As a book reader myself, I totally agree. This kind of vague (only not really) "hinting" is just obnoxious. There's plenty of outlets to discuss the upcoming episode(s) without lording it over show-only viewers.

The "Citizen G'Kar" scene/speech: http://www.youtube.com/watc… . Almost as good as the speech itself is Londo's face throughout.

Sansa not kneeling makes perfect sense in the books and still gets her hounded by tons of book fans (OH HOW COULD SHE DO THAT TO TYRION), how would it play to TV audiences used to a more sanitized Tyrion played by Peter Dinklage?

Did we really need six paragraphs about the nudity?

Nina Gold really hit the mark with another child actor, the girl playing Shireen is the perfect combination of sweet and sad at once. Poor girl.

Emilia Clarke absolutely nailed that scene.

Along with everything else great about this episode, it has (probably) my favorite B5 line;

They've mentioned that they had more of the budget to spread around this season, whereas last year they had to save a LOT of it for Blackwater.

It's basically a way for Martin to undermine the Stark-Frey alliance without having to do much work to get there (Robb just shows up and is like "guess what guys?!"). It works in the books a lot better because Robb is much more of a secondary character than on the show, where you have a charismatic/good-looking actor…

Jumping so far ahead in time in the third(?) episode was such a huge blunder. Instead of seeing the team grow together as a unit and getting to know the people making it up, we fast-forwarded and had a lot of "Well Maggie and I have been dating and breaking up for 8 months", etc.

Jumping so far ahead in time in the third(?) episode was such a huge blunder. Instead of seeing the team grow together as a unit and getting to know the people making it up, we fast-forwarded and had a lot of "Well Maggie and I have been dating and breaking up for 8 months", etc.

My frustrations with this show (combined with The West Wing appearing on Amazon Prime streaming for free) got me to finally start watching the show, and while there's some similarities (both good and bad), I now understand why people who came in expecting a show like that are so frustrated with The Newsroom.

My frustrations with this show (combined with The West Wing appearing on Amazon Prime streaming for free) got me to finally start watching the show, and while there's some similarities (both good and bad), I now understand why people who came in expecting a show like that are so frustrated with The Newsroom.

I agree with a lot of what you say. I wasn't big on the pilot, as a person essentially new to Sorkin (outside of the facebook movie and Moneyball/A Few Good Men, which I didn't even think of as Sorkin's), but I thought it had promise.

I agree with a lot of what you say. I wasn't big on the pilot, as a person essentially new to Sorkin (outside of the facebook movie and Moneyball/A Few Good Men, which I didn't even think of as Sorkin's), but I thought it had promise.

I think if you have any sense of self-preservation, you don't want to know.

I think if you have any sense of self-preservation, you don't want to know.

I've seen the Wayne Brady sketch more times than is probably healthy, and yet I laugh heartily every time.

I've seen the Wayne Brady sketch more times than is probably healthy, and yet I laugh heartily every time.

I've always seen Val more as Tabrett Bethell (Cara from the terrible Legend of the Seeker show) - http://content8.flixster.co…