Not the best one no. The Dani stuff and the joffrey/Tywin confrotation were my favorite parts. Tywin was more cordial than I would have expected but it worked nicely, and Joffrey seemed for once to actually pay attention.

And now the crap.. more Bran snore stuff; Talisa gave me a strange vibe (was the actress distracted or should I read into that performance as it was intentional?) but I don't care about her. And Shae, just fucking die already. Maybe they're not showing us the parts where she's actually nice to Tyrion, but she never gives him any reason to actually like her. Since they met she's done nothing but complain and whine. Dump the bitch already. A friend of mine is only at ep 3 of season 2 and he already hates her with a passion. And it only gets worse.

The bear scene was remarkably done quite well, considering how animal scenes normally go. The only problem is that we lost so much needless time with it, while all you want to see is Jaimie return to King's Landing already.

The Theon torture, I liked it although I'm really starting to feel for Theon. It was so obviously part of the torture what the girls were doing, and that was played out pretty well. From what I've heard, the sweetness + pain mix is a WAY harsher torture than just pain. They actually did this in the middle ages to break guys that wouldn't succumb to just torture (not the chicks, but alternating torture with kindness). I liked that, the weird boy means serious bussiness.

But let's hope next week brings the action on.