At the very least they have to have him shout "Halfman! Halfman!"

At the very least they have to have him shout "Halfman! Halfman!"

Where were you last week? We missed your discerning sensibility and impossibly high standards.

Where were you last week? We missed your discerning sensibility and impossibly high standards.

The hounds have the scent … of walnuts and menstrual blood.

I'm not your bro. It's not that he doesn't like the TV show. He writes "the terrible triteness of the George RR Martin's imagination. This episode
had some of the worst verbal girl/boy, girl/girl, boy/boy exchanges
ever." Reads like a grumpy troll. "High five, bro" reads like a grumpy troll too.

As Ygritte says if all you do is beat off, you'll be grumpy like the Nightswatchmen. Everything seems trite when you're grumpy.

It's funny that everyone gives him grief over killing the Mad King. Maybe it's just that in their culture killing the King is such a taboo. He really doesn't like poor Dead Ned and Stark didn't like him. Maybe it was partly because he's a "kingslayer" and as Stark said last season, the Lannisters didn't come over to…

The manic street preacher who compared Tyrion to a demon monkey? Cool.

I see the Occupy Wall Street Movement as sort of a very well-mannered, well-meaning if confused prefiguration of the King's Landing peasant riot in the last episode. (Look I got an arm! Yummy!) We could be heading that way. Greece probably is.

To me it looked like Varys and the rich guy from Pentos.

@avclub-eb573591cef285c12701571987b08381:disqus Yes we need Vargo Hoat with his sigil, the Black Goat of Qohor. Doesn't Biter and Rorge join up with them? I'm afraid they might be written out since the show is changing stuff up, but still am hopeful.

If only Fat Spice would have done a song and dance routine before his demise.

@avclub-7e1ce4ce3124fd9ecc13a151afcff11b:disqus And they prefigured that when she saved the lamb women from being raped repeatedly. That's what Jorah sees in her, a potential to be a female Rhaegar and just ruler to the benefit of Westeros. That's why he switched allegiance.

That's how I see it. I love Iain Glenn and Emilia Clark. The weird thing is their age difference but maybe that isn't as much of an issue in their culture. I'm finding their storyline compelling, to use an overemployed word.

Agreed. Littlefinger might have persuaded Cat to do a switch. I didn't realize Alton was going to get it until the last second. Same thing happened with Ned Stark's lieutenant Jory Cassel in season one. He reminisced with Jaime about the Battle of Pyke and Thoros of Myr and not long after Jaime put a dagger in his eye.

Another great episode. Loved the scrum of yelling Northmen trailing and shoving Jaime. And when he saw Brienne, "Where did you get this beast?!" Jamie on Selmy, "He painted in red."
Freaky Qarth Warlock is even more awesome then we suspected. (Shade of the Evening must be pretty potent stuff.) Shae has Sansa's back,…

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I saw the big tour with Run-DMC. One friend was a year older than the rest of us,  recently got his drivers license and drove us to the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago. The whole audience was black except for us sububan boys and was there to see Run-DMC, the headliners. One very large man sitting behinds us cracked us up…