The Pycelle scene was showing how he is not the senile fool everybody thinks he is. That was a startling realization to me I had not even picked that up in the books. So a new piece of information about the series is especially nice much less a 'wasted scene'.
The TV show is so much better than I ever thought it could be. Fantastic work the spirit of the show really showed through. I really thought doing a visual media of this series was basically impossible because it was too long for a film and the budget would have to be too high for a TV series but they have managed to make it work. Fantastic job I cannto wait for the DVDs to be released so I can buy it and see all the extra features.