By djariya at 2011-06-12

Synopsis:



Episode 9 of 10

Trailer:

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Can't wait...for the reaction to tonight's episode! Especially from people that haven't read the book.

This show is getting so great. Can't wait to see what happens tonight - and I get to watch it live for once.

Heh.

Eager to hear the non-reader reactions to this one.

Even knowing what was coming, that was surprisingly tense and emotional.

I agree.

My twitter feed exploded when it happened

What I pictured Shae looking like wasn't anywhere close to the actress playing her.

Disappointed they changed Tyrion's part in the battle.

Whoa! Saw it coming because I'd heard that that is the authors style but damn that was cool.

She wasn't too far off from how I pictured her.

Amazing I still have goose bumps.

Joffery's not very smart is he?

Very intense episode. Who was it that Ned yelled at and that kept Arya from watching?

Yoren, the Night's Watch guy who had a conversation with Tyrion in an earlier episode and whose job is to go find scoundrels to drag back to the Wall.

Damn...

Finally! It's like I was going to explode all season keeping that inside

I think we've done exceptionally well at keeping things spoiler-free here. I'm trying to keep up with the Twitsplosion that's going on at the moment, and it looks like lots of people (West Coasters especially) are getting tonight's ending spoiled for them by reading the tweets about the show before seeing it. I guess this will learn 'em.

I'd like to think that the fact that the Starks have a wolf on their banner doesn't seem like such a drastic spoiler now, in context. But I might know better.

My non-reader son fully expected Ned to lose his head. I really don't think it was that big of a surprise.

Wow, I thought Ned was the hero of the story. I'm definitely getting the novels after next week's episode. I don't think I can wait another year to see where the story goes from here.

And have really disliked the scenes with Robb and Catelyn these past two episodes.

And I'll second the disappointment in the Tyrion battle scenes.

However, the Maester Aemon/John Snow scene was fantastic; one of my favourites.

Non-readers on Twitter are threatening to stop watching the show.

There were battle scenes?

I like the ones that are directly blaming HBO.

I like the ones that say

this is why if you live on the west coast, and follow Game of Thrones fans (or tv people) you stay the fuck away

I'm just wondering who is going to get first billing on the opening credits for Season 2 now!

They killed off Caesar in the Season 1 finale of Rome but Ciaran Hinds wasn't first billed (he got the coveted "And" credit instead)

WTF was up with that interminable scene of Shae and Tyrion playing Truth or Dare? I guess maybe they needed to do something like that to tell the Tysha story, but why the fuck was Bronn there?

check out HBO's facebook page..its exploding...I thought this was the worst kept secret out there.

I'm a non-reader and didn't know this was coming, damn it was well done and hit hard. Because of what happened, I really want to read the books to find out more, but I don't think I'd have this strong of a reaction if I knew already. Ugh. I'm not sure which way to go (sidebar: I love True Blood and have stayed away from the books). Bottom line: Joffrey is a little piece of SHIT!!!!