So good that Dollie kissed him on his pustule-covered forehead. Ewww. That girl is either a saint or has a serious death wish.

Yeah, if you put a little Eastern European on it, it would sound exactly like the voice of Helena's imaginary pet scorpion in Orphan Black.
"If you keep giving everyone the witch plague, we'll never get any mangoes."

Well, he directed the entire defense of Meereen himself once Dany flew off on Drogon's back and coordinated a multi-pronged attack on the besieging forces by 3 different groups without any serious "Why should we take orders from you, Ser Grandfather?" issues. I'm not seeing anyone else on Dany's "Small Council" who…

Wait, Daario said that? I'm totally blanking on when that happened on the show.

…and just bought this awesome fishing boat…

They're still going to have to get her followers west *somehow* Dany's not going to win the Iron Throne with only 3 dragons and the remnants of whatever gauzy gown she had on opening day. ;-) But how the show is going to extract several thousand Unsullied and various other hangers-on from Meereen without the Ironborn…

I figured Melisandre's nude buffet on the Lord Commander's desk was just the opening play in a very long seduction. (Come on, Jon Snow has never met a ginger honey pot he wouldn't fall for. It's like Stark kryptonite.) But honestly when she played the "You know nothing Jon Snow" card my jaw hit the floor. I always…

That's a brilliant metaphor—well said. One other commentator pointed out, and I completely agree, that Littlefinger would have made a great hedge fund manager. Last week he's making nice with the Boltons since the Lannister's stock is falling, this week he's taking out insurance on that first bet/investment failing by…

Yeah, poor kid is really out of his depth when it gets beyond sitting on an uncomfortable chair or stamping sealing wax. You'd have thought that there was enough Cercei and Jamie DNA rolling around in there that when he got checked like that in public he would have suddenly remembered that he put on his big boy pants…

If it's the kind of "training" most of us are thinking of, I believe that's called "porn."

My biggest gripe about an episode I loved otherwise — the Unsullied looked like the bumbling mall cops that lesser epic fantasy always throws at the heroes for laughs and easy Experience Points. In the books the Unsullied are also armed with short swords (as any high-value spearmen would be because spears eventually…

I'm wondering just who is going to command Dany's armies (I mean from a field/tactical perspective, obviously she's still Dragon Queen in Chief) if Barristan is well and truly dead? Tyrion is brilliant and did manage to survive 2 battles, but he's not a battlefield commander. Although if the eventual battle of Meereen…

I like the idea of Barristan and Rhaegar belting out some truly filthy tavern song lyrics together with a bunch of drunks from Flea Bottom.

That's just the wine talking, bear. Lots and lots of wine…

Overreach looks to be something of a theme on the back half of the season. Matt pretty clearly was overreaching going up against Nobu and probably would not have survived if not for the conveniently forgotten barrels of flammables. I'm not sure if Fisk taking Nobu down was overreach or just his standard MO a for…

Too bad Wainwright tied her hands to the arms of the chair so she couldn't steer. Still — progress!

I doubt it'll ever happen but I so want Dark Sansa to completely River Tam on the Boltons on her wedding day. Slow pan to the great hall, Sansa covered in blood and breathing heavily, a blade in each hand standing in front of a pile of cooling Bolton corpses. And then Brienne's "rescue party" or the pro-Stark…

They also made Robert the figurehead of the rebellion because he had Targaryen blood from a couple generations back and thus a legitimate, if somewhat distant, blood claim to the throne as well as by right of conquest.

My thoughts exactly, but I'm not sure if even Dark Sansa is up for an actual suicide mission. I wonder, however, if she'll be able to keep putting off the official nuptials somehow while still stringing Roose along about a Stark/Bolton marriage — like Penelope awaiting Odysseus. She doesn't know Stannis is on his way…

I just imagine there was a competition in the writers room to add a piece of dialog that would get all their fans who also read sex-positive blogs to snort their soda onto the TV screen. I know I almost did.