The Bear and the Maiden Fair

Thankfully they set the bar so low last week that all they really had to do was air fifteen seconds of T&A to top it.  Thankfully they did more than that and also gave us fifteen seconds of gratuitousness.  Tonight's episode set the stage for a lot that is coming down the pike.  It wasn't flashy , wasn't full of pomp.  Just a good space filler of an episode.  The best thing the production team is doing with this season of Game of Thrones is the spot on character development of one Ser Jamie Lannister.  I remember the feeling I got about his character when I was reading the book.  The subtle change in mindset from a charming jagoff to a man longing for the ideals that so drew him to knighthood in the first place.  Jamie jumped in front of a bear not knowing how it would wind up.  He just knew that it was   something a knight would do, and in the doing maybe for the first time in a long time Ser Jamie felt that maybe , just maybe he was a knight again.

Oh and how perfect was 'The Rains of Castamere' playing over the final scene?! Can you say #sceneawesome