Game of Thrones

[Chameleon]

In case anyone gets bored and wants to be ubernerdy before next week, possible topics for conversation:

1) People think there's a falling out in store for Shae/Tyrion, or will they find a way to deal with it?
2) What does Mel have planned for Gendry?
3) Where does Jon's allegiance actually lie at this point?  Still to the Night's Watch, or has it fractured now (even setting aside the "Night's Watch" as he knew might be gone after what went down at Craster's Keep)?
4) What does Bolton have in store for Brienne/is Jaime actually going to be freed/go without her?

Your knowledge on this matter is about as impressive as it is ridiculous. Not trying to throw a crimp in all of this. Just saying, "SHIIIIITTTTTTTT".

[Eagles_Legendz]

I'm absolutely 100% a self-admitted game of thrones nerd. 

[Munson]

In case anyone gets bored and wants to be ubernerdy before next week, possible topics for conversation:

1) People think there's a falling out in store for Shae/Tyrion, or will they find a way to deal with it?
2) What does Mel have planned for Gendry?
3) Where does Jon's allegiance actually lie at this point?  Still to the Night's Watch, or has it fractured now (even setting aside the "Night's Watch" as he knew might be gone after what went down at Craster's Keep)?
4) What does Bolton have in store for Brienne/is Jaime actually going to be freed/go without her?

1. Shae is gonna be bitchy and say "let's just leave!" again. I'm more interested in how Sansa reacts/how her interactions with Tyrion go.

2. I mean she said she needed the blood of Stannis and Gendry is his bastich nephew. I don't know if that means they're gonna sacrifice him or just use some blood or what. I wonder what he's gonna think upon finding out King Robert was his dad.

3. I think now that he's over the wall he's going to be much more interested in finding his family. Though I think he is technically still "aligned" with the Night's Watch. But who's there to warn? He said 1000 men still manned Castle Black but I think he was exaggerating that number a great deal. And god knows where the rest of the rangers are at this point. I thought they'd make it back to the Wall by now.

4. Yeah I have no idea what the hell is going on here. Bolton is being shady as shtein not sending Jaime back to Robb. But he's letting him go without demanding a ransom from someone else?? Makes no sense at all.

[Eagles_Legendz]

My guess with their interaction Bolton, if you take him at his word and the insinuations, would be returning Jaime because he understands what the wrath of Tywin could entail if he didn't send him back and Tywin found out & seems more concerned about that than he is money, though the scene doesn't make clear whether Bolton would be expecting a reward or not.

More problematic is the decision with Brienne - if he keeps her alive, she can talk about him letting Jaime go.  If he doesn't, & Robb and co. found out about it, wouldn't it be obvious he freed Jaime and kept her behind?  Doesn't seem like either scenario is exactly great for him there unless maybe he thinks he can cover up her death and/or have it blamed on someone else.

[hbionic]

I propose we greet each other by saying 'Valar Morghulis' to each other after every episode. It's only proper.

[Munson]

Valar Dohaeris, hbionic.

Kings Landing-lol there are times where I really, really, really like Tywin Lannister. This episode was one of those times. So happy to see him basically dare Joffery to say something wrong to him. Margery is apparently a total ho. Oh, Sansa and Tyrion. I'm still not convinced it's actually going to happen, but I'd be really interested to see what happens. Like Margery said, their kids would be the heir's to both The North and Casterly Rock. I can't see Shae sticking around much longer...

Robb-Helllllllo, Talisa. And now there's a Prince/Princess in the North.

Arya-Sometimes she's so wise, and other times she's such a whiney little baby. Stick with the brotherhood you dumb shtein. Did not expect her to run into The Hound out there. That's going to be an interesting combo. I wonder if the Hound tells her he tried to get Sansa out of Kings Landing.

Gendry-So, now he knows. Though the preview for next week didn't seem to bode well for him.

Jaime/Brienne-Well shtein. I'm trying my hardest to hate Jaime still but after tonight I don't think I can muster much hate up. He's definitely turning into a different dude. Poor Brienne got farged up by that bear.

Theon-Meh. farged up dude continues to be a really farged up dude. Though I hope we get to the point of that story soon.

Jon-Kinda wish Ygritte would hold true to her "you and me" schpeel from last week and stop worrying about the Wildlings fight against the Wall. Jon's right, they're gonna lose. They should be banning together with the Crows at this point since they all know what's out there.

Dany-Every episode she becomes an even badder bitch. I wonder who these friends are of Yunkai are. I"m guessing either Lannisters or Dothraki khals. Could also be Littlefinger, since Yunkai's chief export is whores.

[Eagles_Legendz]

The Theon shtein and the Bran scenes are so much worse than every other scene on the show.

[Munson]

Completely forgot about Bran haha. I know it's hard to do, but they either need to leave his scenes out altogether or spend more than a couple minutes with him so that they can actually explain what's going on there. I was excited at first to see the Reed's, but so far we've learned pretty much ziltch about them/the visions/etc. We just get Osha being all pissy every week.

I did get a good laugh at the "Hodor." line though.

[Eagles_Legendz]

Yeah the Hodor line was hilarious.

Sepinwall made an apt comparison in his review between the way Jojen is being used and Lost - kinda being the prescient character who sort of knows what's going / has "powers" but isn't explaining anything sufficiently to the audience.

[Diomedes]

After a haitus between books four and five I'm back in the saddle.  Should wrap up book five in a couple weeks now.

A question for you teevee watchers:  Is Strong Belwas in the show?  The scene where he taunts the slaver city after slaying their whoever it was is easily my favorite from the entire saga.

[Eagles_Legendz]

Nope, they axed Belwas (for this season at least - this would be the first time he would've shown up).  Agreed that part is hilarious.

[hbionic]

I'm even more skeptical of Rob Stark's hot-assed wife. I think she's writing Tywin Lannister, who is a certified bad-ass.

I love how the dragons keep getting bigger and bigger each episode...it's almost like they're our own kids.

I think Brienne is hotter now than she ever was with that bear claw scar on her neck.

Jamie Lannister is also becoming one of my favorites. He went from a funhole to hero in my eyes.

This season has been slow...but like each an every episode...I'm hoping the next one erupts.

[Eagles_Legendz]

I thought the season started slow, and then 3/4/5 were pretty great & busy but then it has cooled off considerably the last two episodes.  Like its this wave...start slow building to mid season climax, calm down and set the table again and then have it build for the last few episodes.

Still I thought the last two were pretty meh for the most part.  I love that they're splitting the third book into two seasons because its too much to do in one, but the downside is you get repetitive scenes like w/Sansa and Bran etc.

The positive is both of them, and Sam, even, should actually have stuff to do besides sit and walk around the last few episodes. 

[Munson]

The preview for next week showed Sam holding a spear at someone saying "Get back!" or something to that effect.

Like I said, I really wish they'd spend more time with Bran so we actually get an idea of what's going on, instead of these short scenes where they almost just seem like a reminder that the character exists.

[hbionic]

Who's Sam again?

By the way, I'm loving this Theon shtein. It gets better every week.

Also...if you wikipedia game of thrones list of episodes, you can see how the first episode had just over 2 million viewers and each episode has had more than the last and past 5.5 like one of you said earlier.

Television-hypnotics, it's fantastic!