Game of Thrones: Jaime takes Riverrun

Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 08 No One

Edmure orders his men to surrender Riverrun, and also orders the Blackfish’s capture. The Blackfish helps Brienne and Podrick escape, but stays behind to fight to the last. Jaime is informed about the death of the Blackfish, and sees Brienne and Pod escaping on the river. Both Jaime and Brienne mournfully wave each other farewell.

BLACKFISH: Go on.
BRIENNE: Come with us.
BLACKFISH: I’ve run before from the Red Wedding. I’m not running again. This is my family home.
BRIENNE: Your family is in the North. Come with us. Don’t die for pride when you can fight for your blood.
BLACKFISH: You’ll serve Sansa far better than I ever could.
GUARD: All the way down!
GUARD: Check that out!
BLACKFISH: Go on, now. I haven’t had a proper sword fight in years. I expect I’ll make a damn fool of myself.

Source text: Wikipedia.

Game of Thrones: Brienne and the Blackfish

Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 08 No One

Brienne attempts to negotiate with the Blackfish, but he refuses to abandon Riverrun, despite being sympathetic to Sansa’s plight.

BRIENNE: As I have said, my name is–
BLACKFISH: Yes, Brienne of Tarth. I know your father. Good man.
BRIENNE: He always spoke highly of you.
BLACKFISH: And if he were here now, I’d tell him the same I’m telling you. If you think I’m abandoning my family’s seat on the Kingslayer’s word of honor, you’re a bloody fool.
BRIENNE: Riverrun cannot stand against the Lannisters and the Freys.
BLACKFISH: We can stand longer than your one-handed friend thinks we can.
BRIENNE: He’s not my friend.
BLACKFISH: No? Who gave you permission to cross the siege line and enter the castle? Who gave you that sword with the gold lion on the pommel?
BRIENNE: Ser Jaime kept his word to your niece Catelyn Stark. He sent me to find Sansa, to help her as Catelyn wanted. He gave me this sword to protect her. That is what I have done and I will continue to do until the day I die.
BLACKFISH: She’s exactly like her mother. I don’t have enough men to help her take Winterfell.
BRIENNE: You have more than she does.
BLACKFISH: She wants her home back. I understand that. But this is my home. And if Jaime Lannister wants it, he can bloody well take it the way everyone else does.

BRIENNE: Find the maester. We need to get a raven north to Sansa.
PODRICK: What should I write?
BRIENNE: Tell her I failed.

To be continued on the next post.

Source text: Wikipedia.

Game of Thrones: Brienne and Podrick arrive at Riverrun

Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 08 No One

Brienne and Podrick arrive at Riverrun, where they reunite with Jaime  and Bronn.

PODRICK: Looks like a siege, my lady.
BRIENNE: You have a keen military mind, Pod.

BRONN: Getting a bit old to be a squire, aren’t we? Podrick fucking Payne. I thought you’d be dead by now.
PODRICK: Not yet.
BRONN: Are they in there?
PODRICK: Uh-huh.
BRONN: You think they’re fucking?
PODRICK: What? No.
BRONN: Why not? I’d fuck her. You’d fuck her, wouldn’t you?
PODRICK: I’m her squire.
BRONN: Oh. Well, he’d fuck her, that’s for sure. And she’d fuck him, don’t you think? The way she looks at him. The way all women look at him is frankly irritating. I preferred working with the little brother on that account. Come on, you’re the one with the magic cock. You must have shown it to her by now.

To be continued on the next post.

Source text: Wikipedia.

Game of Thrones: Sansa accepts Brienne’s vow of loyalty

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After defeat the Bolton soldiers who persecuted Sansa and Theon, Brienne again offers to pledge her loyalty to Sansa, who finally accepts.

BRIENNE: Lady Sansa, I offer my services once again. I will shield your back and keep your counsel and give my life for yours if need be. I swear it by the old gods and the new.
SANSA: And I vow… that you shall always have a place by my heart and…
PODRICK: Meat and mead at my table.
SANSA: …meat and mead at my table. And I pledge to ask no service of you that might bring you dishonor. I swear it by the old gods and the new. Arise.

Game of Thrones: Brienne’s perfect sense of timing

Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 01 The Red Woman

Sansa and Theon flee through the nearby forests. Upon being cornered by a squad of Bolton soldiers, they are rescued by Brienne and Podrick, who attack and kill the soldiers. Theon kills one of the soldiers, saving Pod’s life.