Lannes

I said somewhere that Stannis must die early in the next book. What other excuse can there be for the way the show totally downplays that story?

I've felt all along that the reason Stannis is being somewhat downplayed in the show is that, in the long run, his character is not one of the important ones for the ending of the story arc.

Decent episode undone partly by the closing scene with Dany and the crowd of reasonably clean slaves....

Oh, and I am by no means a Stannis fan, but all they need to do is give him a waxed handlebar mustache to twirl in his fingers while he MUAHAHAHAHAHAs all over Dragonstone and I think the portrayal they're going for will be complete. :rolleyes:

I took that as Arya will be a brown eyed person, a blue eyed person, and a green eyed person. You know, a person with many faces.

Same here- foreshadowing her being a Faceless Man.

Dracarys! is one of my favorite scenes in all the books and they did it proud tonight.....Great, great scene. :thumbsup:

Loved the foreshadowing in the HOTU- the throne room covered in Snow.... Bring on the R+L=J partisans.

Loved Dany being very Targaryen with locking XXD and Dorreah in the empty vault. Don't piss off a Targ....even a realtively sane one.

Loved the dragons sitting there anticipating Dany giving them the word....Flame On!

Loved Theon and Luwin's scene.

Loved Tyrion's scene with Shae. Should really pay off if they conclude Shae's storyline like the book.

OTOH....

Jon and the Half-Hand's fight left some of the non-book readers I watch with lost and confused. They should have set that up better and more clearly.

The three horn blasts and the attack of the Others and Walkers didn't really convey the dread it should have. The scene felt flat and the look of the Other was not what I've pictured...but it's not my show to run... The Other apparently looking right at Sam and then moving on was just dumb.

Overall, an excellent episode.

At this point, I almost hope that Dagmer=Ramsey....just so I can watch the internets explode with the intensity of a thousand suns.....

One hour that he felt was disjointed and D&B are losing control of the story. He's usually better than that.

Agree. He's been a very enthusiastic reviewer thus far....

Seems the bloom is somewhat off the rose for Alan Sepinwall over at HitFix-

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/review-game-of-thrones-the-prince-of-winterfell-fear-itself

one thing the series is going to have a problem with ina few years is when Arya hits puberty, gonna be kind of tough picturing a post pubescent Arya as a 9 yr old FM acolyte

I think we'll get the infamous "5 Year Gap" from the books on the show without 5 show years passing. Arya's storyline will be the better for it. Dany is already aged up on the show.

I'll always maintain that the book series would have been even better if GRRM would've been able to make the gap work.

How Bran is going beyond the wall by himself (and hordor?). It was a bit strange that they left the reeds out.. even though I hate Jojen, and I think things will run out better without him there is still the problem that Osha will go with rickon and bran would go with the reeds.. so what now?

I'm wondering if they'll move up Coldhands, in combination with Osha, to replace the Reeds.

That Brotherhood question is sure to confuse a lot of viewers ... would it have been so hard to let the Tickler ask: "Where are the men of Lord Beric's brotherhood/outlaw troop?" , that would have tied it to the scene in King's Landing where Ned sends lord Beric off after the Mountain.

That guy is a total Steve McQueen lookalike, BTW

Totally agree and I'm at a total loss as to why they did that scene that way. Brotherhood who???

Hell, my wife, who read ACOK a few years ago, is getting confused watching the series....

Except for Roz....Everytime she comes on screen, my wife says, "OK, she's the one NOT in the books, right?" :drunk:

which is funny, cause Kim's are real

I refuse to believe anything about any Kardashian is real in any known sense of the word 'real.'

I call them "well-proportioned."

...and natural...which is nice to see in this wacky Kardashian world we live in..... :cool4:

I agree with you. I'm a woman but that was one of my complaints. However I could have ignored her look (Like I ignore the fact that Theon and Balon look nothing like the books) if she actually played Asha like she's supposed to. She' funny, witty, and has a great deal of charisma. Gemma is just....bleh.

'Yara' has so far not exhibited one ounce of charisma that Asha has. That charsima is so important for Asha to lead Ironborn into battle and to make a play for the Seastone chair.

I'm just not seeing that onscreen.

Wow, the people, who don't like changes, heads just exploded.

Yes, indeed......this is going to be fun to watch......

I've seen Darkstar referenced here in relation to the song by the Grateful Dead. As something of a Deadhead, I thought I would throw this out there as there are some...interesting parallels.

Dire Wolf

Lyrics by Robert Hunter, Music by Jerry Garcia

In the timbers of Fennario

the wolves are running round

The winter was so hard and cold

froze ten feet 'neath the ground

Don't murder me

I beg of you don't murder me

Please

don't murder me

I sat down to my supper

T'was a bottle of red whiskey

I said my prayers and went to bed

That's the last they saw of me

Don't murder me

I beg of you don't murder me

Please

don't murder me

When I awoke, the Dire Wolf

Six hundred pounds of sin

Was grinnin at my window

All I said was "come on in"

Don't murder me

I beg of you don't murder me

Please

don't murder me

The wolf came in, I got my cards

We sat down for a game

I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades

but the cards were all the same

Don't murder me

I beg of you don't murder me

Please

don't murder me

In the backwash of Fennario

The black and bloody mire

The Dire Wolf collects his due

while the boys sing round the fire

Don't murder me

I beg of you don't murder me

Please

don't murder me

Has GRRM ever said anything about listening to the Grateful Dead?