That was fantastic. Even better than the first episode IMO which surprised me a bit.

Cersei sucks but I'm really liking the woman who plays her. She's got it down. The kind of calm, almost bored evil. And yes Joff sucks. I'm not going to go too much into it cause I'm always worried about giving stuff away to the rest of you who haven't read the books but in general characters in this series aren't always completely good or evil (Catelyn is the mother of the "good" family and so you'd think she's just a sweetheart, but she's a real bitch to Jon Snow. They didn't even go into it all with that scene where Jon comes to say goodbye to Bran but she even says something like "I wish it had been you", which I'm glad they left out cause it was cliched as fuck and one of the more disappointing parts of the first book IMO.) but Joff sucks. A real shit.

The wolves are a bit of an inconsistency but to be fair Martin never really talks about how big they were when they got them, how big they were when Bran's kills the attacker, etc. But my recollection from the book is that not too much time passed between when they found them and when Bran's wolf kills the dude. I've heard they're having some problems with them. Namely that they're supposed to be big eventually. Not horse big, but not like other wolves so their could be some CGI elements.

I loved the scene where Tyrion slaps Joff and then comes to the breakfast table and talks with Jaime and Cersei. I loved it in the book and I loved it in the show. And while they didn't recount the whole conversation I'm fairly certain what they did show was word for word. Tyrion is literally one of my favorite characters in fiction. Ever. I'm not totally sure why Peter Dinklage is using some quasi-English accent but it doesn't matter, he's played him well.

I never even imagined these books being turned into some sort of show. Mainly because I didn't think about it being a TV series, and there is literally no way to do it as a movie and do it justice. But this is awesome, and it had to be done on HBO or something like that for the sake of the violence, nudity, etc.