Oh, nice! Thanks for the link, Jessica.

Nearly everything that happened was a surprise to me, so I spent pretty much the whole episode with my jaw hanging open. I LOVE THIS SHOW.

So sad about Yoren, though (and I did know that was coming). I liked him.

The show continues to move so quickly that I'm surprised when the end credits run.

I've just realized that the actress playing Shae looks eerily similar to the president of the PTA at Dylan's school. I may never be able to volunteer for anything again.

She's the one who's throwing me a little bit -- she's not at all the way the character was described in the first book.

No, but I'm loving this interpretation of the character all the same.

I was so worried that they'd cast Brienne with somebody that Hollywood "thinks" is ugly, which is usually somebody that you'd think is pretty if you ran into them in real life. This Brienne, I can see as a believable warrior-maid, indeed, and while I bet she actually cleans up nicely, I'm not going to have too much cognitive dissonance going forward.

And yeah, am disappointed in the Drowned God baptism. Me, I would have opened the scene with the priest and Iron Dad holding struggling Theon under the water until he drowns, then drag him back to shore and do mouth-to-mouth. Maybe an aside by Yara that the priest isn't losing nearly as many initiates as he used to.

I can see the appeal of that, but I think it would be wrong for Theon going forward to have that major a religious experience. The Damphair pouring water over his head is what happened in the book, although the order of events has been shuffled a little.

I admit to quite often skimming the Theon chapters in the books on rereads. I find him such an unlovable, yet unfascinating character. He's better in the series, anyway. I thought his rebuke of his father's abandoning him was outstanding.

I'm just wondering who got to explain things to Cersei.

Which things?