Game of Thrones 1.06 A Golden Crown

For the record, Dreamwidth's rich-text interface in general is shit. I'd finished typing my review for this episode, was curious whether my cut-tag was busted, switched from HTML to rich text to see, and it ate everything after the busted tag and erased over it in the draft -- that is, destroyed my entire review. It's only because this is A Song of Ice and Fire, my second fandom one true love (after Discworld), that I am bothering to retype the goddamn thing. Let's see if I can even remember. The rest of you be warned, though: don't even touch that rich text button, all of your work will be lost now, like tears in rain.

( Rhaego. I named him after my two favorite pasta sauces, Prego and Ragu. )

Game of Thrones is a beautiful demonstration of how much emotional weight translated from page to screen depends on how good the actors are. Not usually to its credit. But not always not to its credit, either.