My wife, too, thinks the dude's cute. Which is fine. I get more eye candy from the series, in general, although I'm glad they gave Ros a rest for a change. Too much of a good thing.
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A man can see how that could be. A couple other notes: 1. Pyat Pree kind of reminds me of: 2. I see why they changed the name of Spoiler Asha to Yara in order to avoid confusion with Osha. Osha seems to have a more prominent role in the series, likely taking over the role of the Reeds. 3. Tyrion and Arya are again awesome. I think we should just stop saying how good they are and just assume that it is said unless otherwise noted. 4. Lord Commander Mormont reminds me of: And there are parallels, too: Both have sons who got into legal problems. Both got exiled to the far north leading undermanned units. Both are in charge of one of the young stars.
The last episode had 3.90 million US viewers which was the highest ever for this series breaking the previous high set on season 2 episode 1.
I also happen to think it was the best episode of the show to date. This has been such a great season. Bit of a book spoiler: Spoiler I can't wait to see what they do with the House of the Undying. I remember being pretty freaked out by that sequence in the books and they can really go nuts with the creepiness in a visual medium. Hope they don't wuss out on that one.
Honestly as an adaptation this season has been a disappointment for me, even though there have been some great individual scenes and performances. I did mostly like the last episode, but the changes are really mounting up and many of them seem so random. Such as: Spoiler Loras not even suspecting Brienne of killing Renly, when he blames her completely in the books. At the very least she should be a suspect even if he believed she did it for Stannis or Catelyn or someone else.. Why did Davos take Melisandre to a cave with iron bars over the tunnel when Renly was staying in a tent? Arya being Tywin's cupbearer and in a much "safer" Harrenhal. No brave company, no interaction with Biter or Rorge yet, no Wease, and no feeling of imminent danger since Tywin "rescued her" from the Tickler's prison. The Tickler dies removing Arya's "Is there gold in the village" moment later. Perhaps Polliver will fill the role? One does have to wonder why Arya wouldn't name Tywin when she just had the whole "anyone can die" moment with him. Of course on the TV show Tywin is probably more of an insurance of safety to Arya than Jaqen. "Yara" hasn't filled Asha's shoes very well so far, and hardly matches the character. Shae is a b*tch on the show to Tyrion, and there is no reason why Tyrion should stick his neck out for her. He also has not had to sneak any where to see her when that was one of his chief concerns in his personal life. Joffrey ordered the murder of Robert's bastards, which really he has no motivation to do, instead of Cersei, who was doing it to cover up the "evidence" that had already led to two seperate hands finding out her incest secret. Dany telling the 13 that her party will die of starvation if they don't let her in, and THEN saying she will come back after her dragons grow up to burn the city down makes her look just plain stupid. That whole scene last episode played out like a parody. More lengthy original w**** scenes that add very little to the plot line and take up as much time as they spend on entire chapters of book content. Littlefinger being politically stupid in threatening Cersei with the knowledge of her incest, and Margary with the knowledge of Renly's sexual preference, when he is one of the most politically adept characters in the series. Joffrey threatens to kill Cersei if she slaps him again, which of course he should have no power to do since she is the Queen regent. If Joffrey has the power to kill Cersei for slapping him, one has to wonder why Joffrey "allowed" Tyrion to stop the stripping and beating of Sansa in the throne room? No Reeds, no sign of the b*stard of Bolton, no Tullys. Some of these are more minor than others and I'm sure I am forgetting some. But as a whole it feels like they are taking a lot more liberties with changes this season. I understand more so the cutting of characters and battles, things that cost money. You can't include every character and there is a budget. Changing character's motivations and dialogue when sticking to the original would take about the same amount of time bothers me though. It's still mostly good TV, but as an adaptation of the books I don't think it is as good as season 1 so far.
Didn't read the book, but I am enjoying the series. I feel like I need a cheat sheet for these names and houses. I gave up trying to remember and now I pretty much refer to people by their looks. Hottie blonde (Khalisi! I remembered!), Hottie Blonde Queen, Hottie Darthraci (sp?) Girl, Khalisi's hot helper, How old is the red head?... I'll wait for a response...
If you spend 3 bucks at half price books on one of the Clash of Kings it will have a section strictly maping out the different families. In the mean time you could just Wiki it. The books are awesome and really help tying everything together. I watched season 1 of GoT before reading the book. After reading the book so much of the stuff that I kind of missed or didn't quite get from watching became clear. Great books. I don't remember how old Milisandre (The Red Woman) is supposed to be. But I will say this, as much sex as there is in the series, there is just as much in the books.
Spoiler Loras not even suspecting Brienne of killing Renly, when he blames her completely in the books. At the very least she should be a suspect even if he believed she did it for Stannis or Catelyn or someone else.. This doesn't really bother me that much, but at the same time, there was no real reason to change it. Why did Davos take Melisandre to a cave with iron bars over the tunnel when Renly was staying in a tent? This *really* bothers me. As I've said earlier in this thread, they could've used the time from the added Joff/w**** scene to explain what was going on there better. Arya being Tywin's cupbearer and in a much "safer" Harrenhal. No brave company, no interaction with Biter or Rorge yet, no Wease, and no feeling of imminent danger since Tywin "rescued her" from the Tickler's prison. The Tickler dies removing Arya's "Is there gold in the village" moment later. Perhaps Polliver will fill the role? One does have to wonder why Arya wouldn't name Tywin when she just had the whole "anyone can die" moment with him. Of course on the TV show Tywin is probably more of an insurance of safety to Arya than Jaqen. That's the most problematic thing about having Tywin there, I think: in the book, Arya used her kills on underlings because of a childlike lack of thought to people not in her immediate vicinity. But if Tywin's right there, there's no good excuse why she wouldn't pick him. "Yara" hasn't filled Asha's shoes very well so far, and hardly matches the character. I'm willing to give this time. I don't think she's been massively out of character thus far. Not much screen time to judge off of yet. Shae is a b*tch on the show to Tyrion, and there is no reason why Tyrion should stick his neck out for her. He also has not had to sneak any where to see her when that was one of his chief concerns in his personal life. Yeah, though I can see why they think developing their lovey-dovey relationship would be "wasted time" with how much hard plot they have to get through. Joffrey ordered the murder of Robert's bastards, which really he has no motivation to do, instead of Cersei, who was doing it to cover up the "evidence" that had already led to two seperate hands finding out her incest secret. Yep, I don't like this either. Seems like HBO pounding the whole "Joffrey is evil!" angle yet again. Kind of a dead horse already without adding more to it. Dany telling the 13 that her party will die of starvation if they don't let her in, and THEN saying she will come back after her dragons grow up to burn the city down makes her look just plain stupid. That whole scene last episode played out like a parody. Totally agree. More lengthy original w**** scenes that add very little to the plot line and take up as much time as they spend on entire chapters of book content. Totally agree. Littlefinger being politically stupid in threatening Cersei with the knowledge of her incest, and Margary with the knowledge of Renly's sexual preference, when he is one of the most politically adept characters in the series. This might be the single most bothersome thing in the series to me, along with them giving the Hound's burned-face story to LittleFinger, which made NO sense and took away from the very interesting Sansa/Hound subplot. Joffrey threatens to kill Cersei if she slaps him again, which of course he should have no power to do since she is the Queen regent. If Joffrey has the power to kill Cersei for slapping him, one has to wonder why Joffrey "allowed" Tyrion to stop the stripping and beating of Sansa in the throne room? Yup. No Reeds, no sign of the b*stard of Bolton, no Tullys. I'm hopeful they'll bring in the b*stard later. I mean, come on. HBO loves shock value and hate-able characters. Can't get much more shock value than that guy.
I think part of why Arya didn't choose Tywin to be her first victim is because being around him she can tell that he is actually one of the few practical Lannisters. And even though he is on opposite sides with her brother, it seems that Tywin really wants the war to be over with. Maybe she thinks Tywin could end the madness. It's a bit of a stretch, I know.
I didn't read the books, but from my view if I'm arya, I have no better reason to trust jaqen or whatever the blond guys name is then I do to trust Tywin. Thus, throw out relatively harmless name first. Of course, that assumes that her second or third killing request would be Tywin. Which may not be the case.
I've got a question. How is it that Tyrion holds so much power in Kings Landing? It seems that both his sister and Joffrey despise him and he has made many other enemies as well. And yet, he continues to make threats and pretty much act like he's invincible, when the only one protecting him appears to be Bronn (who while I'm sure is a formidable swordsman, is still only one man).
Well, as much as Cersei and Joffrey despise him he is still family. But mainly because he's there under authority of Tywin Lannister, who is arguably the most powerful man in the kingdom. Joffrey only holds that title with the support of his grandfather.
I would expect them to secretly hire an assassin to kill him or arrange for some "accident". Even Tywin apparently doesn't care that much for him.
If Tywin wanted him dead, he'd be dead. They're all still family after all and that stuff is just not done. Beyond being a kinslayer there are other repercussions.
