I mean the rubber sword was pretty wild, and unlike the starbucks cup it was incredibly noticeable and hilarious while watching. 

I can’t tell if this is genuine pedantry or an excellent mocking of it.

I thought this too, until I saw the folk going “This shows how much they’re phoning it in this last season!” They didn’t seem sarcastic, unfortunately.

I’m going with the theory that the show is actually filmed on real Earth locations and that everyone there is playing pretend.

where a guy in some apple bottom jeans and what could be a Patagonia jacket just saunters through the grounds of Winterfell

The biggest difference is that Dany actually has a conscience and can learn from her mistakes. She’s still very young and learning so to compare her to Cersei’s established cruelty isn’t a perfect comparison. Cersei revels in the suffering she causes and her cruelty is almost reflexive at this point. Dany is…

They’re probably just giant barrels of coffee that someone in set dressing forgot to remove.

Varys is, actually, the worst and maddest of them. If he honestly wanted what was best for “the realm” he’d be a revolutionary, not a spider whispering in the ears of powerful men and women. He’s got major delusions of grandeur and messiah syndrome - people seem to think Daenerys suffers from this faults, but Varys is…

Agreed. If there’s one thing that should be the takeaway from this show/series, it’s that what is a “game of thrones” to the nobility is a constant source of instability and death to millions of common folk. It’s fundamentally unfair, and even well-intentioned upstarts like Ned and Robert just end up reinforcing the…

::Hates the show. Keeps watching and typing out novels about it::

I COMPLETELY disagree with your Brianne take. That shit was totally plausible, and after harboring big feeling for Jamie for years, to finally have him come to you like you always wanted, only to have him leave like that? I would be upset if she hadn’t burst into tears.

What’s wrong with Dany getting ignored? That’s one of the few things that makes perfect sense in this episode. Yeah, she helped them against the Undead, but she’s still an outsider (whose ancestors killed Starks), and she is in the North, and the Northmen are close and distrustful of outsiders. The fish out of water…

Popular or not... This is the right take on Game of Thrones. It’s even in the title. It's not game of ice zombies.

I’m not sure you know what trope means.

WOW, you are the reason that people hate geek culture. You are so high and mighty that nothing is good enough for you!  Try just sitting back and enjoy the entertainment instead of being comicbook guy WORST.EPISODE.EVER!!

Producers must not have gotten your memo with the list of tropes acceptable to you. If you don’t send it signature confirmation required, it won’t get read.

I think that you’re overestimating the white walkers narrative impact. The thing that I most enjoy about game of thrones isn’t the zombies with ill defined motives, but the politics and backstabbing, and house infighting that makes it a game of thrones. I was overjoyed that it only lasted one episode! Now we can get…

Agreed - but I think GRM’s general arc is being obeyed here. As I mentioned in another comment in another thread, it’s like he blew his shock and awe wad fairly early on after Eddard and Robb (who by the way - they still managed to show as a fairly competent general without blowing a bunch of budget), and now, we are…

The problem with this argument is that the White Walkers aren’t really characters. They’re more like a virus that reproduces itself by creating more victims. Their sole purpose was to wipe out humanity because that’s what the Children of the Forest created them for. Beyond that, they have no agenda, no personality, no…

I honestly enjoy that Arya is the one who saves the world. It feels like an arbitrary choice