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~Initial thoughts: Of course ep. 0 is a behind the scenes. I'm stupid. I was half-expecting a dramatic prologue, in the vein of Cate Blanchett whispering "I feel it in the water" in the Lord of Rings opening.
00:01:08 - It's a kickass ice wall, I'll give you that.
00:01:35 - It might be the urge to write something that is making me impatient, but stop wandering aimlessly through the snow already.
00:02:47 - Lots of dead people in the snow. Cold makes them not disgusting or shocking. They look like branches, truly.
00:02:53 - Wait, were the bodies disposed in a formation? Missed the screencap and just caught a frozen (in both senses) girl in the screen. Can't rewind a second because .rmvb has problems with non-linear watching. Like us humans, compared to the Observers from Fringe... oh yes, back to the show under analysis.
00:03:11 - There's definitely a pattern there. Killers have rudiments of reason. And geometry.
00:03:24 - Boy who is going to be beheaded later is right: savages do not neatly tide up body parts to make symbols to be seen from above. My money is on lunatic astrophysics who evaded their own dimension and ended up here.
00:03:59 - Young boy in charge, this is not CSI. In the present state of your civilization, "they're dead because Death took them" should suffice as justification, non?
00:07:16 - RIP experienced old man, RIP wannabe criminalist. Life is tough all around.
00:08:34 - Though they don't have convinced me in these minutes, it's a great opening sequence.
00:10:29 - Fantastic hair-do, Arya.
00:13:05 - The impression I have about this "trial" is of a medieval X-Files of sort with a medieval clean-up operation. Kill the witness of aliens. Impressions aside, this does good to set the point of how tough this society is: ancient mythic supernatural murderers are no reason to miss a day in the job.
00:15:59 - Beheading the insane, disembowelled stag and impaled wolf. A normal day in the countryside with the kids.
00:17:19 - Jon Snow, your logic to adopt pets is flawless. Beware, conspiracy nutcase in development.
00:18:11 - Does the concept of conspiracy nutcase applies if there's fate? Deep question. This show shows us that apparently not, as Nature or Gods gave Jon the cutest little wolf. Very much disliking the fact that what's-his-face told Jon to keep it, instead of Jon claiming it to himself, like in the book.
00:18:46 - Take note: when I die, I also want stones with drawn eyes over my lids. Make it violet, like the iris of a Mary Sue.
00:19:31 - Can this be? Cercei Lannister? Introduced as adorable?
00:19:59 - I once read a passage in a book, that spoke of a phenomena that happens when you're chitchatting with a stranger that sat by your side on a plane or something like that. Stranger drops something weird in the conversation, but still you nod along as you have been doing. Stranger keeps on talking and you grow progressively uncomfortable, but still nodding with a smile to an account of rape or murder. This scene is like that. Also, triple bonus points for "fucking boars and hunting whores".
00:29:52 - Lousiest. King. Ever. That is all.
00:39:31 - You can tell it's getting interesting when you managed to shut the hell up for almost ten minutes. But alas, I must break silence to say that I'm very much looking forward to the moment where the white-haired maniac gets beaten.
00:40:08 - Sansa, you are like Candance Flynn without the purpose of busting your brothers. I.e., just stupid.
00:52:19 - "A Dothraki wedding without at least 3 deaths is considered a dull affair". You should try half-drunk speeches from family and friends. Also painfully enjoyable, means less cleaning up after.
00:58:08 - The interactions between the King and Ned make me conclude that friends like the first are to be discarded as soon as possible. They make us have all the hard work, still manage to milk our gratitude with their heartfelt thanking and apologizing, and even want your younger sisters to love despite being absolute pigs unworthy of romantic consideration.
00:59:33 - Dear God, is the sex on all fours something of historical inspiration, or just HBO way of trying to shock viewers and give the show their notion of matureness?
01:00:28 - Bran's fall is one of saddest twists in any work of fiction I met. Full stop.
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