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
Out on the field of war, Jaime Lannister is being kept in a bamboo cage. Now that's fan service. Robb comes in to gloat at him, because otherwise this scene is just Jaime sitting there tied up, and only like 40 percent of the audience is going to put up with that for very long. Not for more than fifteen or twenty minutes, anyway. Jaime is not impressed with Robb, although he makes sure to sarcastically call him "The King in the North" so we remember that Robb is one of the guys with an army. Jaime would like to know why he's being kept in a bamboo cage and being dragged from battle to battle, when he could just as easily be left in a convenient castle. Robb explains that his bannermen would immediately sell Jaime back to the Lannisters. Robb's wolf joins them and is acceptably giant. Robb says that the jig is up about Joffrey being Jaime's son, and Jaime doesn't deny it. He does point out that if Joffrey isn't the rightful king that would make Stannis the man. Robb ignores this point and further alleges that the Jaime-Cersei pairing is what got Ned killed. Jaime points out that he was Robb's prisoner when that happened. Robb guesses that Bran got flung out of a window for witnessing it. Jaime changes the topic and says that his father won't negotiate with Robb: "Three victories don't make you a conqueror." Robb fires back, "It's better than three defeats." Then he leaves, pretty confident that he got the best of that exchange. Yeah, good job. You sure laid it down to that guy who you keep tied up in a cage. Anyone can win a repartee contest when they have a wolf the size of a pony to distract their opponent.