The scene of the Night's Watch confronting Craster was excellently player. It was clear to the viewers that the power dynamic had thoroughly changed from them trying to conserve a valuable resource in Craster's goodwill, to their willingness to kill him if they needed to. Craster is used to being able to dictate terms…

I loved the contrast between how proud her seemed of Cersei for taking the initiative to move the chair like that and how angry he seems at Tyrion for a similar action. I also like the way they positioned. Cersei moved to sit at her father's right hand because her identity is wrapped up in her relationship with Tywin…

I'm going to invent a sex technique called the Myrenese Knot. Step one is to find myself a girlfriend who is an Olympic gymnast, or perhaps a master yogi.

I don't watch Spartacus, so that would be why I was unaware. But I am glad to hear that someone other than just HBO is doing some male rape.

In a world with no other air power, dragons are more valuable than basically any number of men. Harrenhall, Tywin told us, would have held against any number of men. But against three dragons they didn't stand a chance. You can find men elsewhere, but there are only three dragons in the world.

I thought this last weekend, but that was when I thought he was just gonna be hanging around getting tortured all the time. Now that they're taking it in a different direction I think I can get on board with some more Theon action.

There were a lot of women screaming off screen in this episode, so I'm not sure what it says about me when I say that this was a great episode of television. Best not to think about it.

I was trying to think of the last time that I saw some man-on-man rape on television, or even implied male rape. I guess Oz would be the one.

Jorah Mormont drops two of the best quotes of the series back to back by leading into that line with, "There's a beast in every man, and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand."

I wasn't a huge fan of the sudden tonal shift with the song. It was a bit too jarring for me, but I can see it as the kind of thing I will like more on re-watching the episode.

I'll miss Svein and the Swedish dude that I mostly just called drunk Santa.

Ultimately Joffrey was spoiled by an absentee father and a mother who constantly told him what a special snowflake he was and that he should do whatever he wants whenever he wants (the incest birth didn't help matters, either). Bjorn has the advantage of a mother and father who consistently bust his ass.

I love how Gendry works as an audience surrogate sometimes. When he was asking Arya why she didn't have Jaquen kill Joffrey or Tywin there was a general sense that this was something we, as an audience, would also like an explanation for. Arya's response of basically telling him to shove it was a wonderful reminder…

I loved the scene between her and Joffrey because it showed exactly how quickly she can adapt to a new situation and figure out how to play the men around her. She's thrown off by his straightforwardness at first because more than anyone else he isn't afraid of offending anyone. In fact, as far as he has a strategy,…

Syrio may have been teaching her how to fight, but she's still a nine year old girl up against a fully trained swordsman. Although it's not mentioned in the show, a friend mentioned to me that Thoros of Myr won the melee at the Hand's Tournament. As one of the biggest tournaments in the kingdom you would expect that…

I agree with this completely. I had pretty much just started thinking of Catelyn Stark as one big ball of incompetence stumbling from one terrible decision to another with no regard from the bigger picture. But this scene is one of hers that I actually enjoyed, and it did a great job of revealing to us her emotions.…

I originally thought that was Edmund from "The Chronicles of Narnia," but IMDb tells me that is someone named Skandar Keynes.

I think it's probably not so easy to warg into an animal. If you have to break them, like breaking a horse to be ridden, then the smarter an animal is the harder you would expect it to be to get into their brain. Using Summer would be easy for Bran because he raised Summer from a pup and there's a relationship already…

She did have the advantage of fighting in full plate while Jaime was fighting in whatever rags the Stark's guards gave him a year ago. When she won it wasn't because she outfought him with a sword, she beat him with her steel-plated limbs. It reminded me of Jorah's fight against the bloodrider in Season 1. The one in…

Based on the trailer Jaime and Brienne are gonna have their sword fight next week, so you'll be getting all the Jaime Lannister you can handle.