Indeed, he's the one who picks up on her name when she says it, while they were still speaking Valyrian (though he addresses her in "the common tongue").

"You could have the boat, or you could have whatever is in this mystery box!"

Tell that to Lyanna Mormont. Or Alys Karstark for that matter. It's pretty clear that the North is more comfortable with Ladies commanding houses and taking oaths and giving orders than most of the other kingdoms. And even there, there's a queen on the Iron Throne and Olenna Tyrell is well-respected (as Randyll Tarly…

It could be a person returned in several pieces. That's definitely Cersei's style.

Tyrion doesn't have to die from Arya steel-poisoning for his face to end up useful. Maybe he dies in a completely different and dramatically fitting way, and Arya just happens to be able to take advantage of the moment.

Why not?

Reed got name-checked by his daughter in the episode, tho, so we may see Howland yet.

Nah. She scoffs at magic and fantastical claims; the only way she'd accept a magic horn as a worthy gift is if she saw it in action, at which point the gift becomes the dragon itself.

Arya wearing Tyrion's face.

All of them.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Do you also think she's an orphan simply because you've never personally seen her parents?

True, lorazepam is a better choice than diazepam for this particular purpose, which is not least why I only talked about benzodiazepines as a class. Either way, the whole point is to interrupt adrenaline-driven memory consolidation so that what is remembered is less likely to cause a post trauma reaction.

Eh, benzodiazepines (like Valium) are often part of the standard treatment protocol to deal with immediate psychological trauma. It turns out that experiencing the trauma is much more harmful long-term if it isn't buffered, as post-traumatic stress develops, thanks to how your brain works under stress hormones.

Panem et circenses.

And that son's name…was Hodor.

I'll take that as a firm indication you don't know.

Oh? What was the point of the books?

I still give primary credit to D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths for my inoculation against taking mythology as true. By the time I picked up a Bible, the myth category was well-populated and it seemed to fit right in.

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I imagine the minus comes from the reviewer's assessment that the Mormons were lightly drawn and so their loss of the ship was not as capable of provoking emotion as it otherwise would be.