The Family Ties episode where he drinks vanilla extract and beats up Michael J. Fox. It was all downhill from there.

Yeah that was the point of the daring crazy plan. Because he wanted to win before the ships got there. Same reason his long tantrum lead into the letter finally being read which was “Sending ships luv you bro”. Though yeah at first I was a bit confused with all the ship wreckage he had to go through. I thought for a…

The misreading of the final battle is very interesting to me because as I stated in my initial comment in this thread, I found it very odd that the reviewer thought that the episode’s central thesis was that Viserys has become even more ineffectual as a king.

Wasn’t that Corlys’s son, who does have Targaryen blood, riding the dragon? And I thought it was pretty clear that Daemon didn’t not want his brother winning the day for them, hence that bold, nearly suicidal, gambit that did succeed. I mean it was all over his face after he read Viserys’s letter.

It’s a challenge, you know: one doesn’t want to respond to a review with “you just don’t get it man” because the whole purpose of a program like this is to invite discussion: the ambiguities and uncertainties are explicitly designed to position different audiences differently. Its not overly prescriptive about where…

There is a historical precedent for this. In High School did you never study the tale of the great warrior Leroy Jenkins? 

Starting a much larger war with the free cities would have led to an invasion of Westeros, which probably wouldn’t have been what they were going for in their unsanctioned military action.

It’s the two dragons Viserys promised (good timing! Definitely not a deus ex machina!).

Yeah, I thought her read that that was Viserys’ dragon was odd, especially considering how Daemon reacted to his brother’s offer of help. Plus, the rider was clearly the Laenor Velaryon.

I think the recapper has this all wrong. There was one dragon at the end and it was ridden by Laenor (who is a Targ through his mom the Queen Who Never Was) and probably got an egg from her when he was a baby.

I’d forgotten about the Expert and Newbie reviews! Those were the best! After I watched the 1st season, I delved into the books and was ahead of the series so I read the Expert recap first, then would read the Newbie one for fun. Ah. I miss the old AV Club...pre-Kinja when they were Discus.

I don’t think the King and Allicent are having sex, and I think that if its later revealed that they are having sex at this point, then it’s a betrayal of the show’s grammar: I’m in no hurry to see explicit sexual content involving those two characters, but for them to be in a sexual relationship that goes this…

LOL the show is already about Jews in the immediate postwar era. I think they’re good on minority representation for the story that’s being told. 

right now it’s 85-percent courtly machinations

Milly Alcock is truly a force, I hope the other actress playing her same role is as good!

If Alicent is sleeping with any Targaryen in this series so far, it’s Raenarys.

There’s a palpable tension between Viserys and Alicent, who has probably been sleeping with the king in the six months since the queen died and who, I cannot emphasize enough, is 15 years old.

I also think it’s been apt in showing how the patriarchy pits thewomen against each other for what little power is available in the keep, which feels particularly cruel.

I got into this episode more than the first one. It was refreshing for this type of show to eschew action and violence and tell a character-based story. Sure, you could say they didn’t do anything new with the story and dialogue, but I was involved because of the actors, especially Paddy Considine, and the breakout…

I actually quite enjoyed this episode, a lot more than episode one. aside from the stand off I thought it was a good episode establishing the strengths and shortcomings of our leading lady. I also think it’s been apt in showing how the patriarchy pits the women against each other for what little power is available to…