Is the AV Club not going to review the TV show? Just watched the first episode and it was a brilliantly faithful adaptation so far.

You might enjoy Anne Brontë.  Charlotte did not approve of the Anne's unflinching portrayal of alcoholism, spousal abuse and adultery, which she in a realistic rather than romantic mode.  Since Anne died young, Charlotte was able to refuse reprintings and bury her work.

@avclub-b833bdfd29ffbdf069ec2db478095059:disqus If they did that substitution it would be a spoiler that Bronn is never again relevant in the books, which would be weird since GRRM hasn't stopped dropping information about him.  Plus, Bronn being bribed with a marriage to not fight for Tyrion is a nice cherry on the…

@avclub-56dfc41867dc4d05e285222c24c4e7c2:disqus She was brought back to life way before she was actually revealed, and there's no reason the show couldn't do it the same way.

I'm with Smack: what's the long payoff here?

To be fair, the slave masters we've seen haven't been pasty white either.  It's almost like they're all from a part of the world where people are brown.

@avclub-82cf46948ca0f531a256e38473c9282f:disqus And they cleverly have put most of his scarring where a hood can hide it.  When it's up he looks less like a famous freak with half his face scarred, and more like someone with a less remarkable burn scar.

They have a behind the scenes about the bear pit scene on hbogo where you see how they did it.  They weren't allowed to put the actors near the bear, so they filmed them separately.

BOOK SPOILERS

@avclub-453f2cc28c88e7d65746a7694ddd5d0b:disqus It does serve one narrative purpose: to extinguish all hope that Robb secretly has a kid out there.  GRRM has said that it was simply an oversight that he left Jeyne Westerling's fate dangling in the wind.  
So while it doesn't make sense for Robb to have brought his wife…

"I’m more and more afraid that there isn’t going to be quite as devastating a closing punch as there was in the last two seasons, because we’re going to be closing on the middle of a book. "

I agree with Shae that Cersei is, in fact, jealous of Sansa, too, and for one key reason: Sansa genuinely embraces her assigned gender role.  While Margaery is much more canny and worldly than Sansa, this is one thing the two of them have in common, and it's something Cersei has never succeeded at accepting (cf her…

You forget that that hot piece of ass also happens to be attached to someone who's developed an increasingly badass persona.  Power adds its own attractions.

That poor guy with all those Targaryen names.  I liked that he almost got a "fuck this shit" look on his face at one.

I don't know, I thought her first nude scene did a really good job of establishing that she does not have a normal relationship with her brother.

@avclub-5c6ca78a2f7d9b4db3d3bb67614ffa00:disqus I agree.  In the first episode Jaime tells Cersei that she worries too much, to which Cersei replies that he never worries about anything.  That seemed to work for them when they were together, but now that they're apart Jaime starts to worry about other people - not how…

I don't think boobies are bad, but I'm with his wife: where's the hot male bodies?

@avclub-23dc117ef9479407fb6c6a666005af40:disqus I think your explanation makes more sense.  It's easy to lose the sense of scale on these maps, but comparing to the wall, those would each be 150 mile long fjords.

Yep, it totally shouldn't matter to her who she's doing the babymaking with.  It's all the same, right, ladies?

As someone who's made a lot of fires, I had the exact opposite thought: that it looked surprisingly like a real fire that suddenly was getting air.  It was in glowing coal mode, he took the log off, it got a few gusts of wind, and switched to flame mode.