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Game Of Thrones Season 3, Episode 5: Kissed By Fire

Read the recap of Game Of Thrones Season 3 Episode 5: Kissed By Fire.

Lady Catelyn's so I'm going to honor one each week. The Kingslayer wins this week, hands down.

Jaime and Brienne's journey has transformed their relationship into a companionship of sorts and Jaime seeks her out while she's taking a bath. He's in severe pain after a defrocked Maester tried to cut of his arm. He reveals one of his most deepest secrets to Brienne: how he got the name Kingslayer. He tells her that the Mad King became fascinated with seeing his enemies skin boil and melt off their bones with the use of Wildfire. and he only murdered the Mad King, (which gave him many names such as the Kingslayer and the Oathbreaker) because he was going to burn all the people in King's Landing alive including his father with the Kiss of Wildfire rather than surrender his throne so he slit his throat to save everyone. He never told Ned Stark this fact after he was found with the dead King and so his traitorous legend took hold. He then faints and falls into the hands of a naked Brienne, who screams for help. Where is this relationship going?

Riverrun

Robb Stark gets betrayed by Lord Karstark, who goes behind his back and kills the two young Lannister boys they are holding hostage out of revenge. Robb is a truer believer and wants to rule with honor and dignity, but in times of war sometimes you need to make better choices. Instead of listening to the Tullys and his wife plead not to execute Karstark, he does anyway out of duty. Unfortunately, the Karstarks were half his fighting force in this war and after they leave him, he's just about finished. He's depressed while he talking to his wife about almost certainly losing the war now when suddenly gets an idea. He plans to attack Casterly Rock, the home Tywin Lannister's and completely shift the balance of power and wealth. But he needs more men and for that there is only one place to go. To Walder Frey, the man he stiffed at the altar to marry his wife, Talisa.


Austerity rules in King's Landing

Diana Rigg as Oleena Tyrell is a scene stealer every time. She easily outwits Tyrion Lannister of all people as he complains about the high cost of the royal wedding during a war. Apparently, austerity is in at King's Landing too. She easily deflects his complaints with a few simple words.

The people are hungry for more than just food. They crave distraction and if we don't provide them they will create their own. And their distractions are likely to end with us being torn to pieces. A royal wedding is much safer, wouldn't you say?
She then mocks him further by saying she was led to believe he was a man full of debauchery, but now he's only a bean counter for his father. Ouch.

Sansa and Margaery watch Sir Loras practicing some sword play and Margaery tells Sansa that she'll have Joffrey release her to marry her brother after the royal wedding. A few moments later, Ser Loras and one of Littlefinger's gay hustling spies is back in his room engaged in some more sword play of their own. Lord Varys is not the only one who has whisperers looming everywhere. Petyr Baelish finds out the plan to marry off Ser Loras to Sansa.

The plan also is now known to Tywin Lannister as well and he wants The North wedded to his family. Therefore he summons Tyrion into a meeting with Cersi and orders the Master of Coin to wed Sansa Stark immediately and have some babies. Cersi delights in his torture until she's ordered to marry Loras Tyrell, give him babies too so that the Lannister's will control almost all of the Seven Kingdoms.

Yikes, what's going to happen to Sansa now?

You also understand where Cersi's loathsome personality comes from since she was forced to marry the drunk Robert Baretheon for the good of the family after he defeated the Targaryens. Will being forced to marry Loras push her to new depths of depravity?

You know Littlefinger is not going to let any of this pass somehow, right?

Oh, I almost forgot about Daenerys. Barristan Selmy and Jorah Mormont get into a bitch fight about who should be defending Dany's honor when she goes to conquer Westeros with her dragons and armies. Selmy looks to be trying to squeeze Jorah out into the wasteland of the Dothraki sea so he can ride into glory with her. Stay tuned there.

And then we come to the downtrodden Stannis Baratheon. We get to see his creepy wife Selyse, who lives in what appears to be a tower with her three dead babies all floating in jars of their own. it's as scary as anything we've seen so far of GOTs. No wonder Stannis is into Melisandre. And don't you know she's cool with that too because he's King and working with the Lord of the Light But the real treat was meeting his daughter Princess Shireen. She's unfortunately disfigured by Greyscale, but seems to have a nice young girl with a lively personality. And she just loves Davos Seaworth, which is unfortunate at the moment because he's in prison at the moment for being a traitor. She sneaks down to the dungeons to see her friend and persuades him to let her teach him how to read. The episode ends with her singing a folk song with a haunting melody about fish with wings and shadows coming to play.

The birds have scales
And the fish take wings
I know I know
Oh, oh, oh
The rain is dry
And snow falls up
I know I know
Oh, oh, oh
The stones crack open
the water burns
the shadows come to dance
my lord
the shadows come to play
the shadows come to dance
my lord
the shadows come to stay

Is she trying to tell us something? I think so.

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