Game of Thrones S02E04 Overview

The first scene takes place at the battlefield  where Robb Stark has just defeated Stafford Lannister's army. I wouldn't mind if they had actually shown the battle.

However, they skipped it and we only see the aftermath – Robb's army is walking through the field full of corpses and wounded soldiers.

Robb's attention is caught by an unknown attractive woman who's sewing off some poor soldier's foot to save his life. The two of them have a short conversation and we get a feeling that they'll get to know each other better in the following episodes.

We're back to King's Landing in the next scene.  Joffrey is unhappy about losing a battle to Robb Stark once more, so he decides  to take it out on Sansa and have hear beaten  and humiliated in front of the whole court.  I found this scene excellent. All the actors were great and Jack Gleeson was awesome as ever with those icy eyes, sadistic expressions and egocentric demeanor.

Anyway, things aren't looking too good for Sansa there, but when it really looks like it's going to get tough, Tyrion marches in, stops the beating and saves Sansa. Tyrion and Bronn have a conversation about Joffrey's behavior afterwards. Bronn describes Joffrey's problem with an honest statement „There's no cure for being a cunt.“, but Tyrion disagrees on that one and decides to be optimistic and cheer Joffrey up by sending him two whores as a nameday present.

Consequently, the next scene goes  on in Joffrey's chamber. He goes in and finds the whores. It immediately becomes clear that he's not interested in them and obviously not very enthusiastic about the whole idea. Knowing Joffrey,  I knew he wouldn't just let this one slide and I wondered what kind of sadistic shit he was going to do now. With regards to this, a certain scene unfolds which was later much discussed and criticized by a lot of viewers as an unnecessary and too cruel display of Joffrey's sadism. Don't take my word for it, but I believe some viewers who had read the books said that this scene wasn't in the book.

I personally didn't find the scene that disturbing. I must admit I did get used to Joffrey's cruelty by now, so when watching this scene and anticipating, I pretty much thought something much worse was going to happen than what actually did.

Baelish visits Catelyn Stark at Renly's camp and tries to convince her to trade Jamie Lannister for Sansa and Arya. Catelyn seems unwilling at first, but she gets emotional when she sees Ned Stark's body in the coffin, which Baelish had brought her as a gift.

Moving on to the next scene. Arya, Gendry and the rest of the group are taken to some sort of  fort for war prisoners. They are held inside dirty, damp ruins together with other prisoners and every day one of the prisoners gets chosen and tortured by the keepers.

We get back to Renly who meets with Stannis the day before their battle. Stannis is very confident about the outcome of the battle and asks Renly to surrender, but Renly makes fun of him and refuses.

The Dothraki are still starving in the desert. They come to the gates of the city of Quarth which is ruled by a council of thirteen men and Daenerys asks The Thirteen who stand before the closed gate to let her and her people in. The Thirteen refuse at first, but one of them stands up for Daenerys and makes them change their mind.

Back at prisoners' fort, Gendry gets chosen to be tortured. Tywin Lannister appears with his men, stops the torture just in time to save Gendry from painful death and takes all the young prisoners to his fort as his new workers/slaves.

Lancel Lannister comes to Tyrion's chambers to deliver a message from Cersei. Tyrion tells Lancel how he knows about him and Cersei having sex, threatens him to tell Joffrey about it and blackmails him to spy on Cersei.

Lancel was so convincing when he begged Tyrion for mercy and sucked up to him, the actor looked so very natural in this scene, he did a great job  and it was such an entertainment to watch. I just have to love this character and it was one of my favorite scenes in this episode.

Following Stannis's orders, Seaworth escorts Melisandre to a sea cave at night. Just as I started to wonder what they were doing in that cave, Melisandre was suddenly naked with a 9 months belly and I was like why the hell is she naked and how did her baby grow so fast. Then, just like that, she sits on the floor and starts having a baby. The labor lasts about 30 seconds and when it comes out out it's not even a baby, it's a shadow in a shape of a human – my bad for the spoiler if you haven't seen this episode yet.

Overall I found the episode pretty interesting, with more real plot and better than the previous three.

Game Of Thrones S02E03 Overview

This episode is somewhat more interesting than the previous two, although there's hardly any action going on.
Jon Snow and The Night's Watch get kicked out of Craster's place because Jon Snow followed Craster and found out that he gives his newborn sons to White Walkers as sacrifice. We get an update on Renly, who apparently considers himself the new king and plans to take King's Landing. He and his rather large army are located in tents on a shore. We get a short action scene watching Loras and Brienne fight in the arena. Renly gets a new member in his King's Guard and we find out that Natalie Dormer has joined the cast as Renly's new wife, self-proclaimed queen and Loras's sister, Marjorie of the House Tyrell. Renly gets an unexpected visit from Catelyn Stark who wants him to join the Starks in the war, since the Lannisters are their mutual enemy.

The following scene takes place at Iron Islands. Balon Greyjoy plans to take over the North while the Starks are away fighting the Lannisters, and we see Greyjoys' final preparations before Yara and Theon Greyjoy head out to war, plus some bickery occurs between Theon and Balon Greyjoy. We find out that Theon still has some deep issues about being given away to the Starks as a child by his father, which somewhat explains why he's become such a narcissistic douchebag later on and almost makes me sympathize with him.

Back at King's Landing, Tyrion has a new scheme going on. He plans to marry princess Myrcella off behind Cersei's back and he wants Pycelle, Varys and Littlefinger to take part in his plan.
Moving on to the next scene, we get some mild gay action (I believe this is the first one this season) with Renly and Loras. 

Renly is horny as usual but Loras is still bitchy about losing a fight to a girl and isn't in the right mood for it, so he leaves. Renly gets drunk and his self-proclaimed queen Natalie Dormer comes into his room and flashes him, but Renly hates it, being gay and all. The discomfort and irritation in his face when Natalie tried to touch him and make out with him was so genuine, I couldn't help but wonder if the actor wasn't gay in real life.

Cersei finds out about Tyrion's scheme and the two of them get into a fight. Tyrion discovers that Pycelle was the one who leaked this piece of news to Cersei and that he has been Cersei's spy for quite some time. Pycelle gets thrown into a cell for this, after which we get a glimpse of a meaningful philosophical conversation between Tyrion and Varys.

The last scene of the episode takes place at Arya's traveling group at night. While everyone else is sleeping, Yoren shares some of his own painful experiences with Arya in an attempt to help her deal with all the pain she's been going through since her father's death. They are interrupted by Joffrey's armed soldiers who have returned looking for Robert Baratheon's bastard son. Yoren refuses to cooperate with them, so they kill him and pretty much everyone else . Only a small group of men and boys is left, including Arya and Gendry.