@avclub-9f3362679d786df531bab7953d7ab610:disqus I'm there with you. The New Age is all over the place, but it has some really strong moments and interesting performances, and the last five minutes killed me— I think I was literally crying.

Seriously, they are both in this episode and they appear together like three or four times, even though you only see Summer in that one shot you're talking about.

Man, it's fine if you don't want to date her yourself, and Robb is kind of dumb, but seriously— how could Talisa not be incredibly interesting to him? She's smart, classy, and (by Northern standards) exotic, but also… if you don't count 1. members of his family, 2. household servants that he's been taught to ignore,…

I like the actor, but I'm a little sad that they mostly kept the fairly ordinary cranky joke lines and cut the ones that showcased his loopy imagination, like "Do you think this whole hill is made of Craster's shit?" Also, although I'm not surprised that they chose not to show the full-on battle at the Fist of the…

On the show, we do see their conversation, at least right up to the point where she's getting the dagger out to kill him. Anyway… I don't know, right after Luwin got stabbed it looked like he was doing pretty much what I would be doing: lying on the ground thinking OW FUCK, and not keeping track of what other people…

@avclub-ef062084a1c4a3584af1d4f8e514ea50:disqus Heh, sorry, I didn't mean to be a jerk - I just started trying to think of a couple of those scenes and got carried away. Believe me, I've made way more inexplicable mistakes when it comes to shows with a lot of characters - hell, I'm like that with people in real life.

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus You're being trolled. Dog Me wasn't trying to have a logical discussion, it was just a fancy way of saying "gays are perverts, so if you think they're okay then you must also think every other kind of pervert is okay." The style is a dead giveaway, including the "I have…

@avclub-ef062084a1c4a3584af1d4f8e514ea50:disqus There were a few subtle clues that Talisa is not the Frey girl:
1. In season 1 where Catelyn arranges Robb's marriage, she tells him he'll get to pick one of the Frey daughters after the end of the war, but that they're all pretty much terrible.

The two wolves with Team Bran have been shown together lots of times, including in this episode. The off-white one is Bran's wolf, Summer. The black one is Shaggydog. Rickon probably doesn't show his face much because he's embarrassed for giving his wolf such a doofy name.

@avclub-30016cd5b9045be8de99ad5f1cbfd9af:disqus I dunno, I don't see it. Karstark wants Jaime dead. He was about to kill him the last time Robb stepped away; if he gets near him again in Robb's absence, he's not going to stop at a hand.

They're only "shitty mirrors" in the sense that candles are "shitty light bulbs." That's the only kind of mirror you can make if you don't have the technology for making smooth sheets of glass and putting silver coating on the back— it's just a really well polished sheet of metal. It'd still be something most people…

@avclub-3deae7321deafd837cee7c55bc02b58d:disqus What I mean is, for the last several hundred years at least, hardly anyone in Westeros has seen any evidence that any gods have mojo. Red priests who could actually do magic didn't show up until recently; the way Thoros describes his background, very few people these…

@Kumagoro:disqus Of course it's no secret that Joffrey gave the order to kill Ned. That's the important part to Sansa, but it wouldn't be what the Tyrells are trying to find out. There's a difference between "immature incompetent asshole who's terrible to his enemies, and might hit you if he's drunk, but can be…

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus Jaime is kind of bullshitting there anyway, even at the start— he's already seen her dismantle those three Stark soldiers in about three seconds, and her argh-ing didn't get in the way of that. IIRC at the end of that fight right after she slashed the last guy's throat,…

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus Well uh… thanks. Honestly though, I didn't see any of this as being particularly deep analysis. It's just how the scene looked to me: Marge sending out various test signals to see where Joff's interests and/or danger buttons may be(*), and Joff being clearly…

@avclub-3deae7321deafd837cee7c55bc02b58d:disqus I think the Drowned God works pretty well for a people who 1. live in a fairly unpleasant place where the main way to make a living is robbing and killing people, 2. are in frequent danger of drowning while pursuing said occupation, and 3. have a shitload of…

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus This is a fucking ridiculous argument, but since I've come this far: yes, I know you were talking about the show vs. the books. And you said that on the show, "without her blatant bastard-hating", Robb doesn't… so they have to… etc. That makes it sound like you think she…

Arya's also probably not in very good shape at this point. I'm sure she built up some upper-body strength when she was training with Syrio, but since then she's spent most of her time either walking across the countryside with not much food, sitting in a prison camp, or standing around Tywin's room.

For sure. I love Gwendolyn Christie's physical acting in all of her fight scenes; she's confident and focused, but it's clear that everything she does is really hard to do, like the only way she knows how to fight is to give everything her maximum energy every second. And she's always going "Raa!" and "Hrgh!" like a…

1. Very little in this world is legally codified. The king can put out whatever edicts he likes, but we've seen no sign that any of them have bothered doing so to enforce sexual mores. The only time anyone's referred to "the king's law" about anything at all was when Tyrion demanded a fair trial from Lysa Arryn.