HBO green-lights Season Three!

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T&A is more PC than portraying people with disabilities I would guess. It would be tough to pull off Patchface in the show, and no Shireen. Stannis apparently has no children in the show. However, I think I did see Robert's bastard son with Stannis- but it's just my guess that it's him. I don't think they said his name.

Gendry shouldn't be anywhere near Stannis. He should be with Arya all the way beyond Harrenhal, and then part of the brotherhood without banners with Lord Baric.

There's more than one bastard son. This one is Edric Storm.

Correct, I was thinking of Edric not Gendry. Just couldn't think of his name off the top of my head.

I'm reading book 2 again right now. Interesting to see the parallels each week as they happen.

Not a big fan of making Bronn the captain of the gold cloaks. I don't feel like it would be in his character to accept that role...

That really bothered my coworker as well. He didn't think that Tywin would support Tyrion in that play either (outright getting rid of Slynt and appointing his own man).

I'm, personally, not bothered by it, but I'm at peace with the fact that they're going to have to make some significant changes to streamline the story as it progresses.

I didn't have a problem with it, it avoids yet another character but still conveys that Tyrion now controls the City Watch which is consistent with the book.

Exactly. I wasn't bothered at all. I actually liked it. And like, NewChief, I'm aware that changes have to be made. This one is fine.

Hilarious. Scene is from first season.

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Episode titles, for what they're worth:

201: The North Remembers
Written by David Benioff & D.B Weiss, directed by Alan Taylor
Airdate: 1 April 2012

202: The Night Lands
Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, directed by Alan Taylor
Airdate: 8 April 2012

203: What is Dead May Never Die
Written by Bryan Cogman, directed by Alik Sakharov
Airdate: 15 April 2012

204: Garden of Bones
Written by Vanessa Taylor, directed by David Petrarca
Airdate: 22 April 2012

205: The Ghost of Harrenhal
Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, directed by David Petrarca
Airdate: 29 April 2012

206: The Old Gods and the New
Written by Vanessa Taylor, directed by David Nutter
Airdate: 6 May 2012

207: A Man Without Honor
Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, directed by David Nutter
Airdate: 13 May 2012

208: The Prince of Winterfell
Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, directed by Alan Taylor
Airdate: 20 May 2012

209: Blackwater
Written by George R.R. Martin, directed by Neil Marshall
Airdate: 27 May 2012

210: Valar Morghulis
Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, directed by Alan Taylor
Airdate: 3 June 2012

Want!

The budget for this show is likely enormous, but they would really do themselves a favor in regards to the storytelling by upping the episodes to like 15 a season.

It will be better when they split book 3 into two seasons, or at least one and a half.