On The Box This Week

Warning-TV Spoilers Ahead!

I actually enjoyed this episode of the Arrow this week
not including the flashbacks of course which I think are no longer needed in the show
and bring nothing to the story or show
Brie Larson or The Bug Eyed Bandit as Cisco called her in The Flash was back and she wanted Felicity. Well it turned out she wanted the chip in Felicity's spine as Brie has a tumour that will leave her unable to walk. Brie threaten to kill the Board members of  Palmer Tech and set her bees on everyone if she can't get what she wants!
In other news Curtis discovers the Arrow's bunker, that Oliver is the Arrow,
and that Laurel and John are part of the team. He help take down Brie and the bees to help save Felicity but soon realises that it's not a game and decides to stay in Palmer Tech rather than the Arrow's bunker!

What a second episode of this second season! Wow they fitted alot of of the book

into one episode here! Dragonfly in Amber is a much more complicated book than Cross stitch

and it's alot longer. While I was glad the glossed over certain parts of the book I did think the scene where Claire meets Alex Randal lacked a little for me.

I loved the comic moments of this episode which we needed after seen the horrific nightmares Jamie is having after the torture and rape he suffered at the hands of Black Jack in series one. He might be healing physically but mentally he isn't.

So the comic relief was much needed. Moments like Jamie bumping into his former love, Murtagh proclaiming that France smells like assholes and armpits, to the foot kissing French Minister of Finance and of course my favourite waxed honey pot scene!

As a reader of the book the scene with Master Raymond stood out for me. It was everything how I imaged. him, the shop, the vest, the Madonna, and the ladders I love it. 

One thing I really love with this show is so far the casting of each character has been amazing. Each character is how the book describes them and the actors fit into the characters so well.

The production is another thing I love with this show. I loved the grandeur of the French court everything looked so beautiful. But you could feel in a sense that each of our characters felt like an Outlander and are missing home.

At the end of the episode Claire finds out that Black Jack is not as dead as she and Jamie thought!

Finally finally the best show on TV is back!

I love that I get to review two of my favourites Outlander and Thrones!

Season six started with fan favourite Jon Snow lying in a pool of his own blood

after the betrayal of his men The Night's Watch. Davos hears Jon's direwolf Ghost howling

and finds Jon. A handful of loyal men to Jon and Davos carry his body to Davos room they know it's only a matter of time before Thorne will come for them. Davos sends one of the loyal men to find the Wildlings to help to avenge Jon's death. He also sends for Melisandre The Red Woman who might be to help Jon with her magic

In Kings Landing Cersei is mourning the death of yet another of her children as Jamie comes home with the body of Myrcella there daughter. Tommen still seems to be under Cersei's control as his wife and Queen Margaery is still locked up by the High Sparrow.

In Dorne the sand snakes killed the whole royal family what happens next in Dorne is any ones guess? 

Daenerys met a new Khal, Khal Jhaqo he didn't seem very impressed as she listed out her many titles including Mother of Dragons. He called he Queen of Nothing, with her dragons no where to be seen, he unsullied many miles away and her two main men looking for her. It seemed at that moment in time titles where just words and she was Queen of nothing. Jhaqo did seem more interested when she told him she was the dead Khal Drogo wife, he told her there is only one place for widowed wives and that's Vaes Dothrak where he will bring her.

Hooray for Brienne saving the day for Sansa and Theon who some how survived the jump

from Winterfell but had Bolton men on there tracks. She and Pod save them from being dragged back to sadist Ramsay. They make the decision to head north where they know Jon Snow is 

Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

But we know Jon is laying dead on a table in Castle Black which leads us to the last scene

the beautiful Melisandre is unsure of her magic and herself. She saw Jon fighting at Winterfell in her vision. Is the Lord of Light wrong? She takes of her gown (she loves being naked this one) and looks at her reflection in the mirror. My shock as the reflection changes when she takes off her necklace of red stone we see her truth form a very old crone. She slowly backs away from the mirror and crawls into her bed.

I have so many questions like how old actually is she? Does her power come from her red stone necklace? Has she been tricking us all and that the sacrifices she was making wasn't for the Lord of Light but to keep her young and beautiful? Will she give the necklace to Jon to revive him?

Guess we might get some answers when she wakes from her beauty sleep!!