Now I’m going to be curious to see how much of this actually shows up in the books...is this them diverging from where Martin is going to take it, or is this just what was planned all along?

he lived his own death

• Hodor. Hodor Hodor Hodor Hodor Hodor. Hodor’s story was heartbreaking. Of all the characters to kill off, why did it have to be him?!

That was brutal... he lived his own death (in the past) and was never the same...

Hodor, we hardly knew ye.

So...how -insert descriptive noun that matters here- would it be to do a medieval fantasy in the vein of westerns?

I’m assuming he did it for theatrical reasons, ala modern day black and white film.

Props to the cameraman. The panning views, he managed to get the fantastic Houston backdrop, the emotion of the persons involved and didn’t shake the camera once.

Because hearts don’t need protectin’...

...i’ll let you know in a minute.

Wonder if he released the Dorne excerpts in specifically in response to the show. “SEE, THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DO. WTF DID YOU DO ON THE SHOW. THIS IS MADNESS.”

And now I’m even more bitter about what the show’s done with Dorne.

No, first class is like $800+/seat more.

It was probably because he lied about what happened, afterwards, since Bran seems surprised how things actually went down. And he probably lied to protect a bigger lie, so that if his discomfort about the Tower of Joy ever got too obvious, he would have a backup lie to confess.

:fingers crossed that when they enter the Tower of Joy the find Lyanna had twins - a boy and a girl:

Arthur fucking Dayne.

Holy shit I did NOT see Rickon showing back up happening this soon.

Um.....TIL the Titan of Braavos has balls.