At least Harington has had some truly powerful moments — executing the traitors, that suffocation-rebirth bit from "Battle of the Bastards," many of the moments with Maester Aemon and Sam.

The younger actors are really going to be at a disadvantage against the likes of Diana Rigg, Jonathan Pryce, Charles Dance, Peter Vaughn and so forth. And some of the younger actors are also competing against their peers, however unintentionally. Clarke and Harington just aren't as "natural" with acting as Maisie…

Actually, less a failure of strategy than of imagination, as Lady Olenna pointed out, albeit in a slightly different context. In hoping to take King's Landing with a unified force largely from within Westeros, Tyrion tried to minimize casualties and make Dany's ascension seem less like an invasion and more of a…

The Lannisters always play their hits.

We'll see Ellaria again but not Tyene — well, not alive, anyway, just her shackled corpse slowly going into rigor mortis and decay. So, the deaths will be noted as Tyene and Olenna.

MURDERBOARD! MURDERBOARD! MURDERBOARD!

The final shot of the show will be a 40 year-old Tommy Westphall still staring into a snow-globe.

Actually, maybe not…. Not if my pet theory is right. You know how Bran could warg into Hodor, or incubate a part of himself inside him? What if at some later point in time, Bran went into the past and either inhabited a man called Brendyn Rivers or simply, for all intents and purposes became him? What if the…

Bran von Sydow.

He was Outlandered out of there.

It has bizarrely just occurred to me that we're seeing the destruction of so many 'noble' houses by women, in part because of misjudgments powerful women have made. Dorne is done because of Ellaria killing Myrcella; Tyrrell is destroyed by Cersei, in part, because of the machinations of Olenna and Margaery; Cersei…

Deus-Ex-Euron is probably the worst character the show has ever had.

Bran not revealing anything to Sansa may be significant, whether to protect her for some reason or because he knows something about her future.

Oooooooh, she's got arms like Gendry…
— Maroon 5, grasping for another hit

Will always love Diana Rigg. And because she's Diana RIgg, there's nothing more one needs to say. :)

Re #1: Bran now has the weight of the known world on his shoulders, to say nothing of his trauma and guilt in relation to Hodor. Poor little dude's seriously fucked up. At this point, he's no doubt seeing everything at once, just not in any way he can process it. He has seen too much, yet not enough.

But Auntie may bend him over hers.

Sean Cullen finds it hilarious.

Sigh……… that joke was tired in the 1970s.

It's only that the show, while always being pretty upfront about details of being set in Canada always played slightly coy and never seemed to say outright that it was set in Canada. Maybe it was to smudge that stuff under-the-radar so BBCA viewers wouldn't tune out with the mention of That Silly Country Up North. …