Tyrion with a Victor Meldrew voice - fucking yes!! Accurate!
Personally I think Cersei is deliberately keeping her hair short. I think she's invoking Tywin's look, or at least certainly trying to appear more masculine. Book Cersei certainly spends a lot of time extremely pissed off that she's not a man - she thinks it a lot - so I can see this as her motivation. I also liked how her maid who came to the door also had that hairstyle- either suggesting people are emulating her look for fashion or by force, or maybe another book hint - didn't one of her maids also cut her hair off afterwards or am I make no that up? Jesus I hope Sansa doesn't try to copy THAT look.
I'm more irritated by how Meera managed to get such a good dye job while at Castle Black.
Gotta be honest, I don't get the fuss everyone makes about travel speeds. Books, plays, films and tv have always done away with unimportant real life things to deliver the actual story, that's why we usually don't see people going to the toilet, sharing the same names, forgetting what they were saying halfway through a sentence etc. Because of societal conventions in storytelling we work on assumed facts that don't need to be shown unless necessary- to the extent that if they are included it actually seems MORE jarring and unnatural. It's why speech isn't delivered in to/books in the same way people speak in real life because we fill in the gaps or blank out stuttering, repeating ourselves, hesitation in conversation because we know how conversational structures work. That's also why many people don't like books where the writers have tried to make characters speak naturally- it's incredibly irritating and breaks the spell of the story (try it - record a conversation and transcribe every word exactly, including all pauses etc. It will read horribly.)
My point is we know characters travel, we know travel takes time, we don't need to see it to know this - especially if all the other arcs are keeping up with the pace. Series 5 was criticised heavily for featuring too much traveling- they can't win.
Really enjoying Sansa and Dany is becoming a huge pain in the arse.
Loved Jorah's scene. In a previous thread I posted a link to Game of Thrones screenshot scenes with Monty Python and the Holy Grail captions and all I could think was "She turned me into a newt! I got better..."
It is frustrating how most of the characters have lost what made them interesting and well rounded at the beginning - Jaime (fuck what they've done to his arc! He's a complete non character now whereas in the book he's complex, growing as a person and has essentially abandoned Cersei. My prediction- not based on anything other than theory - is so his eventual turning against Cersei will be more of an impact on audiences (I think this is the wrong approach btw, is the audience really as thick as the show seems to think? We managed to cope for the first few series without plots being excessively simplified and spelled out).
Cersei - becoming very two dimensional
Tyrion - What happened Tyrion? We miss you.
Dany - Smug smuggity smug
Littlefinger (and to an extent Varys) - You used to be an absolute mastermind!. What happened?
On the other hand I like how Jon and Sansa are progressing in the show.
Bran and Arya starting to annoy me.
I still think Jorah, Davos and the Hound are still acting like their characters would (albeit in new scenarios for them) and even though he's different from the book I love Tormund.
Oh, and for anyone lamenting a drop in dialogue quality since we left the books, what are you talking about? About 50% of this series has speech directly from the books! Admittedly it's the first books, and speech they've already used... (seriously, why all the call backs to earlier series all of a sudden?)