It's interesting, a lot of the watchers actually see the series as very stereotypical and manicheist in terms of characters so far. People seemed pretty confused about who is who still last episode, but they seem to get a good grasp of it by now.

I couldn't watch the final scene where Lady was killed, so that means that Arya and the wolves and Ned were working for me.
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Also the Lannister prince whose name slips my mind right now--seems too young, but that does work well when he veers from sadistic to spoiled brat as he did last night.
Joffrey is indeed very young as this point of the story.

Still not sure what I think of the shift in Dany's story. I think I ought to reread her chapters to properly judge. oh well. I ought to reread the series before the new book anyway.