Comments on: Recap: ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 4, Episode 10 ‘The Children’ Bids Farewell

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:49 +0000

I was looking back at a previous recap and came across this response to a criticism of Ms. Walsh's writing abilities: "im sure you are a major success story that everyone loves and adores and agrees with. im sure it has to do with how your mother loathed you amongst many things , i for one praise her for knowing what a moron she gave birth to"? The writers on this site are insane.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:49 +0000

We didn't actually see the Hound die and though he hasn't appeared in the books again there are many fans who think he is still alive and living in a monastery on an island nearby where Arya takes the ship. So we may see Rory McCann in the future as the Hound.

By: Mr Anonymous

Mr Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:49 +0000

The Leftovers on HBO to fill the void until GOT returns next year.

Hope you review it for the The Playlist.

By: jawsnnn

jawsnnn — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

Here's my two cents on this episode. While a fitting finale, it was nowhere near as gripping or tightly written as some of the other stellar episodes of this season. Highlights: Stannis's army riding into the wildling camp. Well done, for capturing the total mayhem a well coordinated army can inflict upon an unprepared camp. Two, the ending shot was cool. So was the fight between Brienne and the Hound.
The so-so moments were Tyrion killing Tywin. As a reader, I was not really shocked by this scene – and that is ok. The show cannot surpass the books everytime (it does so quite often though). I am also not sure what to make of the added cold psychopathy to Arya's character. In the books, she bid farewell to the Hound in a touching, almost tender scene. The show changed it to Silence of the Lambs level cold-heartedness. It did not make sense with the other events of this season, and no – I am not sad for the Hound – he did deserve to die, but it had to make sense from a narrative pov. Lastly, as I suspected – the scenes at Mereen were the weakest – as they are in the books. Frankly speaking, I lost interest in Danaerys' and gang's excellent adventures long ago (end of season one to be specific) and her long march to power queen is mildly interesting at best and highly predictable at its worst. Hope the next season introduces the same flare to the original story as this one (really really hope, because the book was average to put it mildly), and also introduces us to the Winter that we have been waiting for the past 4 years.

By: Mr Anonymous

Mr Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

PS. By the way The Playlist, what happened to your Louie recaps. Are you not reviewing Season 4 of Louis this year?

I'm positive you reviewed previous seasons of Louie. What gives?

By: Tulacastrej

Tulacastrej — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

I enjoyed most of the season (rapes at Cratser's keep not so much, thanks for asking) and was surprised by the twists from the books. I think that's why they went in other directions, to surprise the bookfans. I am going to miss Tywin, and am certain that Westeros sill miss him too. But I'm very sad for The Hound, I grew fond of him while I learned some of his dasseint. He was part Arya, part Sansa and a lot of Jon Snow but with fatality all over his sad story.
Although Peter Dinklage gave astonoshing performances during a challenging storyline for his character, Rory McCann deserves an Emmy as well. I liked better The Hound's agony than Tyrion's rawr for justice.
The crueler aspect of Game of Thrones, is waiting ten months to meet again our beloved characters.

By: pod

pod — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

Weak finale. And Emilia Clarke for an Emmy? Ever since she stopped getting naked, she's been blah.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

I want to see a show, ala Blackadder, with Brienne and Pod.

This was a pretty good finale, but I'm sorry to see Tyrion and Arya go off on their own. Not looking forward to their stories next season. And the skeletons were right out of Ray Harryhausen. This is 2014, you'd think they could do a better job with that. Somehow they weren't frightening at all, just kind of silly looking.

And the kid throwing laser bombs — Hello? Why haven't we seen or heard anything about them before? No myth, no nothing. And in the midst of everything, Bran still holding onto hope that he would walk again was probably the saddest moment in the whole episode. That was well done.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

It was good, but it won't be winning that Emmy. The good portions were all straight from the book, and the parts that deviated were fairly bad.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

The Jamie-Cersi rape was NOT a rape. Re watch it. She is saying no, but pulling him into her, sticking her ands down his pants and helping to push his pants down. Not a rape. Just 2 sick twisted people.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

I've been reading your reviews but this will be my last. I couldn't read passed your whole rape whining. She wasn't raped. You need to pull your head out of your ass and understand that in the scope of the story she wasn't raped and it's all in your mind because you're incredibly sensitive to penis. It's a story you quack. In the story she was never raped. You don't get to decide whether a fictional character was raped or not just because you're a feminist with a vagina. It's amazing that instead of thinking "hmm… maybe she wasn't raped." you blamed the writers for making a female character make sexual advances on a "rapist."

Okay, that's my rant. Really though. I hope this isn't because something happened to you. I hope you're just like a man hating lesbian or something. It's brutal to read, and yet I enjoy you otherwise.

By: Seb

Seb — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

"The Mountain/Sandor Clegane" OUCH. GREGOR, not Sandor !!!

By: Jared Nelson

Jared Nelson — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

The only thing that made Martell's death somewhat palatable was the notion that, at LEAST, he killed the monster. But the POS is still alive??

There is truly no justice in this show! Evil is nearly always rewarded or wins. And every "victory" for a character with a scintilla of honor or sympathy is incomplete or comes with tragedy. The Hound and Brienne, fighting to death for no good reason? Really? We have to choose which we want to die??

Damn this show! And I will be watching like a lapdog again next year, waiting for some psychological satisfaction from justice we'll never get!

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

YOU ARE ALL STILL MAD ABOUT ''THE RAPE SCENE''. ROFL

By: Non-Dilletante

Non-Dilletante — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

Its Gregor 'The Mountain that Rides' Clegane & Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane … Get it right! Lol

Also The Eyrie is a castle, the seat of House Arryn. You could say they were in The Vale, the region in which the Eyrie resides. Even though in the books Arya and Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane never reach the Vale, he gets wounded from that fight in 'Two Swords', Arya tries to help sees he's a lost cause, steals his coin, chucks up the deuces and boards a ship to Braavos.

And yes it was never intended to be a rape just a really botched grief stricken sexual encounter. Cersei in the books is begging for that D!

By: finkdwink

finkdwink — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

do you actually think cersei cares that jamie took it from her? she's a twisted and broken woman. is it so hard for you to think that she actually liked it? she went right back to him all sweet and snuggly. apparently she likes it that way. that isn't a writing issue. that is a character issue. she's flawed. accept it.

By: digdug

digdug — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

Fink has a point. Just because you don't like it rough and dirty on the floor doesn't mean Cersei wouldn't. If anything, it makes perfect sense that she did. It's like when abused women go back to their husbands or a man who keeps returning to his cheating wife. I agree that this only adds to her character flaws, which she has many. Any visit to a submissive blog on tumblr will showcase an entire community of fascinating and flawed women who enjoy being taken by their man. To accuse the writers of screwing that up is shallow and lacking thought on your part.

By: Lord High-Castle

Lord High-Castle — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:17:48 +0000

For the record, Cersei is into being dominated (even smacked around and held down). Its her thing. Its much more obvious in the books, so I get why many show watchers are having trouble getting the dynamic between her and her brother.

Other than that, good article.