It's true that Ghost doesn't do much at this point in the story, but it would still be nice to remind people that he's there. As it stands right now, the brand new viewer saw Jon pull up the runt, get laughed at and told that one's his, then we haven't seen it again for three episodes. When Ghost finally does show up, it will be kind of out of nowhere if they don't establish him.
Yeah, that's true. I can understand them needing to cut the unimportant bits from the script, though. The show already seems like a scene-checklist; I'm sure it's hard to fit everything in there. Then again, it wouldn't really have taken any more screentime to show the wolf standing beside Jon while he talked to Tyrion on the ride north, would it? Meh.
I think that making Jaime and Ned more antogonistic toward each other will make the future scene where Jaime orders the death of Ned's entire guard more cutting, and will establish Jaime as a higher level villain in the minds of the viewers before he's captured by Robb and before we get to see his side of things in the third season (hopefully).
Yeah, I understand what they're doing. I guess my complaint is that it feels like the antagonism between the houses was already in place during the very first episode, rather than being allowed to gradually develop over the course of Ned's time in the south. I guess it's probably a pacing issue, though. Maybe the writers don't feel they have time to slowly establish the Lannister villainy. As you say, some of the later scenes would probably seem jarring without a solid base of hatred and venom.
I'll buy that.
GoT: "Lord Snow" (spoilery discussion, you've been warned)
- 03/05/2011 02:42:00 AM
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My favourite so far as well.
- 03/05/2011 01:46:25 PM
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Does the whole Ghost thing really matter?
- 03/05/2011 03:05:11 PM
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*spoilers for later*
- 03/05/2011 04:21:44 PM
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Fair enough.
- 03/05/2011 07:34:03 PM
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I think Ghost is in Ep. 3
- 03/05/2011 09:29:01 PM
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*sigh* You had to go and make me check, didn't you? 
Ghost is in Episode 2, but not 3.
- 04/05/2011 01:14:51 AM
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Ghost is in Episode 2, but not 3.
- 04/05/2011 01:14:51 AM
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They've been having problems with the dogs.
- 03/05/2011 10:46:51 PM
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I hadn't considered that possibility, but it makes sense.
- 03/05/2011 11:07:48 PM
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haha, I was actually thinking that'd be a good thing.
- 04/05/2011 01:25:26 AM
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- 04/05/2011 01:25:26 AM
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That's a good point.
- 04/05/2011 05:32:14 AM
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They're still pretty young, though, right?
- 04/05/2011 08:33:49 AM
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And
- 04/05/2011 04:00:22 PM
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What happens when they're supposed to get much bigger, though?
- 04/05/2011 04:11:55 PM
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How were ratings for episodes 2 and 3, by the way? *NM*
- 04/05/2011 08:28:36 AM
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