Coming soon: A collection of clips featuring all the exposed private parts from the first two seasons.

They'll call it... Game of BONES.

(not for the amount of Hodor or Theon they showed, but the male masses who got off on all the boobs, cunnies, and asses)

Agreed. Far too much cussing. They should cut out a full half of the swears in this show, and use the time thus saved to add in some rowsing renditions of "The Bear and the Maiden Fair".

I don't think there's too much; I think it's used wrong. In Deadwood, there's more swearing but it's used as prose. In Fire & Ice/Game of Thrones, every swear word is carries the emphasis of the sentence and is meant to be be shocking repartee. It's mean to be The Lion in Winter but winds up being fanfiction.

Fear not; you'll get your Bear and the Maiden Fair soon enough!

Oh boy! I just checked the Wiki, and you're right! They're naming an upcoming episode after it, so looks like I might yet get my wish!

It says they've decided to include Shireen, too! And the Reeds (I've been buggered as to how they were planning to swing You Know Who's story arc without 'em)! Of course, all these new additions means they're probably gonna fuck up Arya's story even more than they already have, and Jon's, but oh well, at least I'll have my MOTHERFUKKEN BEAR AND THE MAIDEN FAIR.

Now to start fretting over how HBO will handle the Rains of Castamere / Red Wedding.

Game of Thrones is Henry V as written by 4chan.

i love you memedumpster

No, I mean they'll actually have the song playing in the credits in one of the earlier episodes... but I'm told it'll be some weird rock version or something.

Episode 7 is named the way it is for a reason. If you've read the books, you probably already know why. But I have no clue if they'll play the song there too... though I wouldn't be surprised if anybody sings it in at least one of the episodes.

I agree. They could have left 'bastard' out and probably would still have close to a minute.

There was an episode of Walking Dead where they got stuck in an Interstate "oasis" of broken down cars as a zombie herd migrated through. That episode was bad ass. The rest of the show is boring.

It's trying so hard to do political skullduggery but just doesn't have the writing chops to pull it off. It's trying to be The Lion in the Winter meets Dune with the pedigree of True Blood.

Aside from the fan fiction feel, what really bugged me about it was the glacial plot pace (how many scenes and episodes of season 1 were devoted to Robert and Ned traveling to King's Landing having the same conversation over and over again? Same thing with Tyrion and Snow traveling to the wall) and the Lost/X-files approach to storytelling where nothing ever develops. Anytime something interesting threatens to happen, the events are either reset or dropped as new elements just keep piling on.

Robert Stark's campaign against the Lannisters, blond chick wondering the desert with baby dragons and a band of followers, the invasion of King's Landing. By the finale they were all reset to where they were at the start of season 2.

Thank goodness nothing interesting came of all that. Now back to the little girl and her BFF magical face changing assassin conscript huh wha..zzzzzzzzz

(After tons of unsexy sex, the Stark camp nurse steps in, the ONE gal you want to see naked, and they go with a body double :( )