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I found myself playing the following games: 1. When did Oleana touch Sansa's necklace ( I won that one) 2. Could I see if a gem was missing from the necklace (couldn't see, but in one shot I thought it looked intact)3. 3. Follow-the-goblet to see where it wound up. Otherwise, actually a pretty boring episode.

The commentary tracks on the DVDs frequently have some of the actors discussing the various episodes, and this topic comes up. A couple of them have stated that they are reading the books but only up to the point where the show is. They don't want to know future events because they don't want that knowledge to subconsciously affect their performance.

I'm curious how much of Dany's adventures in Meereen they're going to cover this season, because frankly I found most of her chapters in ADWD tedious. All she has left to do from book 3 is march to Meereen, conquer it, and get annoyed with Jorah and send him packing. It makes me think they'll bring in some of the ADWD chapters, and again: tedious. I guess they could make more of her conquest of Meereen (IIRC that happened off-page in the book). The fighting and the bashing of the heads could be exciting visually, but narratively she's just too sidetracked to hold my interest.

It's explained much better in the books. Some of the wildfire that Tyrion used in the Battle of the Blackwater was from these hidden caches, though most of it was newly manufactured. The older jars were considered more hazardous, because wildfire becomes more unstandle with age and the jars themselves become permeated with it. By killing Aerys , Jaime basically removed the trigger from the bomb without disposing of it. He'd just prevented a massacre, and didn't want anyone else to know about these doomsday devices in case someone else went nuts and decided to set it off. I interpreted that as his main motivation for keeping it to himself. The pyromancers would have arranged for it to be easy to set off deliberately, but difficult to set off accidentally (in case it didn't need to be used). From Jaime's perspective, it would have been more dangerous to have people actively searching for the wildfire than just letting it sit, particularly considering how chaotic Kings Landing was at the time.

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Saw someone in another thread comment about the chicken calling it "Colonel Sandors Fried Chicken" and burst out laughing.

I thought that characterization was a blunder. In the books, the Thenns actually resemble a minor Westerosi noble house, with a hereditary lord. It’s one of the reasons Jon arranged a marriage between Alys Karstark and the Magnar of Thenn, because the Thenns could make the transition to the feudal system more easily than the other free-folk. Maybe they’ll say the cannibalism is ceremonial; eat the bodies of their enemies killed in battle as some sort of ritual, but normally eat regular food. If human flesh was their staple diet, I don’t see any of the other wildling tribes tolerating them. Eating the dead has a practical use, considering what the White Walkers would otherwise do with corpses. The Thenns are just being pragmatic; they have to burn the bodies anyway, might as well make a meal of it first. That’s a good point. Book!Dany had a vision in the House of the Undying of Rhaegar and Elia with new-born Aegon. Reggie said “the dragon has 3 heads”. It’s possible that after Elia found out she couldn’t get pregnant again that she agreed, or even encouraged, Reggie’s plan to have the third “head” with Lyanna.

Emily VanCamp is in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, so I guess Emily got the face cream for Mason from Nick Fury. That just seems like a weird tie-in.

Any idea what illness not-maester Qyburn was treating Cercei for? She said the symptoms had cleared up; did Lancel give her the clap?

I’d watch the hell out of the Arya and the Hound Show. An hour of them riding around the countryside dispensing their form of justice while sniping at each other would be hysterical. There was a very subtle call-back in the way Arya killed two men in that fight scene: she didn’t swing the sword at them but rather stuck them with the pointy end. Just like Jon told her waaaay back in the second episode of S1. The title map was interesting. It showed Dragonstone, the Dreadfort, and Winterfell, but there weren’t any scenes in those locations. I was intrigued that the map zoomed west to show Meereen on Slaver’s Bay instead of going east like previous seasons. On a completely shallow note, Pod was looking fine tonight. When Joffrey was mocking Jaime’s list of accomplishments in the White Book, I wanted Jaime to cuff him with his golden hand. Jaime’s new haircut bugged me. His hair and the casual clothes he was wearing with Cercei were too modern; it looked like he just stepped out of a J.C. Penney’s catalog. And I say “good”. While I don’t want Cercei to have any sort of hold over Tyrion, Shae’s jealous girlfriend petulance is getting on my nerves.

In Jaime’s chapters after he’s taken Riverrun, it’s implied that Jayne’s mother might have slipped Robb a love-potion so he’d fall for Jayne, as part of a plot by Tywin Lannister. He’s also only 16 in the books, and more prone to impulsive actions, whether under the influence of a love potion or not. In the show, he’s a grown man, and makes a considered decision (even talking to his mother about it before hand) to marry Talisa, so he’s definitely an idiot. She’s not pregnant; Jaime asked her point-blank and she said she wasn’t. As part of her family’s deal with the Lannisters, she could get remarried but only after 2 years so there wouldn’t be any doubt that any subsequent kids were Robb’s. Robb married her because he took her virginity and felt it was the honorable thing to do. Again, with the “honor before reason will kill you” theme. Of course, there’s a conspiracy theory that the young girl Jaime met was an impostor since his PoV description of her differed from Catelyn’s. If that’s true, the real Jayne could be in hiding, pregnant with a main character for Game of Thrones: The Next Generation.

On one of the S3 DVD commentary tracks, the actor who plays Ramsey Snow commented the you could notice during the scene where he's eating sausage, his bites get progressively smaller as the scene progresses. Emelia Clarke gave a sympatheitc response, reminding him that she had to eat a horse's heart in S1. It was hysterical.

I think that's my biggest beef with this show; they don't have a single character reacting the way a normal person would react.

Didn’t Victoria, Morgan Fairchild, and her other Botoxed cronies vow to make Emily a social pariah at the beginning of the episode? Why then were all the important socialites at this charity event instead of shunning it? The writers can’t even maintain continuity within an episode. In the Victoria vs. Emily poker showdown, Victoria out-bet Emily, and basically told her “you don’t have enough left to cover that bet, ha ha.” I thought in Texas Hold’em, when one player can’t cover the pot he can go “all in”. Emily tossing in Daniel’s engagement ring was needless soapy drama. I was laughing at how they’re treating the deed like a lottery ticket; whoever possesses it owns the house. Real Estate does not work that way. I didn’t follow that at all. Last week they discovered the TWM note, and realized that Pascal was involved with the whole David Clarke situation. I thought that made him a target of her revenge; she even said that, in order to protect Jack, she’d “hit” him without him ever realizing he’d been hit. Now this episode she seems to have given up on that.