Episode 4: What We May Know

We open with Bran & Little finger having a "creepy bastard-off". Littlefinger pulls out Catspaw and gives it to Bran as a gift saying that he thought Bran might like the knife that started the War of the Five Kings. Bran is pretty much silent and it's clearly creeping Baelish out. He continues to fish for info by saying that Bran must have seen shit beyond the wall that most men would not believe and that it must be hard for him to return home and find Winterfell in such chaos, Bran looks him dead in the eye and just says "chaos is a ladder", Baelish shits a brick but they are interrupted by Meera. LF leaves and Bran sys to Meere "you're leaving". Meera confirms that she doesn't want to leave Bran but that when it all kicks off, she wants to be with her family. Bran thanks her for all she's done but Meera gets angry saying "is that all you have to say ? My brother died for you. Hodor, Summer, they died for you Bran". Bran quickly replies, "I'm not really, not anymore. I remember what it was like to be Bran Stark..." Meera begins to cry and sobs "you died in that cave" before leaving. Will we see her again ? Maybe not. So after that, Arya arrives back at Winterfell and the guards at the gate are total muppets. Obviously they don't believe her when she says she's Arya stark but she manages to convince them to go get Sansa. She can't be arsed waiting for them and fucks off. The guards report the incident to Sansa and say they are looking all over for the girl, Sansa says she knows where Arya is, cut to the crypts and Arya is standing in front of Ned's statue. Arya turns as Sansa enters and asks if she has to call Sansa "Lady Stark" now and Sansa replies "yes" before smiling and rushing to hug her sister. They discuss how the statue doesn't really look like Ned and both intimate that they have seen some shit, without going into specifics. Arya straight up admits to having a kill list but Sansa just laughs at the idea. Sansa then tells Arya that Bran is also home, Arya smiles, Sansa does not. So Sansa and Arya approach Bran in the godswood and Bran says that he saw Arya at the crossroads and thought she might go to King's Landing, Arya is confused, Sansa offers the explanation of "Bran has visions now". Sansa wonders why Arya would go to King's Landing and Bran says, "there are people on her list there". Snasa is taken aback, she asks Arya "who else is on your list?" Arya simply replies that "it doesn't matter, most of them are dead already". Sansa is duly freaked the fuck out.

I'm pretty sure the next scene is on Dragonstone. We open with Dany & Missy descending the steps discussing Missy's naked time with Grey Worm, it's all very Sex & the City and can frankly, do one. Anyway, so Jon invites Dany to tour a conveniently located Plot Cave where they find ancient, CotF cave paintings depicting them allying with the FM to battle the WW. I.... I can't even with this fucking scene, I'm out.

So next we are in King's Landing and Cersei is discussing money and ting with Tycho Nestoris.  This scene is very boring but exceedingly well-acted.

Cut to Jaime and Bronn on their way back to KL with all the gold they nicked from Highgarden. Jaime gives Bronn a massive sack of gold, Bronn tries to get Highgarden, jaime knocks him back then sends him off to harass farmers into handing over more grain. We also get a little cameo from the Tarlys, Jaime fucks up Dickon's name again, sigh.

Back to Dragonstone and Dany gets the news about the Unsullied's ships being sunk by Euron during the taking of the Rock. Dany chews out Tyrion and wants to just fly her dragons straight to the Red Keep (what a novel fucking idea) but Jon counsels against going full Targ (never go full Targ). The scene ends without anything really getting decided and we'll see why later.

Back to Winterfell and Arya wants to spar with Brienne. It's Oberyn vs The Mountain 2.0 Arya is far to fast and agile for Big Bri, the Maid of Tarth gets so frustrated that she just fucking boots Arya, full force, in the chest !!! It's pretty damn funny and if you can suspend your disbelief at Arya's skills, it's pretty damn cool. Anyway, Arya is now established as the top 1v1, duelist in the show.

Back to Dragonstone again and Theon has arrived. Awkward scene between him and Jon and then Theon says that he's there to ask the Queen for help in rescuing Yara, Jon informs him the Queen is not there...

So back to Jaime et al for the denouement to the episode. The wagon train has become spread out, miles long. Jaime is told that the gold has safely arrived at King's Landing but they need to get their tail to move up, Randyll suggests flogging a few stragglers. So Bronn stops at one point and starts to look worried, he can hear something. That "something" is clearly the sound of an awfully large amount of horses in full gallop. Jaime, Bronn and Randyll begin to form their men into lines etc etc and then we see the Dothraki horde in full charge, coming over the horizon. Jaime & Bronn are freaked out enough but then Drogon appears with Dany astride him, Jaime's face is priceless. Needless to say, all hell breaks loose. It is a fucking massacre, Jaime tries to rally some archers at one point, trying to take Dany down but she flies straight at them then turns at the last second so all the arrows hit Drogon's tough underbelly, then she comes back around and flames those fools. Bronn has a 1v1 against a Dothraki, the Dothraki cuts Bronn's horse out from under him and Bronn is right in the shit. He heads to a covered wagon and it's revealed that one of Qyburn's Dragonkillers is in the back. Bronn manages to get a shot off and it wounds Drogon in the shoulder, Drogon goes into a dive but Dany manages to recover and blasts the Dragonkiller to pieces, Bronn just leaps clear in time. At this point, due to the less than awesome copy I was watching and the massive amount of flame & smoke on screen, it became a little difficult to see who was getting melted but I *think* the Tarlys got barbecued. So Dany is forced to land and she gets of Drogon and tries to pull the quarrel from his shoulder. Jaime spies this and thinks he can end the war in one blow. Now for some reason we cut to a hill overlooking this insanity and for some fucking reason Tyrion is there (face. palm.) So he sees Jaime about to charge and whispers "run, you fool" under his breath. Jaime grabs a spear and charges. Tyrion again "you fucking idiot" (to Jaime) and just as Jaime is about to reach Dany, Drogon turns and blast him with dragonfire. So yeah, Jaime is a dead..... JUST KIDDING !!!!!! Deus Ex Bronn appears from screen left and tackles Jaime into a lake or pond, just before he gets roasted. The ep ends with Jaime sinking into the water.

All in all, it was a good ep with some amazing action and a couple of really good scenes but once again, some dodgy editing and just flat-out bad writing plagues it at points. That would seem to be our lot though, so might as well enjoy what we get.