Joffrey was also a worthless coward, which gave him some shred of humanity. Ramsay is becoming more and more of a kill-bot.

Perhaps, the show seems to have taken a few long stalling-for-time loops (Dorne) only to then carry on more or less as the books are expected to go.

It's a little strange that Ramsay is even keeping Rickon alive—he loves killing people, the world at large thinks Rickon is dead, and Rickon's existence undermines his entire claim to power.

Is Jaime's arc just totally out on the series? Nikolaj played the hell out of it in season 3, and now he's become Darth Vader to Cersei's Tarkin without a second thought.

I'd hold off on using Prince Ali to indulge any prince-themed fantasies until the guy's background check comes in.

I went there first. Dear god, I went there first. Because the mission is so long I refused to revert to an earlier save. As a result about 40 of my 70 Mass Effect hours are on that fight alone. I beat it in the end, but sometimes I think the cost was just too damn high.

That entire Roswell section has brought more than a few of my attempts to replay Pandora Directive to a tragic end. Oddly enough, in 1996 those were the chapters that made the game for me. Containing the alien entity before it was too late was tense and terrifying. Now that I know what to do so well, it just feels…

Happy you're still here making comments. I had a friend survive a nasty car crash a few years back and he described a very similar emotional experience. I really like how the show chose to handle Jon's death. It's not about the mysterious magic of coming back to life, but about trying to make sense of who you are…

It's becoming more apparent that time doesn't follow the usual rules in Westeros. Baby Sam has aged a few months since season 2, but the Stark children will be in their mid-40s by the end of this year.

That would be such a relief if people on the show realized Ramsay was a blatant sociopath and started to work to bring him down. I too hope that's the case, but I can't shake the suspicion that the showrunners still aren't sure the audience gets that Ramsay is evil. Might need a few dozen more scenes of torture,…

Did anyone else lose the final final battle in this and just get dumped straight to the ending anyway? I'm wondering if that was an intentional response to the battle at the end of the first Banner Saga being so insanely difficult or if I just hit a bug. It felt pretty jarring.

Perhaps it was more of an imagined wrinkle brought about by Rheon's performance. Loyal might be too strong a word, but I always read his show characterization as being genuinely desperate for his father's approval. Not that that precludes killing him, necessarily, but the relationship could have been taken in a more…

Apparently there's no better method for guaranteeing instantaneous death than a single stab wound, so the real question is why aren't there MORE stabbings?

I don't know, the one time King's Landing was in any danger during Joffrey's rule, at the Battle of Blackwater, Joffrey ran and hid. He wasn't the sort to challenge anyone who could possibly fight back.

That was David Warner, the very sort of respected British actor who could pop up on Game of Thrones without warning at any moment.

It didn't even really look like he was part of the roots like the other actor did at the end of season 4, he was just kind of sitting in the same general vicinity. Thought the new Children of the Forest look was great though.

That's true, I also imagine he got an earful of all the wondrous nonsense the Lord of Light was supposedly capable of living in a castle with fanatics.

There were polygamous Targaryens, so it's possible the marriage was "legal", but a lot of what the Targaryens got away with only worked when they were in power.

I'm not sure where he got the idea she could bring people back to life without following GoT message boards. I thought it was supposed to be a pretty obscure power that Melisandre vaguely heard rumors of in her centuries as a priestess. But I also liked seeing Davos and Mel as allies and look forward to seeing them…

I think the presumption is that Lyanna and Rhaegar were secretly married, making him 100% the legitimate Targaryen heir, as opposed to a Targaryen bastard.