Turin Turambar

What I liked:

• Arya and Tyrion road trip
  
• Davos and Gendry interaction (Liam is just perfect as Davos)
  
• Tywin dismissing Joffrey, again
  
• Roose Bolton and Walder Frey exchange
  
• Sansa being a bit joyful, before descending (again) into post-RW sadness
  
• Maester Aemon it's back into the show :)
  

What I didn't like:

• Asha/Yara going to save Theon. With 50 men!!!
  
• no (hint of) LS
  
• the ending (seemed a little bit cliche)
  
• Shae getting too much screen time (all this season)
  

8.5/10.

The only (big) minus: no Lady Stoneheart revealed in the end.

What I liked:

• the Hound-Arya dialogue
  
• Daario casting
  
• the wedding scene (amazing acting from Peter Dinklage)
  
• Sam the Slayer (finally)
  
• Davos struggling to read Targaryen names
  
• Stannis meeting Gendry
  
• Stanni's interaction with Davos
  

What I didn't like:

• Cersei bitter and unsubtle exchange with Margaery
  
• the fact that Daario sneaked up so easily on Dany
  

9 for me.

An 8. The long nude Theon scene felt unnecessary, otherwise I enjoyed the dialogue and the little bear action in the end.

And kudos for Little Bart/ Bart the second :)

I thought LF was suggesting he had given Ros to Qyburn for experiments, actually.

Qyburn has yet to arrive in King's Landing.

I figure that's gonna happen when all the wights attack him and gilly, maybe in the show they will have them be joined by a other or 2.

I hope so, after all it's an important scene (dragon glass)...or maybe they'll skip it, budget-wise, as, from what I've understood, the White Walkers are almost entirely CGI

9.5, very good all-around episode.

just one complaint: still no Sam The Slayer :(

"I didn't understand this scene it must be just for the really stupid people"

I didn't say that. Lowest common denominator = average viewer, not stupid, nor brilliant. Also, "I didn't like it" != "I didn't understand it"

I actually thought they were going somewhere with it when the whores didn't take Pod's money, but then it was a joke that I didn't really find funny...I would have preferred a longer Arya scene. Or even a little Bran. Those types of scenes are why some critics just can't take the show seriously, and it's hard to blame them with scenes like that with no point and aren't even from the books..

I agree, but maybe HBO is trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator (which probably enjoys a grain of soft porn once in a while)

I think I'm the only person who didn't enjoy the Pod stuff...I like Pod, but it felt like a waste of time. If it was funny I'd probably like it, but I didn't find it very funny. *shrug* guess it's just me. Pretty good episode....I think the writing was much better than the previous two actually. Nikolaj is such a good actor.

You're not. I found that scene useless and too long. Instead of adding something relevant to the plot, they simply throw in an almost random & gratuitous nudity.

9/10

The only downisde: the sex scenes with Podrick (just useless filler)

9.

Thoros, Jojen and Meera are well-casted. Theon is in for a (painful) surprise next episode. Nice foreshadowing with that crossbow :)

The only downside was Catelyn's scene with Robb's wife.

In the books when she learns of Bran and Rickon's death she confesses her grief to Brienne, which of course results in a very different scene. Brienne is awkward as always and doesn't know what to say. "there are no words."

Indeed. And, if I remember correctly,

in the chapter right before RW he even tries to persuade Robb not to make Jon his heir; so no "atonement" for Catelyn regarding her view of Jon Snow

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I didn't like Catelyn's "confession" to Talisa - inconsistent with her character from the books, if I'm not mistaken...but I guess they wanted to make her more sympathetic for the TV show.