Red Mosquito

Simple Torture wrote:It's crazy how polarized the reactions to that rabbit-eating scene have been. People either seem to be all about it or all against it.

Why the hell would Arya be riding around the Riverlands without a disguise on if she could, in theory, look like anyone else? Here's an idea (all speculation, but spoiler'd anyway):

Spoiler: show

This idea comes from the Talk The Thrones aftershow. One reason many people liked that scene (one reason why I highlighted it early, too) was because it demonstrated that there was a bit of human Arya underneath it all, that she wasn't just a killing machine bent on revenge. Wellllllll...if you were trying to infiltrate a band of Lanister soldiers so that you could, I dunno, kill one of them and steal their face so that you could easily get into King's Landing to kill the queen...wouldn't you act like an unassuming girl just trying to make it in the countryside to catch the soldiers off guard? That's still possible. One thing that makes it hard to believe: the Stark kids have never been presented as false to the audience before (as far as I can remember), so it'd be a huge shift for the show. We'll see.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

ABNorman wrote: I was tucking into a chocolate as the Sam montage began, so that was great.

stip wrote:not knowing who Ed sheeran was, nothing about how it was shot stood out in a jarring way.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I didn't recognize him until someone told me because I'm old and don't really keep up with who is popular with the kids these days.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I guess this is also one of those instances with Cersei where I just prefer the arc the book had for her. At no point in the novels is Cersei ever a sympathetic character. She leans that way at times in the show and it infuriates me. So combining those two things just gets to me. But like I said, this is really just a narrative preference for me.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I'll be honest and admit my complaints with Sansa are simply that I like the book better. There are some passages from her time in King's landing where she's set up to be more of an anti-Cersei, a Queen to be loved, not feared. And it makes me nervous in the show here she says stuff like "I learned so much from her".

Mecca wrote:

Revelator wrote:All in all a great opening episode, but my God that forced Ed Sheeran scene....that was, without a doubt, the most cringeworthy scene I've seen on this show. Not jumping on the pop star bashing bandwagon either, it really was that awful. Something like that takes you right out of the fancy world the writers and show runners work so hard to create. WTF were they thinking? Still pumped for next week though and enjoying the fact that I genuinely have no clue how this all will turn out.

you are jumping on that bandwagon though. this isn't the first time they've used a singer/band to be the voice behind the songs in the realm of GoT, either.