re: GoT S03E05 - "Kissed by Fire" **NON BOOK READERS ONLY PLEASE**

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They've been taken down. I honestly don't know what is or isn't a spoiler unless someone points it out. Apparently some of the readers are lurking and RA'ing if they think a post contains a spoiler (and the poster is either a known or suspected book reader). Looks like about 7-10 posts got whacked this morning.

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I believe admins (including Chicken and Circus) are monitoring the thread and dropping warnings (and suspensions I believe) where necessary. Hopefully that will work to deter readers from posting.

And to the readers who stay out, but scan the thread and police it (by RA'ing), many thanks.


Pretty solid episode last night IMO. Seems like we got some good advancement on each of the stories that were shown.

As much as I liked Jamie's story about how he killed Aerys, I'm not a huge fan of them continuing to make Jamie less hardassed and cold. Hopefully once he regains his strength and gets back to "normal," he'll start being a dick again.

Hound cutting through Beric's sword was pretty awesome.

Tywin gonna Tywin. fricking beast. I love that dude and he's my favorite character by far now. Also, I had forgotten what he did to Tyrion's old wife (letting his soldiers unendingly rape her in front of Tyrion and then sending her packing).

Plots that advanced:
- We got Hound winning and being released, and Arya being a badass trying to attack him with a knife. Also have them saying they're taking her to her brother in Riverrun. So hopefully soon she'll be reunited with at least some of her family. We also see some Lord of the Light magic and what that shite is capable of with Beric being resurrected...for now the sixth time apparently. That was pretty awesome.
- At Riverrun, Robb pisses off his frans by killing old Karstark dude (for killing the Lannister kids) and then he loses all the Karstark soldiers (half his army apparently). Now he's headed to the Twins to get men from Frey...interested to see what's up with that since Robb is married now and can't marry Frey's daughter (Have we seen what she looks like before? Can't remember..).
- We got some Jamie/Kingslayer backstory and got to see Brienne kinda naked (yay??). So now we understand the whole situation with how Jamie became the Kingslayer, as well as more insight into how mad Aerys really was. I thought it was interesting how he told that story and then a couple of scenes later we see Barristan talking to Jorah about when you take an oath to a king, you uphold that oath and serve him "whether he's a drunk or a lunatic." Interesting considering Jamie seemingly made the right moral choice and is forever labeled a coward for breaking his oath.
- We see Daenerys still heading to King's Landing with her troops. Pretty cool scene with her and that Grey Worm dude, and it's kinda weird to see the Unsullied speak...I figured them as basically robots. I didn't quite understand that conversation between Jorah and Barristan though..does Jorah think Barristan is being shady?
- Stannis comes clean to his wife about the Red Chick, and Selyse is....happy about it? Was she all "Lord of the Light" prior to now, or is that something relatively new since she's talked to Melisandre (sp?)..? Can't imagine too many chicks would be pumped about their husbands sleeping with psycho women, Also, Stannis's daughter Shireen is pretty cute. I like how she's sweet on Davos and they have a friendship. Cool, sweet scene IMO.
- Jon not only secures himself a spot in the wildlings officially (by slaying Ygritte, who has a pretty fantastic body), but he also is giving them information on how to attack the Wall. So we are moving toward them doing that I assume. Though I didn't understand how there are 19 (or 17?) castles guarding the Wall...how does that work? I thought the Wall was just the giant arse wall.
- In King's Landing, the royal wedding is on the way and Tyrion gets the Tyrells to pay for half of it (and old lady Tyrell is still a massive bitch). So now Maergery is wanting Sansa and Loras to get married, but Tywin knows what's up and wants Tyrion to marry Sansa (for the North) and sire children, and Cersei to marry Loras (for Highgarden) and sire children. But at the same time, Baelish has his gay spy bang Loras and then report back to him, and he continues his weird stalking of Sansa (and I still can't tell if he wants her for sure or not) but knows that Loras is the gaiz. So Sansa is becoming quite the chess piece with the Lannisters, Baelish, and the Tyrells all gunning for her betrothal. Should get interesting.


* as always, no readers respond to my questions or statements please.