A kid had to face the world in his own animated version and conquer life's biggest monster. ANI (The Harvest) It's as if a child's imagination is a safe haven, a place where the world is a playground for all the possibilities the mind could think of. And even the tight and humble space called home, situated on a busy Metro could not hinder the inquisitive headspace of a young Mithi (played by Zyren Dela Cruz), a boy who accomplishes the day by playing with his colorful toy robots that perform a vital role in his imaginary narrative. With a loving father and a mother that sings him a self-assuring lullaby, Mithi is blissfully unaware of the harsh reality. But life decided to toy with his fate, and Mithi's perfect little world is now showing its cracks, putting his vulnerability to the test and slowly depriving him of his happiness he thought would last forever. And through his eyes, the world suddenly transforms itself into a menacing monster. Set in a lush
"Game of Thrones" Season 8 Episode 2 Review - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Jon Snow and the rest of the crew spend one last night before facing the impending doom that is the Night's King.
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
After a lackluster premiere episode of the final season, the show is back yet again with another, let's just say, a second appetizer to the inevitable sumptuous main course. While this episode lets us sit through the horrors of an impending world ending event and witness the characters have their moments of fun before facing the Night's King, from the emotional side however, it still felt very weak and thus, suffered from the typical filler syndrome and not particularly satisfying at that.
As always, this will be a spoiler review so if you haven't seen the episode, better turn a blind eye for this one and come back later.
Still here? Well let's have a Reel Talk.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
The show opens up with Jaimie Lannister being questioned by Daenerys about his murder of her father and by Sansa about the crimes he did for the Starks. Jaimie, while has proven that he is a changed man, stood firm with his past actions and that he only did those things because they are at war. Tyrion was quick to defend his brother, but his claims was rather weak being a Lannister himself and had committed mistakes in the past. Brienne who was there also supported Jaimie and swore for the man's loyalty, convincing Sansa in the process and thus giving Jaimie a pass, for now.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's acting performance, while had a few lines to speak, really sell this opening act with his convincing facial expressions and come on, we've seen the guy grow as a character so it's really easy for us to side with his claims.
Then we proceed to Arya Stark, lurking at the forge where Gendry is so busy at crafting all the weaponry made out of a dragon glass. She confronted him and insisted that he should make her weapon first before anyone else's and thus went to show off her weaponry capabilities by throwing the fragments of dragon glass at a post, targeting a single area, proving her eye for battle.
This scene doesn't just represent Arya wanting that weapon but rather, represents a girl wanting to impress a guy he had a crush on. And while it's subtly hinted, it really did paid off for Arya especially that scene by the end where she and Gendry literally made out at the crypt, which is by the way, were so hard to watch especially Arya's character still looks like a child and she was never built to be a person who wanted that lady action in the past. Feels so shoehorned to me to be honest.
Next important scene that I need to highlight is when Daenerys went to see Sansa herself and talk to her about their difference, partly implied as Jorah's request for her to sort out. In there, they talk about their families and the complications behind them. Of course, Sansa being the distrustful person that she is, told Daenerys that the North swore to not bow to anyone anymore. This gave Daenerys the conclusion that Sansa and the North will never acknowledge her claim as Queen.
As the time goes by, it truly feels as if the writers were rushing the Mad Queen shtick to Daenerys's arc as seen by her unjustified hunger for the throne which not only makes her character more secretly conniving but also more unlikeable as a result.
Another scene that I wanted to point out, and arguably my favorite one for this episode, is when Brienne was blessed a knightship status by Jaimie himself, completing her longtime dream of becoming one. I was personally happy for this character because she has proven her loyalty time and time again, and while she clearly jumped from one oath to another, caused by the death of the people she tried to protect, she truly deserved this reputation and the respect that she so fought hard to earn.
Lastly, Jon Snow finally told Daenerys the truth about his origins, and well as expected, she isn't particularly receptive of the idea.
Who knows what will happen but this will probably tarnish their relationship going forward.
Let's Be Reel
As part of continuation goes, this episode feels like it could've been easily a part of the premiere. Only four episodes in and they still try to build character interactions, I mean really? In the Game of Thrones fashion, this episode further proves that the writers had run dry of further interesting topics to tackle other than the war with the Night's King.
Don't get me wrong, it was an okay episode but as part of the finality of Game of Thrones, the Game of Thrones, it really screams cheap TV drama, through and through.
Comments
Post a Comment