Do you want some cheese with your whine?
The monster from Hell Beast looks like a reject from Dark Crystal.
Probably to avoid spoiling it for people who hadn't read that far yet.
No Syrio Forel? I guess the first sword of Braavos doesn't permit his likeness to be copied in Lego.
Sandor is one of the assassins from the Desert Attack set from the Prince of Persia line.
I think Brynden Tully and the Walders are the most likely candidates. When and if HBO does A Feast For Crows, Bryden's presence at Riverrun can always be explained with a few lines of dialog during a small council scene. Something like,"When the Freys captured Edmure Tully, Lord Hoster's brother, Ser Brynden Tully took command of Riverrun."
No Gonzo the Great as Ser Gonzime Lannister?
From a critical standpoint. The list includes both financial and critical flops.
My favorite scene in this episode is when Snow's friends ride out to bring him back to the wall and they remind him of the oath. I also love the scene where Lord Commander Mormont asks him if he's a man of the night's watch or a bastard boy who wants to play at war and the answer is the great visual of Snow joining the column riding through the wall. I was just a little disappointed that they had to cut Maester Luwin's explanation about the Children of the Forest, the First Men and the Andals.
You have a problem with subtly in your fantasy? Martin actually adds more fantasy elements in each book. Don't be so impatient.
- "ugly" woman with a sword
- spear wife
- tomboy
- spear wife
- tomboy
The French film AO: The Last Neanderthal takes interbreeding between our species and Neanderthals as its theme. It has a romantic sensibility though. He's sort of Neanderthal-Adam and the woman is sort of Cro Magnon-Eve. It's gorgeous to look at though.
The Asylum mockbuster version was updated to today's Middle Eastern wars.
The Noah story doesn't have enough savage beatings for Mel Gibson.
Are these the same people who got mad when Mel Gibson died in Hamlet or Jim Caveziel died in Passion of the Christ? There's word for this type of storytelling: Tragedy. I finished reading the first book when the show reached its second episode. I new the death was coming but I was still shocked by it...mainly because it was so beautifully handled as a piece of cinema.
Actually, my favorite part of this episode was the parallel it draws between Varys and the Night's Watch. Varys is a eunuch and is, of course, incapable of having children or a traditional family. The brothers of the Night's Watch are bound by their oaths to never father children an start families. Varys and the Night's Watch are the only ones who put the interests of the realm ahead of the interests of a particular family or king.
It's at time like this when I like to remember that the ancient Greek word for left-handed was aristos, the root for our word aristocrat. Being left-handed didn't stop Alexander the Great from conquering an empire.
That tears it, I'm gonna patent dramatically putting on sunglasses and making crime related puns.
This episode has my favorite scene in the entire first book: Syrio holding off the Lannister men...with a wooden sword. Syrio is my favorite minor character and he gets the best death ever. "What do we say to the god of death? Not today!"
I like how Roger Ebert put it in his review of 13 Assassins: Effects should fool the eye, not insult it.
