Game of Thrones (spoilers)

[OumaFan]

That was a quality, quality, hour of TV.

I said at the beginning that I wouldn't bitch about them leaving stuff out/changing stuff, but I did bitch about it last week. But that was partly because I just didn't love last weeks episode. Was everything line for line this week? Of course not, it just wouldn't work. But that was another great episode, as far as it goes I think their have been 3 great episodes (including this one) and one just good one.

And it was just a setup episode. Not a ton of action, but setting up things for the future. And to be fair all of these are just setup episodes, they're just 300-400 pages in of a series that is 4 books long and about 3, 500 pages long. So far.

If there are any complaints it would be that that they only showed like two minutes of the tourny but they found a way to somewhat explain the Hound/Mountain (Mountain that Rides in the books) relationship. The Hound is a great character IMO.

I was watching and wondering how people who haven't read the books could really be keeping up. There's so much back story that they just can't possibly explain in hour long episodes. But they're doing a pretty good job. I.E., the scene with Littlefinger explaining the Hound's relationship with the Mountain, the slave girl's talk with Viserys about the importance of the dragons to the Targaryens, etc.

And I still really like the actors portraying Viserys and Cersei. And Tyrion. And Arya, and Sansa, and Ned, and really most of them. Good casting. Visually, Renly, Robert's brother, doesn't look right, he's supposed to be this big, tall, imposing dude. But whatever. I thought I didn't like Sam, Jon's friend on the wall, but he grew on me. And the same for Littlefinger, I didn't like him last week but I'm starting to think it was good casting.

You have to read the books. Even if its just keeping up with the show. Bcollins I'm sure has a far greater knowledge of what's going on.

And the fifth book is apparently finally coming out. Fingers crossed.

Finally (and I know I've been rambling), this is all just setup. If you like it now, just wait for the second and third books. Epic.