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  1. Conan Stevens (season 1) could play the menacing part. This guy was just some bellowing extra without an ounce of menace beyond his costume.
  2. Agreed with this. Good episode overall, i respected their changes and what they went for. What really sucked was that they haven't had a good Mountain character since the first season. This guy wasn't even tall, couldn't act at all, and really made for an anti-climactic fight. At the finish he was way too unhurt-seeming, and throughout he completely lacked menace. Pedro was ok, though. Not sure why Jaime was smiling to much.
  3. Thanks, but I think you missed the part where that has anything to do with a coherent plan by Tyrion to foil his dad's plans. That's just his dad's mercy, he doesn't recognize it's part of a strategy to get Jaime's compliance. The fact that Tyrion has no plan is a big down-er from the book version where you get to see his intelligence and desperation on display both at once.
  4. All of which would be great except it's a reach to assume he even knows about Dad's Master Plan. I mean sure, you could assume he's thinking all that, but any kind of evidence of what he was thinking would've made for a smarter Tyrion, which was a nice aspect of the trial in the books - the combination of his emotion and his intelligence. The latter is kind of missing in this scene/episode, though I guess they can fill it in later.
  5. Was very hard to believe that the Shae-character from the show could really be so stupid as to not understand Tyrion sent her off for good reason. All this to get revenge? The character was always kind of stupid but I'm bummed they're now trying to course-correct into the book's ending. You could also say that Shae is playing a double-game trying to keep Tyrion alive... but again of late they've been leaving things pretty unsaid. Hoping they don't try to fit it into the book-Shae-plot. The trial was ok but the "trial by combat" moment seems odd - unless I missed something they chose to have no setup of that moment that would make Tyrion look less crazy/stupid? I guess you could assume he talked to the Viper off-screen, but more likely they'll tack on that conversation after the fact, along with a re-introduction to Clegane.
  6. I believe the quote was "I would kill for that girl" -- very different level of commitment there :). I agree with the other poster Shae is a fairly boring character whore with a heart of gold, but that's the level of subtlety that D&D bring to the table. They just don't have it in them to make a great show, in spite of some great plot material to work with. I enjoy it, but it's not as good as it might've been. On a related vein, I totally expect them to botch the opportunity inherent in Dany staying and leading people in her city in the far east. The cool opportunity from that is to showcase here losing control of a foreign population due to her own underestimating the complexity of upsetting a complex culture/economy/political situation and the difficulty of governing. Instead, I fully expect Dany to be the shining white hero who combats villians in the "middle east." Just some pre-bi**ing for seasons 4-5 :).
  7. There's not going to be any Shae betrayal. The TV character is completely different. She's going to be killed or worse by Tywin and then Tyrion avenges her. you could tell from season 2 on that Shae and Tyrion were never gonna go as they did in the books. Totally different characters and story. While I think they did a B- job with the season, I can't really fault D&D for making Shae a sympathetic character in the show. Three seasons of Tyrion loving a transparently insincere whore wouldn't have worked well on TV.
  8. you know it's really not that. I actually liked this sex scene with Melisandre because it was sexy and given some kind of plot and character development pretense that meant the characters weren't completely just showing gratuitious and poorly staged sex for an hbo executives twisted guess that people want to see bad porn. i'd like to see even better sex scenes that show people behaving in a sexy but also slightly realistic or believable manner. But when people complain about most of the sex scenes in GOT it's pretty much because they suck. Gimme something real, not bad porn.
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