Game of Thrones begins....

[Jaron]

SUGE, I used to be in love with Mandy Moore 

She's so wholesome and lovely.

[Admiral Yi]

Caught a few more episodes last night.

OK, next question is, what's the scoop on that dude in Lannister armor, speaks with a Frenchish accent, who helps Ned's younger daughter escape? 

[grumbler]

Caught a few more episodes last night.

OK, next question is, what's the scoop on that dude in Lannister armor, speaks with a Frenchish accent, who helps Ned's younger daughter escape?

He was one of the three men in the cage wagon who was being taken to the Wall.  Obviously, one of the men Ned gave to the watch from the jails of Kings Landing, and obviously one of the more dangerous ones, since he was in a cage.

His name is Jaqen H'ghar, and he is from the city of Braavos across the sea.  I won't spoil anything about him, but he is clearly both dangerous and honorable (by his own lights).

[Admiral Yi]

Grazie.

[Josephus]

So nobody watched the grand finale?

Turned into Walking Dead there at the end.

[Fate]

I didn't like the zombie scene as the ending for the season. I would rather have had them end by introducing Mance Rayder and having a dialogue with Jon Snow about the white walkers, rather than explicitly showing the Lich King and his zombie army.

[Solmyr]

That wouldn't have the same season-ending cliffhanger effect though. It was okay.

I guess we now know that Tywin Lannister's horse doesn't shit gold, either.

[Maladict]

Finally got round to watching this (season 1).
That dwarf looks an awful lot like Hugh Laurie.

[Berkut]

Huh.

The House of the Undying was, well, pretty badly done all the way around.

It really did not make any sense - my wife (who only read the first book) had no freaking idea what that was all about.

1. Daeny goes into tower.
2. Daeny wanders about in snow. Snow?
3. Daeny sees her dead husband and dead child. So sad.
4. ???
5. Daeny is chained up? WTF? Did we miss something?
6. Daeny's dragon burn up the warlock. What? How? Why did he just stand there while they kill him? Huh?
7. Daeny is free! Yeah!

The entire episode felt very, very rushed, and yet they spent a (relative) lot of time on stuff that seemed superfluous, like Robb's conversation with his mother, and Stannis' with Melisandre.

The overall bit with John was not well done either, IMO. In the books, it is clear why Qorin and John are fighting, and what Qorin is trying to accomplish. The show seemed confusing - again, my wife was all "Why is Qorin attacking him? How does he know John is a traitor? What?".

Compared to the way season 1 ended, this was hugely disappointing, IMO.

[Fate]

Did she watch the previous episode? I haven't read the books but it seemed pretty clear to me what was going on. If you missed that part in episode 9 then it might have been confusing.

I agree with you on the whole Warlock tower sequence. I mean he does explain the dragons appear more powerful with her near them, so I guess it was the first time they could really spit napalm. But the way they killed the Warlock was so anti-climatic. He just stands there and takes it. Do some magic! Shit, the last time you turned into 10 people and cut 10 throats simultaneously. I guess they burned their CGI budget on Blackwater.

[Habbaku]

[jimmy olsen]

Huh.

The House of the Undying was, well, pretty badly done all the way around.

It really did not make any sense - my wife (who only read the first book) had no freaking idea what that was all about.

1. Daeny goes into tower.
2. Daeny wanders about in snow. Snow?
3. Daeny sees her dead husband and dead child. So sad.
4. ???
5. Daeny is chained up? WTF? Did we miss something?
6. Daeny's dragon burn up the warlock. What? How? Why did he just stand there while they kill him? Huh?
7. Daeny is free! Yeah!

The overall bit with John was not well done either, IMO. In the books, it is clear why Qorin and John are fighting, and what Qorin is trying to accomplish. The show seemed confusing - again, my wife was all "Why is Qorin attacking him? How does he know John is a traitor? What?".

The dragons are powering the warlocks magic and they are more powerful if Dany is there. The warlocks are casting illusions to make her want to say at the tower. Offering her the Iron throne and her husband. That doesn't work so they chain her with magic. The Dragons are as I mentioned above the source of the warlock's magic, that's why he can't defend against their flame.

The Qorin-John fight makes perfect sense if you remember their interactions in episode 8.

[Grallon]

This episode seems to bring us at the end of book 3 - which was the last I read... Although we didn't see the Red Wedding.



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[katmai]

[Grallon]

As I said... it's all hazy.  I haven't read those books in more than 10 years.



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