Wow, the defense of The Wall was really spectacular. That unbroken take with the camera panning across the fight in the courtyard was totally boss.
I actually got verklempt when Ygritte said, "you know nothing Jon Snow" for the last time. I've gotten verklempt maybe four or five times in the...
There are also some made up titles here and there. You can't hear the difference, but knights in the novels are addressed as "Ser" rather than "Sir". It took me a while to get used to that because it seemed like such a random change. But it really drove home that this was not our history.