User blog:The Dragon Demands/Season 4 second trailer airs

http://winteriscoming.net/2014/02/watch-the-second-trailer-for-season-4-of-game-of-thrones/

Shorter than the first one and with less new material.

Expected I guess: the original was the first Game of Thrones content we had in months, they wanted a big impact. This trailer feels more like part of a series of trailers.

Not much new info, but things I've noticed:


 * Arya never met Melisandre in the books so she never added her to her hitlist. She didn't even do anything too bad to Gendry (that Arya knows of).
 * First look at Styr, Magnar of the Thenn: the most advanced, disciplined, and dangerous of the wildling tribes.  He just happened to be bald in the books - the TV series added the ritual scarification.
 * Meereen, last and largest of the cities in Slaver's Bay. They have had time to prepare against Daenerys's advance.
 * All of Westeros is stunned not by Robb Stark's death, but the unthinkable *manner* of his death: violating guest right and desecrating his corpse.
 * The two figures here may be Ramsay greeting his father Roose Bolton's army as it returns to the North.
 * The freakishly large Gregor Clegane is so strong that he wields a two-handed greatsword with one hand.
 * Bronn is helping Jaime train to wield a sword left-handed: in the books this was Ilyn Payne, but the actor got termincal cancer in Season 2.
 * Cersei is quoting what Tyrion said to her (jokingly) after she captured Ros in Season 2's "The Prince of Winterfell".
 * Because Book 3 was split across Seasons 3 and 4, the dragons are bigger than they were in the books - Drogon is only this big by the beginning of Book 4.