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On April 16 2013 19:00 Zandar wrote:
And there is something about him or why wouldn't that white walker kill him.

On April 16 2013 18:38 Scorch wrote:
The chair scene was great as it showed much about the characters and conflicts without a single word. Very elegant storytelling.

Littlefinger pushing to the front of the line is within the boundaries of normal, acceptable behavior. He's ambitious and wants the seat next to Tywin, so he takes it with a slight use of elbow. It's effective at trumping a surprised Varys, yet lacking finesse.
Varys and Pycelle just take the next two seats without much ado, revealing them as filler material inferior to the others.
Cersei goes out of her way to sit next to Tywin, thus particularly sucking up to him, and also asserting dominance over Littlefinger, Varys and Pycelle. She was too slow at first to get a good seat, so she thinks outside the box to make it very clear that she is of higher status than them.
What Tyrion does may be viewed as childish, but that makes it all the more "in your face". He drags the chair as slowly and loudly as he can to annoy everyone, and places it at the other head of the table, a place reserved for the person of the highest status, in this case (at least) equal status to Tywin. It's also the most distant position from his father. This open affront is both an expression of personal father-son conflict and a challenge for the leading position.

On April 16 2013 19:26 Na_Dann_Ma_GoGo wrote:
Man cutting the hand of... that scene kinda got to me. I mean it's obviously why, they basically just shined some good light on Jaime Lannister and he also already felt like a broken man in his state, well and then you kinda know what's coming for him, have relief for 3 seconds and wham :|

There's also just something really disturbing about cutting of a limb in that way. Maybe people cutting other people's head off in movies has just become too common to be really shocking and, after all they're dead then. With something like this I can identify with characters, who'd then not only have insane pain that moment but also that horrible future with a missing limb :[
(of course death is worse but I hope you get my point)

On April 16 2013 19:26 Shock710 wrote:
Is there a non-book answer, for what the old man does (the one who has sex with his daughters -_- and throws aways the boys) Why is he alive, why cant the crows just kill him, hes obviously not very friendly, hes a horrible person. If the crows just kill him they probably get to take the animals (pig) and save the girls.
They probably would be staying at the wall because they dont know anything about life outside, might even married a few crows and have babies to be more crows (tho would have to lift the no sex ban)
But seriously why is he so important to be alive? also why is he so cocky there are like 20 men with swords at his door and he acts like a king :/
Might have missed something when they first met him.

On April 16 2013 19:26 Shock710 wrote:
Is there a non-book answer, for what the old man does (the one who has sex with his daughters -_- and throws aways the boys) Why is he alive, why cant the crows just kill him, hes obviously not very friendly, hes a horrible person. If the crows just kill him they probably get to take the animals (pig) and save the girls.
They probably would be staying at the wall because they dont know anything about life outside, might even married a few crows and have babies to be more crows (tho would have to lift the no sex ban)
But seriously why is he so important to be alive? also why is he so cocky there are like 20 men with swords at his door and he acts like a king :/
Might have missed something when they first met him.

On April 16 2013 19:37 zatic wrote:

Well they essentially threaten him with violence in the most recent episode. He says something like "Do I?" after the commander tells him he has to take them in. Then the camera goes to one guy tightening his fists and after a moment of silence he takes them in. So it's not like they all like each other.

In general the Watch doesn't have any bases north of the wall nor do they have the means to maintain one. So for them it was just practical to have a guy give them shelter and food in exchange for weapons for example (Season 2 when they are first there he asks for an axe). Mormont also pretty much tells Jon that they know about the baby killing but accept it because having a safe house north is too valuable.

On April 16 2013 19:42 Don_Julio wrote:


Well he survives alone because he seems to have a pact with the Others. He feeds them newborn boys and they let him live. That's what Jon Snow told Mance at least. The Lord Commander knows about it, too.
I believe he has an agreement with Crester that the Nightswatch may get supplies, shelter and information. Letting Crester do his thing seems to be a prize the Lord Commander is willing to pay. There might be more that we don't know about, yet.

On April 16 2013 19:26 Shock710 wrote:
Is there a non-book answer, for what the old man does (the one who has sex with his daughters -_- and throws aways the boys) Why is he alive, why cant the crows just kill him, hes obviously not very friendly, hes a horrible person. If the crows just kill him they probably get to take the animals (pig) and save the girls.
They probably would be staying at the wall because they dont know anything about life outside, might even married a few crows and have babies to be more crows (tho would have to lift the no sex ban)
But seriously why is he so important to be alive? also why is he so cocky there are like 20 men with swords at his door and he acts like a king :/
Might have missed something when they first met him.

On April 16 2013 19:33 Na_Dann_Ma_GoGo wrote:
@ RogerChillingworth
Yeah well there also seemed to be some kind of "untouchable aura" on Jaime's character. Considering his character arc it just felt like he'd be that kind of character who just happens to avoid all this. Of course that's what they played on here as well and was basically the point of the last scene "you're actually in deep shit, so stop being a smartass".

Man I really want to read the books now because I can't be bothered to wait a billion years. I mean one episode a week (until there's some kind of break or inbetween season period) and each episode follows so goddamn many different plotlines and characters (they just can't stop introducing new ones either) that it just never really feels like you get enough satisfying content. Granted that's always the case when a show is so good.

On April 16 2013 19:56 RogerChillingworth wrote:


well...i thought Ned Stark had sort of an "untouchable aura", especially since it was Sean Bean. Then he had to head out early...

The show DOES sort of get you to like a character just before killing them off or doing something horrible to them, while all the really obnoxious ones just keep on keepin on. i almost gave up on the show when --for a second-- i thought bran truly was burned to char. but then i came to my senses and figured it wasn't true.

the episodes go by so quickly because there are so many storylines that are in different locations. i have a similar complaint, but i'm guessing it'll turn around and we'll see more consolidated kings landing/the wall scenes.

On April 16 2013 20:14 Too_MuchZerg wrote:
I wonder why did this episode have so many comical stuffs...

- Archery scene
- Chair scene
- Podrick scene
- Wolf bread/bun
- ending music

Weird episode, I hope it gets bit more serious/dark/tricky for future episodes.