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Sean C.
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No, the wildfire is 100% from the books.  The show did add him urging Aerys not to trust his father.

The Red Wedding is episode 9, from the title (The Rains of Castamere).

Frankenstein didn't experiment on the living, though.

No, and neither has Tyrion been forcibly married yet, but those are one and the same action (in theory, anyway), and she was quite happy at the prospect.

I've thought that pretty much since the show had him decide that he didn't have to keep his oath, for which Frey soldiers presumably died, because a hot piece of ass came along and he felt like marrying her.

@avclub-b62a8937e3279853ee5b66cf76558278:disqus Pretty much, as I recall.  The lords in council were pretty much all for pardoning him, but Robb said no.

One of the posters over at TWoP thought it looked like she had dragon scales.

More like A Game of Butts.  Gwendoline Christie's was very nice indeed (though it's harder to believe that Brienne is considered unattractive in Westeros).

There's been easily half a dozen pronunciations of "Sansa" on the show too.  We've had San-sa, Saun-sa, Saun-suh, Sun-suh, San-za, Saun-za, etc.

Ron Hynes' "Godspeed", bidding farewell to his friend Gene MacLellan, a major fellow Atlantic Canadian singer-songwriter (he wrote "Snowbird" and "Put Your Hand In The Hand", the latter of which is referenced in the lyrics), after years of depression and struggles with alcoholism led to him taking his own life:

What I especially love about that moment is there's no attempt to explain the significance of that particular item.  If you're not familiar with that episode, too bad; as you would expect from a finale, it's purely for rewarding long-term viewers.

On the one hand, Ryder is a moron for ignoring an actual hot girl in favour of some online liar.  On the other hand, if we can avoid having a couple on the show who bonded over their mutual molestation as children, that's likely for the best.

A really good example of Cersei's pettiness is the whole bit with Sansa's wolf Lady at the start of the books/series.  What did that accomplish, precisely?  She killed a wolf, for no real reason, resulting in pissing off Eddard Stark, the new King's Hand, who she should have every reason to want to befriend, or at

Every scene with Bob seems like it's going to be the one that reveals he doesn't actually work there, even though I know that would make no sense.

It was Dontos, on Littlefinger's instigation.

I don't know about that.  Even the people who don't like Sansa tend to really like Sophie Turner, in my experience.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus , I think he views Sansa as both a romantic replacement for Catelyn and the daughter he might have had with Catelyn, as well as having some echoes of himself (the whole bit where he challenged Brandon Stark to a duel for Catelyn's hand is total romantic fantasy stuff;

On a random note, I'm expecting that Alayne's dyed hair is going to be Sophie Turner's natural blonde hair, which would save them time.

It's easy to overlook, but when Sansa and Littlefinger are working up her new alias, she says she'd like to be 'Catelyn', which he says is a little too obvious (and perhaps too uncomfortably on the nose even for him), but suggests his mother's name instead.

Natalie Dormer has said in her interviews that she thinks Margaery's attitude toward Sansa is fairly genuine, and that in a different environment they could have been really good friends.  Which is basically what I think of the Tyrells:  they're opportunistic, but generally nice people.