Honestly, show Euron is pretty spot on with how I saw book Euron. I kind of love that he looks like the lead singer in a shitty dark wave band.

I always love watching season one after a new season starts because it is amazing how much each character has evolved and they are STILL evolving.

I wasn’t thinking this through earlier: the marriage to Ramsey is purely a show construct. In the books, she’s off with Littlefinger and doesn’t get re-married and so is still Tyrion’s wife as far as we know.

Cutting Aeron was a mistake, he would have been an interesting counterpoint to Melisandre

He’s way too hot to be Euron. I can’t remember his exact description in the books, but I always pictured him old and with a long stringy beard. Or maybe that was the other Iron uncle? Still. Chewing the scenery is right.

I found book-Victarion frightening, because he seemed dangerous, but not over-the-top evil and sadistic. He was just a brutal oaf, extremely competent at military stuff but thoughtlessly cruel and entitled and too unimaginative and close-minded to question his own values (even when they lead him to actions he…

I agree! I love Theon. He has done terrible things, but of course being a great guy who always tries to do the right thing doesn’t necessarily make someone a great *character*. As you said, he changes and evolves and is incredibly flawed. And I think Alfie Allen does a great job in the role. I also have always really…

God there will be so many trolls in this post. Please if you are black respect the deaths of 10 people and dismis and do not engange. As a Mexican-American whose family crossed the border I beg of you. DO NOT ENGAGE!

SHIT WAIT I just realized why I think Euron is hot—he looks exactly like Pacey from Dawson’s Creek.

Gendry.....rowing...rowing...looks down in water.

Euron is Yara’s uncle, not sister and he’s trying to kill her because he’s a psychotic asshole who we’ve been promised will be even worse than Ramsay Bolton (NOT SOMETHING I NEED, SHOW RUNNERS, IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING) and also because she’s a threat to his claim to the Iron Islands.

In the books the other Greyjoy brother, Victarion, has an evolutionary experience where his arm is given to the lord of light, and burns from within. Euron’s whole thing is finding some mystic power and artifacts in the Doom of Old Valeria, and I got the impression from the explicitly numerous wounds in this battle…

True, but that’s because George has no end-game. By the end of Dance, there are so many story lines going in so many different directions that it’s hard to see how they ever come back together. I think “predictable” conflict is always part of the final acts because you have to reach the caboose of that train…

YES. AND he’s smart...he did the math in that scene. He would have been slaughtered if he’d tried to rescue Yara at that point and he knew it. He was following the ship, even if floating on a raft, not swimming away but swimming toward. Theon has some heroics left in him, and also good strategic thinking.

I have to disagree with you about Clarke. After she started working with Dinkleage, her acting improved by leaps and bounds. I think she’s killing it right now.

Sam’s scenes are truly disgusting. In this episode a guy lost his tongue, and that wasn’t even the first time someone lost their tongue on the show. It didn’t bother me as much as watching Sir Grayscale getting a super exfoliated.  

My favorite parts were Tyrion and Jon commenting on each other. Seeing Tyrion’s face light up on hearing that Jon was King in the North was just priceless, kind of reminded me of Thor’s “We know each other!” And vice versa, part of Jon’s justification for going South was that he trusts Tyrion, and even Sansa…

I was honestly so enraptured in Arya’s aloof performance that that line didn’t even stand out for me. Glorious.

Lord Commander Mormont was killed at Craster’s Keep, not the Fist of the First Men. That was where they encountered the wight army. He was killed by his men later after falling back to Craster’s Keep on the way home to Castle Black.