re: GoT S03E06 - "The Climb" **NON BOOK READERS ONLY PLEASE**

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Yeah, I was saying after last week that I was getting ambivalent about someone killing Joffrey. Whelp, that's over with!

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joffrey just didn't get enough as a kid. at least that's probably what tywin would say.

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So, looks like the Baratheon bastard is coming into significance a lot sooner than I was thinking he would. I was thinking that the brotherhood group would be a bit more principled than they are turning out to be for some reason. Just shows that everyone is working an angle.

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just goes to show the actual logistics with being some kind of robin hood troop. you still need supplies.

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I didn't get the impression that Cersei ratted out Joffrey to Tyrion about the murder attempt. Was that just Tyrion working it out on his own that if his sis ordered the hit it would have been more discreet?

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exactly. and i'm sure cersei would portend that if/when she does it he would/will be dead.

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I'm glad I was on the grandma Tyrell bus early so I get a good seat. No worries though, there is plenty of standing room for you late comers. Sword swallower is now going to be a permanent addition to my vocab, and for that I thank her.

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i'm shotgun on this bandwagon. loved her from the beginning too. quickly becoming one of my faves.

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Glad that the redhead wildling accepts Jon's twisted loyalties, should help him do whatever he thinks is right when there is the impending crow clash.

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i wonder how many weeks we'll get a call back on jon snow's oral skills? if some woman had a devil's threesome w/ pod & jon they'd probably die of prolonged violent orgasms.

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Also really enjoying Theon's prolonged torture. I'm with the folks saying its Bolton's son. I really don't see how it can be in doubt. The Bolton sigil is the "flayed man" and someone is, in fact, flaying Theon and starting with his finger. No happy ending unless sis busts down the castle walls...Theon fricked.

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i'm enjoying as well. i read a review that said this arc is getting old. but it's one of my favorites. all the subtle clues on the torturer being a bolton and this week they bash you over the head with it. "Hey audience, we're flaying him! Get it??!!!"

my thing with that is this: if theon lived in the north for most of his years, wouldnt he know of the boltons? jamie sure did just by their sigil. and he knew what they were known for. wouldn't theon know this. maybe not their faces but their sigil and the fact that he's their living sigil right now??

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So Robb is going to the Freys, groveling, and in return getting the men he needs to sack Casterly Rock, correck? Kind of a bum deal about his uncle having to marry one of the Frey dogs, but he definitely owes Robb. I get the feeling that doofus uncle is going to continue to cause Robb and the North problems...if he didn't take the marriage hit for the team I wouldn't have been surprised to see him end up with the Fredo treatment

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i don't think the tully's would kill him, they seem kinda normal. wish the blackfish had more screentime though.

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I thought it was a great episode. Looking forward to getting back to the dragons and would like to see what ended up happening with Vary's old tormentor that he caught a few episodes back.

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yeah we've seen that littlefinger's treachery knows no bounds but i wouldn't mind seeing varys go medieval on that sorcerer. i think every episode should have a varys/balisch (sp?) scene.

Theon is basically the bitch of the show.

Daddy hates him, casts him off
Starks take him in, treat him with respect
Betrays Starks to try to win over his a-hole father

I'm guessing Theon's story leads back to him with some kind of redemption - either cutting his own path or making things right with the Starks.

The Bolton/Stark connection is interesting, seeing as though Theon's a captive of a Bolton (unofficially). Seems like that could go either way, since the Boltons are more of a player now.

I'd have to rewatch, but it seems like it was implied the Ironborns burned Winterfell right after they knocked out Theon and stabbed the Maester. I'm not sure if Lord Bolton sent his Bastard with any men at all.

I also seem to remember Ironborns being Theon's original torturers, and then the Bastard saves him just so he can do it himself.

Bastard was trolling Theon outside the walls with the horn the whole time, just because he's a sadistic POS.

This cycle has been going on for a while now, hopefully something will progress in the storyline soon.

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i took it all as one big troll/mindfrick on theon.

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Same here. Its one of the greatest/sickest troll jobs I have seen on TV. Its right up there with Cartman feeding Scott Tennerman chili made from his parents and having Radiohead make fun of him.

"They cling to the realm" -Could be referring to Varys

"or the Gods"-could be Ned

"or Love"-could be Sansa

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something like that would have to be planned in order for them to escape. I'm pretty sure three dudes didn't agree to die just to troll Theon.

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I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say that the guy torturing Theon didn't let the other captors in on his whole plan....if any of it.

Eta: his plan was just to con Theon into trusting him to gain info...the guards were just collateral, if not intentional, damage to gain that trust. He's a suck frick, I'm guessing he doesn't really care who he hurt in the process.

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"They cling to the realm" -Could be referring to Varys

"or the Gods"-could be Ned

"or Love"-could be Sansa

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do you even speak to anyone in these threads or do you just post whatever fart comes out of your head?

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do you even speak to anyone in these threads or do you just post whatever fart comes out of your head?

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So the Bastard breaks Theon out from the iron borns, kills 3 of them and takes Theon back to the same place? Were those the only 3 iron borns there. If not wouldn't the other ones be pissed?