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ADwD (though not at all revealing):

As others have stated, it really was clear that GRRM wrote this episode, or, at least, this episode deviated the least from the plot in the books. I wonder though if faithfulness to the books was why this episode to me seemed to have some many moments where the audience was asked to overlook things. For instance, when Tyrion goes into Tywin's camp with the clansmen, were there no scouts/guards posted outside the camp? Or do we just assume that they skipped over any challenge he received for bringing in a huge host of armed fighters? Or with Robb winning over the Northern lords -- they show Umber and Grey Wind, but it's still a stretch to me that just from that one scene that all of the Northern lords would fall in line to go to war with a green boy. There were other smaller moments too (I wasn't really convinced by Tyrion's winning over of Shagga). I think these are just the kinds of leaps that are required to squeeze the series into such a small amount of screen time. If the jumps get too big though, the show will become difficult to watch. Edit: oh, regarding the scout counting, I just assumed what was meant was that the scout was probably sitting/standing still for a while staring at the army. Maybe he made some pointing gestures with his hand as he did so. Perhaps his lips were moving slightly as he mouthed the numbers. I doubt he was ticking off the troop numbers on his fingers.