Episode Report Card Montykins: B+ | 714 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Even More Kings
By Montykins | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2012.04.01
The men of the Wall are here to ask Craster if he knows what happened to Benjen. He does not! And in the course of his answer, he calls them all "Southerners." This annoys Jon Snow, since he's from Winterfell. He promptly absorbs some speculation about whether he has a wet twat between his legs. Craster is a delightful person, what with his incestuous harem and irrational hatred of Jon Snow. Anyway, he thinks everyone from below the Wall is a Southerner. Snow is told to shut up. We learn that all the villages between here and the Wall are empty. There are a lot of villages north of the Wall? Huh. I wonder how their residents feel about the Wall. Craster's a weird incestuous jerk, but I don't think it requires a 500-foot wall to keep him out.
Craster snaps, "You want to know where they've all gone? North! To join up with Mance Rayder." Mance once broke his vows to the Night's Watch, but now he's self-proclaimed "King Beyond the Wall." The old man demands somebody's axe because it's got nice steel. This show has a lot of people talking about steel. Craster goes on: "You wanna know what Mane Rayder's doing? Gathering an army. But I hear he's already got more men than any of your Southern kings." And the only way to go with his army is south. He makes one of the traumatized young ladies recite, "This is our place. Our husband keeps us safe. Better to live free than die a slave." Well, that's fun. He tells the Lord-Commander that he'll allow them to sleep there, but he'll cut off any hand that touches one of his wives. And if Snow looks too long, his eyes get gouged out. He has some objection to Snow being a foundling, I guess. Maybe he thinks he clawed his way out of that giant pit and has come back for revenge.
Out in the cold, the commander shouts at Snow, "WHO AM I?" "You're commander." "And who are you?" "Jon Snow. Your steward." "You want to lead one day? Well learn how to follow." He didn't really do anything as far as I can tell. All he did was object to being called a Southerner. Everyone's reaction in this scene is weird.