Finally got a chance to watch last night. Interesting changes from the book. Dany is pissing me off more and more each week. She's bi-polar. One moment she's lamenting that being a Targaryen doesn't mean anything and neither does being a Khaleesi... and then the next moment she's lashing out like she's hot *****. Arya continues to be badass. The whole Jaime thing kind of confused me. It didn't seem like he really needed to kill his cousin to break free. He could have to just asked him to pretend to be sick. Or at the most break his nose to make it bloody.
That should be accurate, though. She knows she's high-born hot **** but the mere fact is so far good enough for a hot meal and clean clothes in a hostile city. She's due a moment of doubt here and there. At least we're past all that wandering-around-in-the-desert crap. I'm surprised she didn't run across Moses out there. They'd say to each other in the same breath, "Can you direct me to the Promised Land?"
Maybe an oversight, but could also be done to demonstrate that Jaime's a brute or has some sort of warrior bloodlust? However, this makes him a kinslayer in the show which would've been a huge deal in the book.
I was more referring to the acting... and using another melodramatic performance for effect. But yes, that too.
Jaime's kinda dumb and prone to rash decisions. And I think the whole kinslayer stigma in Westeros is mostly religious, and Jaime's a pretty cynical atheist. In the case of Alton, he's a pretty distant relative (I got the sense that he was a Lannister of Lannisport, not of the Rock, when he said "embarrass our family in front of THE family") who Jaime hardly knows, so it's not like he had any emotional attachment to the kid. Maybe it's something he wouldn't have done in the books, but I didn't think it was terribly out of character. When Jaime said "it's a good thing I am who am, I'd be useless otherwise," I took that to mean "I'm a killer. I kill people. That's all I'm really good for."
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So it's two hot blonde chicks, playing electric harps, doing a cool rendition of the best television show theme song ever...why am I not turned on? Those girls gave me the willies, for some reason. Like if I were lucky enough to get one or both into bed, as soon as we were done they would go ahead and kill me, skin me and feast on my flesh, then not think a thing of it a day later. Weird looking chicks.
Dammit! No house of the undying tonight. Oh well, next week I guess. They have a lot to cover in 2 episodes.... Won't list all of it here to avoid spoilers, but you book readers know what I'm talking about. Was cool seeing a Podrick Payne sighting tonight.
