Smoke317

Me too. Really made Euron look like a badass. He never grabbed the rail once.

For example, I definitely don't think Mel will be resurrecting Jon in the books. My money is on Val and Bran bringing him back via the Weirwood tree North of the wall. Maybe even via a blood sacrifice (Mel and or Shireen). Hopefully the show can differ from the books and not come completely off the rails. As long as they leave Dorne out and stop the Tyrion cock jokes, there's hope.

I'm definitely pro book over show. But the pettiness I've read in some of these posts is ridiculous. I for one hold out hope that GRRM will finish both Winds & Spring. Thus I hope the show deviates rather far from the books from this point forward because I want the books to be fresh and unspoiled when they do come out. It's clear we'll get a lot of deaths this season because of budget cuts. I'm cool with that if we truly only have roughly a season and a half left after this one. Let's streamline down to the characters that really matter. One nitpick I did agree with though was the color of young Lyanna's hair. She looked to close to the weakest Starks/Tullys (Cat & Sansa) then the "True" Northern Starks Jon, Arya, & Bran. For me this was a damn good episode. The one I waited nearly a year for. And it looks like next week will be just as good. ToJ coming. I'm hyped.

I think a lot of people are missing the way they are setting up the Shae character. I think she will play the Ser Dontos role next season & help Sansa escape. Though she mistrusted littlefinger earlier, I think she will end up trusting him to get Sansa out of the city. Naturally with her being Sansa's maid servant she will be suspected. I think she'll sacrifice herself to get Sansa out & Jamie will tell Tyrion about Tysha & Tyrion will ask about Shae and Jamie will tell of how she's hanging from the walls. Tyrion snaps and kills Tywin. A great way to use the necklace is if Tyrion finds it in Tywins room, and hangs it around his neck and says his "shit gold" line after shooting him with the crossbow. I could live with that being the last scene of episode 9 next season.