This week we saw something that has never before been done in the entirety of Game of Thrones, and I honestly doubt we will see it again for a long time.  Episode nine took place inside only one setting, Kings Landing.  I can’t speak for anyone else but I was perfectly content with the episode focusing entirely on one setting, especially for this episode.  I feel like the entire season so far, and especially the last two weeks, have been building up to this week and it absolutely delivered.  This episode was phenomenal and easily the best of the season, and I would even go so far as to say the entire series thus far.  I think we were all waiting to see the destruction wild fire was capable of and it certainly did not disappoint.  That explosion was fantastic, and the green fire looked awesome.  I feel bad for the Onion Knight and his son…and the rest of the fleet even though we never really got to know them.  I’m assuming the Onion Knight is still alive, maybe badly burned but his son has to be a goner.  The way they played up those first few scenes between the two of them I could tell his son would not make it through the end of the episode, but I definitely did not think it would quite so early…or brutal.  Joffrey acted predictably, Tyrion acted heroically and Cersei showed us how evil she really is. [Read more...]