Game of Thrones concludes season 6 with Cersei making her move in Kings landing, while Jon and Sansa come to a conclusion about one another. In tonights episode of Game of Thrones, we welcome Jon Snow back to the land of living and watch Bran dip into the past, in the aptly named Oathbreaker. Lost Girl is a Canadian supernatural drama television series that premiered on Showcase on September 12, 2010, and ran for five seasons. It follows the life of a. It was all well and good to see Jon. Vikings season 4 episode 1. Revenge. This review contains spoilers. Revenge. Vikings largely continues its decline this week, despite finally fielding the army that weve all but known the season was building to. Revenge starts out in Kattegat, with the final preparations being made for their mission to England to repay Aelle and Ecbert for Ragnars death. Watch Natural Selection Streaming. A great deal of that time is dedicated to showing how certain alliances are holding up. The one between Ragnars family and Harald and Halfdan has always been tenuous, now crossing over into actual treachery as it appears that the brothers have arranged for their surrogate Egil to attack the trading village in their absence. One has to wonder if they do this merely because the army will be gone or so, if the attempt miscarries, they cannot be held responsible. Im actually looking forward to watching her fight off Egil more than just about any other conflict in the show. Im tired of her being queen rather than Lagertha. The Wires Chris Partlow looks around him and sees an organization getting used to things being a certain way, and with that the first creep of indiscipline and. Pirates of the Caribbean is one of those movies that I can put on anytime and have an amazing time watching it. Sure, its got its lackluster moments, but it was a. This planned treachery on the part of the brothers made the scene between Harald and his Princess Ellisif seem woefully out of place primarily because, until now, he and Halfdan have been fairly two dimensional baddies. Haralds confrontation with his muse and his unwillingness to kill her for her betrayaleven after Halfdan literally puts the knife in his handsis meant to humanise him. Had this come earlier in the series, that kind of fleshing out would have been interesting. Doing it this late in the series makes it seem as though the writer simply forgot to do so and is trying to make up for lost time. In a series that moves as slowly as this one does, theres been plenty of time to make us feel for Harald. LG3-Gallery-188-w3.jpg' alt='Lost Girl Season 4 Episode 6 Discussion' title='Lost Girl Season 4 Episode 6 Discussion' />Check out last weeks Game of Thrones recap for Season 6, Episode 9, Battle of the Bastards, here. As Game of Thrones Lost is an American television drama series that originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company ABC from September 22, 2004, to May 23, 2010, over six. Shes irrelevant. She needs to take her own advice and stop chasing after men who dont have any plans on being there for the future. I dont think she even. But after so many episodes of a flat, cartoonish character, suddenly making him a man driven by love and capable of mercywhen weve seen no real evidence of his capacity for itjust feels hollow. Similarly empty is the relationshipif you could call it thatbetween Astrid and Bjorn. Their sudden preoccupation with each other, if thats how you label two out of nowhere sex scenes, just defies any real explanation. Bjorn has never been very profligate in his lovelife, and with good reason he saw his father cheat on his mother, and knows that his revelation of that fact helped destroy their marriage. In the end, he left his father behind after his parents split up, and while he respected and loved him, there was still some resentment there over how Ragnar acted towards Lagertha. So why on Earth would he choose to take Lagerthas own consort as his lover You have seen what infidelity did to her before and youher devoted sonare going to risk this again over a woman that you dont even seem to likeThe genuine chemistry we saw between he and. The sex scenes come off as simply violent, not hot, and certainly the decision to splice this weeks shagging with a brutal but far more beautiful human sacrifice does nothing to improve that perception. This makes Lagerthas comment to Astrid particularly on point She tells Astrid, I hope that was enjoyable. Lost Girl Season 4 Episode 6 Discussion TextOr it wasnt worth it. It didnt look very enjoyable to either of them, and it certainly wont be worth it. Even more uncomfortable is the farewell scene with Bjorn and the three women. Its clear that all three know whats happening, which turns Torvis assurance into something other than a heartfelt express of her faith in Bjorn. She knows that its been broken. It will be interesting to see if Torvis leavetaking is a promise that he will be returning only to her because she plans on dealing with Astrid or simply a reminder that she is the mother of his children and would be dishonoured should he not do so. An interesting and oddly comforting counter to this is the triangle between Ubbe, Margrethe, and Hvitserk. Each of the brothers has now been fairly well defined Bjorn is an attempt at his fathers image as leader in minature. Ivar is cruel, clever, and remorseless. Sigurd is bitter, honest, and frustrated. Hvitserk is full of smiles while wanting something more for himself. All of them reflect pieces of their father. The piece that Ubbe represents seems to be that of his father in his younger days a good family man with a wisdom and patience absent in many around him. Last week and this week has been building into a bit of a confrontation between Hvitserk and Ubbe over the former slave girl. Certainly when we see the younger brother kissing her and Ubbe catching sight of them, we expect Ubbe to remind his brother of who she has promised to marry. That Hvitserk can honestly tell Ubbe that what he witnessed was his giving up of Margrethe says a great deal about both men. In Hvitserk, we see a loyalty to his brother and probably all his brothers that is absent in Ivar, Sigurd, and even Bjornwho all too often comes off more as that much older cousin set the task of keeping an eye on the much younger boys than as a truly engaged brother. But in Ubbe we see even more a desire for peace among them. This is why he does not push Ivar too hard when he strongly hints that their father made it clear he wanted Ivar to lead. Instead, he takes it to Bjorn and lets him do the level setting, knowing that their youngest brother has more respect for Bjorn than he does the rest of them. He understands better than the rest that there are rewards for collaboration just as much as for competition, even in the Viking world. And so, rather than run the risk in setting himself at odds with Hvitserk over Margrethe or vice versaeven subconsciouslyhe invites them to have their relationship out in the open among the three of them. Of course, the series has set the Vikings up as more accepting of open relationshipsor at least extra marital funthan our own, but this goes beyond Ragner and Lagertha inviting Aethelstan to share their bed one night. And suggests that Ubbe has an emotional restraint and level headedness that even his famous father lacked. Of course, all of this is a lead in to the big conflict between the brothers and Aelle. And this was the biggest disappointment. While Ive talked about the battle scenes not being the big draw for this series, its a bit unbelievable that, when the two armies actually meet, we get literally nothing of the actual battle. Instead, we get a shoddy repeat of the Blood Eagle torture from early in the series. Yes, according to legend, Aelle did meet his end this way. But we already understand how horrific the practice supposedly was. Watching it carried out againespecially when the previous scene showed it as a heroic ending on some levelfelt like gratuitous violence given us in lieu of the fight scene. It felt like a budgetary decision because battle scenes are notoriously expensive rather than a narrative one. In short, it is beginning to feel as though Vikings has lost the plot, quite literally. Instead of the steady build up over a season, as we have seen in previous years, there is a growing sense that plot devices deeply emotional scenes out of nowhere, random adultery, characters turn on an inexplicable dime are simply being thrown at the audience without an overarching plan for how the pieces fit together. That said, the last two episodes of every season have had a substantial pay off. Hopefully, the series hasnt completely lost what drew us in in the first place and well get the same this week and next. Read Lauras review of the previous episode, The Great Army, here.