And it sort of had incest!  Incest and baby murder are what I like to think of as HBO defined. 

This was unusual for your neighborhood?

I'd like to see the Hunger Games remade but with Japanese teenagers. 

The lured the cast back with the promises of a 24-hour pizza buffet.  The cast of American  Pie really like pizza. 

Good point.  Apart from Stannis, it isn't clear that anybody in the Seven Kingdoms has ever considered it either. 

I thought Dragonglass or Obsidian kills the others, while fires kill wights. 

Consider how much they haven't even gotten to and the pace makes sense: Renly and Brienne have to be seen, Renley has to die, Arya has to be captured and taken to Harrenhall, Theon takes Winterfell, Dany visits Quarth…. If anything, they probably need less time in King's Landing to fit it all in.  

Is everyone absolutely certain they are going to end with Roose Bolton's men torching Winterfell and Bran emerging from the crypt?  I don't see why they might not push off some events from CoK to season 3 while bringing events from SoS into the final episodes here.  It might fuck with the overall chronology…

I assume you can't cast someone that truly fits the description of the book, since her proportions are frankly unreal for a woman. 

I'm not sure what this says about me, but I assumed in the book that he was middle-eastern. 

I actually liked that they picked some plain looking women for the part and not typical tv plain.  As with the salt wife, the relative homeliness actually matched the descriptions from the book well.  I sort of feel bad for whoever they cast for Brienne of Tarth though.  It may have not been a very fun call to get…

If anything, Littlefinger instructing a Ros to play with another prostitute's ass was obnoxious to the point of self-parody.

I always loved the idea that the book set-ups a very fantasy story type threat and only begins to bring it back after 2000+ pages of plot development.  I don't think it loses too much by bringing them back or hinting at their return so early since it still works out to much the same effect as in the books.  As…

Considering the Others don't really show up until the next book and they were in the first fucking scene of the book and the show, I assumed they would throw in an earlier appearance or two.  They expect people to be patient, but it does seem like an odd choice to leave that out for an entire season.  I liked that…

Honestly, I appreciated that they hadn't really softened Cersei since it makes her relationship with Tommen so much more interesting.  After *SOS Spoiler* Joffrey and Tywin die, Tommen becomes both her last real claim to power and her last bit of actual family.  She doesn't trust her extended family and Jaime's return…

Aeron Damphair, or whoever was the priest who Theon encounters first

For what he will do at Winterfell, I don't mind someone fucking with him.  What a prick.

said Hodor.

I didn't realize I could laugh so much at some quasi-incestuous cock teasing.  I loved the look on Theon's face when Asha walked in.

Finding his voice acting golden is more than slight care.  Slight care would be saying you don't wish a long, painful death on him.