How do I become as cool as you?

"But I also don't see how anyone buying as many guns as they want has any effect on public safety. "

I mean, the fact that he came back from the dead just shores up my belief that they won't kill him until the very end. Jon and Dany seem protected by airtight plot armor. Even if they die, they'll come back. I feel like this show's reputation for killing off characters is a little unearned by the last three seasons.…

Yeah, I agree—the direwolves seemed pretty extraneous to whatever story the show is trying to tell.

I like dogs fine but I have never felt this intense emotional bond with CGI animals that appear for like 20 seconds a season. I wouldn't have noticed if Summer never appeared again.

Honestly, I would be shocked if Jon Snow, Arya, Tyrion or Dany died before the very end (and I'd be surprised if Sansa, Bran, Jaime and Cersei went early too). The show kills a lot of characters but it hasn't killed a truly major one since the Red Wedding. Everyone who's died has been tertiary this season.

Has he ever been right?

Characters die meaninglessly all the time on this show. That's what it's known for.

None of the Bran world characters were especially interesting, imo, which is what made the whole plot so weak.

Shipping is fan-speak. It's existed for decades. I think the term evolved with Star Trek fandom in the 1960s/70s.

Also, Sansa's speech about her rape.

I liked Arya seeing the fake Sansa in the play and seeming kind of aghast at her fate. I don't know to what extent she knows what's happened to her.

My interpretation was that she didn't tell Jon because he would have killed Littlefinger for giving her to Ramsay.

If this show was truly committed to subverting genre tropes, Jon or Dany would die and stay dead. I think people kind of overstate how significant or shocking the deaths on this show are.

Every time someone brings up Loras, the next line is invariably, "Oh, that guy is *so* gay." The whole gay thing went from being a well-known secret that no one really gave a shit about in the books to the entirety of his character in the show, down to the manner of his likely death. Also, he's kind of fey in the show…

Sansa killing Ramsay would be incredible fanservice and the showrunners seem to like that, what with that Sansa/Jon reunion and Brienne actually promptly finding Sansa on the show. In the books, I think Ramsay will probably be killed by a falling rock but I could see this happening in the show.

He's coming back this season, I heard. There will be some sort of happenings at Riverrun—there were images of it in the trailer.

Do you only like characters based on how good the decisions they make are?

Being gay in the early 1980s was really hard. So yes, it would most definitely be sufficient blackmail material for most suburban teenagers.

There are plenty of terrorist groups that have populism as a key part of their message—look at Hamas.