Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 9 : Battle of Bastards | Thoughts & Spoilers

JON BLOODY SNOW ! MY HERO !!!

Hello humans of the world,

If you do not watch Game of Thrones, then please go live under a rock.

Today's episode was MASSIVE ! It made up for the last two somewhat boring episodes..
I assume those were something along the lines of  ' the calm before the storm' type of thing. And it really was !!

That Battle scene.. bloody hell.

Awestruck. It was amazeballs.


My love and admiration for Jon has grown to another level. That character never fails - he fights white walkers, he cheated death and even earned the wildlings' respect. He did show some nuance of hopelessness in the episode though.. first when all those horses were running towards him and second when he was being crushed. Yet he kept going on.
When he attacked Ramsay... I'm sure like me, most of you heaved a sigh of relief and were like : IN YOUR FACE MOTHERF**** !!!

Also, How gentlemanly is Jon? My heart melted a little when he asked Melissandre : 'Any advice?'
He has so much experience, yet how courteous of him <3

Additionally I wanted to punch him in the face when he asked her.. nope, ordered her not to revive him.
The grandeur of that battle scene was epic. It was filmed  on a huge scale and you could feel it was gigantic while watching. I wonder how that episode would have felt if I could watch it in a theatre. Better even in 3D !

And can we take a moment to swoon over the Knights of The Vale????? I have been waiting to see them in action ( even if it was not much). I just love the sound of KNIGHTS OF THE VALE. I used to love it when Lysa Arryn used to say that XD

New found respect for Davos! He is a sensible chap that one.
I can totally feel the tension mounting because he found the remains of Lady Shireen's pyre thing? and that little stag she used to carry around.
I wonder what this reveleation would mean for that Melissandre. I am grateful to her for Jon Snow's life but aside from that, me not very fond of her.

On a lighter note, I totally loved the conversation Davos had with the wildling :p

"Happy Shitting" - Tormund should have wished that to Ramsay before Jon smashed his face into a pulp.

Anyway Bolton : GONE !

Sansa for once used her brain cells and did not let the man control her life. Hopefully she is a wiser woman now - better be ! It would have been really shit had she not done what she did in the episode. I love how she did not get her hands dirty...someone else, say Arya might have demanded to kill Ramsay with her own hands. Sansa used Ramsay's ways itself. Thumbs up for that ! I have greater expectations from Sansa now. Though, I have watched the preview for next week's finale... that conversation with Baelish does not seem good.

Now that the Direwolf banner is back onto Winterfell, I am eagerly awaiting Arya's return.
Also, from the preview, is Jon the Lord of Winterfell & Warden of the North now?

Please do check out the making of this scene :

Mother of Dragons

Daenerys Targaryan never fails to impress.

I seriously hope that she and Jon Snow are somehow related. They both have shown incredible qualities and consistent growth.

Drogon is HOT btw! Pun intended :p The scene where the dragons destroyed pretty much everything did not surprise me because by now, that is the kind of reaction you really expect from Dany. Or maybe the battle scene was too much too handle, hence I could not salivate on this particular scene xD

Can we pause and take a moment to talk about the flirty conversation between Asha and Dany? LOVE LOVE LOVE !!! We already know that Asha likes girls.. it would be wonderful to see Dany step into foreign waters xD
Tyrion as always, uses his words as weapons. I miss Varys ! I wonder what mission he is on.

Anyhow, Game of Thrones <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Leaves me speechless ! Today's episode met the usual standards. Can't wait for next week !! If you haven't watched next week's preview, there you go :


On that note, penning off,
BusLady

Recent Read : After You by Jojo Moyes | Thoughts

Hello Humans !!

I just finished reading After you by Jojo Moyes. Honestly, I am not very happy with it. Had it been a book on its own, I would have probably liked it better. The book simply does not match up to Me before You. I hate to admit that I found the sequel to be a bad idea. Nonetheless, Jojo is still my favourite author and I admire her writing.

So here are my thoughts about the sequel :

I was very disappointed that Louisa did not go to school or do any of the things I had anticipated. However, if she did everything as per my liking, it would have been too perfect. Jojo stuck to the character's personality and traits, which was hard to digest throughout the book. I wanted to punch Louisa in the face for many of the shitty decisions but then that only reminds us that people are who they are. You cannot really change them. As rightly said in the trailer of Me before You, you cannot change people, you only love them. I kept wondering if Sam really had to be in the picture? Like had he not been there, would Louisa have grown so much? Louisa's lack of ambitions was too much in focus. I can't stand unambitious people and it really bug me. However, I do understand her reluctance to leave Sam & Lily to shift to New York. Been there, felt that. Glad that she eventually went though, it slightly made up for my disappointment. 

Despite they way she is, I really liked Lily. The girl was in desperate need of genuine love and attention. I can totally empathise with her.

Louisa's mother seems to have grown more than any other character. I loved how she started attending classes and all. She is a lucky woman that her husband finally understood she was a person of her own and needed to do things for herself once in a while. Not sure every woman out there would eventually end up with such support. If only every man would learn from Bernard :p

Treena is my favourite. Not scared to say how she feels, always pushing her sister even if it does not work and extremely hard working in spite of her son. She battled through and made it. I was actually wishing that Louisa would adopt the same path as her.

Mr Traynor is an arsehole. In my opinion atleast. Felt very sad for Camilla.

There is an incident which I suppose was the climax of the book. It was totally unnecessary. Like what was the point? It lengthened the story is all. The plot could have done without it.

I tried my best to like the book. Unfortunately, it ruined the whole Me before You heaven I was in. Hopefully the movie will help me recover :p
The writing was impeccable though. For that I would rate After you with one star. Otherwise with the story line, I would not have given any.

Penning off,
BusLady 🚌