I've been watching every episode twice, have only watched this one once so far but it might be my favorite to this point. Just disappointed more of the tourney wasn't shown(assuming there will be more of it next week though) and wished the Hound had told Sansa the story. Oh and I also always thought it was Gendry with the J sound. Overall my only real disappointments with the show are some that others have, don't do well conveying the passage of time, and I lack of a sense of how big some things are, like King's Landing and the Dothraki Horde. I'm sure it's a budget thing as much as anything else, but a few wide, sweeping, epic shots would be nice. They've done it on other shows like Lost so figure they could manage it on GoT.

The tournament was really off scale. There are weekend illegal street drag races that draw bigger crowds. I did not feel that the tournament would have put too much of a drain on the royal bank. Loved the fleshing out of back stories on the Turd King's history, the hound and Theon. They did mess up on the Hound's scarring, he should have no beard on his right side from burns; the full beard hides how bad he should look.

It was nice to finally see evidence that the fearsome Dothraki horde is made up of more than 5 people on horseback.

In regards to Tyrion and Theon talking before Tyrion left



Also regarding The Hound and Gregor

And can someone explain this stuff that I am seeing in different ASOIAF sites?

spoilerize etc etc

May I just say again that the actor that they picked for Samwell Tarly was perfect. That was perfect casting

Samwell was much fatter in the books but not a lot of uber-fattie actors I suppose.

Yep, I thought he looked great (and I criticized that casting when it was first announced).

Yeah but what is that about? Its almost like they are shipping or whatnot like Bennifer or some crap. I don't see that at all.

It took me so long to figure out what people meant when they talked about "ships".

Hurley would have worked lol

I watched this last night at a friend's house and it was my first episode -- needless to say I'm a bit lost at this point.

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how well he does an English accent? Haha.

Not too much has happened yet. You would be fine just from watching re-caps of the first three episodes. Or read the first 300 pages in the book. That's about where they're at after yesterdays episode.

"Dude...did something just move out there in the trees?"

lol yeah, you definitely need to see all the episodes.

There was a nice little added detail for Viserys in this episode that I noticed but didn't connect to anything significant until someone at WiC.net pointed it out:

That bird just said my name!

Now I know how to get girls all hot and bothered, start talking dragon names lol.

I never pictured Samwell as super fat, just rotund and soft. Hell how fat can you actually get in that time/universe? King Robert is smaller than Sam with a sense of scale

Or you could just picture the actress we've already seen. Roz was the one talking to Tyrion in the first episode.

Oh yeah! She was the one who was announced in the casting thread and everyone said ROZ?!?!?!?