Watching it now, although I did read most of the thread already.
Well, we have a new way to find Shae if her ship had not yet sailed ("Bar the gates of the city. Seize every ship in the harbor").
And we have Littlefinger. Oh gosh, I saw the comments about Aiden Gillen's "new accent" and I figured it would just be another of his weird modulating ones. I couldn't have imagined anything like this. It sounds like he needs a crate of soothers. Or like he took his misty mysterious ship thing too much to heart while he was waiting in the bay all that time and needs an eye-patch and a peg leg :|
We're all liars here.
[...]
But you're safe now. I promise you that. You're safe with me
Oh Littlefinger.
Tywin and Tommen are pretty awesome. New Tommen has potential.
The rape scene was ... both not as bad, and worse, than I expected it to be, somehow.
Might book passage across the Narrow Sea. Fight as a sellsword. Second Sons, could be. Seems like a good fit for me.
You know, if he were to end up there instead of as a Gravedigger that could be interesting. Tyrion, Jorah, and Sandor trudging towards Meereen with Brown Ben Plum - shame a place full of fire breathing dragons would be a horrible place for him to end up.
Would get in the way of the theories that set him against un-gregor though I guess.
(Not overly sure about the 'I'm no thief'/'Man's got to have a code' and the 'I thought you weren't a thief'/'I wasn't' moment though. Bit of a rapid turnaround)
We're willing to use blood magic to put you on the throne, but we're not willing to pay men to fight?
<3 Davos.
Shireen too. I really like TV show Shireen. Their teacher/student friendship is sweet.
I'm somewhat baffled by how Moles Town can be skeevier than I imagined a town full of whores would be :|
So many of the character interactions are great. Oberyn/Tywin, Tyrion/Podrick, Arya/Sandor.
And I also continue to be impressed by the new and improved Jon Snow, actually acting like he has a brain and actually being somewhat of a leader. And more than that, when he has an opinion he is actually
explaining his reasoning for things instead of just insisting upon it. Shame by the time we hit the AFFC/DWD content more fully he'll probably have devolved into a moron again.
I think that just makes it worse that That Scene has tainted this episode though :|
Meereen is ... bigger than I thought.
And as much as I knew it wouldn't happen, for a moment there I really wanted Dany to proclaim fire was her champion like her father. Her 'do I have a champion? no, not you. no, not you either. still no... yes, you' was a bit dumb but at least Daario still has his creepy daggers.