I thought it was a good episode too, it was a slow burn, which is fair enough as next week is the Blackwater and the week after the finale, but there was lots of good character stuff. I'm not that bothered about them changing Jeyne's character, as she was pretty much a blank slate in the books. But I am curious as to how we're going to get to the Red Wedding, as it was Jeyne's family status and Robb's immature sense of honour that made him marry her and lost him the Freys, and especially as we don't have an Edmure. Ages ago I read a suggestion that in the absence of the rest of the Tullys it might be Cat who agrees to marry Lord Walder, which might work in a horrifying sort of a way.

I do defend Theon, but it's more in the sense of how he's basically the dictionary definition of Has Suffered Enough, also that he's more weak-willed and pathetic than actively evil. That he didn't kill Bran and Rickon was never ANY kind of defense, killing the other boys because Ramsey told him to and he didn't want to look weak is what makes him so utterly, utterly reprehensible. But that's why Theon's story works so well, you have to be repulsed by him and wishing terrible things on him by the end of CoK so that when he reappears as Reek you find yourself going "No, stop it! That isn't what I meant!"