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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7943441, member: 115909&quot;]Oh yeah that&#039;s what it was. I do remember trying to watch it when I had a free 1 month HBO subscription when I first signed up for Hulu.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had trouble making it through the first episode though. Does it get better?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for GoT one of the things I really enjoyed was the coinage &amp; economy of Westeros. Alot of it made absolutely no sense at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one scene where Tywin Lannister asks &quot;How much would the bounty have to be to make an ordinary soldier stupid enough to attack The Hound?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Varys replies &quot;10 silver stags seems more than adequate&quot; and Tywin responds: &quot;Make it 100.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It made no sense to me because Silver Stags looked like they were about the size of a half dollar so if we are generous and assume they were 1/2 troy oz of silver then that means the entire bounty on The Hound was 50 troy oz of silver which to me seems ridiculously low for someone to risk their lives in fighting one of the most skilled (and large) fighters in Westeros. The survival rate for someone trying to claim the bounty would be very low and the reward just seems too low for someone to be enticed by the 100 silver stag bounty.</p><p><br /></p><p>But some of it did make sense like where Ros tells a new prostitute: &quot;This isn&#039;t some 5 copper bawdy house&quot; and I think 5 coppers sounds pretty accurate for a session with a cheap prostitute in a run down brothel during the Middle Ages that GoT is supposed to be based on. Afterall a baker tells Arya that a loaf of bread is 3 coppers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Idk I just found it interesting the way the GoT economy worked with Gold Dragons, Silver Stags and Copper Stars. It reminded me alot of pre-decimal British coinage and how they used pounds, shillings and pence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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