"But he's not a Loser; he hasn't lost yet."

I love watching Community, but…
I felt like the show started getting way too in love with itself in the second half of this season, e.g. the clip show episode (blanking on the name) and especially Critical Film Studies. Reading this interview definitely reinforces this opinion for me. It could just be that we so…

Daenerys in Season 2
I'm half-hoping they speed up Daenerys's storyline in the next season(s), but it would be tough considering how much is going on back in Westeros. In book 2 she pretty much just wanders around the wastes and sees some prophecies in Quarth, before heading off to kick ass and take names in Slaver's…

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Whoa
I had forgotten that my high school's marching band appeared in this episode (they're in the background of the still above).

Speaking of shit-upon characters, Ned Stark and the Starks in general get it in this series (though some of that is certainly their own doing), but FitzChivalry Farseer sure deos get it piled on too (laughing).

I've grown on Jon Snow, but I didn't like him in the first book either. He has too much of an "oh noes, I am a bastard" chip on his shoulder as well as the Generic Fantasy Outsider Teenager in his arc. It could also just be that I had just read a bastard-growing-up series where it felt much better handled in Robin…

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@Run it for Marty

Well,. they do have the advtanage of not being stuck with Martin's POVs. I'm guessing Robb at least will get a lot more screen time than he did in the book. There's plenty of action to go around for the POVs that are left. And while I'm a huge fan of Davos, I think his POV will be cut down since they can just use…

I think the difference with Varys (at least at this point) is that the only POV who sees him is Ned, who despises him. *minor spoilers*. Tyrion doesn't trust him either but knows that he has no choice to rely on him.

Me too Gauephat. Mirri Maz Duur tells Dany that she go her revenge on her and Drogo after she works her dark mojo later in the book, but I always assumed she was implying that her help was less than honest before she started throwing bloodmagic around.

Catelyn is pleading for him to make peace at every turn, IIRC as soon as she gets back from the Aerie to see Robb she tells him to hang up his spurs. Robb couldn't get rid of her fast enough because all she did was nag an second guess him, and make annoying observations about how Crowns Should Never Rest Easy on a…

@lemur that was my read too. I like it better how they handled it in the show, where Jorah makes an independent decision to ally himself with Dany.

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Also
No love for Jon and Sam giving their Night's Watch vows? By necessity (from the source material) a lot of The Wall stuff has been wheel spinning, but they nailed both the scene where Sam chooses to give his vows before the heart tree and of course the vows themselves. The heart tree's face wasn't quite how I…

Littlefinger
I keep going back and forth on whether I like what they're doing with Littlefinger in the show. The exposition scene today was awful, and I'm not a huge fan of the whole "pimp empire" vibe the show has been pushing for his character. You'd think it would be easy to get across that Littlefinger is a…

Someone go back and get a shitload of dimes!

One of the stronger points for Renly's popularity was that he looked like Young Robert come again, all strong and handsome. I wished they had cast/written him as much more bold and handsome.

I've been disappointed by Renly so far too. In the books he's the soul of affability, and I loved pretty much any scene that he appeared in.