I was a little disappointed that Arya's sword fighting skills were so lackluster I didn't expect her to win, or really even hold her own, but it would have been nice if she could have at least held onto the sword for a bit.

Gendry and Hot Pie's discussion with Arya about how she should have asked Jaqen to kill somebody important, like Joffrey or Tywin, is probably another wink at the audience (I certainly remember saying the same thing last season), though an answer as to why she didn't would be nice. I assume the book goes into more detail concerning what happened to the Hound between last season and getting captured, but hopefully the show might touch on a few things itself. The former, along with Gendry and Hot Pie, run into the Brotherhood Without Banners which, if I'm piecing it all together, is the rebellious group the Mountain (brother of the recently-captured Hound) and the Lannisters were trying to defeat last season using Harrenhal as their base of operations (the rat torturer guy was trying to find out information about the Brotherhood), and it consists of remnants of the force which Ned dispatched in the first season to stop the Hound from pillaging villages.

Lots of people on one road or another this week, trying to get from one place to another without being discovered, as the show catches us up with Arya and Jamie.

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