Game of Thrones begins....

[grumbler]

Yeah, the actor really inhabits that role and I like the fact that the writers made Ramsay more complex than in the books, without making him likeable.

Exactly.  he had pretty much just been a stock psychotic sadist up until this point; showing him jealous and fearful makes his cruelty human, not inhuman, and thus adds depth.

[Norgy]

Sansa's smirk when Roose Bolton shared the good news was worth the entire episode.

Pity about Jorah Mormont. He's been one of the characters I have liked.

[Josephus]

So we gonna have the [spoiler]pig and female midget?[/spoiler]

[grumbler]

So we gonna have the [spoiler]pig and female midget?[/spoiler]

We can hope not.  That whole plot element was painfully bad and over-done.

[Liep]

So we gonna have the [spoiler]pig and female midget?[/spoiler]

We can hope not.  That whole plot element was painfully bad and over-done.

[The Larch]

So we gonna have the [spoiler]pig and female midget?[/spoiler]

We can hope not.  That whole plot element was painfully bad and over-done.

Easily the lowest point of the whole book series.

[Berkut]

So we gonna have the [spoiler]pig and female midget?[/spoiler]

We can hope not.  That whole plot element was painfully bad and over-done.

Easily the lowest point of the whole book series.

Very possibly.

What puzzled me about it when reading it was that it was kind of obviously crappy filler, and in a book that was years overdue and waaaaayyyyy overlong? Huh?

[grumbler]

Very possibly.

What puzzled me about it when reading it was that it was kind of obviously crappy filler, and in a book that was years overdue and waaaaayyyyy overlong? Huh?

I've hypothesized before that martin is a lazy writer who has the power and ego to keep weak editors from improving his work.  The persistence of such crappy scenes and writing is a testament to bad editing, not bad necessarily writing.  All writer include awkward or irrelevant material in their writing.  Only bad editors allow that material to make it into print.

[Martinus]

Watching the episode, and the "plot" Brienne put together with the locals, I can see how the entire Winterfell seems to be following the Ned Stark School of Intrigue.

[Martinus]

Also as some recapper pointed out, Ramsay and Myranda may have issues, but they work through them.

[Martinus]

I'm really loving Sansa through and through in this season. She has graduated from one of my least liked characters on the show to one of the most favourite. I just hope this is not setting her up for another "abused by a psycho" trope.

[Martinus]

This is probably my favourite episode this season.

[Admiral Yi]

   Why'd you stop posting Marty?

[Norgy]

Watching those who have the greyscale... it just creeps me out completely. And not a lot does that. 
Must be my irrational fear of reptiles.

[Martinus]

  Why'd you stop posting Marty?