Woman here. Hated the episode - it was essentially one long, poorly lit fight scene. A complete snooze. Easily the worst episode in the series.

Oh please, books printed in the 18th century are only 'readable' now if you happen to have a PhD in typography.

I'm not the the one doing that. People who are desperate to believe that Dany was raped just because she was 13 at the time of her marriage are.

Yes, I agree with that. I used the word 'statutory' because without that disclaimer while discussing a fictional minor having sex, morons on the internet tend to jump down one's throat. No that they don't, even with the disclaimer, but hopefully the numbers are fewer.

Same here. But since Missandei is so obviously a different character on the show, IMO, there's no harm in her having a different story.

Ned didn't refuse to legitimize Jon due to honour - he couldn't because he already had a legitimate heir (Robb) whose interests would be threatened if Jon could also inherit. Roose doesn't have any heirs. It's not an issue of being more or less of a dick, it's just pragmatism.

On the show, she isn't 10 years old, she's an adult. So why can't she have a romance? Also, why can't a eunuch have romantic feelings?

Like I said, Dany's situation was statutory rape. But she seemed to be ok with it at the time it actually happened. Jeyne was not ok with it at any point. The trauma incurred by the two girls is thereby different in degree (though not in kind).

It may have been statutory rape as far as modern laws are concerned, but at least from Daenerys's point of view, it wasn't rape (in the book). I'm not saying it was all sunshine and roses for her, but Jeyne's fate is distinctly worse, since she certainly doesn't consent to any of what happens to her, in any sense of…

There's also a scene in GRRM's novella 'The Princess and the Queen' which is about ten times darker than anything that is actually shown in ASoIaF (as opposed to discussed, such as Rhaenys and Aegon's deaths). If you've read it, you know what I'm talking about (the Blood and Cheese scene). If not, here's a toned down…

No Kettleblacks next season, or else they would have been introduced by now. The Faith and Maesters have been mostly conflated on the show. It's extremely annoying.

When you play the game of thrones, everybody loses.

Child rape is hardly too dark for Gurm. What about poor Jeyne Poole's fate in ADWD? (Ok, so she's not as young as Rhaenys was, but she's pretty young nonetheless.)

So definitely Sophie Turner.

They just want to make it clear that they cast non-white people too. Even if that character eventually has all of 2 lines in the entire season.

That's a problem with all the male Greyjoys - they're both boring and evil. If you want to be evil, at least be sexy evil, dammit!

Joffrey's death wasn't all that horrible (by ASoIaF standards): very little pain, no prolonged suffering, no humiliation, didn't have to die worrying about his loved ones or having just seen them murdered (not that Joffrey really had 'loved ones').

"It (eventually) goes somewhere" pretty much sums up the whole of ASoIaF. Well, hopefully, anyway.

Sansa's story next season will be stretched thin into near nonexistence, just like Bran's this season.

Maybe her character is being conflated with one of the Sand Snakes? Could be Obara, considering she seems to be getting some new story.