Wow, necromancy, but I've taken the show back up.
I had honestly forgotten much of Season 2 with the fact that the pace picks up severely around episode 9 of season 2.
We meet some new faces, and go some new places. Tyrion enters season 2 like a baller, I think that may have been the high point of the season.
People posing at each other continues to bug me, but these poses contain more menace, something which amps up severely in S3.
Red lady becomes quite terrifying, not that she was all that friendly to begin with. Theon spends the season being a whiny poo or a traitorous golly, depending on the scene. Brienne of tarth is pretty freaking awesome, but Robb and Catelyn continue to screw themselves most of all. And I had not notices until Theon's worst behavior that the credit sequences change based on updated events.
Harrenhall bugged me. I understand it's a ruin, but they could at least have dragged off the fallen towers. Jaquen was pretty cool, and pulled some pretty cool moves. Hot Pie not dying in every scene he is in was shocking.
Blackwater was bless'ed crazy. All I really need to say. Tyrion faced battle like a baller, he even went outside the gate, something even the hound decided was too hot.
Most shocking this season though, was the color contrast. Whenever we went from the southern kingdoms to north of the wall, or across the seas to Qarth, it's like a balm to the eyes from the dark and the grit.
Not to say things were happy in either place, but qarth really was a feast for the eyes, and the north was blindingly bright.
The payoff in qarth was particularly awesome.
One shitty thing is that dothraki and high valyrian is in subtitles, which my chromecast doesn't cast.
I'm on to season 3 now, but I'll hold back on that for another post.
