If he's only read 1/2 of book 3, then he is in for a world of shit.

When they cut to Bran walking, I actually said aloud "Finally!". Starting to get worried they'd somehow stripped the dream sequences and prophesies or whatnot.

Ending Music
So the ice-cream doll and stormtrooper speech music at the end was definitely the same as the end of The Dark Knight, right? Or was it just similar? I tend to look for similarities that aren't always there, especially with this show.

Relevant in a Pierce thread: when they have the feast at Fort Hawthorne, it's the study room seating arrangement, but with Pierce and Jeff swapped. New power dynamic at work.

I'm going Monday in Bawlmer. Woohooo!

Judge, they used that (kinda?) already in the conspiracy episode.

I was hoping for more nicknames too. That and "sonuvabitch!" were his LOST trademarks.

Tyrone last season was sane, competent and effective. Unfortunately he was too chatty after a swap and they canned him.

I kinda want Matt to get back in, but just so he can get voted out a third time, complete with a total nervous breakdown. WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW, BITCH? Oh right, not giving a fuck about fucking Survivor.

That element of LOST always bothered me when I was watching it week-to-week, instead of all in a run. Cliffhangers on DVD just make me stay up later, from week to week they made me angry.

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I'm the same way Thylacine, as morbid and bleak as it is.

Yeah, I saw the Titan as a Colossus analogue too, but the city itself (especially when we get a more detailed look) feels much more like Venice. Plus the idea of the Free Cities and the Italian city-states of around the same time as the Wars of the Roses, it makes more sense than the Colossus of Rhodes, which was torn…

@kingderella I really like your predictions on things, but just remember this isn't Tolkein-esque high fantasy. People are people and not purely good or evil.

Yeah, I wondered about that too. Maybe it was the troll and the subsequent responses in the first thread?

I don't think she necessarily used that as a pet name for Troy, more so that he was offended he WASN'T Sugar Boots.

Someone seriously needs to clip together all the times Troy has cried. That'd be a sweet montage.

Cersei Lannister (Lena Hadley) is the one screwing her (twin) brother, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). She is married to King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy), making her the Queen.

I thought he was supposed to be Italian? Spoilers, kind of? Braavos is a canal city, much like Venice. The Nine Free Cities are semi analogous to the Italian city-states of the Middle Ages.

There's supposed to be stairs as well as the winch in the books, specifically in case of freezing or engineering difficulties, but they seem to have simplified for TV.