Renly was too cavalier. Taking feasts at every village, holding tournaments when he's marching to war. Dude had to shape up.

I think she just means she "Volanteered" to care for the wounded.

Oh, was that Lorch? I knew it was in the book, but I thought they replaced them with goldcloaks in the show. The Yoren fight in the show was actually the part that made the least sense to me and I decided not to think too much about it because I thought it was much better handled in the books.

Yes it does. There are words that can be countable or non-countable, and using "less" or "fewer" can clarify what sense of the word you mean. For example, if you "ate less fish" you had a lower quantity of fish flesh, but if you "ate fewer fish" you had consumed a lower number of individual fish.

It is completely in character for Joffrey. He's well-known for his cruelty and for having other people do his dirty work. Plus he's not sexually mature, but he does get off on pain.

Lorch is probably gone, since they condensed him out, but Vargo is a still a possibility and Roose may show up later.

Yeah I got the idea that it's burrowing in to try to escape the heat.

I don't think Robb has a Valyrian blade. Ice was the only Valyrian steel the Starks had, and Tywin Lannister stole and butchered it. Jon has Longclaw, but he got it from Mormont.

The saw doesn't give you impact damage which you'd expect even if you get through with one swing. And you can spot it more precisely. Plus you don't want to waste the blade of your fighting blade on an amputation. Don't put it through any more use than need be.

He looked pretty pale to me.

Yeah, he's an overconfident little punk who only gets away with his shit because of his high birth. Dude would have an arakh to the belly in no time in a society where that's an acceptable way to deal with little shits like him.

He did have his men rape the shit out of a dwarf's wife though. Sure it was what he considered a lesson, but I'm sure Cobb thought he was teaching a lesson about heckling.

STILL BOOK 5 SPOILERS
I was thinking more specifically of the Jeyne Poole stuff, which I think the show might go all out on.

I mentioned this in another post, but that parallel was definitely intentional. Both of them ended up saving Stark girls too (although obviously Tywin didn't know that).

He's definitely one of the most competent, and would end the wars and make the kingdoms strong. He also is a dick, but it's a matter of perspective. People seem to think Tyrion would make a great king, and who's more like Tyrion than his dad?
also SPOILERSVarys kills Kev Lannister for basically being too competent, and…

Yeah you have to open with it I think.

The Roose is loose!

I was surprised they didn't have it clearly look like Stannis - the end point of that chapter in the book was Davos clearly recognizing who it was (never said Stannis explicitly, but…)

I wonder how much Ramsay we'll end up seeing.

Yeah the peach part was great and was a moment that stuck with Stannis later on.