Anyone catch the finale? Played out almost exactly like the book (minus a few things)...although it was fuckin bone chilling seeing Ned's head being picked up and his body dragged away. same thing with the spikes. It's one thing to read that happening, and another thing to actually see it.
The whole scene with Arya pretending to be a boy doesn't happen till the very beginning of the 2nd book, but i guess they didn't want to leave people hanging like that. Also, that Bard never actually got his tongue cut out. in the book Joffrey gave him a day to decide...and they never went back to it. The whole fuckin weird scene with old guy and the whore wasn't in the book either. i dunno wtf they'd add that? I was loling and cringing at the same time when he was limbering up afterwards.
btw, if you like the Imp now...you'll love him even more later on