FattyPeon

I thought it was weak sauce too. A scene in which Tywin and Joff talk one-on-one and involves Tywin ascending the stairs and towering over Joff as he sits the throne should've been far more dramatic and intense than some lame dragon speculation. Tywin definitely asserted his dominance, but meh.

She lied at his trial and intentionally humiliated him in front of the court. She was hanging around him like a pest, she would bed down next to him like a ninja, and he would wake up with her clinging to him etc, pretty sweet really. Then she lies to Mance and says they're already banging, to get Jon out of trouble for lying, then they go in the cave.

Loras needs his, guys. Seriously, its not a big deal. He's not a robot, daddy gets lonely. Even if he never loves again, which is unlikely no matter what he says, his gears still works. I've found that people whining about character assassination usually just have a wrong (shallow and robotic) idea of the character in question to begin with. And Cersei marrying Loras is important to Tywin not as an alliance, since they already have that, but I saw it more as Highgarden eventually being ruled by his blood.

Ser Barristan sided with Ned, against his king, on the matter of assassinating Dany. He doesn't just sit there quietly when he needs to say something, especially when part of his implied role is counsel.

You say he was a hero at Blackwater and now all of a sudden he is whiny and weak. What do you mean "all of a sudden"? He lost at Blackwater lol. He was crushed and shamed. He went to KL as a substantial favourite to win, and then he had to retreat from his birthright/glory/justice etc etc etc, and now he sits idle in Dragonstone without the men/gold/anything necessary to try again. Not sure whats so "all of a sudden" here.

People hyperventilating over the Stannis scene need to calm down. We never saw them alone in the book. He spends all of his time with her after Blackwater, usually alone with her. He's an utterly defeated man at the moment, desperate and depressed, but of course, she is the only one who gets to see him in that state, ever. He still maintains the rigid, stern, clenched-jaw exterior among others, and it feels quite natural to me that he would drop the facade in the moment that she is 'abandoning' him. Seems to me that some of you guys are the ones who have Stannis figured wrong. He's not bereft of feelings, he's rather the opposite, too sensitive.