From your keyboard to the writers'.

Goddamnit, if they kill Ghost next week I'm going to have to cut someone.

I like the first option from the Sparrows' POV because they need an alliance with a noble fam to run King's Landing. They can talk about revolution all they like but the economic reality is that they own no land and therefore have no income and therefore cannot run anything without the nobles. Hence all that twin…

I don't think it was horrible at all, it just didn't need to be as long as it was. For that length it needed a bigger pay off. And for that to be a ridiculously over the top survival of a gut wound; to defeating her nemesis off screen after untold scenes of being beaten to the ground by her before; to Jaqen smirking…

I didn't get the impression that Baratheon was an attentive father. If he had any inclination to be so, I'm sure Cersei would have blocked that assiduously.

Would they be ready for that, I wonder? I don't think so. The noble families would have zero incentive to have anything to do with KL so there goes food & security. Here comes chaos. If that happened the High Sparrow would have to drop his mask and finagle matters to keep some kind of nobility on the throne and give…

Yeah. I think the key to those kings is that they had their own POV tho. What's Tommen's? Who knows. A commenter a couple of weeks ago described Tommen is too easily impressed; someone who bears the last imprint of whomever manages to make contact. That's him.

Yes. As far as Arya's story went I never saw anything promoting the idea of "good violence" — that was more a response from her stans. From the moment she and the Hound killed the nice peasants who offered them food & shelter I started to side eye her. She served as an excellent example of how her brutish survival,…

I don't even think one needs to be surgeon for those actions to strike one as completely unbelievable. We've all watched enough westerns to know that a "gut wound" is usually a death sentence. Makes me wonder why the writers chose to go that route. Maybe having the GRRM books to bounce off of helped to keep them in…

Neither do I. I didn't realise ppl knew that the Hound was alive before this season until his episode aired. But I don't have areshole friends texting me spoilers.

I couldn't give a shit, personally. Maybe if he lost the use of his legs I could manage to feel some sympathy for him. As it is, the hand was replaced so for about everything except being a marvellous fighter, he's good. Basically, he lost his ego prop. Boohoo.

Is that critique in the review? What a waste of space that thing is. I thought the scene was perfectly pitched with all that banked emotion that they *both* felt, especially Tyrion who looked entirely woebegone as he watched Varys walk off.

The only way he'll manage to do the right thing is if he offs Cersei and himself in a murder suicide. I'll take it but I'd prefer if someone else got the chance to gut them. After this episode, the Hound is in my top 3 for that job.

I wondered about that too! I shouted at the screen, "Duuuude, did you even ask if they were the one? Yikes!" Then covered my eyes while peeping through. I can't remember if they were involved or not.

Nope. When I skimmed the review and saw that line I quickly abandoned it for the comments. Sansa wrote that letter at Castle Black and gave it to Brienne as they were all about to depart on the army recruitment mission, which was some time ago.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I hope that's how it went. I think court inside the pyramid would have noticed all that commotion tho, no? When the dragon landed on the roof I actually wondered if it was one of the other two.

Ha! To be fair though how would she manage to get the ships if the Unsullied are unwilling to leave the pyramid? The Masters are not going to hand them over nicely.

It absolutely is but the point is that the morally superior Faith Militant were satisfied with the ends justifying the means until they realised it would not bring about the result they wanted. They change the holy laws to suit them. With that kind of reasoning there is nothing that would stop them from reinstating…

Right but that's about as vague and nebulous a reason as you can get to diplomatically (and mayhap fatally) drop kick your *Mum*. Which is why I would have wanted something more specific and unique to his own perspective but there's just nothing there.

Westeros is not the "real Middle Ages" but okay. Too tired to get into that whitewashed wackadoo take on the "real Middle Ages" anyhoo.