HBO - Game of Thrones SPOILERS INSIDE. you have been warned

[strife]

And just finished season 2, 2 days, 10 episodes.. not bad

I haven't finished book 2 yet, I'm about 100 pages in and took some time off reading to watch season 2. It seemed like events in the book were really out of order compared to the show...

questions n-stuff about the book/show below

[spoiler]I was curious what happened to the Hound? Did I miss it? At the end of episode 9 he was with Sansa and said he'd get her out of there... then episode 10 happens and Sansa is still at the castle when Tywin gets his hand pendant.

I wasn't real big on the whole Stannis and the demon killing Renly, I wish they could have left that out and had Renly assassinated or die in battle... One thing I'm curious about and not sure if the fact that I've read book 1 and watched the seasons so closely together... but I don't remember them mentioning that Renly is gay in the books... am I just not remembering that? I felt like they went way more into that in the show... which is probably because the book never uses Renly's point of view[/spoiler]