Why would she have known for sure that he was coming though? What has Littlefinger done to earn that sort of complete trust from Sansa? Does anyone remember what happened the *last* time Sansa trusted Littlefinger? Why wouldn't Sansa consider that Littlefinger would let the Starks fall and scheme over their ashes?

This explanation is so obvious that one would have to be an earnest Sansa hater to not even consider it or miss it entirely. One can say it's crappy writing and blah blah sure sure, but the story laid out her actions and thoughts plain as day. She's finally relying on herself and playing the game, like everyone…

You know, why I am not surprised that in a moment when Sansa finally begins to do the game playing so many were demanding from her the moment she left the Vale the first comments are filled with earnest ways to explain how she was really an idiot all along. Pathetic.

In the episode he said he was heading to Westeros, to make allies or some such. Maybe I wouldn't mind a Dorne detour? It's so oooodd the way the writers dropped that story line.

Damn, Catholic school? In my case one didn't have to be Catholic to attend one so I suppose our Franciscan sisters were more circumspect about imparting their POV.

Wow. You're right, that's a fucked up morality system to give to anyone much less a child. I get why you view it the way you do. I was raised as an Anglican—we were a lot more laid back about a lot of stuff. (The way how you state that God wrote Leviticus sounds weird to me because we would have said Moses wrote it…

You're crackers. That dirty chef story and the airport dress code tirade are podcast manna.

Hmmm. No. Oddly enough your idea of a "true believer" is firmly at the fundamentalist/extreme end of the Christian (and I imagine, Muslim) faith. However, I am not a Muslim so can only speak to Christianity, being raised as such.

In the comment I responded to you stated that, "Islamic teachings are bad". That's a broooooad statement and not the same thing as "condemning certain ideas". I certainly appreciate the clarification.

Caucasians? I very specifically named American evangelicals: a sub-group which I don't assume to be white by default. And I mentioned them only because of your attachment to the idea of "those countries over there" being so disconnected from yours.

No. The homophobic and misogynist elements of Islam are bad — the same way they are bad in most of the major and minor religions in the world. There is more to Islam as there is to pretty much all faiths. You could read about it. Your position is precisely why a lot of folks try to emphasise other elements of the…

You said that the criminal who carried out the mass shootings imported and enforced Sharia law. You equated Sharia law with the values of the Arab world. Cool beans.

I don't excuse the religion. I am aware, I suppose, that Christianity is also a homophobic and misogynistic religion, and that the violence & destabalisation in many majority Muslim countries is not as inherent to the faith as many would have us believe.

Oooh, "values of the Arab world" = Sharia Law now? Sharia Law supports mass shootings? I am not someone who supports Sharia Law in almost any of the forms I've read about, but it's pretty clear that you don't know much about it either (unless you're hiding your religious and legal light under a bushel). It's not a…

:-(

At least the writers didn't take the theatre troupe route and she's headed back to Westeros with the bonus of no assassins on her trail. Finally!

That's persuasive and reasonable, but I'm stuck on the fact that, as you described it, he's "vaguely aware" of these things. What's been confirmed? None of her darkest deeds as far as I know. He does need a father figure, and Margaery's a new favourite, but his mother has been everything to him for most of his life,…

They still have Casterly Rock.

Your last point is fucking true. If it had been a woman's bath they'd have the women sprawled out naked on every surface. As it is the only time they allow it for men is if they're pissing or diseased. Bah.

I responded to the speculation that she used some of the fruit juice to play up how bad her injury was—the implication being that the fall didn't hurt her as badly as expected.