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An 8 for me. The Joffrey-Tyrion build up was excellent, but there were a lot of vignettes at the wedding that I didn't find compelling -- too many hammering-the-point moments (Oberyn with his triple "former queen regent", Cersei's "But you love Jaime") which felt labored. Even GRRM can't manage to be subtle on this show. The Bolton material was, OTOH, very good, and I'm liking the family dynamic focus of our first reintroduction to Dragonstone. Nice Bran bit with the vision and the voice of the three-eyed crow, too.

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601 votes, average of 8.17, normalized score (removing the top and bottom 5%) of 8.29. It's an interesting trend that it's gradually fallen a tiny bit as the voting wears on. I suppose those who did not rush to watch the premiere may have, in general, had more laid back feelings about it without all the hype being a factor.

Over 480 votes in, and it's averaging 8.25. Removing the top and bottom 5% yields an 8.36. Median score remains 8, increasing its margin a bit since I last posted a summary.

245 votes in, the episode is rating an average of 8.29. Removing the top and bottom 5% to normalize, it hits 8.39. Median vote is presently 8, but it's neck and neck with 9.

The ice river clans are said to be cannibals. But no, the Thenns aren't. They basically just squished them and the savage cannibal clans together.

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Have at it!

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Have at it!

More the latter. It's maintained and edited by the community.

Yeah, not the most accurate depiction. The hair is all wrong, too. I understand the desire to have some sort of image, but something completely wrong doesn't make sense. Any depiction of Alleras needs to have the brown skin (light brown to be more exact, per GRRM) and the tight cap of curly hair.

Indeed. I think it's 3 or 5 posts. Basically a way to weed out spammers.

Ah, well. I admit that I'm not too concerned about the old posts, just glad it's not a problem affecting people now. That said, I will look into whether there's any fix for it.

Since I rarely use emojis, can someone explain in full the problem?

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I have finally gotten around to some interwiki work, so now the Persian wiki at westeros.ir is supported (using the prefix fa, for Farsi, as is Wikipedia standard). If I've forgotten any other interwiki requests, please post them here.

You need something like 3-5 posts on the forum before you can edit.

According to the forum, this episode is just a bit better than season 2 as a whole -- 7.95 average rating for season 2, presently an 8.09 rating for season 3. Season 1 had an average rating of 8.5 With 354 votes in, this episode is rating 7.18, the second lowest of the season, and third lowest of the series. It's also the lowest-rated finale episode.

You know, Stannis was going to personally execute Davos before he read the letter to him. That's from the book. That said, yeah, his, "I've already made my decision" was... kind of an odd way to characterize him as someone who's very unimaginative and unwilling to change his mind on something. This was at best a 7 for me -- some really forced exposition, some very odd characterization choices (seeing Theon's manhood in a box sure seemed to change Yara's opinion of him massively; maybe it really is as big as everyone claims :P), and Yunkai was confusingly lacking at least a scene to better explain what was going on. Plus, the bane of the show, trying to service every single story line at the end. Why? Wrap some up in 8 -- even in 7 -- and give the story room to breath. We don't need to see characters at least every other episode. Sometimes we can go longer with more. Also I think the whole Ramsay reveal was .... underwhelming at best. I mean, "Oh, yeah, that's pretty treasonous of them! Torturing Theon, yeah, no wonder we had to wait all season to find out who he is!" You'd have to remember way back to the start of the season to recall that Roose's huge treason was... not telling the truth to Robb regarding Theon's whereabouts. If only we had known, we might have realized he was a traitor, instead of just... I don't know... torturing the hell out of Theon because that's his view of justice and he knew Robb wouldn't agree. Or something. Yeah, I think they made a miscalculation on the value of that "reveal".

What did you think?

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