Wait, there were two episodes last night? (I only ahemmed the one.)

So Viserys gets the crown he richly deserves. (I'm not 100% certain it would outright KILL you -- more likely 1st degree burns, blindness, and a day or two of mortal agony.)

sumi, I separately had the same thought about Ros and her eventual path in the story we're seeing -- I bet Martin wishes he'd thought of it for the first book.

Am I the only one who would have liked to hear where Septa Mordane came from? I swear, I felt bad for both Sansa AND Joffrey in that scene together. That is, if the producers are playing it that Joff is as totally sincere as any young abuser ever gets -- you know it's not going to last but the motive and belief is there. And Sansa by belief and culture is set up to be codependent.

I'm confused, too -- I didn't see Littlefinger in last night's episode (at least not the one that aired).

So Viserys gets the crown he richly deserves. (I'm not 100% certain it would outright KILL you -- more likely 1st degree burns, blindness, and a day or two of mortal agony.)

S. said that, too, but maybe the gold would overheat your brain?

Next week's episode is available early on HBO Go. I watched them back to back and now I'm mildly confused about what happened in which episode so I will limit my comments.

Molten gold is pretty hot, and you'd get the phase change energy difference directly into the skull. Just heating up your brain that much so suddenly might kill you via burst blood vessels and so forth if the burn itself didn't.

My favorite thing about that scene, both in the book and the series, is that Viserys has no idea who he's dealing with and thinks he's won. I didn't love the dragon's egg not burning Dany scene, it just seemed unnecessary and, imo, undermined some of the impact of "He was no dragon".

Oops!

I will whitefont. That was from the HBOGo episode. (I tell you, it took me forever to get that one and by the time I did: it had all blurred together.)

it also seemed like the metal became incredible heavy after it cooled, so that also might be enough to kill a person.

Ought to be the same weight, really, but it would contract as it cooled. That wouldn't be good for you, certainly.

of course that makes sense.

I wondered if it would cool/harden that quickly, but either way, it was a great scene.

At a Science museum, I once got to hold a small ingot less than two minutes after it was poured into a mold. Maybe half the size of a credit card and no thicker than a Hershey bar, so while it didn't have all that much to lose in the way of heat, it was still startlingly coolish. Startlingly heavy, too.

I really liked the Aerie trial by combat scene. It was a good counterpoint to Arya's dancing lesson, which was a good counterpoint to Sansa being petty and emotional.

Treme: loved seeing Tom C and Ripert, though I felt like my TV worlds were colliding. Not so happy if Jeanette stays in New York working for Ripert. As was said in the show, that's a good gig.