Once again I'm finding alterations to the story with no reasoning, causing mischaracterisation and only possibly leading to further excisions and alterations.

Doesn't help to face invasion after invasion from aggressive foreign nations who proceed to obliterate everyone around you and dictate the survivors lives for no reason.

Christ. I've never had a serious relationship and I've still had enough upsets to put me off the idea. I've been told I'm cold, but if I am, other people caused it. When I come to Jez or anywhere else and see that everyone who puts faith in the idea of relationships has stories like this, and more, all I can think is…

Aha. Well spotted. I suspect you and Biff are right and that this IS Jeyne Westerling, and they have changed the circumstances under which they meet like this using a silly fake name ruse so they can truncate the entire northern war, raids on the Lannisters homelands and Robb's recuperation. That wouldn't be too bad I…

More uproar, which is not my point, but no misogyny, which is. People are free to dislike a hated character or bail on the show because they only just realised they're not watching Care Bears, it's mischaracterisation I object to, and Joffrey is an equal opportunities psycho shitheel. The cat shooting would have been…

Melisandre is a priestess under a weird foreign religion. It's not clear yet in books exactly where her powers come from, a real god of light or some kind of sorcery, but they are real. Occult powers are real in Game of Thrones and you'll see more of it - as if dragons, zombies and blue-eyed evil icy supermen weren't…

No I believe at a later point you will get both your wishes (unless you literally meant "A Jon Snow and Robb Stark scene" in which case yes you'll need slash fiction).

Ah so you're saying the muddy nurse is not going to replace Jeyne? Because that's what I thought they were doing.

This episode really showed up what I've been saying from the start of this season; it's not just taking shortcuts over the book for TV run times but actually writing completely new material and changing direction, and I really don't think for the better. Here's what comes to mind (possible book spoilers):

Technology moves apace as always. But history so far has taught us that this is both impossible and dangerous.

Ten may be to old. I remember being ten. While I wasn't as cynical and jaded as I quickly became in my teens I certainly wasn't the credulous idiot I'd been at, say, 6 or 7. Things move fast at these ages. A year is like a decade in adulthood. Put it this way; OG Who was still on when I was that old. When I was 6 it…

Provided there isn't some boneheaded world war over it, I predict a mixture of good and bad. I wouldn't expect a breakdown of society though because it will happen too slowly; decades will pass where only the ever richer can afford to gas up, recycling will become major industry and consumer products will adapt or…

You realise these obscenely rich people would do this awesome and productive thing in order to make more money right? The first people to successfully manage to mine the solar system will become richer than you could imagine. It might take a century of subsidised experimentation, learning and not a few catastrophic…

Sweet propaganda.

So did I. Struggling to find words to describe the gender bias here.

OK then I'd like to clarify what I mean.

Seriously? Book spoilers

It hasn't for my liking been explained thoroughly enough in the series, but the Watch is beyond the Wall. There is no civilisation there, no farms, no halls, no lords, just wild men, monsters and holes in the ground, a wilderness. Craster's Keep, him and his army of wife-daughters, is the only established regular…

Last episode I posted that the show was moving too fast, compressing too much and must be confusing for non-book readers, and wasn't gelling.

If it wasn't already clear from the editorial on show here, everywhere else on Gawker and the rest of the Internet and media, the whole affair is being furiously spun as international military provocation rather than a scientific effort. That that may be the case is irrelevant, since we don't get endless articles…