Something interesting occurred to me: observing the Northern lords in action provides a certain level of insight on Ned Stark; namely, that while his exaggerated honor and blunt honesty were completely wrong for King’s Landing, those same qualities would be perfect for keeping men like his bannermen in line. How long do you think someone like Littlefinger would have survived against those savages?
I think it was more along the lines of “For the slow watchers out there, Hodor is retarded. Like really, really retarded.”
Except the same Kingsguard knight that went to get Arya is seen front and center in the throne room when Barristan makes his exit.
There isn’t much reason to believe Varys since he seems to be a professional liar (Cyril, lying is like 95% of what I do! You mean in your job? Umm…sure), but he did say that the entire household except the girls was killed.
Why would they kill Baggage Handler X? They were killing everyone except for the valuable ones - namely, the ones named Stark.
-Joe
Are you sure of that? I’m not.
It is. Same beard, same shit-eating grin.
-Joe
Someone for God’s sake give Osha a headband.
Her sister Hipaa will be along with an extra one soon, I’m sure.
Fie upon you!
Warning: the following is not a spoiler for the show or books, it’s just a musing that may require some brain bleach if you read it, so open with care:
All this talk of Hodor’s cock made me think just for a moment that the episode title might not refer just to Arya’s use of needle. Worst. Double-entendre. Ever. 
I just hope they don’t cut out Hodor’s plot arc where he ends up wo sick.rking at the brothel. That would suck.
-Joe
Barristan says “i could cut through the five of you like cake”. That means they were all there because him and Jamie make seven.
I think whenever the show does one of its sexually shocking moments it scores a double hit … it cranks up the sexual hottitude of the show, a plus for some of us, and it establishes the differentness of the culture of the Seven Kingdoms from our culture. Win-win! for them, and for the viewers. Hence, little Hodor.
I am always in favor of nudity on television, regardless of whether I find any particular instance personally appealing, because the more nudity there is in general the higher the likelihood that there will be appealing nudity.
So, I give two thumbs up to Monster Tardcock. If there’s a giant wang swinging free in one episode, that increases the chances that there’ll be full beaver in another.
No no; we’re still several full Montys away from coming even. :mad:
Do we actually know from the show that there are seven? The Kingsguard hasn’t been talked about a whole lot, really.
-Joe
Just went back and watched the Syrio fight again. I missed this the first time, but I love how he strangles one of the Lannister guards with his own cape… awesome.
Septa. Pardon. THE Septa was holding up the guards while Sansa ran away. If she appears again on the show, it’ll likely be from the POINTY END of a pike.
I just really really hope that HBO doesn’t wuss out, and the final scene of the final episode of season 1 features the graticious, full frontal nudity that we’ve been waiting for all season.
Bit of a spoiler there.
Where? I didn’t take fusoya’s comments as spoilers but as extrapolations on what’s already happened, along with a little tongue-in-cheek commentary of how it will all end in full frontal.
Wasn’t intentionally trying to spoil anything. Is it really a surprise at this point that there might be some hard core nudity in the grand finale? Have there been any episodes yet that didn’t have any at all?
I just rewatched those two scenes and you are correct, the Kingsguardsman was present in the awesome Barristan scene. Obviously he survives. Of course that doesn’t rule out that Syrio also fended him off and survived as well.
He didn’t strangle him, but he did use his cape to his advantage. He swung him around by the cape to keep him off balance and keep separation with the other soldiers and he finally wraps the cape around his arms and shoulders to bind him before whacking him in the face.
After rewatching the scene there’s quite a bit of sword clanking and screams of many men, at least 3 or 4. It’s clear that it’s not just Syrio getting cut down, but another extended fight with at least a few of the Lannister men getting sliced up. Syrio must have gotten his hands on a metal weapon and continued the fight for a while if the sound design is remotely accurate.