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Attention span problems?

In the novel I don't remember Coldhands showing up till later.

Hmm,did not notice that. Does that actor have a strong accent? , I have never seen him before.

That's a distinction without a difference. If I have said once I think I have said it a dozen times. The actors playing the book roles are going to bring a different dimension and demeanor to their characters, nothing to be done about it. So far , for me, Charles Dance has brought a just flat dull Tywin (in the book) to life on the show, I think that true of other characters from the books. The actors are better characters than GRRM wrote, in my opinion. That is your take, not mine I disagree.

So far D&D have just left the ages out. It's going to get even more obvious if this show does go for four more years. Lord! Even Maisie Williams is starting to look like a teenager, and if they get to Ep. 7 she will be 19! In the book Tyrion had made the decision not to consummate regardless of her age, so just leave that part out.

Well D & D have been doing all along , toning down Georges hyperbole , so I think that's the way it is and will be. It's their choice.

When you and others say Tyrion is too nice compared to the book (I guess you mean) , just what exactly do you mean by that? The nudity has got to be an HBO mandate (no I am not forgetting how much George had in the book). All I can think is HBO is thumbing their nose at the MPAA.

A very good episode. Not much action , we will have to see the unsullied grade. Amazing cutting the book into two seasons and and still so much to go! Dany's story has been handled the best. I just hope Arya's travels with the Hound carry over into next season, because I loved that story. No Meereen till season 4 , that should work.

For me, in the novel , remember for me, the two best stories, the ones that engaged me the most were, Dany's and Arya's travels with the Hound. Behind those was Jon's story. Jamie's POV held my interest. I thought the rest was ok, always an entertaining read when GRRM is writing , even if later when you think about it ... well "that was a little bit goofy."

Interestingly enough Dany's story has been the best this season, always picks up the action better when it's on the screen. They seem the most engaging. Episode 4's ending has been the best zinger so far. Well I like it better in the book than the RW.

George did seem to have a bigger hand in the first season... now one wonders what George's position is? Makes one wonder about that meeting a month or two back in Santa Fe with George by Benioff, Weiss, Cogman? I am afraid I see things moving too fast for splitting SoS into two seasons. I really don't want to see a lot of Crows and Dragons dragged into season 4.

About what I expected , a lot of exposition and set up. Lord! they have a lot of balls in the air. Like episode 6 entertained well enough. Gett's a little tired of the Theon stuff, lord they have season 4 to go! Odd they did a set up in Hollywood for the Bear pit scene and that is all we get? Something must not have worked, scenes at KL seemed a little stretched as a good bit of the end sequence went on the cutting room floor. Wonder what George wrote? O yes the Dany sequence is from the books, condensed quite a bit. All three adolescent dragons on screen for the first time, glad to see that. Still don't have names, odd.

Implied in the books? I don't remember that, or don't know of a passage where it's spelled out. Or even implied. George does go for hyperbole 'root and stem' , which I take to mean both orchiectomy and penectomy , from what I know of ancient times it mostly orchiectomy if one left the victim alive. O well it is an alternate universe.

Yeah don't know why they changed that. Could of found some other way to work in some more dialog time for Peter than that. One trump for George there.

Explicitly said they were speaking high Valyrian, now for people from the free cities, that is a nice touch. Have to see what David Peterson has to say about it.

I am thinking they will follow the Davos narrative , as in the book, instead of going to Lys, Gendry will go to Braavos. But Arya and Gendry won't run into each other in Braavos for a long time.

Don't remember that from the book. Well alliances like that , in medieval, were broken so many times one looses count.

Does make one wonder about that recent meeting with George in Santa Fe. This time Dan and Dave brought Bryan along. I figured season 4 would be blocked out by now ... The cut and paste with Gendry I was expecting... It's a long novel with a lot happening and trying to combine characters and include slices from the kitchen sink are showing a strain. Like Season 2 this episode , seems, to show me Dave and Dan are not taking enough think through time with an episode. Anxious to get to episode 9? As usual the good acting and production values make up for some ragged narrative plotting.

She talking about individual people, well, that's like novel 6 stuff, book-wise that would be a long long way off.

Let's say they show very little of the Theon stuff the rest of this season, how much can they show in season 4? Don't like the idea of pulling stuff from ADwD so soon up into S4. If they do.

That could change,but if Davos does his thing, Gendry could wind up back in Westeros saving Brienne. Gendry position as a character is confusing to me , he is still in the brotherhood, yet does not travel with them.... working as a smith at the Inn at the Crossroads. Well see if the show keeps that.

Holy Guacamole! and Ramin Djawadi hit one out the park!

I think the problem is international distribution. For the first season D and D in the commentary for season 1 episode 1, that Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran) was not in the scene when Jamie and Cersei were ... well you know what. I am not even sure Nikolaj , Lena and Isaac were all in the scene at once... and there was not even any nudity in that scene. And as I said in the commentary for season 2 Dave and Dan nixed Sophie doing any nudity, even from behind. So there is something going on B and B - HBO wise about actors under some legal age. In the US it would 18 , I think?

Well Pretty Baby is an AMERICAN FILM, made in 1978 , when things were loser in the USA , you cannot even get the original version (well maybe there is a pirate copy) on a commercial DVD anymore. As you may or may not remember there was a terrible fuss over Louis Malle being a child pornographer. I saw the original and thought it was a fairly good art film. You absolutely could not not make it today, I am not sure the MPAA would even give it an X. No major studio would produce it or distribute it , I think Paramount would just as well people forgot their involvement at this time. Keira Knightly , The Hole, was a UK film, I have never seen it. Says she did appear topless, super briefly. I don't know maybe there are UK laws for TV that are different than for film. Dave and Dan made it clear , season 1, that all the child actors had to be aged up to meet UK child labor laws. (I don't know what happened to the UK law amendment that would have prohibited anyone under the age of 14 from working , at anything , much less movies and TV.) The working hours part of the law is still in place , but the age restriction must not have passed. Since Sophie's scene would have been shot in UK territory , NI, I can see where Dave and Dan could have been restricted. HBO does nudity the MPAA hits with an R and X , still!, even if it's adults and is in context. HBO must have it's limits tho. It is amazing how at this late date , the 21 century, how puritanical the US is. I know adult material proliferates the web, and Premium Channels have a lot of soft core, but foreign art film here sometimes goes around the MPAA and is unrated. As for Ros, it just seems so unlikely , but lord that sequence is so far off I have wonder if we will ever even get there!