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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 5570828" data-attributes="member: 115">That matte (or whatever) of the Vale behind Tyrion in the cell looked terrible.  I've never been a huge fan of the concept of the Aerie (not really practical, I think), and that didn't help sell it.I liked the scene with Arya and Syrio, since it will drive home [spoiler]Syrio toying with Arya versus showing his true skill[/spoiler]. Loved Bronn's shrugs at Tyrion.  I wish it were telegraphed more that Tyrion pretty much planned the whole thing.  I don't suppose it matters though, as long as it shows Tyrion's intelligence.  Also, I would have liked to see more of Catelyn's face-palming at Tyrion playing her sister so well.  Catelyn isn't exactly stupid, and it would have been nice to acknowledge that.Ending on Dany was a weak way to end the episode.  The scene itself has too much resolution to move forward into the next episode.  It would have been a great penultimate scene though.  Great acting all around, just not where I would have ended it.The scene where Robert hits Cersei is one of my favorite scenes in the entire book.  Not so much the actual hitting, but afterward when he says it wasn't a kingly thing to do.  Every time I read that part of the book, my immediate thought is "No, but it's a human thing to do."  It says more about Robert's state of mind than all his grumbling - he's caged, he's lashing out, he truly hates the Lannisters and takes it out on Cersei.  Robert isn't truly a king, he's a warrior that sacrificed himself so the kingdom would survive, and now he feels dead inside.  So he goes hunting, trying to recapture that feeling of being himself.(Science-y nerd stuff, feel free to ignore)Yes, pure gold has a melting point in the range of 1000 °C (1064 according to Wikipedia).  However, those could have been some sort of gold alloy.  Something like tin or zinc could lower the melting point significantly, possibly into the campfire range depending on purity.  So it's possible Drogo just liked cheap stuff.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />(Or more likely, GRRM doesn't study metallurgy).</blockquote>

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