And I think a touch more characterization might have helped with the end scene -- I mean, on the one hand it's shocking because it's a small child! And there are siblings having sex! But I'm not sure how much emotional attachment there is this early. (On the other hand, it falls pretty early in the books, too.)

And it wasn't until the second viewing that I noticed Tommen and Myrcella were there, too, as we only see them for all of a split-second. So it might have been nice if we'd gotten the mention that Cersei and Robert (or not) had three children instead of one. Eh. *hands* There's a ton of detail in the books, though, maybe more than in any other fantasy novel to film adaptation I've ever seen, so I have no idea how easy it actually is to convey that much in such a limited span of time. So on the other hand, if they had tried to pack more detail in there (the other Baratheon children, the Kingsguard) it might have been too much. But...like, I've read the books, I know how significant it is that a stag killed a direwolf, but the fact that the stag is the Baratheon sigil never showed up, so instead Sean Bean and his companions are all just trading dire looks because there's a dead direwolf south of the Wall. (And then DIREWOLF PUPPIES OMG SO CUTE.)

I think I have a copy of AGOT here, perhaps I should reread over the dead week!