Try to capture Sansa, I guess. It's far more interesting that what they've done in the books, which is very little.

Huge? What has Stoneheart done so far? Killed Frey No. 294. And uh… not killed Brienne.

Good point except you made it up. I don't recall ever seeing anybody lie about it to her. And she's never asked anyone. There are plenty of people she could get an honest answer from, like her father's Kingsguard, Ser Barristan.

It seems weird to me that the series would end returning to the stasis of some monarchy or other, which is really only the most recent and quite atypical state of Westeros history. By the end, I don't think there will BE an iron throne.

Dany's probably the most entitled of the lot. She's consistently shown a total inability to appreciate that her father's "usurpers" had just cause.

I'm sure they'll come back to it… the scene is rather pointless as it stands.

So basically somebody from France punched you once so now you're going to go to France and punch people. What a tosser.

But in the book, fake Mance tried desparately to escape and shouted that he wasn't Mance. In the show, Mance's actions make absolutely no sense if he's fake. A lot of wishful thinking going on in the comments section…

It's suspected that grayscale can take hold again in the north and may kill Shireen. That'd explain why they are spotlighting it.

Cersei's plotline was the best thing to happen in the last two books. For one thing, actual events occurred in it. Watching her finally get the power she desired, and then spectacularly fuck herself over due to her own awfulness, and receive a wonderfully apt punishment… it was highly entertaining and three books in…

I think it will work far better in the show, actually. All of the book readers have guessed that the valonquar is actually Jaime, but in the show, if you actually have the witch say "little brother", and then cut to a shot of Tyrion, it's a much more effective bit of misdirection. Plus I don't think the show ever…

I think she's a good villain. She may not be physically imposing, but she is an utterly spiteful and narcissitic idiot who does spiteful and idiotic things. I hate her more than I ever hated Joff.

In the books she takes up a false identity in the Vale, but they're not doing that here, so it's really rather bemusing.

I just wish they'd written Stannis's dialogue better to communicate that. He actually said the same thing to Mance at the end of last season when they were still north of the wall. It just makes Stannis sound petty and power-hungry, when that really isn't what motivates him at all; not in the books, and not by most of…

I actually think they might be moving too quickly. Not even pausing for Tywin's funeral, for instance… poor decision in my view. Just because it's not essential to conveying the logic of the plot, doesn't mean it should be skipped. It would have made for a powerful scene, and important for underscoring the story. The…

One of the things I'm really looking forwards to this season is the battle for Winterfell. At the rate things are moving, looks likely we'll see it, too.

Mance's words and actions make no sense in that context. Guy's dead.

Not really true, plenty of people see Cersei for what she is. Lancel's remarks were obviously the result of genuine piety and the self-deprecation and penance associated with The Seven (which is analogous with Catholicism).

Wasn't she a seductress in the books? Or am I confused with someone else?

He's the true heir to the preceding King. His claim is better than or equal to Dany's.