I imagine the ones that went first off the cliff were not fine, but they cushioned the bone-shattering landing for those that landed atop them. And water would be a problem for corpses, as it may accelerate their decay, soak into tissues and weigh them down, cause the cartilage that holds them together to become weak,…

It’s also driving me nuts that Petyr Baelish turned on Ned and then talked Joffrey into executing him, and he’s now at Winterfell as a Stark “ally.”

I suppose it depends entirely on what is meant by "we". On a global level, Europe was behind someone somewhere else almost constantly, with China and the Ottomans usually being the leaders in a given field of knowledge. The difference is, China and the Islamic world were never able, for whatever reason, to capitalize…

To push back on the pushback, most of the times I've seen the Renaissance-as-midwife-to-Science narrative, the Renaissance is explicitly said to have been a direct consequence of the Crusades, to the point where the Renaissance is shorthand for "European knights went into the wilderness of the world, and came back…

A dialogue-heavy episode with very little dialogue?

"Worst place in the world." — Ed Sheeran.

I've never seen such a devastating preemptive homonym defense, and all in parentheses at that!

Hey. Sandor Clegane is Omar.

Folks forget that he personally witnessed the legend that is his father dethroned as a tall tale, with Howland Reed coward-stabbing the Star of Morning rather than Stark defeating him in honorable combat. Even his heroes and his family that he looked up to are demystified.

"And he would've gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling Stark kids!"

Jon went straight East from Winterfell and took a boat south to D-Stone. Arya's on a horse on the King's Road, just leaving the Inn at the Crossroads. Boat is faster than horse, and they're both traveling about the same distance.

That's probably true. But necessity and stress are what ultimately change social systems. WWII catalyzed women entering the workplace and achieving more than paper equality in much of the Western world, for similar reasons. Once things change, they don't ever quite go back to being the same, because the precedent will…

She is a child. No child, regardless of how egalitarian or bad-ass a society is, would act with her maturity and confidence. It's not believable, in any world.

I figured they just picked him up on the way to Dragonstone. After all, his immediately prior scene was him dramatically walking into the Ellaria/Olenna meeting (in Dorne) with "Fire and blood."

There's two sides to every schwartz.

Dany met Varys in Meereen

No, he jumps the gun with the receipt of the 2nd raven message, from Sam. He only discusses the 1st message, from Daenerys, with Sansa, and they are undecided how to proceed at that point. He decides as soon as he read's Sam's "they have all the dragonglass!!!" note to head there immediately, and does not run it by any…

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…