S1E5

The Wolf and the Lion

Game of Thrones · 2011-05-15 · 55 min

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what happens

Catelyn has captured Tyrion and plans to bring him to her sister, Lysa Arryn, at The Vale, to be tried for his, supposed, crimes against Bran. Robert plans to have Daenerys killed, but Eddard refuses to be a part of it and quits.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 24 comments — 12 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 12 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“This is the first time in game of thrones where I could feel the weight of the fight.”
-Nick____▲ 951about 0–100% inread it ↗
“the flashback killed the pacing”
ugluk-the-uruk▲ 468about 0–100% inread it ↗
“I was disappointed that they were doing a flashback up until that point”
themightybamboozler▲ 419about 0–90% inread it ↗
“Not some sort of glorious fight...but dirty, gritty, brutal, exhausting, slow. No music, no fanfare. Just two people fighting for their lives. It felt real, and it had you on the edge of your seat. I knew what was going to happen and I was still terrified Dunk wouldn't win.”

who made it

directed: Brian Kirk
written: David Benioff, D. B. Weiss

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Jerome Flynn as Bronn
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys
Lino Facioli as Robin Arryn
Eugene Simon as Lancel Lannister
Finn Jones as Sir Loras Tyrell
Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle
Jamie Sives as Jory Cassel

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