Yeah, but she's still going to have Ser Robert Strong, aka The Qyborg aka Franken-Gregor aka Gregolem. That shit is gonna be bananas.

They got into exactly how many ways there were to skin a cat, obvs.

Nope, that's a fresh addition. So is Varys having a clue that Littlefinger is planning to spirit Sansa away. I really like the additions, because Conleth Hill as Varys is KILLING IT and because Varys was always a really interesting character to me, but they definitely are novel albeit not contradictory to anything we…

I'm really glad they kept the detail about them hanging his hand around his neck. Adds to the needless cruelty of it.

No, there's a scene in book 3 where he tries to control Joffrey and gets utterly shot down. Tyrion is there and is highly amused by his father's consternation.

Dude, she rode a friggin dragon. That's not as awesome, but that's pretty awesome.

I'm disappointed that the shots I've don't have him with a blue beard.

The CGI people deserve some credit too, the scenes with the thousands of unsullied looked properly epic. And of course Drogon looked awesome.

Yeah, and part of what's so great about that is the whole reason he's the person he is because of his own daddy issues coming from a well loved, gentle, kind father who let the family slide into mockery because he wasn't hardass enough.

She grew a ton during the first season between the pilot and the rest of the episodes. She's been tall for a while now.

He didn't have the sorcerer in a box in the books, but his story about becoming a eunuch is mostly verbatim. We get to see more of him in the series than in the books, because he knows too much and if he were a point of view character then too much of the plot would be given away, but he's similarly awesome and…

Yeah, agreed with @avclub-b7ee6f5f9aa5cd17ca1aea43ce848496:disqus . Don't forget that in the books he sexually molested Tommen. Dude ticks off pretty much every box of the "gonna be a serial killer some day" list.

Yeah, when Margaery said that I thought it was a clever conservation of characters. We already know Loras and Sansa was already besotted with him, and now we have the whole "oh poor Sansa she's going to have to marry a gay guy."

It dries the ink/soaks up excess ink. Otherwise you'd either have to wait for it to dry on it's own, or the ink would smudge. They don't have ballpoints.

The mummers dragon, it is known.

Eh, not really. She rocks all the way through the end of book 3 with her massacre of the Kind Masters of Yunkai and her siege of Meereen, but book 5 is largely trying to deal with all the issues that come with trying to change an economy based upon entrenched class structures built atop chattel slavery. The only…

HODOR HODOR HODOR! HOOOOOODOR.

Ayup. The Battle of Oxcross really fucked both Stannis and Robb. The Tyrells could still have marched on Kings Landing and made it there in time, but it would have been a much closer thing since they wouldn't have the Lannister forces with them.

@czar You speak truly? Oh man, thank god!

@avclub-32c04ac04a7dc3d93ffd6893b8bfffe2:disqus He saves Brienne from Biter after she kills Rorge, but other than that not really.