However, the bad guys did remind us they certainly are not out of the game.
My fear is they will try and cram as much into this as they can with only 13 episodes
to wrap the entire story up. Martin can't seem to ever do this, his story keeps expanding
longer and longer.
What will be interesting is the comparison between HBO and Martin's final book on the GOT
universe.
Personally, the sex scene was not needed, but it is HBO. I don't think the directors feel
they can't have enough nudity to keep some viewers interested. The naval battle was
not too bad. I did like Sam Tarly and Mormant scene, Sams a great character and I like
the actor.
It just seemed after a pretty incredible end of season epi and beginning epi this season that
this 2nd episode seemed pretty mundane to GOT standards.