Game of Thrones???

[Woochifer]

Season Two is now at the halfway mark and the pace has picked up considerably. As noted, there's no real dominant plot thread that the series revolves around, but the plots now in play are all headed into crisis mode. Not a weak link in the bunch.

Robb Stark, not only has to deal with Greyjoy and Winterfell (along with now all of his siblings in peril), but he also has to fight a war while getting all weak-kneed over the doc chick (while still being pledged to another woman as bridge toll payment).

It was cool to see Tyrion slap his nephew king around yet again, while the natives don't have any bread and have to resort to stuff like gang rape and zombie amputations to keep themselves entertained. Funny to see the boy king's solution to everything as more killing.

The Tywin Lannister thread was the least interesting one, well, until it intersected with Arya's life as Westeros' Most Wanted. Great stuff seeing her match wits with her family's mortal enemy, while taking advantage of her three kill-on-demand cards. And what to make of Littlefinger? It's obvious that he spotted Arya, so we'll see how he tries to take full advantage of that information -- especially after Cersei schooled him on his belief that "knowledge is power." I guess he now knows that "power is power" -- how does that now apply to Arya?



I might be off-base, but Stannis is a rather disturbed guy. I guess having your little bro mock you with his "mine is bigger" attitude is one thing, but doing the nasty with the Red Priestess and having her "give birth" to your doppelganger might enough to make anyone snap.

Now, the least interesting storyline is the march to the north, and the inevitable confrontation with the wildlings. They haven't really focused too much on that plot line, and Jon Snow has been a drag all season. So, now he's joined at the hip with a wildling he was supposed to have killed, and we're left with new adventures in spooning. I thought this would be one of the better plot lines, but we're halfway through, and Jon Snow getting handed off to Halfhand and now getting lost is all that has happened.

And then there's Dany, who holds the most powerful weapons in the entire rhelm (well, after they grow up), but only gets marriage proposals and escorting offers when she needs boats. What happens now that her dragons are lost?

Should be an interesting final four episodes. I read that the next season will indeed only cover half of the third book (Storm of Swords), and some characters that were actually in the second book will wait until next season. Game of Thrones already purportedly has the largest cast of any current TV series, and there are plenty of characters yet to be introduced (and killed).