Tyrion that really made my heart wrench. She finally admits out loud to Tyrion
that Jaime is the father of her children and she expresses fear and almost
regret wondering if it was because of her incest that Joffrey is cruel and
evil. I almost feel bad for Cersei this episode because she loves Joffrey
because he is her child but she also knows that he is evil and a bad king and
does not know how to handle it. I wonder if in later episodes this problem will
come to a head and if she will have to make a decision between taking Joffrey
down or supporting his evil ways.
Three more episodes to go in the season! Look for the last
blogs of the seasons and remember to watch the premiere next week!
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