The scene where Tywin tells Tyrion that he will never have Casterly Rock was particularly good...better than the book. I am glad they cut through all the crap with Barriston Selmy.

tywin and tyrion have such fantastic on screen chemistry together in that scene! The unsullied scene was also quite well done.

casterly rock? noooooooope, nope nope nope. :roflpuke2: great scene indeed.

i want that image of danaerys staring off to the city of astapor as a wallpaper. that looked REALLY nice.

I really appreciated Catrhyn's story about Jon Snow. That is some pretty strong stuff.

I've noticed Season 3 speeding right along. So far so good, but it would have been nice to see how Dany got her ship and I was hoping to see Vargo Hoat capture Brienne and Jaime.

+1 for putting Theon through some deserved agony

The Daenerys and Harrenhal story archs are the most jacked up compared to the books. Since we haven't seen Vargo Hoat yet, I don't think he will be in the series. My guess is that Dany took Xaro Xhoan Daxos's ships (along with everything else) at the end of last season instead of Illyrio sending his to take her back to Pentos.

Roose Bolton has definitely been a subtle character being with Rob Stark the whole time until now. I am not sure where they are going with Brienne and Jaime being captured by his men. Also he has concealed the fact that he is "holding" Theon which is a fact that Rob would be interested in. Theon was hardly mentioned in A Storm of Swords let alone included in any of the scenes.

The differences are interesting though and creates anticipation for me even knowing what is generally going to happen by reading the books.