Well, maybe, maybe not! She can perform supernatural feats, but we don't really have any kind of objective evidence that R'hllorrrglebargle exists, right?

The kid who played Walt on Lost grew a shit-ton really really fast, so it didn't really make sense to keep the actor/character, since the timeline of the show was very compressed despite it having been on TV for years - the Walt character wouldn't have grown so much in the month or so that Lost covered, unless he was…

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Ew. Nice screen name, though.

Nope, that wasn't explicitly spelled out in the episode. So you should maybe tag this as a spoiler.

More than that, I think GoT is explicitly subverting genre expectations and tropes that stem in large part from Lord of the Rings.

That's what I love about Tyrion - he's always got to be thinking on his feet since he knows most of his power is derived from his position/family, i.e. things he has no control over. That Tyrion/Bronn bit fits very nicely into this season's developing theme of the nature of power.

They better keep that battle scene, I love it. I'm guessing they're replacing Amory Lorch with Clegane, though.

Plus keeping Lommy sets up one of the darkest little episodes in CoK.

As far as I understand it (I'm no expert), the pharaohs were considered divine, so it was preferable to conserve the bloodline rather than dilute it. For everyone else, it probably didn't really make much of a real difference in their lives, so they probably didn't care, although the incest taboo is pretty universal…

She's like 10-11 in the books, but I think the characters on the show have been aged up to match the actors playing them, so show-Arya is something like 14. But still, fair point.

The costume/production design on the show has been pretty outstanding. For example, I love the choice to give the goldcloaks/city watch Indo-Persian style armor - not something I would have thought of, looks phenomenal. The costumes on the Borgias are pretty good, too, but Game of Thrones has so much more visual…

I think that's probably useful, since for most of the country the war was probably pretty much background noise.

I actually feel a little sad for him (or would if he wasn't such a reprehensible individual), since he's finally found a place where he feels skilled, useful, and necessary. Really, Joan's pissed off because he's not fulfilling the role she wanted him to play - husband/head of household. She was willing to overlook…

We're afraid for her because she's growing up in a chaotic home and has Betty Draper for a mother. Betty seems custom-built to produce a daughter with serious issues.

Arrrgh, scarring! And right before bed, too. My dreams will be worse than Don's.

It was still obvious that Peggy was nervous about her purse, though, and that basically underlined the fact that no matter how much solidarity Peggy might feel with Dawn, "their situations are not the same," as Peggy said. They had a moment of kinship, and then Peggy's inability to get over Dawn's race brought that…

Until Don's little murder fantasy and Peggy's burst of racism this episode was shaping up to be pretty funny. That "What did ya have in mind?" bit had me cracking up.

I think Tyrion would like to think that Bronn is with him because he (Tyrion) is awesome, but that facial expression is Tyrion realizing, "shit, I really can't trust anybody I don't pay, and maybe not even then." At least Bronn is honest about it, though.

Yeah, that was Rakharo, the most recognizable of her bloodriders (I don't even remember what the others look like). Someone mentioned it's because the actor decided to take another job.