Juliajms

Absolutely will do. Thanks.

I think the problem is that I speculated on things, I shouldn't have. Things that have happened on screen in season one, episode 2, but are (perhaps) more clear in the books. It is just speculation though. Nevertheless, I will not do it again.

Yes, it was awesome. On a TV budget no less. They did an amazing job! Loved all the scenes with Cersei too. Damn. Seconds away from killing Tommin! Thank God, Tywin showed up and saved one of the few truly good Lannisters.

I'm very much looking forward to Sunday's episode.

You know nothing QFan. (a play on Ygritte, not an insult). Neither does anyone else. Martin is famous for leading people down a wrong path and the possible clues I mentioned are all in the second episode of the series, in the convo Robert/Ned had. Also, remember that Ned said to Jon, "you may not have my name, but you have my blood". It does point to Lyanna being Jon's mother, in my opinion, but we don't know that and it is not a spoiler. Jon's parents have not been revealed in the book, there are other viable possibilities.

I don't think you have spoiled anything. Not really. The series is called a song of ice and fire. Sure, lots of book fans think that refers to Jon and Dany, but even in the books we don't know for sure. Plus what clues exist in the book, also exist in season 1 for the most part. We know how honorable Ned is, we know that Robert was adamant about killing every Targeryen. We know Rheagar raped Lyanna.

I think juggling these stories has to be very hard. The writer's have to keep some characters in a sort of stasis, so that they are in the right position when the various story threads meet up again. The books are so good and so detailed, that it's just an epic effort on the part of anyone to try to translate it to the screen. There are a lot of flaws, but I don't think I could ask it to be any better than it is. Not when there are only 10 hours in a season and the books are nearly 1,000 pages each. Dany's story is particularly difficult, i think. So is Arya's. I think they did Cat an injustice by not letting a raven escape with news of the boy's "death". Thinking she had already lost two of her children was a much better motivation to betray Robb ,imo. I don't entirely like the direction they are going with Jamie. He's barely showing a glimmer of honor under the sarcasm. However he has shown a bit. For example, when he wouldn't kill Ned because it wasn't clean and his hatred or the mad king.

We did. She asked him why he was called Little Finger and was reprimanded by her Septa for rudeness, but he explained the origins of the nickname to her.

And they did address the reason that Jon hasn't had sex. He's afraid to sire a bastard.

This last episode was good. I hope we see more of Victoria's old BF. He's hot.

I like Brienne because she's loyal. Renly is her King and she was expected Cat to treat him as a King. I also like Margaery Tyrell, she is awesome. She knows the score and she knows what needs to be done. Renly should listen to her.

Are you purposely missing my point? It would be a good strategy if he did it because he thought they were a threat and he was right. They are absolutely no possibly threat and he has not even considered that they could be because he's arrogant on top of everything else. None of them, especially not that baby girl of a whore could EVER sit the iron throne. All seven kingdoms would be in revolution before that EVER happened. Joff killed his half siblings because he is a spiteful little bitch. This is what you said, and I am saying there is no possible way this is true. I didn't need to read the books to know that. In fact if Joff claims this is his reason I STILL won't believe he did it for any other reason than the fact that he likes making people suffer. My last word on the subject. Well, except to say that Robert has "made the eight" so if Joff thinks he got anywhere near all of them he is a bigger fool than I suspect.

All I'm saying is if this was a strategic move, why bother with a whore's daughter? I simply don't think that Joff is a brilliant strategist. If he were, he would watch what he says about Tywin. I think he's a petulant little boy who killed those little kids (if he did) because he could, not because he thought they were a threat.

Maybe, but I'm just talking about Joff's reasoning. If he did it, I don't think he was worried about his crown. He killed a whore's baby girl. That child was never going to sit the Iron Throne. I believe in season one they talked about bastards being considered morally corrupt in Westeros. Nevermind a whore's daughter. I'm not completely sure it was Joff, even though he asked about his father's bastards and I know he's capable of giving those orders. Cersei didn't give him an answer about having other siblings. How did he know how to track down every single one of them? Cersei had a better reason, she knew all of those children had dark hair and Robert's eyes. That doesn't prove anything by today's standards, but in this world I think it's strengthens the declaration Stannis sent out.

I believe he did it because he's a spiteful sociopath. A bastard can't inherit. There is no way one could challenge Joff for the Throne. If people start to believe he isn't Robert's, then the royal line passes to Stannis and his children.

I don't think they will, for several reasons. The most important is that war is expensive, even if they do have a bigger budget, but I think we do need to see some of the fighting. Beyond that the women will continue to play a big part of the show, imo, and a lot of that will be court intrigue. We have to meet Renly's wife. I think that's going to be interesting.

I'm excited to see Stan and Mel in action.

Here's a 22 min sneak peek, but I think we've seen a lot of this footage already:

Kit Harington (Jon) interview: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/21/showbiz/tv/kit-harington-game-of-thrones/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

I knew you'd like that Jon snow one. Dany is my favorite. Renly's was interesting too. They've released so much footage, that I feel confident this is going to be a great season. Everything they've given us looks amazing so far.

Renly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3dCc6xUS8c&feature=relmfu Jon:

Dany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcEVzcHgDoc Joffrey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5mZD9a_62Q&feature=relmfu

Of course you don't because the audience didn't get to hear. He whispered in Rick's ear. I'm pretty sure that's why Jenner gave up. The Walker population was never going to...die off?

OK, that's a pretty grim poster. Damn. It's going to be interesting to see of GoT's has bigger rating this year. It seems like buzz for the show really exploded in the off season. I wonder if the numbers will show that.

Wow. Thank God, Rick smartened up. Rick gave Shane every possible chance and he had to be an SOB to the end. It looks like the days of the farm being a refuge are over. I suppose the group will move on now. I hope Maggie goes with them. I'm not expecting Hershal to survive. I don't know why, I just can't see him becoming a part of the group for the long haul.