Thunderfist

This episode was so bad, it was almost painful to watch. David and Dan claim to be huge fans of the series, then why do they want to f-ck it up so bad? So many issues that I hardly know where to begin. The Winterfell scene, while very different from the books worked for me. It got the job done even if it might have implications for Theon in the future. We have the scene with the riot in Kings Landing which was decent all in all but still had some bad stuff in it. Why was Myrcella crying when the books make a point about her not doing it, it´s a minor change but why change it at all? And when the crowd ripped the arm of the High Septon, what the hell was that all about, I kept waiting for them to start shouting "BRAAAAAIIINS" and begin eating people. And as much as I love the Hound and the fact that he came to rescue Sansa, the added gore just makes the show feel like a really cheap horror movie. The scenes from Harrenhall were really, really bad this week. First we have the stupid stuff about the secret message that got sent to the made-up house although it goes against the laws of geography and ravenry. Then we have friendly uncle Tywin who is pretty much father of the year in Westeros. I get that they need to give us a reason why Arya doesn´t have Jaqen off Tywin, but to make him this soft and incompetent goes against everything the book made him out to be. Then we have Littlefinger who teleports around Westeros, showing up in places he never visited. I wouldn´t be surprised if we find him in Mance Rayders tent or at a meeting with Dany the next season. In the books, LF is probably one of the most competent players in the game, in the show he´s stupid with no style or discretion. And the scene where Arya got chased was just breathtakingly bad, I was waiting for a shot of a corridor full of doors where they would run in and out of those doors and we´d hear some silly music in the background like something out of a Scooby Doo episode. The scenes with Jon Snow were full of stupidity as well. I agree with Rockroi about how strange it is that he chases after Ygritte. What´s also strange is that Jon runs what, 150-200 meters to catch Ygritte and all of a sudden he´s completely lost in the wilderness. And Qhorin mother-effing Halfhand, super ranger, master tracker and expert survivalist can´t find him. When you run in snow, you make tracks, hell, anyone could track Jon Snow and find him. And the whole Ygritte-grinding, what was that all about. They are wearing 20 layers of clothing, he´s not gonna feel shit. My bet is that the producers really wanted another stupid T&A-scene but they figured that it would be too unrealistic if Ygritte stripped in -50 C, however, once they get into a cave or near a fire you can bet that those furs are gonna come off. From one stupid scene to the next as we join up with the cast of Dawsons Creek, err, I mean Robb Stark, Lord of Winterfell and King in the North. Robbs scenes with this Talisa person, the looks, the dialogue, makes my stomach turn. Then all of a sudden Catelyn teleports back in (maybe she borrowed LF´s teleporter?) and Robb simply goes "hay mum, look at this hawt chick I´m drooling over" instead of perhaps saying "So, I heard that Renly Baratheon got killed by a woman while you were in his tent, and who might this enourmous woman in armor be?" And Catelyn is really weak and stupid and simply goes "There there Robby, remember that you gotta marry old Walders ugly granddaughter back at the Twins" instead of doing what any sane person would and think "Damn, look at my boy eyehumping this hot chick, I better make sure to get this girl the f-ck out of here or all kinds of shit is gonna hit the fan". Dany, damn, I didn´t think it was possible for her character to annoy me more than it does in the books but Emilia Clarke is doing her best to prove me wrong. The girl has got what, 3-5 fighting men and 3 hamster-sized dragons and she´s still going all "Fire and Blood", "Take back what was mine", gawds, go nibble some olives and chill the f-ck down. Then to screw things up a bit more, the showmakers conjure up a dragon-stealing-scene that destroys everything the books tells us about Qarth and it´s people, well done! But the episode wouldn´t be complete without some T&A so the showrunners picked up the big hat and pulled a name from it. "Who´s gonna do some nudity this week?" - oh look, it´s Osha. What is the point of this scene, to get more boobs on the show, to prove that all men will become utter and complete idiots as soon as there is a woman within 10 meters? And to all you people who seem to get really excited whenever there is a boob on the show, haven´t you ever seen any before? Try a simple google search for "boob", "breast" or "tits" and I´m sure that you´ll find more boobs than you could ever imagine, and maybe if the showrunners did the same, they wouldn´t need to throw more of them into the show. I´m gonna give this show until the end of this season, if shit doesn´t improve and if they keep f-cking everything up, then I am done. My expectations are so low right now that nothing would surprise me. I´m thankful that Jaime has been invisible this entire season because it would have been painful to watch them screw my favourite character up, although I have full confidence that they will have time for some Brienne/Jaime sex just for the sake of it.

If my options were to either spend the night spooning with Ygritte or spooning with Qhorin Halfhand, I´d run after her as well!

I gave this episode a 4. For each episode I´m getting more and more worried about the future of the series. There seems to be changes made for nothing else than the sake of change. I´ve begun to hope that GRRM will give David & Dan the Tyrion/Joffrey treatment "slap, slap, slap-eti-slap" before this show goes further downhill.

You can still father children despite being gay

:bowdown: HaHaHaHa!!!

Omg, omg! I think you´ve discovered the truth about Jon Snow. He´s not the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna, he´s the son of Stannis Baratheon. I can imagine that Stannis gave Jon to Lyanna Stark for safe keeping since he didn´t think that a fortress during a siege was the best place to have a baby. Lyanna headed to the ToJ where Ned eventually found her and thought that the kid was hers, Stannis suffered from amnesia from feeding on rats and insects for a year and forgot he had the kid in the first place. Quick, do a reread of ASoIaF and look for mentions of Jon grinding his teeth!

Let´s hope so, imagine having sex with someone who keeps that tormented facial expression on the whole time

You are probably right about the Starks not showing emotions. Let´s hope that he doesn´t keep that troubled/tormented look when he´s under the furs with Ygritte. Or if that doesn´t work, maybe Tormund can cheer him up in season 3 or 4

Great episode all in all. Good: The scene with Theon/Balon, Alfie Allen is rocking Theon Greyjoy and the guy who plays Balon is awesome. The jury is still out on Asha Tyrion scheming in Kings Landing, although I did miss the "Dolf fathered warriors, not barbers" Catelyn Stark showing Renly and Loras who´s boss, Michelle Fairley owned those scenes. Brienne looks really awesome, can´t wait for her to get more screentime with Jaime First glimpse we saw of Natalie Dormer and I can´t wait to see more, she´s a really great actress and here she shows Margaery as the true heir to the Queen of Thorns The Loras/Renly scene was great, Loras with both his body and his pride suffering from severe bruises Aryas scenes were different from the book but they still worked imo, I liked that they included Ser Amory Lorch in the story, I wasn´t aware that he´d be included The Bran/Luwin scene was good, I think they´ve found a smart way to deal with the whole wolf dream / warging bit (and they get credit for mentioning giants and the CotF) Finally, Conleth Hill makes a really good Varys Not so good: Everything North of the Wall, I thought that last episodes cliffhanger was really silly, why the hell would Craster head out into the woods with a kid when he had 300 NW as guests. He could´ve waited 2 days and he´d be free to sacrifice whatever he wanted. And Kit Harrington is looking really emo in every scene he does, he has the same facial expression 95% of the time. Any scene that featured Shae, bad acting, annoying weird accent, need I say more?

I was actually really disappointed about this episode, so many changes that made no sense and things that had been added or removed It seems out-of-character for Littlefinger to try to intimidate Cersei, he never does anything like that in the books, he´s just a background player I didn´t see the point of having the Hound fight anyone The scene with Roberts bastards made it seem like he had fathered half the children in Kings Landing Dany flirting with her bloodrider didn´t make alot of sense But my biggest problem was that they did not include the dialogue between Tyrion and Cersei when he arrives for the meeting of the small council. That is one of my favourites in the entire series and I really wanted to see what Peter Dinklage could do with it on screen. "I never understood what Jaime saw in you apart from his own reflection" - too epic to leave out I gave the episode a 3 I worry that as the books expand, the series is still limited to 10 episodes and thus it might feel forced and stunted