Love the hypocrisy Vyseris demonstrates interacting with ‘his’ slave after having his little chat with Jorah.
Wow. I don’t know if the problem is my poor sense of taste or timing or what. In any case, I rather liked the scene. Chalk it up to my poor taste I guess. shrug
Perhaps the point to take away is that, good or bad, opinions (or judgments) are not universally shared? Not sure. But I really did like the scene.
I enjoyed it, but that was entirely due to my poor taste and lechery.
Trey
1984
I must admit it kind of irked me that we have great scenes from the book that get a hurried presentation (more setup in the inn at the end would have been nice) but then that added Viserys/Doreah scene gets all the time in the world to play out, seemingly for the sake of bewbs.
The Viserys/Doreah scene wasn’t great from a story point of view. I get that HBO needs to add the sexy to maintain their rep, but it was a bad scene. Just a lot of pointless exposition. I’m a guy, though. I appreciate the nudity.
As for the Sansa/Littlefinger scene, I thought it was good if you didn’t know about the book scene with Sandor/Sansa. In the context of the show, it was a good scene because it established Littlefinger’s creepiness towards Sansa and it gave out the backstory for The Hound, but in the context of the book story, it’s a really bad scene. It completely robs Sandor of the early confiding in Sansa and it takes away his emotional confession on why he hates all the knights.
It did not bother me at all with the Hound switch. The guy playing Littlefinger totally sold me on it.
I have to interject here a comment from my wife from last night. “The guy playing the dwarf is a fantastic actor and he is just owning that role”. I could not agree more. The scene with Bran, the scene with Theon, the scene at the inn all fantastic. I am coming around slowly on Jon as an actor somewhat but he does not compare to Arya, Sansa, Ned, Littlefinger, Viserys, Syrio and the Hound. Those actors have all completely owned their roles
My wife (non-reader) rather enjoyed the scene at the Crossroads Inn. I think it had been irking her that Catlyn needed to step up and take charge more so that itch was satisfied.
We both enjoyed the exchange between Littlefinger and Sansa; and it didn’t even occur to me that isn’t how it was in the books until I came here and read it so I can’t say I object.
Finally, I think for all the non-readers the payoff of the Viserys/Doreah scene will definitely come when Arya chases cats around the Red Keep and we see those dragons that he was talking about. (Meanwhile, for all of the readers, Arya’s key scene will be the conversation she overhears.) But, “yay bewbs!” all around, you know?
Ratings continue to rise
This is the definition of a slow build, but I’m sure HBO is happy. BE’s performance was pretty much a slow decline in comparison.
UK was up 23-percent from last week!
Oh jesus, this gif. I can’t stop laughing. I gotta turn away.
I can sympathize with the show-runners though: they would have had to spend more time getting Sansa and Sandor alone, and it’s not like the episode wasn’t already chock-full of unique scenes already. I actually think that the way the book handles it is a little more awkward since until Sansa gets separated from her family there is little reason The Hound would confide in her… it felt like Martin shoe-horned the book’s scene into the flow.
I also like the non-book scene between Jory and Jamie. Their (momentary) camaraderie takes on new meaning when you realize what will happen in the next couple episodes.
I didn’t mind that they gave the Hound reveal to Littlefinger.
In the best of cases, the series has got to compress a ridiculous amount of backstory into just a few scenes every week - by giving it to Carcetti, you learn a little bit about his pedobear tendencies, you learn a little about how easily intimidated Sansa is, and you get the core information about Clegane.
To be honest, I don’t really understand why the Hound confides in Sansa in the first place. In the book it sounds a bit too emo.
“Hey guyzzz, look at my woundzzz.”
I can’t wait for Tyrion’s Eyrie scenes.
I just can’t stop hearing him say “Feels like I’m wearing…gets closer nothing at all!”
Isn’t he drunk and it’s Sansa who glances at them which he gets angry about? It’s been awhile.
I think we need a thread of nothing but awesome Game of Thrones gifs.
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Just noticed Snow’s reaction in that Samwell gif. Hilarious.
OMFG, that cracked me up. Too damn funny.
