“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My leather jacket is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love."
-Christopher Eccleston

The number where all the Norse gods show off their hot new hairdos is particularly great.

No no no! Turn OFF the dark!

I think the Night's watch will find out, when the White Walkers show up because they aren't getting that sweet, sweet baby broth anymore, that you were right, and they were wrong.

I don't think this is a spoiler, but someone told me that Varys gets a lot more action/focus in book 3, so I'm hoping this holds up.

Didn't they get the arm already? I could've sworn they saw it and dismissed it. Maybe it was only the raven.

I don't think he killed the mad king because it was the right thing to do. He did it because they were already losing, and he thought it would be the way to save face.

As I stated above, lots of people do because they see it as a betrayal (because, well, it was) and because the way in which he did it was considered cowardly.

Yeah, but he's pretty good looking, right?

Note to self: Jimmy does not view cousins as family and is probably pretty cool with bashing their heads in with a rock.

@avclub-db0c35ce2663c0e8c4b3f38642a49748:disqus Well, yeah, but they shit on him because he didn't kill him honorably. Remember, he straight up stabbed him in the back which is sort of at odds with the whole "great warrior" image Jaime wants to project.

Really funny that your comment and the one above where right next to each other.

Someone mentioned it upthread, but he'll probably start warging dragons and shit.

@avclub-782066c88e9c574d6085f3ddfc7032e4:disqus Didn't even think of that. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

I tried reading the first book, and the quality of writing was just so awful I couldn't keep going. It seems like George RR Martin is an incredible world builder and perhaps even really great at constructing the tale, but the actual act of storytelling was really, really weak.

To be fair, they at least addressed that Hurley was always stashing food away and eating it on the DL except for when they made stupid, obvious episodes to point it out because people wouldn't stop talking about it.

@avclub-82cf46948ca0f531a256e38473c9282f:disqus If you want to find out more stuff like that without getting spoiled, check out the S1 DVDs which have a bunch of featurettes on the religions, Maesters, myths etc of the world narrated by various members of the cast. They'll have the same story told twice, too, but from…

I loved an episode or two ago when Cersei took the cloth Joffrey didn't like and snidely remarked he should give it to Margaery and that "it should be enough for her" or something like that.

God, yes. That duckface is the worst.

Winterfell is nice though because it shows the ramifications and changing state of the world (ie, it's burning in the credits). I think it's a good intro into what is different in the world.