Mitigating situation in each case

up definitely made this episode creepier. OTOH the scene itself was pretty normal and natural, and Dany's was decidedly not.

I'm surprised that Dany was 18, though - I assume they upped her age for the show, probably for that reason? I thought she was 14 or so in the books. The fact that Arya was younger in the books as well didn't affect me as much as it did other posters. I haven't read them in years, they were ponderous and it was difficult to keep track of how much time had elapsed, and they never reached this point.

***edit*** Mitigating is obviously not the correct word. Not having any luck finding the word I was actually looking for. Getting old is hell.