No, but at least they're going back to the source material rather than just copying the first series.

True Blood: Sneak peek - includes the first two sneaks plus an additional couple of minutes.

Peter Dinklage and his wife are expecting their first child.

Camelot: Okay, so they killed the two things I liked about the show -i.e., Leontes and the budding relationship between Igraine and Merlin. Neither of these things were canonical so I suppose it doesn't matter. I had hopes (because so little of this show is like the original story and yet if lacks the charm of Merlin which is also not much like the original but is very charming) that they were going to have a Mordred that was the son of Merlin and Morgan - but noooo, randomly Morgan assumes Guinivere's appearance and seduces Arthur. . . oh well.

GoT: Man, that was if possible more heartrending than the book. . . the idea that Ned knew that Arya was there as well as Sansa.

Wow, I'm amazed by the number of people on the New Viewers thread at W-i-C who are bitching about the lack of battle scenes rather than the execution.

the idea that Ned knew that Arya was there as well as Sansa.

Right? That hurt.

OTOH, at least Ned knew Arya was alive and could send Yoren to her. I liked that he swore by the Seven and not the Old Gods.

Having just read that bit, we didn't see much of the battles in the books, either.

No, definitely not Robb's ambush of Jaime - but I thought we saw more of the other battle.

A little more, but not much. Tyrion's sad story of first love is more important than his brief fight during the battle that turned out to be a distraction, if they had to choose (and seems to me that they did, they had a lot to pack into that hour). We did see more of the planning and have more of a sense of Tywin's strategy, but we didn't see much of the fighting.

I am bummed that they didn't include the reference to Robb being a young wolf with more bravery than wisdom who would fall easily to Tywin's cunning.

Treme: is there any way that Eric Ripert can be that nice in real life? Not that he necessarily wouldn't want to be, but in that line of work, I can't imagine that he could be.

On a completely different note, Melissa Leo was heartbreaking in her breakdown scene after she got Sofia (Sophia?) out of juvie.

I'm a little disappointed that Tyrion's little victory in battle was replaced with a drinking game (even though I do adore Bronn), but I was really startled by Shae. She's not even close to the book version. What's the point of that?

Oh, NED.

::sniffle::