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I love your writing so much!!! HILARIOUS. 1000000+ for use of the word "ganking."

Seems to me they did via how they just did, via Tywin. Perhaps too subtle for most obsessed book readers. :)

Loud and clear. But so many book readers here were too busy looking for "whitewashing/character assassination" opportunities so they could get their hate on towards the show some more, and clearly missed it. I also think Tywin was (mostly) lying to Cersei, because he knows she's working him, so he worked her right back, that way she wouldn't fight him anymore about marrying Loras. As far as the biggest OMFG moment of the episode for my unsullied friends who I watch with, was Lysa/LF being behind Jon Arryn's murder. Got to hand it to them, they pay attention. Loved that Ghost ate Rast's face off. Loved Jon making Karl literally reverse eat his sword. Loved Bran warging Hodor, and killing Locke (giant cheer from our entire living room.) Loved Pod telling Brienne about how he killed a Kingsguard to save Tyrion at the Blackwater. (Burning bunny! YUM!) Loved Dany's self-awareness discovery. Loved Bran being given a wonderful grownup-decision about how he couldn't have a moment with Jon as much as he wanted to. Loved the Jon/Ghost reunion. Loved Arya and the Hound - every moment. Want the spinoff.

I wasn't aware there was an announcement that Coldhands had been cut. Could you link that please? Or did you get screeners for the entire season?

While GoT has a giant budget even by HBO standards, they don't have The Hobbit's budget. :)

If anyone has access to the April Vanity Fair, that has the GoT cover story...... The photo inside of Sansa where she's almost the center of the photo...... she's wearing the necklace, and the stone is missing. http://fashionaddictedfoodies.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/STARK-SHADOWS-Vanity-Fair.png Love that.

Regarding Shae - I think they're going to threaten her into testifying by accusing her of of being an accomplice, and it's her only way of saving herself.

I love Jamie so much…… and feel horrid for HOWLING at those. EDIT: I can't believe I finally caught up to the entire thread. :smug:

Sometime within the 20min between when she took it, and Joffrey cutting the pie. My money is on Pie Time, when Margary put the goblet down after taking it from Joffrey.

Doesn't matter. Cersei isn't the "Queen" after Robert dies, because women don't inherit in Westeros. It's why the Dornish have their Myrcella plot - because they do allow women to inherit.

My guess is that, along with Lady Stoneheart, baby-eating dragons, Arya & The Hound part ways, Tyrion testing out becoming a serial-killer, and Bran meeting Blood Raven.

Why is everyone so obsessed by this random sound? That sound you hear could be anything BUT Olenna dropping the Strangler into anything. Why? Because at that point, the dwarf joust hasn't even happened yet, let alone Joffrey pouring wine onto Tyrion's head, then demanding Tyrion be his cupbearer, Joffrey dropping the cup onto the floor and kicking it away from Tyrion, Sansa picking it up and handing the now very empty cup (since Joffrey poured it all on Tyrion), so how in Seven Hells would the poison still be in the cup at that point? And no, she didn't drop it into a shared wine carafe that everyone at the table was sharing. Random sound is random.

Because this is a TV show, and a necklace is easier to shoot, allow someone else to touch and have the missing stone easily kept in frame and seen in the shot without having to shoot the back or top of Sansa's head. I thought the color was fine, considering how hard staying true to color is with video. (Green-eyed actors show up as blue-eyed a lot.) They're not going to spend post $$$$ on fixing the color for book fans when it's close enough, and there are dragons and Lady S to pay for.

Why not? Most everything in Bran's vision was a literal event. Why would a dragon flying over KL not be a literal event to come? Bran is going to warg a dragon. And why can't the three heads be Jon, Bran, and Arya since they're all wargs?

I guess you not only didn't watch the preview for ep 3, but also forgot this season has more eps to come.... And the fact the last frame of this ep was dead Joffrey, leaving everything that happens next (everyone's reactions and the aftermath) coming up in ep 3.. crazy, I know. And when she's stellar in the first scene this coming Sunday, because the reaction you're complaining about hasn't been aired yet because the ep cut off in the middle of the action, so we could relish dead Joffrey, what then?

Only if you're a male under 21.

To be honest, I think it's both raven and dragon. Go back and do a frame-by-frame... Keep in mind that we're looking at Bran's vision. There's a frame near the beginning of the flight over KL that shows the shadow of the wings that you can see space between feathers, then it changes to solid with the dragon tail. To me it felt like it was from Bran's POV, as if he was flying over KL as the three-eyed raven, then as a dragon.

It looked like that was his next statement to Loras, but Loras took offense and got snippy. Jamie was left standing there with that look of, "Why does everyone get offended when I'm sympathizing and trying to help?" on his face, just like when Ned got to King's Landing in season 1.

I am loving the F out of this season so far. Those first scenes with Ramsey were so hard to watch. Surprisingly. I expect horror. That turned my stomach - especially Alfie's face. I'm not having the problem with Stannis's character like so many here are. He seems very torn by this crazy path he's on. He seems to honestly believe this is his path, as horrible as it is, to save the world from itself, and thinks he really has run out of all other options. It's like a person who's made a bad decision but are in denial even to themselves, and keeps trying to convince everyone (especially themselves), that this is the only path, and if they keep going ALL-IN, it will eventually turn around. Loved Bran's vision. (That does look like a blue rose in the ice - thanks for whomever screencapped that.) All the footage while he was Summer I think is a great setup for a very similar thing they could do when (and hopefully if) they finally get to Jon and Arya's warging abilities.... could be very similar footage, but the reveal is not Bran. Could be AWESOME Loved the Shae/Tyrion scene. Perfect way to set up what's to come, and creating a huge shock when it does, since the Unsullied will think she's safe. Loved everything with the Dornish. Just brilliant. Lady Olenna and her fussing with the necklace was shot perfectly, and worked so much better (and easier to shoot) than a hair net would be, especially since no one really ever wears a snood in this world, and the only person to wear serious hair jewelry is Ellaria. Love that they made it so book readers could track it fairly easily. I'd be perfectly fine with 86ing Penny. Love Jack so much. Edit: Grammar fail.

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Ok. I'm only on page 5 but why are people saying there were no missing stones from Sansa's necklace when you can clearly see the one on the far right (Sansa's left) is clearly missing after QoT touches it??? So brilliantly done!

It will work itself out very quickly because Sansa will still disappear early next season.

Now I do. I found the "go to the (almost) full version button. :D

Just caught a comment a few pages back regarding "Why the Shae/Varys scene?" It's setting up her break/betrayal of Tyrion. She thinks Tyrion sent Varys with the diamonds, not that he could possibly be that rich or come of his own free will.