In non-GOT news, I am finally making my way through Rome. I'm only on S1e4, and really, can I just have the Lucius and Titus Pullo show? Ciran Hinds is great as Ceasar, but the show is by far at its most enjoyable when Titus Pullo is on screen.
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Trust me, you don't want to get rid of Atia and especially you don't want to get rid of Octavian. That is one amazingly fucked up family.
I read that somebody from Cabin in the Woods (which I haven't seen yet) has been cast on Spartacus.
People what sort of education did you have that you missed that important chapter on giving birth to a smoke-child assassin?
Or how to properly hatch dragon eggs via self-immolation?
I am shocked. Shocked.
I don't know what was better -- Tyrion losing his shit with Joffrey, or Arya with Tywin, or what Danaerys will do to find her dragons.
The scene was Sansa was horrifying -- I was literally clutching my chest.
Tyrion losing his shit with Joffrey, or Arya with Tywin, or what Danaerys will do to find her dragons.
I can't pick! They're all so great!
Tyrion is trying SO HARD to keep the rest of his family from fucking everything up, but they're just so GOOD at fucking things up, he's not going to be able to hold it together. That's not a spoiler, just common sense.
I think I need to reread the Harrenhall chapters in the book because I don't remember most of Arya's storyline, and I can't tell if it's because my memory is swiss cheese or because it's been changed for the show.
I think Arya's has been changed, from what I've heard. I'm a little unnerved that I'm not completely hating Tywin, too.
It was frightening to see Tyrion really scared, for once. But the absolute fury and exasperation when Joffrey just didn't get it was perfect. "And now I'm striking one." Do it again, do it again!
Well, the obvious big change is Lord Tywin.
I'm hoping for a new Tyrion hitting Joffrey youtube video.
And no matter what Tyrion does to establish some sort of normality - he gets the blame for all the wrong from the crowd. Poor Tyrion.
Arya's storyline mostly seems compressed to me, but some of what's happened onscreen I haven't gotten to in my re-read, yet, so I'm not sure I'm remembering it right.
Tywin is fascinating. And the recurring bits where what people think is happening is so different from what we know is happening are pretty great.
The septon literally getting ripped limb from limb - I was not expecting that. Theon making a hash of the beheading I was expecting, but still hard to watch.
The death of the High Septon was particularly grisly.