The Old Gods and the New

Episode aired May 6, 2012
TV-MA
54m

IMDb RATING

8.9/10

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Rory McCann and Sophie Turner in Game of Thrones (2011)

Action Adventure Drama Fantasy

Theon seizes control of Winterfell. Jon captures a wildling named Ygritte. The people of King's Landing begin to turn against King Joffrey. Daenerys looks to buy ships to sail for the Seven ... Read allTheon seizes control of Winterfell. Jon captures a wildling named Ygritte. The people of King's Landing begin to turn against King Joffrey. Daenerys looks to buy ships to sail for the Seven Kingdoms.Theon seizes control of Winterfell. Jon captures a wildling named Ygritte. The people of King's Landing begin to turn against King Joffrey. Daenerys looks to buy ships to sail for the Seven Kingdoms.

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IMDb RATING

8.9/10

36K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
It was rumored that Irri's character was murdered because the actress Amrita Acharia could not extend her EU work visa, and thus had to leave the TV series. However, Acharia herself denied the rumor later, stating that her work visa was in order, and that it was a conscious choice by the writers to kill her character off. A deleted scene shows that Doreah (Roxanne McKee) was the one who strangled Irri to death, as part of her betrayal of Daenerys (which, due to the omission, isn't revealed until Valar Morghulis (2012)).

Goofs
In the opening credits, Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon) has the sigil of House Stark instead of House Baratheon.

Quotes
[during the riot]
Joffrey Baratheon: Traitors! I'll have their heads!
Tyrion Lannister: Oh you blind, bloody fool!
Joffrey Baratheon: You can't insult me!
Tyrion Lannister: We've had vicious kings, and we've had idiot kings, but I don't think we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king!
Joffrey Baratheon: You can't!
Tyrion Lannister: I can, I am!
Joffrey Baratheon: They attacked me!
Tyrion Lannister: The threw a cow pie at you so you decide to kill them all? They're starving, you fool! All because of a war you started!
Joffrey Baratheon: YOU'RE TALKING TO A KING!
[Tyrion slaps Joffrey in the face]
Tyrion Lannister: And now I've struck a king! Did my hand fall from my wrist? Where is the Stark girl?
Joffrey Baratheon: Let them have her!
Tyrion Lannister: If she dies, you'll never get your uncle Jaime back! You owe him quite a bit, you know!

Connections
Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Game of Thrones Deaths (2015)

Soundtracks
Main Title
(uncredited)
Written and Performed by Ramin Djawadi

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Featured review

9/10

great character interactions

The strength of GoT is that it doesn't depend on battles for its strong scenes. Things are going south in King's Landing and the wisdom of Tyrion's decision to send Myrcella away from danger is now apparent. Can Tyrion save the rest of his family from the degenerating situation in the streets? They might not even survive for conquering King Rob to behead them.

Arya and Tywin's scenes are also terrific, and very well written. It really adds to our understanding of Tywin to hear his backstory about his "weak" father and to see that he can pick up on the slightest linguistic clues in Arya's speech. And how deftly she tries to distract from that (but Tywin is hardly fooled).

As the brains of the Lannisters, Tywin makes the family formidable, despite other family members who are foolish, blind or incompetent. Tywin's one big flaw is not recognizing that Tyrion is his true successor in intelligence and insight.

If Tywin elevated Tyrion to his proper place in the family, they would win the Game of Thrones. But Tyrion as a dwarf represents the "weakness" that Tywin cannot stand, and that is his fatal weakness. One of the many great ironies of GoT.