Game of Thrones Recap

Game of What the Hell Just Happened 

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Last nights episode of Game of Thrones was some of the most gut-wrenching material you will ever witness. Imagine for a second that someone gave you a puppy! Puppy's are awesome, they run, jump, frolic and treat you like you are the coolest fuckin' person in the world when you come through the door. Then when you come home one day you find a 7'2 300lb man beating the hell out of your puppy while gouging its eyes out and crushing the head like its a watermelon under Gallagher's hammer. You would be crushed! I mean how do you even recover from something like that??

 Well that's the question that I find myself asking this morning after watching the Red Viper, Prince Oberyn Martell, suffer that fate at the hands of the Mountain, Sandor Clegane. The Viper was an awesome character just introduced in this season and was easily the crowd favorite thanks to his easy going, snarky ways. You know who doesn't give a fuck? The Mountain, or George R. R. Martin for that matter. Which is what makes GOT such a great show. They kill off characters that people get attached to, and they aren't afraid to go away from the traditional hero story or the revenge story, which is what happened last night. In a perfect world the Red Viper would have gotten revenge on the Mountain who raped and killed his sister, but he gave him a chance to fight which is exactly what you shouldn't do when fighting a man twice your size. In the end, as disappointed as I am with the killing off of one of my favorite characters, it only reinforces how strong this series is and why moments like that are exactly what makes you count down the minutes until next week and the next amazing episode. Also it doesn't help that Mr. Martin is a diehard Jets fan, I mean come on, if he wrote Twilight I would probably give it a read.