The Wolf and the Lion IGN's Matt Fowler wrote that this was "the best episode of the series so far" even though fan-favorite characters like Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen did not appear. Maureen Ryan believed that one of the reasons the episode worked so well was because it left out the storylines with the Night's Watch and the Dothraki and focused in a single location. VanDerWerff agreed, and added that with each episode the writers got bolder in the sense that they added new scenes not included in the book to round out the source material. Other aspects of the show that were highlighted
Dothraki language as in "Bharbo" and "Pono". These consonants were used in the past but have since developed into [f] and [v]. They can still be used as variants of [f] and [v]. Voiceless stops may be aspirated. This does not change word meaning. The geminates of consonants marked with digraphs have a reduced orthography: Dothraki has a four vowel system shown below: There are no diphthongs. In the "A Song of Ice and Fire" books, "u" never occurs as a vowel, appearing only after "q", and only in names, as in "Jhiqui" and "Quaro". In sequence of multiple vowels, each such