As I mentioned upthread, it's pretty much the last track from The Dark Knight Rises.

I kind of agree. I'm only on the second track, but the progression and the way it builds really reminds me of The Dark Knight theme. Start this one at about 5:00 and go to the end to hear the specific progression I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Eh, I thought it was somewhere in between. A lot of it was good, but it still had too much of the pervasive Zimmer arpeggios/progressions. My problem wasn't that it sounded like a movie score, but at times, it could've been any movie score.

@avclub-c8245970f4b8928346f669bf62dbc288:disqus Eh, it's not that nerd ragey to think that was the dumbest bunch of scientists in a film in a long while.

@avclub-7629f83b5dd18415f0c2135b5f1424a4:disqus Oh, I like that theory a lot. I've wondered if there would be some unknown connection between Jon and the Targaryens, but I didn't recall Ned's sister getting raped. Makes a lot of sense.

I've seen that question floated around before, and HBO has yet to give anyone any sort of answer.

He/she can know how the characters are spelled and not be an "expert."

She always had that, and I never really felt like she was acting heroic when standing up against Don, rather dragging Henry into it and acting out towards him as well. She died to me when at the end of (I think) Season 3, she fired Carla and refused to let her see the children and further refused to give her a…

Or how is it even like the smoke monster from Lost at all?

Or she'll probably get outplayed and bite it.

Yeah, I don't think it's going to play out well, and the HBO Go episode summary said "Sansa says too much" which has me thinking that's some deliberate foreshadowing.

Yeah, I waver on her. I don't find her very interesting partially because she's so passive. Any chance she's had to make a move of her own accord, she's let it slip by.

Eh, she really bothered me last season. She's an interesting character but a nightmare of a strategic player in a series where that's the main thing that counts.

Misogynistic? How so?

Youngin.

"when they turned Betty into a bitch"

The first episode literally ended with Bran being pushed out of a tower. That's pretty mortally dangerous.

Eh, that's the problem with adapting books (especially long books in a long series) for television, though: it's way harder to add shorter arcs without fucking up the overall narrative especially as the series goes on and the overall narrative gets more and more complex.

Yeah, I have no doubt the episodes will be "better" in hindsight, though I kind of wish they had aired these two back to back.

@avclub-7e72b5fe1ad8fd5b388a5260ba7c07fe:disqus I didn't read it as real insecurity.