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Somebody in college will convince him to sing it and record it for a laugh at some stage, nothing a few pints in the student bar in Trinity can't achieve!

I love them, but I'm slightly disappointed its not Jack Gleeson singing over the credits, would have been positively poetic! I'd have believed it too, it really does sound like how you'd expect his singing voice to be like!

I think the crticism could maybe be levelled more at the director/scriptwriter (sorry GRRM!) Lena usually delivers Cersei's stuff exceptionally well, and I do think she's capable of going over that precipice that is the edge of sanity, but she needs the right words and direction to do it.

Ok maybe not the clawing exactly, but there's been other moments. A better example from that exact scene is how I didn't think they handled Cersei's reaction very well. They spent a lot of time showing her inner conflict about Joffrey, the struggle of watching the monster he became vs the baby she loved so much, and i think it worked very well. She should have been more distraught than she was. For her to turn around almost instantly and go for Tyrion wasn't necessary, she didn't need to notice he was pointing at him, everyone who could see him would have noticed that, she should have been too beside herself with grief. It's is a massive turning point for her character and I think they didn't quite handle it as they should have. GRRM has been quoted as saying in several interviews he wanted viewers to realise that a child has been killed and that at that moment she is a mother grieving, but I don't think they pulled it off.

See this is my main issue from a book-reader's point of view. Just a little bit more attention to detail on their part would give us a bit more of a satisfaction buzz in noticing little details like that without necessarily altering a scene at all. It almost feels lazy at times. It was always going to be hard to fill half an episode while working around the PW. They managed it better for the RW because scenes like the hound and arya were still tying into it. Imo there was actually too much of the wedding, it went beyond anticipation and went to the point of 'Oh my god, just show it already'

Damn, i really want CH to be in it, cause i'm in (i think the fairly large camp) that think he's Benjen Stark. I'm mostly just praying that, even with all the theories and discussions, GRRM still manages to surprise us readers with something completely out of the blue or insanely well-buried before the end of the series. I don't want this to be consigned to the pile of stories that never lived up to their endings. And i'd also hope the show doesn't sway too far from the source text. It only takes a small deviation for them to be way off track three seasons down the line, though GRRM should hopefully realise these problems before they multiply

I have to say, as a book-reader, so far this season isn't quite living up to the standards i'd expect so far. I didn't have the pleasure of watching my non-reader friends' reactions (because everyone watches it at different times on Monday here in Ireland when they can get their hands on a good stream/torrent/wait for Sky Atlantic at 9pm) so maybe i missed the enjoyment there. My issue is, considering GRRM wrote the majority of this episode, it just didn't have that usual buzz of 'what stuff will he throw in for the readers!?' vibe. Bran's greendreams are grand and all, but that plotline has potential t seriously stagnate. Only glimmer of hope is that my boyfriend is fairly convinced he spotted Cold Hands' horse in the green dream near the tree, so that might perk my interest up again. Overall, though, I feel the pace has actually lulled a bit too much. Dany is as uninteresting as ever, King's Landing is going to do the same pretty soon unless they do a lot with the trial and ensuing combat between oberyn and the mountain, Arya and the Hound seem to just be meandering until she heads to Braavos. I can't quite put my finger on it but the Buzz i've had about the show before isn't really there, they've made slight changes to characters (Cersei, Stannis, Tyrion spring to mind) just enough to irk me, because there appears to be no justification for it. I worry that working with the show is changing GRRM's opinion of how he did it X number of years ago and that he's going to sway too far from whats been written already.