Maybe the rumor machine by which news travels in Westeros didn't say exactly how Lady Stark died (other than "in the massacre"), but did specify that Roose Bolton killed Robb himself? I mean, it's illogical, because he's still culpable for Cat's death, but I can definitely imagine Sansa getting particularly hung up on…

I'm really enjoying having no idea what's going to happen! It makes everything a lot more anxiety-provoking, to be sure.

That, and it also helped establish Tommen's character as a genuinely sweet kid. He feels discomfited by his lack of guilt over his evil psycho brother's death. He even cares about his partner's comfort during sex! In this society, that's far from a given.

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You do know he's a recast and not the same actor as the little kid Tommen from the early seasons, right?

Didn't he even defend himself once by claiming that his forbidden research or whatever he got kicked out of Maester College for had saved lives? I seem to remember him saying something like that to Jaime, setting up the "how many lives have YOU saved?" exchange.

It's one of the things I love most about this show, actually: the way that the alliances and enmities and agendas of the characters exist independent of viewer sympathies. Just because *we* like both Brienne and Sansa doesn't mean that the two of them will like each other, or share common goals, or even consider…

I like Thorne too. I found myself wondering whether now that he's been made Head Ranger, that means that someone else will train the new recruits. If so, then that was a great decision on yet a third level.

Apparently when you join the Sparrows, they give you a free gym membership and a coupon for twenty sessions with a personal trainer.

Same here. I find it particularly annoying somehow when it's edited as a hard-sell, as if they're trying to *entice* you to watch this week's episode. You don't have to convince me to watch the show that I'm just about to watch!

Nope. That's the thing about being a bastard in this society — you don't have any of the usual perks or rights of being descended from someone. Legally speaking, you have no claim as their child (hence "illegitimate"). You *certainly* don't have a place in the line of royal succession. That's why Roose Bolton had to…

Agreed, and I'm sure that having the show overtake him is likely to obliterate whatever little interest he still had in working on the series. I know it would for me, if I were him.

I was confused by it as well. They absolutely should have hit the homecoming note a lot harder, not only to help establish where they were, but also because…well, Sansa's been desperately yearning for home for many seasons now, for heaven's sake! Why downplay the drama? I agree with you, it should have been a bigger…

Agreed. Unlike many, I really don't mind Martin's endless digressions in the books. I'm generally content to just enjoy vicariously living in another world for a while. I don't enjoy the later novels as much as the earlier ones, no, but they're still pleasant enough diversions to entertain me while I'm reading them.…

I really adored Lancel's actor's comic timing in the early seasons and was hoping we'd see him again when the story reached this point. I'm glad they could get him back and didn't need to recast.

I know, right? A sex scene that wasn't nightmare fuel. On GoT! Whoddathunkit?

It's annoying, isn't it? Disqus for some reason started refusing to accept my Onion account as "real," so I had to create a brand new Disqus account with all the same data. I do not understand it, but it is extremely irritating.

Even before the leaked episodes, there was speculation based on shots in the trailer. Unfortunately, this became one of those fandom disputes in which people argue themselves into more and more extreme positions, until you wind up with "if Sansa takes on Jeyne Pool's plotline, it will be STUPID AND AWFUL AND D&D ARE…

I've been occasionally annoyed by the Tyrion whitewashing in the past, but in this case, I'm okay with this particular whitewash. I wasn't particularly looking forward to rapetastic whore-hatefucking Tyrion, and I think he would have been an absolute *disaster* on-screen.

Hee! Yeah, I'm still trying to understand what was supposed to be controversial about that one. Did Sansa drink red wine with chicken or something? Wear white after Labor Day?