Last Sunday was the premiere of the fourth season of “Game of Thrones”, and one thing is for sure: Tywin Lannister is hell-bent on making sure the Stark legacy dies as fast as possible.

Anyone could see that from last season, when he conspired with Walder Frey to murder Robb and Catelyn Stark in the infamous scene known as the “Red Wedding.” The only Stark whose whereabouts are known is Sansa, who is now married to Tyrion (against both of their wills), making her a Lannister.

Tywin drove another nail in the coffin on Sunday when he melted down Ned Stark’s sword, one of the few remaining Valyrian blades in the continent, to craft swords for Jaime and one other person. (The episode’s namesake, “Two Swords”, comes from this scene.)

It’s clear that Tywin is the antagonist of these most recent two seasons, which span the course of the third book of George R.R. Martin’s series.

At the end of last seaso

n, we saw any hope of our king in the north avenging his father and making peace in the realm of Westeros. However, with the introduction of Oberyn Martell and Ellaria Sand, our hopes may not be the mirages we thought they were.

Oberyn came to King’s Landing with a vengeance.  His sister was raped and killed by The Mountain and his niece and nephew were slaughtered along with her during Robert’s Rebellion, and he knows Tywin gave the order.

His final words to

Tyrion this episode were, “Tell your father I’m here, and tell him the Lannisters aren’t the only ones who repay their debts.”  And if him pinning a Lannister soldier’s wrist to a table with his knife earlier in the episode was any indication, that threat is anything but empty.

But before he impales Tywin on a sunspear, I really want him to finish that bisexual orgy he started with his wife and the prostitutes in King’s Landing.

They showed three p

airs of boobs within five minutes in that scene, they couldn’t at least show some abs or man ass?  Oberyn is a sexy man; they could have at least showed it off like they did for Ellaria.

This is easily the most important thing to happen in King’s Landing, even with Jaime returning to the Kingsguard – at the disgust of Tywin, who all but disowns him after Jaime rejects becoming the lord of Casterly Rock.

But we also got to see significant character development for the Kingslayer, with Cersei essentially breaking up with him and Joffrey blatantly mocking him as a knight.

Up to this point I’ve been able to sympathize with Cersei: She spent nearly 20 years married to a man who didn’t love her and occasionally abused her, and her son is a total dickbag who has made every wrong political move possible in his reign as king.

But her decision to throw her lover aside (ignoring the whole incest issue) because he got kidnapped by their enemies rubs me the wrong way, and I can’t help but feel remorse for the man who only became a member of the Kingsguard to be with her.

Other than that, we saw Sansa losing faith in everything (You stopped eating lemoncakes!) and Shae finally getting caught by a Lannister spy.

Daenereys is going

off to free some more slaves and Jon Snow is being uninteresting – again.

What I’m really looking forward to, more than anything, are the future scenes with Arya and The Hound.

Their scenes this week, which featured the pair killing five Lannister soldiers over a chicken dispute, was absolutely hilarious and painfully brutal all at the same time.  I can’t wait to see more of their interactions.