also, because they betrayed their respective lords, nobody outside of the Lannisters has any reason to trust them anymore.

yep. a bunch of dudes on the Lannister payroll feel good about themselves for killing a caged animal.

I assume they'll be held hostage, because the Freys/Lannisters/Boltons/whoever need them alive to gain control of Riverrun.

as a nonreader, I had a sinking feeling that, based on how his entire campaign had spent the last season-plus spiralling down the drain, some terrible shit was going down. especially once Roose Bolton let Jaime go unconditionally.

are there enough bad British accents for an Inventory (assuming something like that hasn't been done)? Keanu, Peter Dinklage in GOT, Kevin Costner in Robin Hood…

fwiw, I'm assuming Ned took longer to get to King's Landing because he was traveling with Robert, which meant taking frequent breaks so Robert could fuck whores, hunt, and eat.

oh, that's true. I'm remembering Bolton saying that he'll send his bastard out to relieve Winterfell at one point in season 2.

my guess is that he's going to betray Robb and ally himself with the Lannisters.

she's like a sexy C-3PO!

I think geographically speaking they have to pass through there to get to where Stannis lives.

aren't the people left at Castle Black like the stewards and the Maester trainees? I'd imagine all the decent soldiers were sent up north.

maybe the guy torturing Theon is related to him somehow. or at least in cahoots with him.

now honestly, what is that? do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?

I couldn't have been the only one half-expecting Jaime to say "I immediately regret this decision."

that would put them in the elite company of Bronn.

was it Karstark or Roose Bolton who said something like, "this war was lost the second you married her" in the season premiere?

I only bring it up because I'm pretty sure you can see his belt unfastened when he stands up in that scene.

and that traveling by sea is often a better/faster way of getting from point a to point b, apparently.

Illyn Payne (I think that's how it's spelled?), the executioner who officially killed Ned.

I think part of what makes Littlefinger so loathsome is that so much of his skillset and success revolves being a good asskisser. he's that guy at work who gets raises because he's always willing to go golfing with the boss or whatever.