Jaqen H'gcarl

Freaking awesome. One of the best 50 minutes of TV I've ever seen in my life.

ABSOLUTELY.

This episode was BY FAR the best of the Season. Holy fuck this episode was awesome.

Unrealistic yes, but it was the climax to the whole scene, each moment getting more andmore intense. The squishing was a sort of literal release from the tension that was building for the last few mins.

I admit, I had to look away during that part. I knew Oberyn was going to die but once I realized what The Moutain was doing and that they were really going to show it, I had to look away.

When he put his fingers in Oberyn's eyes, that was awesome (gruesome and horrible to watch - but that's the point). But when he squished Oberyn's entire head in.. that was just ridiculous in my opinion. Ah well..

Did you guys actually like how Gregor practically squished oberyns head like a watermelon?

It felt extremely unrealistic. I mean, I can understand someone getting their face smashed in by a gauntlet, but squishing someones head to watermelon? come on... really?

Dinklage is outrageously good. Holy fuck.

Felt a little generous, 10/10.

I absolutely loved the episode. Probably the strongest opening since EP1S1. LOVED IT.

My kneejerk reaction too was that it was one of the best this season, but eh, what do I know, I haven't read the books (well, midway through Book 1 but am not really sure I want to let fidelity to source material sway me from enjoyment of the show, so I'm not sure I want to finish it anytime soon...). It's kind of blowing my mind that people can say that nothing happened. lots of setup I agree, but I didn't feel like anything was terribly extraneous..maybe annoying (i.e Theon/torture, Robb/Talisa, but I see why they're doing it, and the nudity/sex doesn't bother me at all either). I was actually dreading the bear pit scene thinking it might be too brutal, but it was nicely done and while I would've loved to see Jaime toss Locke into the pit I loved that they choose to end it that way, with him sheathing his sword with disgust as the the Rains of Castamere began to play. I loved this episode! not the best but worth rewatching (as opposed to The Climb - the first GoT episode I had no desire to rewatch). and the DRAGONS.

Just keep reading, book 3 is, in my opinion, the best book of them all, it is absolutely brilliant. And stay safe from spoilers, you're not even safe on this forum. I mean there are spoiler free sections but :P you're never entirely safe. Personally I got some spoilers from youtube videos while i started to read, and after I got them, I stopped watching anything GoT related on the internet for like 6 months(while i read all the books), and it payed off :P

and btw, Welcome to the forums! :)

I think it was one of the best this season, yes, not much happened, but I think it was a awesome awesome episode.

It was absolutely brilliant, LOVED the Daenerys scenes.

I really really liked the episode.

One thing though, I was not a big fan of Ramsay. Baby talking with Theon was pretty cringing, and I didn't like that it felt like he was a little more crazy, and a little less sadistic than he should be. In my eyes he is a really sadistic asshole, but not particularly "crazy".

But all in all it was really really good, the climbing scenes were PURE gold. So well done.