You know what? We should release a single as The Game Of Thrones Boys, like, some kind of charity single which would sound awful. It would sound like the howling of the direwolves but it would be, you know, fun. (x)
Okay. Reasons that this scene is the best thing ever include but are by no means limited to:
- how well Maisie Williams is holding her own here, I mean here she is playing against this amazing veteran actor and she’s just bringing it
- the way this is like her fucked-up revenge fantasy of what she wishes her brother could do to the Lannisters
- but she’s already disillusioned enough to know it’s a fantasy
- because “anyone can be killed” is an implicit threat to Tywin but it’s also an acknowledgement of the fact that she or Robb or anyone else can bite it at any time
- (because apparently Arya has already read ASOIAF and knows how fucked they all are)
- and let’s talk about the fact that this kid just threatened Tywin Lannister
- TYWIN FUCKING LANNISTER
- whose own kids can barely look him in the face when they’re talking to him
- his kids who are grownups and have killed kings and won battles and run kingdoms are terrified of him
- and he looks at Arya and thinks “why aren’t my kids awesome like you”
- “you’re like five years old and you just threatened me, you little badass”
- (‘cause don’t think for a second that Tywin doesn’t get the subtext here)
- “why do my children have to be such cringing little asshats”
- (but of course Tywin is the one who made them into cringing little asshats.)
I would also just like to add
- Tywin Lannister almost smiled
- Tywin fucking Lannister almost smiled
- Tywin never smiles
- the only time he smiled was when he married his wife, Joanna
- that wife is long-dead
- and for all purposes of happiness, his family has gone to hell
- he has nothing to smile for
- and yet
- “Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.”
- do you see the tension, the implication, the threat in the second to last gif?
- That’s what he’s doing with Arya there
- he’s returning the threat
- while approving of her simultaneously
Perfect Commentary is Perfect.
怎么会舍得让你受伤害 T_T
liz what is happening? why is this on my blog?
I don’t know, but I’m glad that it was on your blog, because now it’s on mine.
I’d like to know what this is from…
Photos ©downtonline
Dan Stevens, that face, oh gosh.
When is he going to play brothers with the kid who played Neville Longbottom?
