wow! this episode i felt was insanely intense from basically the onset forward! i can't even pick out what scene was the best from this episode! was it the introduction of Brienne of Tarth? the baptism/betrayl*/fury of Theon Greyjoy? Margarey Tyrell's casual offer of incest for the sake of duty? Tyrion's little deception game to purge the council and subsequent buddy pact with Varys? Arya? I mean, just
everything to do with Arya? Even
Sansa had a good scene.
"my son is fighting a war. not playing at one."
*i'm okay with theon creative leeway the writers gave him because the greyjoys seem like such shitty people most of the time in this show, don't they?
also with arya because it seems to answer a plot question from the books.