WHAT
THE
FUCK
That's my reaction to the old High Septon brothel scene. It was downright ridiculous, not in a good way. Other than that, I quite liked the episode.
I absolutely liked Jonathan Pryce as High Sparrow. He nailed his introduction scene I think, very good and convincing. The second highlight episode for me was Arya not throwing Needle away scene.
Slynt execution was handled better in the book, I think, but this one is acceptable too. I like Kit's acting throughout this season so far.
I'm kind of baffled about the timeline right now. LF and Sansa got from Moat Cailin to Winterfell in one episode, and Cersei's letter gets from King's Landing to Winterfell almost instantly (and apparently it was delivered to Eyrie first, then to Winterfell). Reminds me of LF teleportation skills from Season 2. Oh, and if I remember correctly, the whole point of Moat Cailin in the books was that you can't just go around it by land, so that's my another nitpick.
Now, a bit of spoilers:
One major concern regarding season 5: [AFFC/ADWD spoilers] Jaime is not going to kick it in Dorme, is he? I do hope he's not replacing Arys Oakheart in the Dorn storyline and taste Areo Otah's axe. At this point it's either him or Bronn, and the latter actually looks the least likely to survive the trip. But killing Jaime would be HUGE and to me (he's my favourite character) hugely sad and quite disappointing.
I think it'll be Bronn who bites it. His speech to Lollys in episode 2 about how the meanness always comes around, and the mean people always get what's coming to them one way or another seems like a foreshadowing of his fate, I guess.Also, does anyone think that (end of ADWD spoilers)
it'll be Olly (or whatever this kid's name on the Wall is) who stabs Jon, since Bowen Marsh apparently isn't here in the show? I mean, the kid hates wildlings, and at least in the book Jon does care about wildlings quite a lot.