I might rewatch soon, but unless I can stay over my dad's Sunday night, I'll be catching the premiere later in the week, so it might feel a bit TEMPTING to get spoiled if I marathon before I can watch.

Yeah, unless I'm over my dad's house on a sunday night (pretty much never happens) I can't watch live either. Though for the price we pay for cable we probably should have HBO

Dany's story is fun at parts, but the FREE THE SLAVES thing has gotten very annoying! I GET IT. She feels empathy for the slaves, is building an army/nation, etc etc, but all I can think when I see the lines of people she's basically forced to tag along with her through the desert is how the hell she expects to feed them all. They are all going to starve.

Boc @ 5/4/2014 20:56

And yeah I haven't really been invested in Dany since S1. I still liked her/was rooting for her in S2 but the story started to get boring then. And then she just turned SMUG in S3 I'm thinking/hoping she's being set-up for a big setback soon. Otherwise it's gonna be pretty dull just seeing her steamroll her way across Westeros with her gigantic army, dragons, and powerful Queensguard (:

tbh, I want her to STOP having setbacks. After the slave army starve, anyway. I want her to finally get to Westeros so her story can matter in a way that isn't completely tangential to the rest of the plot. It would help me to be more invested in her story.

But I also don't really think she'll do a good job of actually conquering Westeros, dragons and slave army or not. She doesn't have the experience with actually taking territory and holding it, just with roasting people who piss her off and making slave armies kill everyone. Neither of these really make her a more favorable monarch than her father.

My dad cancelled HBO! :pissed:

I haven't watched this yet, and I'm not reading anything in here. But from what bullshit I've accidentally seen so far, my predictions for this episode are that Arya and the Hound cook something and the Martells show up. I'll find a stream later and see if I am right

I just watched this one now. I'll have more thoughts in the next episode'sthread once I watch that, but for now:

- GO ARYA! I found that far too satisfying
- Am I supposed to know who the other handmaiden is, or just that she was spying on the Shae shit?
- I enjoyed the Fool giving Sansa the necklace
- Brienne looks so awkward in those clothes
- I thought the Dornish had an interesting introduction. Very memorable
- Daario's new actor is better but I don't like Daario
- Grayworm Jorah and Barristan are great though

Anything I didn't comment on I probably didn't care about too much. The Lannister and Wall stuff is interesting but not extremely

And finally, I assume the lack of Bran and Rickon means we'll be catching up with them soon. I cannot wait.

Oh and the Greyjoy plots and Stannis stuff. GOOD, I hope those come up soon

Boc @ 7/4/2014 0:35

I really liked the Sansa/fool scene. That was actually...kinda heartwarming! I wonder what terrible consequences it'll have

This was my exact reaction to that as it was happening. "How is this going to ruin everything?"

drrr @ 9/4/2014 10:21

I haven't watched this yet, and I'm not reading anything in here. But from what bullshit I've accidentally seen so far, my predictions for this episode are that Arya and the Hound cook something and the Martells show up. I'll find a stream later and see if I am right

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