I'm a fan of Meera, and found this accordingly badass, but in case you're insuinating some type of R + L = J + M connection, nah, that one was all about the dragon class presumably used for that Children of the Forest weapon. The COTF created the white walkers. One can reasonably assume that they also know how to make…

Call me a truther, but I've never really thought they'd actually skip Lady Stoneheart. It's too dramatically delicious.

I also feel bad for the Castors, just for the record. It's not their fault they're so creepy; they're made that way. They're victims just as much as the Ledas.

Try taking a bit more time. It might improve the results.

Eh. It's only the middle class who gets scandalized anyway. The actual upper class usually has a fairly wide margin of error for that kind of thing. Wealthy libertines are not exactly an innovation. Doesn't necessarily lead to any social progress.

I kinda get it. I once got to play a dirty old man in a play in college and it was so much fun. But in real life you just can't trust them to be as harmless as they're supposed to be.

That seems a deeply unlikely overall-message for GRRM, where leadership always involves some degree of plotting. Some characters enjoy it (e.g. Tyrion), but it's hard to see that for Jon. In the show however….

I want him to slip and break his leg and all his servants just ignoring his pleas for help while he starves to death.

I really hope the last episode deals with the fall-out from the zombie-apocalypse because to me, the rebuilding of the realm is when it gets interesting. But Jon seems so done with leadership already, if he actually survives the whole ordeal, he'll probably confine himself to some smaller-scale project like resettling…

I also see them ultimately joining forces, but that might be even more meaningful/heroic, if they didn't like each other. Some element of overcoming personal animosity for the greater good. Or a tragic failure to do so, since the ending's supposed to be bittersweet and at least one of our heroes might fail.

We'll see. There's going to be a Riverland plot this season, would be surprised if Littlefinger wasn't involved.

Sometimes you just have to go with Occam's Razor.

And clearly, his sense of duty will dictate that the top priority has to be saving humanity from the ice zombies. Do you really see Tyrion taking the ice zombie side? If there's a conflict, it pretty much _has_ to be interpersonal drama. The conflict could be that duty dictates working with Tyrion, while the heart…

For what it's worth, I could see it. There was this old first draft of a synopsis making the rounds on the internets, when G.R.R.M first pitched the books, where he had set up this whole tortured love triangle between Jon and Tyrion about Arya. Seems to have been scratched rather thoroughly in the current version of…

What was Littlefinger up to? Funding a bit of guerilla warfare against the Lannisters and Freys in the Riverlands, hiding the Blackfish. Whether he genuinely thought the Bolton alliance would work out or not, I'm sure he always had a contigency plan. In the books, he's Lord of Harrenhal. He definitely has a stake in…

I think he wants Riverrun. And Sansa as his wife, and their daughter married to the next king of Westeros. That's how you actually win the Game of Thrones (unless you get yourself murdererd on the loo by your disfavoured son, while your other two kids are blowing up your legacy.)

He figures if he brings her an army to defeat that monster, she might let it slide. He probably plans on playing to the fool who didn't know what type of person Ramsay was. Honest mistake, etc.

I loved that mixture of "awed and appalled" on his face. Get on that, Amy. Easy pickings.

I agree, she wouldn't have cried at the funeral if she hadn't lost Nevada. But I could also see the rewiever's point that she wouldn't have cried about losing Nevada if she weren't at her mother's funeral.

I think it's in character.