GoT is back.
Does anyone care? We're losing characters left and right, including the fairly interesting Roose Bolton and the completely boring Doran Martell. We're getting some characters back in the worst "surprise" in the history of television.
I really wish they'd kill the entire Martell storyline. I hate the sand snakes and everything associated with that thread.
I thought all offseason about the inevitable reanimation of the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and had come to the conclusion that the bolder choice would have been to leave him to the dust. Bringing him back to life was not something the show would have considered for Ned, Joffrey, Robb or any of the other major characters who were slaughtered.
I also knew, however, that the identity of Snow's parents was supposedly a crucial plot point. According to legend, George wouldn't let HBO have the series until the directors were able to correctly tell him who Snow's mother was. Would that matter if he were dead?
I'm not sure that the series can maintain its strength without the books as a basis. Even though the last two books were absolute shit and every story in them took up maybe an episode and a half, they did leave some pretty big storylines hanging. When the books ended we had Bran up a tree, Snow stabbed and possibly dead, Sansa lost in the snow and Arya blind and in a cult. While I hate how RR Martin had lost his way with the two bloated and worthless last books, he did get everybody to that point and supposedly had (or has) an end in sight. Will the series get to them all to that same end?
What do we know after two episodes. Ramsey makes Joffrey look like a choir boy. There are still people showing up and I have no idea who they are although I think I'm supposed to know them. The red woman is a weirdo. The Black Watch seems to be pretty weak. A girl has no name. Hodor.
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