I have to say, Joffrey is one evil SOB....kid who is playing him is doing a great job.

VDesai wrote:So how freaky was that Melisandre birth scene?

I have to say, Joffrey is one evil SOB....kid who is playing him is doing a great job.

Yeah, the scene with the mace and the whores made me a little uncomfortable. I though they were going to go in another direction the minute Joffrey picked it up.

VDesai wrote:So how freaky was that Melisandre birth scene?

I have to say, Joffrey is one evil SOB....kid who is playing him is doing a great job.

Melisandre is a really interesting character. She plays with the concept of good and evil which is really George RR Martin's ideas. In interviews he talks about how he dislikes the stereotype of the good guy wearing a white hat; bad guy dressed in black; etc. And so his characters in his books and the HBO series are hard to figure out. Nobody is all good or all evil. (except maybe Joffrey).

Is Melisandre good or evil? She states that she is good. Yet giving birth to that shadowy creature doesn't look good to me. And then she turns around the idea that one normally would have that shadows are bad, to the idea that the brightest light casts the darkest shadow. So the fact that she created this very dark shadowy creature means she is a very very good, bright Light. And Light is all good. So she is all good. Whew! Stay away from her! (altho she does look great.).

Also, Ser Davos, the Onion Knight and former smuggler, states that he has some good and some bad in him. A normal priest/priestess would say yes, all men have that and now enhance the good. Melisandre turns that around and states that a man is either good or evil. If you have an onion that is half rotten, it means that you have a rotten onion.

Yellowboy - I agree with you regarding Tyrion's scene with his cousin. Great. That in itself, might have won him another Emmy award.

I agree Jaime was pretty bad-ass this week. We hadn't seen a lot of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau yet but its good to see he has the chops to play the role.

I think we haven't seen a lot of the direwolves because they are too expensive to film. At this point, the direwolves should be a point of focus, but they've been relatively invisible except for one or two episodes.

Also I thought Ramsay was coming but they're already having Theon do a bunch of stuff on his own. Where's REEK?

VDesai wrote:Battle of the Blackwater next week!

jusnice wrote:Seriously, slow and plodding is how I would characterize this season..sort of like his novels, LOL!!! Seriously though, are we going to see the Red Wedding this year?

I don't think so. I think they're going to save that for next season.

VDesai wrote:I thought the Blackwater was the best episode yet! That was a lot to fit into a TV budget and they did pretty great. Cersei and The Hound were awesome in this episode.

Interesting that, in my opinion, they chose to be a little more "old school" with the battle, and not go too heavy with the CGI stuff like Lord of the Rings did. Closer to Braveheart...at least that was my impression.

Definitely The Hound's biggest moments- more dialogue than he'd been given in all the other episodes combined.

Upset because I recently found out that they only shot 10 episodes this year- for some reason I remember reading last year that they would shoot 12 this season.

Hard to believe that in a relatively short period of time, HBO has put out Band of Brothers, Deadwood, Rome, and Game of Thrones, which are easily in my top 10 list. (I know they have put out many others... but I'm a fan of historical or costume dramas.)

Pretty sure that HBO is going to be doing there own version of I Claudius in the near future. Can't wait for that one.

Lots of **** on TV, especially the reality type shows I see advertised, but some of the cable companies have put out some great work over the past decade or so.