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Not as action packed, but I still liked it.
Arya and Jaqen's scene was awesome, her shrug made me laugh out loud.
Loved Stannis and Davos talking about the onion knight story. Stannis is growing on me.
I liked Robb's story about Ned and his teachings. I enjoyed the Talisa story about her brother too and thought it played nicely into the slavery issue that will be big next season. And I really enjoyed seeing her lovely tush!
Tyrion was great. Thought it was funny how they showed that Cersei is never as clever in her scehemes as she thinks she is. More of that to come. Any conversation between Tyrion and Varys is excellent to me. And Joffrey vs. Stannis. Ha!
Theon and Yara/Asha were good, I liked that they gave her some sisterly feelings toward him. Thought the Bran reveal was good. Luwin spies Osha and then takes a closer look at the burned boides.
North of the wall is still the weakest part of the story adaptation. But Sam finding the dragonglass made me happy, means we will get to see Sam the Slayer I think! I don't even mind the Halfhand being less well developed as I think it would have been a little jarring for viewers to have Jon kill him if they had developed him too much. And I am happy that they appear to be heading back to having Jon kill him, which had me worried for a time there that they would exclude that part.
But the part that really bothers me is that they didn't explore Bran's dream and Jon's warging. I think that is a big miss for me. Jon needs to ne a warg, plus that is one of the reasons that the wildlings accept him in. I hope they fix that, but don't see how they will have time in two episodes given all that has to happen with the Blackwater battle and the house of undying an Arya escaping, etc.
Overall, I liked that they spent more time on dialogue that explains stories or characters. Next week will pack plenty of action. Sometimes you need to slow down and have some dialog, and this episode was the right time to do it with next week's episode on the horizon. Bring on the Blackwater!
P.S. The chain is out (would have been a hard scene to film), but with GRRM writing this episode, I feel like he will have something in store to make Tyrion look smart and brave as he did in the book.
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