Is it just me or is Jon Snow not as dumb (or young or inexperienced or whatever) as he's been in the past. Aside from the whole kneeling thing, he acquitted himself rather impressively in the tent with Mance.

The part about being in over her head is a really good point and something that, at least in my viewing, has come out with just how emotive Cersei has been this season. Last season she was a stone cold operator, but this go around there have been many more instances of her losing that cool. First she screamed at the…

It's no accident that Tyrion gives Joffrey a history lesson on the Mad King — Joffrey is clearly being consumed by the same "visions of blood and fire" that defined Aerys Targaryan's last days. If the scene with the hookers did anything, it was reinforce how much Joffrey is more than just a spoiled child, but a…