VikingMaekel

Long time lurker, first time poster. I gave the episode a 9/10 I thought it excelled in portraying Ned's execution. And pretty much everything else, I thought the Twins looked particularly great. My only nitpicking is that Roose Bolton wasn't given command of the Foot and thusly that the ford over the Green Fork isn't blocked and that Tywin isn't outmaneuvered by two forces, which forces him to retreat to Harrenhal eventually. I am curious to see how that all is going to play out. As for Tyrion, to me it makes more sense that Tyrion get's knocked out early in the battle than that he slays several men. I found those parts in the books surreal, as if Tyrion had plot armor. At that point in the episode Tywin didn't know where Robb was, is my guess. From the preview of Ep10 we learned that he has that post-battle debriefing. You didn't see it? Robb sends home Tywin's spy thinking he'll have twenty thousand howling wolves on his ass. Yet Robb wasn't there and sent a small diversion. They way they filmed it, I'm sure the new viewers thought that he was there with his twenty thousand as well. That's about as showing as strategic moves can get.