On The Box This Week

Warning-TV Spoilers Ahead!

This season seems to be getting alot of flack from critics
and while some of the story lines don't have the seem punch as earlier seasons
I am still very much enjoying this show
This week the families where all facing problems
Jay felt like he wasn't needed like he use to be now that he is retired
Claire was shattered after weeks of working crazy hours and just wanted to sleep for the weekend
but Phil books a last minute trip to Paris for the weekend. So they try to stay awake the night
before there flight so they can sleep on the plane and beat jet lag
Cam's needy sister Pam comes to stay after she has been dumped by her boyfriend
Haley and Andy try to impress each other and go on a crazy night to Vegas

The two quickest hours of the week for me are when I am watching

Game of Thrones and Outlander

Episode three went by in what felt like a heart beat!

I know alot of the fans of the books aren't as happy with this series compared to the last one

as the producers and writers have changed more in this season

Claire and Jamie aren't shown in the same light as the book and there non love life is different from the book. One major change is the way Jamie is suffering post trauma stress after the events of last season. 

As a reader of the books I can say I am enjoying this season just as much as the last 

most of the changes are for the good of the show. What works in the books might not come across on screen so well. As a book lover and a reader of both Outlander and Game of Thrones and also I viewer of both shows. I see how readers can get very over protective of the characters they love, but I have so far liked the changes that have been made for both shows. I like how the show is trying to show us that everything is not okay with our favourite Scot and Outlander. They are both struggling and finding it hard to come back to each other. 

While Jamie is struggling to deal with what happened to him at the hands of Black Jack. Claire is doing a juggling act, she wants to support Jamie, she loves him but she is pregnant, and feeling a little lost in her new lady of the house role, and maybe she needs his support too! She reaches out to him but never really touches him.

So when she decides she needs more to do with her time than have tea with her friends, and goes to to work at the local poor hospital. Jamie isn't happy but then again Jamie isn't himself the Jamie of last season would of been proud of his wife. 

Claire remembers just who Mary Hawkins is, she remembers Frank telling her about his family tree

and Mary is Black Jack's future wife! She knows she needs to tell Jamie but she just can't bring herself to and we just know this is going to back fire on her!

What an episode, lots of reviews say it was more of a quiet episode but I think LOTS happened!

Frankenstein/The Mountain is now Cersei's private bodyguard and is killing random people who speak ill of her! Tommen poor little puppet Tommen with no one pulling his strings he is not sure what to do. Does his loyalty lie with his Mother or Wife. He didn't do much to help stop his Mother's walk of shame last season and he doesn't seem to be doing much to get his wife out of the cell the High Sparrow has her in!

Tyrion is worried about Daenery's dragons as they have stopped feeding since she left. He has an idea to unchain them. This scene was very well done and made me think he might has some dragon blood in him either way I am looking forward to see where this storyline goes.

It looks like Arya has finally given up her name and the man will finally start some of her training

Sansa all the way in the North is asking Brienne about Arya this was another lovely scene. Then Theon tells Sansa he is leaving her in the capable hands of Brienne he will not be welcome in Castle Black because of his past crimes so he tells her he is going home.

So we see the Iron Islands after two seasons we are back in a place the looks grimier than hell!

Where on a dark wet stormy night we met Euron Greyjoy who has returned to Pyke and quickly kills his older brother who was Theon's Father. It looks like Theon is returning home at a time of unrest in the Iron Islands.

Bran has also returned to the show! The one eye raven is showing Bran a flash back to happier days at Winterfell when his Father, Uncles and Aunt were younger and playing. It screamed of  the pilot episode when it was Bran and his brothers and sisters training and playing! I am also really looking forward to see where this story line goes.

Back to Winterfell of present and some of the most shocking scenes of Game of Thrones

once again at the hands of Ramsey. This episode his Father Roose was told his new wife had given birth to a baby boy. A legitimate son unlike Ramsey who will always be the bastard in his eyes although he has been legitimatised. In as twist of faith Ramsey kills his Father in the same way his Father killed Rob Stark....karma eh!!?

But what followed was more shocking Ramsey has his step mother and newborn brother brought out and fed to his dogs. Ramsey has no soul and I think I can speak of all the Thrones fandom when I say we will be celebrating when he finally mets his sticky end!

Finally we see Castle Black, Davos and his men are cornered by Thorne and the traitors of the Night's Watch. Until the Wildings arrive with a giant, they respect Jon Snow and know he deserved more than a traitors death. Thorne, his men and of course that weasel Ollie are thrown in the cells. Davos comes to Melisandre to ask her for her help for Jon Snow. It was nice to see the man who once hated and didn't trust this woman now tell her that she was the reason he believed in miracles. She tries her magic not really believing it will work ,she even pleads. When it looks like it didn't work they walk away in the last few seconds of the show Ghost looks up as Jon's eyes open and he gasps for air!

He's alive!!