Is this really a mystery? Didn’t we get a frame or two of her walking out of the base of the temple at the end of the last episode? I mean, it wasn’t clear that it was her, but there’s nobody else left on the planet. If they were going to kill her, they would kill her on screen, mid frame, with tragic music playing.

While some of this sounds very cool, the way things actually ended there’s no mystery of how Ahsoka survived Order 66 - she wasn’t killed with the other because SHE WASN’T A JEDI. So the order didn’t apply to her.

The first two books in this series were fantastic and gripping, but I never finished the third book at all. I’ve never experienced such a rapid dropoff in quality (or maybe it was just a change in tone?) in my life. I’m looking forward to the movie, it might even inspire me to finish the last book. The scenery looks…

Nonetheless if she takes King’s Landing and Jon is King in the North (and the Riverlands and the Eyre) a wedding makes more sense than a war. However, is it possible with Littlefinger in one camp and Varys in the other? Those guys don’t really see eye to eye.

These are not even the only examples in history. The big one goes way back, shortly after what your high school history teacher rather inaccurately described as the “Fall of Rome.” In that incident, the troublesome Flavius Odoacer overthrew Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus. While historians used to credit him…

Nobody talks about it because it airs opposite Game of Thrones. Which means that while it’s on Sunday night, at least in my case it doesn’t get watched later in the week so I spend Monday talking Thrones and avoiding any mention of Preacher to avoid spoilers. Now that Thrones is done for the year, people will pay more…

This disappointed me, because we never got to see Dany and Varys meet. I expected it to be tense, since Varys sent both the assassin to poison her, Jorah to save her but also to spy on her, and Illyrio Mopatis was working for Varys when he hosted Dany and her brother and brokered the marriage to Khal Drogo. Although…

Whether the Westerosi know it or not, their world is almost certainly round like ours. The Far East of Essos presumably runs into the western edge of the ocean whose eastern edge is the West Coast of Westeros - where the Iron Islands are. It would be this Pacific of Ice and Fire where the kraken dwell.

Well, if Dany won’t marry Euron, maybe Cersei will.

I think this is a difference between the books and show. In the books, it’s difficult to ride a dragon, in the Dance of Dragons many tried to tame one and were killed while only a few, mostly with Targ blood, could control them. Also there’s this story about a horn that can control them, but again it seems to burn the…

Point of fact: Arya knows how to change her face. She did it last year when she killed Meryn Trant.

It’s up from last year. Season 5 saw a bit of a drop, reflecting a bit of a drop in quality. Season 6 is near the show’s Season 4 peak, not coincidentally its creative peak as well (an argument could be made for S3 on that count - the two seasons based on the strongest source material made for the best TV).

One of the Faceless Men wore Arya’s face last season, when she pulls the faces off one by one until it gets to her. It was a fantastic scene, even if it doesn’t make sense. But that scene was in the Hall of Faces, so maybe the Faceless can only wear a face that’s in the Hall, and Arya was in the room. Although her…

Hot Fuzz was awesome, but Sean of the Dead was better.

! Never thought of that, and now it’s obvious.

I’d love to see Emily Blunt too, but I believe she’s turned Marvel down for two roles already, including Black Widow. I really don’t think she wants to play a superhero.

I think the reason for shortening the last two seasons has to do with time and budgetary considerations. If there’s going to be a full scale invasion battle for the conquest of Westeros next season, followed by a last stand against the White Walkers and their army of the dead - that’s a lot of battle. Castle Black,…

I don’t think her age is a problem per se, they don’t want to cast someone who’s the “right” age because they want to have the actress around for the MCU for a while, right now they have kind of a time bomb in Robert Downey Jr. as his action hero days are waning.

Dark Matter was just okay for much of its run, but I really liked the way it ended, and I’m excited to see how the cliffhanger is resolved. And Roger Cross is great in everything.

Westerosi years count from Aegon’s Conquest. Game of Thrones begins in the year 298, it’s currently around 301. The Doom of Valyria was roughly 100 BC (Before the Conquest). the last dragons died out in the late 100s, IIRC, and the Targaryen dynasty ended (in show time) in maybe 281, making Jon 17 when he joins the…