He's called The Hound too because this reflects his fighting strategy. He'll bite at you like an injured dog if you try to touch him, otherwise he'd leave you alone. Occasionally, he might do you a kindness (as in his behaviour towards Sansa).

The heterosexual female viewer's gaze was steady. She has a nice body, but nudity is the least provocative thing about this show.

To the Kingsguard and then a broken cripple after laying siege to Storm's End or whatever it is he stupidly does in the books in belated defense of Renly. *Cersei jumps for joy*

I feel like the story was also a means to get the audience's mind back to past events for future history lessons. There's a lot of long-deceased characters who still have roles to play.

I'm on board with the theory and I really can't see how they're going to introduce Rhaegar and Lyanna as characters as they were in the books. A couple of name-checks does not a memorable character make. It's a bit frustrating. This isn't a show that does flashbacks* and Ser Barristan can only talk about the past for…

Yeah, Ygritte looked good. Then again, so do all of the ladies we've seen naked so far. The curve of Brienne's hip was a bit… wow. Yes, womanly indeed.

No, I see what the reviewer was getting at. Daenerys' face looks emotional at the end of the scene, and it's hard to read what this look means. It's like someone walking up to you and saying the most awesome day of their life was the day they met you, so they're making up a new name in homage to you. "Wow! You did all…

Yeah, I loved the Theon music playing over the execution scene and the tie-up. When I hear that music though I also always think of the bit where Theon shows the burned bodies of "Bran and Rickon" to the remaining people in Winterfell as a warning, flourishes his hand and turns to look on the bodies himself. It's like…

Yeah, it's definitely partly that. Cersei in particular with her abrupt, dismissive comment about Sansa already having "flowered".

I think it's simply because Tywin alone wants to rule over everybody, if not in title than in reality. He also likes his own company* and would prefer to use his children as a weapon than than take a bullet himself.

Yeah, actually he looked almost like a different person at certain points. Covered in a beard and with his jaw tilted, he reminded me briefly of Ned Stark in his dungeon cell… though Jaime looks worse.

I'm glad they left out the bit implicating Sansa in Ned Stark's downfall, Sophie Turner has enough people hating her as it is.

I love noticing the costumes, especially on the ladies. In the books we get the sense that Daenerys changes her dress style to suit the city she is currently living in at the time. Her outfit this time around is the same blue-and-white that some of those in Astapor are wearing (like Missandei) but yeah, I've wondered…

I think they'll skip the heir bit or keep it as Robb naming Jon Snow as heir. I'd say "skip it"… but Catelyn's admission to Talisa that she couldn't care for Jon Snow makes me think his name will crop up in another scene with her. (Like the producers were nudging viewers - remember how much Catelyn hates Jon Snow? eh?…

Yeah, no need to stride out with a "wrong, utterly wrong" as an opener during a discussion. Opening words like this usually let more respectful people know that the speaker/writer is the sort of person who is "always right", regardless of whether they are or not. And yeah, as an objective…

I thought the second half was incredibly strong and the second half a bit choppy. I think the best of the season was the last episode, not just because of Daenerys' final scene in Astapor (which is one of the best overall) but the pacing was right.

Apparently "Go to hell" is an insult they use in Westeros. Not sure, but I think Arya insists this is what she was screaming in the books when she was really shouting, "For Winterfell!" during one of the battle attacks on her crew.

Book readers know how much Jaime hates the name Kingslayer, and in the TV series it is definitely repeatedly mentioned that he hates it. However, it's never explained in the series why a seemingly arrogant and self-interested man would feel shame at such a nickname. I think the scene was there to lay it out clearly:…

And his tail goes down and ears go back and he wets himself a bit (hopefully scattering it across Krasnys).

I didn't make the link myself… but what they're going to do with Ros is a mystery to me. I don't mind her being there as a new (non-book) character; she's fairly charming too. But when we saw the scene between Ros and Varys I didn't get quite what I've been waiting for: an explanation of what this "Deal" between Ros…