Yes, they did. In fact, especially women. However, Ramsay hates being called a bastard. That’s why I assumed it was one of his father’s man, rather that one of his acolytes (of course, since he’s about to die, he doesn’t have anything to lose and could call him “bastard” anyway). But it doesn’t makes much sense to kill his own friends in crime.
Anyway, the difference is neglectible. He freed Theon just for the fun of fucking with his mind, and the men chasing him might have known how he was freed (if they were Ramsay’s men) or not (if they weren’t), in any case they were killed all the same.
Yes, everybody’s waiting for that. I remember especially people who said during last season that contrarily to what was stated, main characters weren’t in fact being killed left and right. Even Jaime’s mere loss of a hand came as a shock.
And since they seem to flesh out Robb a lot in the recent épisodes, people are going to be pissed off. His mother, on the other hand seems to have been losing support within the “no spoilers” crowd.
By the way I like more and more the actor playing Robb. As well as his character in fact. I’m going to be pissed too when they’ll off him. :mad:
I really loved the episode. While it had dark moments, I think a lighter episode was needed because it’s going to get really ugly from here on out. I assume next week we’ll be down some Crows, and that’s going to be rough to watch. The Unsullied viewers don’t know it, but it feels like this is the last breather we’re going to get this season.
A great but bizarre episode. The level of comic relief was higher than in the rest of the series combined. That scene with the chairs at the small council meeting was like something out of SNL. But I loved it.
I am just now reading book 2 and am coming across differences from the show. In the book, when Theon is traveling back home, his Uncle escorts him back, but on the show, they have his sister (unbeknownst to him) escort him back while he feels her up. What was the purpose of this change? It doesn’t seem necessary to me.
Yeah, there was one poster in particular who was pretty much mocking all of the book readers for claiming that people were killed of left and right and said that Game of Thrones was no different from any other series where the main characters were protected from being killed. He then went on to list a bunch of characters who he thought it would be a big deal if they were killed and I remember reading that and thinking that at least half if not three quarters of those people would be dead soon.
The show has eliminated or combined a lot of characters in order to save screen time, which is necessary given time constraints. I wouldn’t be surprised if getting rid of Aeron Damphair is one of those.
Only The Red Wedding is in this season (well, and Tyrion and Sansa’s, but that’sd a pretty minor one…no one even dies!)
Joffrey’s will be next season, my guess is episode 4 or 5. Tyrion’s trial will be the episode after that, Oberyn fighting The Mountain the one after that, and Tyrion’s escape one or two after that.
Daenerys - Alive and somewhere in the Dothraki Sea but widely believed dead
Jorah - Alive in Mereen Robb - KILLED at the Twins
Arya - Alive in Braavos
Sansa - Alive in transit from the Eyrie Catelyn Stark - KILLED at the Twins but raised as undead by Beric Dondarrion
Brienne of Tarth - Believed to be alive, searching for Sansa
Brandon Stark - Alive and with the Last Greenseer
Osha - Unknown, but last was alive and with Rickon Stark
Jaime Lannister - One-handed but alive and believed to be with Brienne
Cersei Lannister - Alive, but found guilty of fornication and essentially powerless
Tyrion Lannister - Alive in Mereen Shae - KILLED at King’s Landing
Jon Snow - Stabbed repeatedly and possibly dead Ygritte - KILLED at Castle Black
Petyr Baelish (“Littlefinger”) - Alive, in transit from the Eyrie
Varys - Alive in Kings Landing Sandor Clegane (“the Hound”) - KILLED at the Crossroads
Bronn - Alive in Stokeworth
Every time one of those characters dies in the show, someone should quote her post with the dead character crossed out. (Not in the quote box of course!)
ETA: Or his, not sure if Ellis Dee is male or female.
Loved this episode, I had pretty much forgotten about Jamie’s hand, for some reason, so it was delicious.
I’ve found something really strange in the last few weeks. I started reading the books after I’d seen the first season, and I read them one after the other in a mad rush. Truth be told, I was a bit GofT’d out by the end of it, but it made a huge positive difference to my enjoyment of my second viewing of season 1, and to everything since. The strange thing, though, is that I’m having real trouble separating what we’ve now seen on screen and what I’ve only read. My only thought is that maybe the books are so … um… cinematic, maybe, that I’ve ‘seen’ it all already. Combine that with the sublime casting and the pretty damn awesome production, and I’m struggling to separate page and screen. For instance, I feel like I’ve seen Dany and her big dragon escape, and Cersei’s humiliation. Anyone else getting this?
Maybe it shows I have a very vivid imagination. Or no imagination at all. Or something. I’m just glad my husband’s read them all too, so that I can torment him with constant questions:“did we see x yet?”
