I watched The Sopranos when it was first airing, and just completed a binge-watch of Deadwood last week, and I had the opposite reaction: while I really enjoyed it, I don't quite understand the volumes of praise heaped upon Deadwood as so many peoples' (and critics') best/favorite/greatest show of all time. Maybe it…

I wasn't picturing it quite that vividly, but sure, some sort of variation on that seems about right. But key to his enjoyment, I think, is doing it in Ned and Cat's bedroom in Winterfell, as lord of the manor.

Well, we've got our two-eunuch minimum back at the Great Pyramid of Meereen.

Yes, but what did Sansa have to promise Littlefinger? And FFS, I hope somebody at Winterfell kills Ramsay's bitches when they're done eating him — they're dangerous, and have a taste for human flesh!

Oh, I'm totally on the LSH Truther-Train, too. :-) I've read all the books several times, and often refer to the wiki (awoiaf) while watching the show just to refresh my memory on some detail or other. But I do have a weird grip on certain types of details, it's true.

Yeah, exactly this. I think Jaime is going to end up a kingslayer AND a kinslayer, the exact things of which Tyrion is accused (yet he's really only guilty of one of those…or maybe *none* of those, depending on where you stand on the "Aerys slept with Joanna" theories). In any case, I think it's fairly certain at this…

A Wiki of Ice and Fire confirms that in AFFC, Cersei, as the new Lady of Casterly Rock, installs Damion Lannister as castellan. And it's true that they *should* have been emphasizing their Baratheon-ness, but the nonsense started as early as Joffrey taking the Iron Throne: he used the dual lion/stag sigil on his…

Two European swallows, grasping it between them by the husk.

In that scene, I was struck by Lady Crane's resemblance to Cat, so I got more of a mothering vibe than a lover vibe. YMMV.

And possibly the KingsLandingslayer, if Cersei finds a large cache of wildfire.

Note that Tyrion delivered the punchline in a very obvious Scots accent. There is a stereotype of Scots being…thrifty. And the fictional Westerosi Northmen have been interpreted by many to correlate with the real folks in the north of the island of Great Britain, who are the Scots.

I want to believe you're right, but that would be expecting Beniof and Weiss to do something sensible that happens in the books and also makes sense in the show. Which they have not always done. I really want the show to keep Varys's motivation in destabilizing King's Landing and the monarchy, because it's such a…

You're right, and I'm shocked I didn't notice that, but…I think I can fanwank this away: I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere in A Wiki Of Ice And Fire that in the case of women who are the heads of noble houses, they can and often do style themselves with the house name of their birth. Whether or not they're…

Geez, I didn't even realize you *could* follow someone's comments! It's like a whole new world… :-D

And Portman's face was red on that side! I do think that he slapped him.

Part of the problem is that after Lancel went full-bore Seven-crazy, Cersei stopped sleeping with other men, which is one of the reasons Jamie was disillusioned with her in the books (all those repetitions in his head of Tyrion saying, "She's been fucking Lancel and Osmund Kettleblack and probably Moon Boy for all I…

Jamie promised that Edmure, Roslin and their child would be installed at Casterly Rock as "wards," in the same way that Theon was a ward of Ned Stark's after the Greyjoy Rebellion was put down. What we don't know is who currently holds Casterly Rock, at least on the show (in the books, I think Damion Lannister is the…

Now I want to see Tommen walk into the throne room — and everywhere — carrying a Big Gulp.

Yeah, you're somebody who I routinely read. I mean, I read as many comments in as many threads as I can (for shows I like), but I do have commenters I like better than others. :-)

Oh gosh, I really didn't mean this one as a correction — more of an elaboration! I'm sorry if it seems I was piling on you today! :-(