Are there any more brown people for Daenerys to liberate, or is she on to white people now?

Arya is Not. That. Kind.

Okay, that was simultaneously one of my favorite episodes so far, yet also super frustrating, and with the most problematic changes for me so far.

Also, I kinda didn't really like the ending very much, and that wasn't the one I was hoping for.

Dammit.

Are there any more brown people for Daenerys to liberate, or is she on to white people now?

Oh, Essos is a big continent. I'm sure she hasn't run out just yet.

My god, this show has a lot of characters. This ep was exhausting. And so much cannibalism! Or implied cannibalism, anyway.

Reek, huh. Wasn't expecting that this season.

Joffrey v Tywin = DAYUM.

I hope in the next season they find a way to keep the action up throughout, rather than have everything leading up to one big event. I feel like the Red Wedding was so huge this season - even bigger than Blackwater - that everything else felt like just moving game pieces around, rather than actually playing with them.

Arya, run away. Westeros is a terrible, horrible place, especially for Starks.

I love the various looks that appear on the Hound's face as he begins to understand that Arya Stark is nothing at all like Sansa.

Joffrey v Tywin = DAYUM.

That whole sequence, from the start of Tyrion, Sansa and Shae walking, all the way through Tyrion meeting back up with Sansa only to find out he's too late, was one of the best sequences in the show so far. Masterful all around.

I love Davos.

I love Arya. She breaks my heart. And the Hound is so comfortable with her -- this is just like how he became who he is, after all.

The Theon torture porn actually bothers me more than the Red Wedding scene, or the wolf. It just goes on and on. Also, his sister is badass.

Tywin intimidating Joffrey will never get old. Tywin is so complicated -- I love him and hate him equally.

Jaime's face when he got to Cersei! That reunion's going to be ugly, I bet.

"Mhysa!" Dani is my queen, although she's beginning to frighten me, too, in that true "awe-inspiring" way.

Wow, this ep *was* exhausting. I know I'm forgetting things.

Jon and Ygritte's theme continues to be one of my favorite pieces of music ever.

I'm beginning to think they're painting Joffrey as insane (true megolomaniac, I guess?) rather than Black Hat Evil. Or maybe I just want to believe that.

So many characters are really fascinatingly gray -- Jaime, Tywin, Varys, Cat, even Cersei -- that if Joffrey really is pure Black Hat Evil, then I would think Dany would have to be pure White Hat Good. She's not innocently good, really, more fiercely righteous, but still, the Good.

What bothers me is that it seems so clear someone as one-note as Joffrey could ever succeed in the end. So if Dany is his antithesis, does that hold true for her, too?

Joffrey is just the absolute worst. Thank goodness for Tywin holding him back or Joffrey would be a menace the likes that the killer of kings needs to take out again.

I'm beginning to think they're painting Joffrey as insane (true megolomaniac, I guess?) rather than Black Hat Evil.

The books make a huge deal out of Mad King Aerys being the product of many generations of Targaryen incest (and not the first time either), so yeah.