6x03 POST-Episode Discussion (airs 8th May)

A decent episode, but not one I'm going to rewatch many times. It was slow and some parts were a bit boring, a typical early season episode.

Smalljon gets points from me for calling Roose a cunt.  Roose did swear allegiance to his King and then betrayed and killed him.  Liked that he refused to bow before Ramsey though. 

However he negates that with: turning over Osha, Rickon, killing Shaggydog, saying he would have killed his father makes me say he's not better than Roose.  So it takes one to know one, should have been Ramsey's response.  The crack at Karstark was a good one though.

Oddly enough, Smalljon is superdead in the books.  But in all seriousness, besides of the Tower of Joy (how badass was Arthur Dayne?) that scene with Smalljon and Ramsey was probably the best acted scene of the whole night. 

My best friend said texted me and said, I need a post death Jon Snow to be less emo not more.  I liked how Alistar Thorne was ready to die.  Well done by Owen Teale.  Liam Cunningham continues his acting winning streak with his pep talk to Jon.   

I liked that Kevan and Olenna put the Lannister twins in their place.  Does anyone remember that the real reason why the Faith has a stronghold there is because Cersei sicced them on Margarey and Loras in the first place????

I was half expecting HS to reveal he has a fucking scar in his chest

I was glad to see Braavos finally get good btw. It really dragged in 601 and 602 but the training montage here was back to s5-Braavos quality.

Oh SHIT how could I forget that end scene with the training? Fuck, sorry Arya! 

That was well done. Ok so I think there were three parts I liked a lot, including Arya's story finally starting to get good again. 

I think I'll like this one more on a re-watch. I'm still confused about some parts including wtf is Varys up to. 

Tyrion's drinking game went on too long and was unnecessary.  It felt like a scene just to have Tyrion in the episode.

How about Howland Reed?  I guess that's why Ned left that part of the story out.  We were never filled in the books as to how Howland Reed saved Ned's life.

Neds not honurable!

That scene was so awesome though, I loved it!

I could rant on and on about that awful Mereen scene. But I'm going to be the better smugling for once and ignore it.

I did think that it was a nice twist on the end of the ToJ scene. I mean, they couldn't really do the net and spear now could they? And it was never really said how Dayne died IIRC

Yeah, that was actually a popular theory, that Howland did something dishonorable to save Ned. Seeing the Sword of the Morning stabbed in the back was pretty awful. 

So far everything about the northern storyline has been fantastic this year. I'm including Bran in that too. The rest is struggling to live up to it. Until this episode, I've felt the Arya scene's were getting dull. This was a good one.

I noticed that there are 4 people on Arya's list although one name wasn't mentioned, just insinuated.

It didn't flow as well as last weeks episode, but it would be hard to match last week in terms of flowing beautifully. A lot of scenes were set up scenes, which is the unfortunate nature of the show.

I enjoyed ToJ. Dany was not good, Tyrion only worked when Varys turned up. Kings Landing was a mixed bag. Pycelle farting was an inspired choice. My favourite Kings Landing moment. I wont complain about Sam and Gilly as it was a necessary scene. At least little Sam is more believable age wise. That kid could be about 2. He looked a little older than my nephew who is 2 in July.

I'm going to need a re-watch, I've got a feeling I've missed loads.