GAME OF THRONES: "Walk of Punishment" S3E3 (review)

By Kevin Cafferty

The most famous hand-loss in all of pop culture is when Luke Skywalker’s right-hand gets caught on the business end of Darth Vader’s lightsabre at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. 

Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) getting his hand chopped off at the end of this week’s installment of Game of Thrones doesn’t quite reach those rarified heights, but it was pretty shocking nonetheless. 


While Jaime and Luke Skywalker do seem to be united by both their missing hands and Daddy Issues, I don’t think Westeros is technologically advanced enough to provide Jaime with a cool mechanical hand like the one Luke had in Return of the Jedi.

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