Margaery was really great this episode. What do you prefer, Queen Mother? Dowager Queen? Or how about just irrelevant, drunk, past her prime Queen?

Do the people out there actually like Rodney? Could he possibly be a jury threat?

The George Costanza Play Now strategy.

Becoming part of a two person swing group at 9 is a good move, but my reservation is about teaming up with Jenn. I think Jenn's actions this episode made her a more attractive candidate to take to the end than Shirin. That means at any future impasse where the majority just decides to go with the easy vote, Shirin is…

*tips hat*

Yeah, I think he would have had better luck with Rodney. It seems like Rodney will flip at the right time, so Joe would have just needed to convince him that this was his time. I think that is a much easier proposition than tricking Mike. Maybe Joe just panicked when Mike initially confronted him.

For the guys I'll guess that it's Joe, Max, and either Mike or Rodney (Mike if he doesn't win). And Shirin and Jenn for the girls.

Joe's play tonight was poor. Even before he gave the fake idol away he wasn't fooling anyone. When you are about to be voted off and you tell someone in the opposing alliance that you have an idol it instantly sends out a signal that you don't have an idol - Mike did not buy for one second that Joe had the idol.

I guess Shirin voted out Joe in hopes of swaying Mike to her side, but I don't really like the move. I don't think Mike would keep Shirin over anyone in his alliance (except probably Rodney). If Joe is around next vote he is the target; I think that all Shirin did was increase her chance of being the target at the…

A scary thought: what would a Rodney winner edit look like? Because we might be seeing it.

Maggy the Frog is Cersei's constant?

Stannis would not be pleased with you.

I was hopeful that Stannis would have an increased role this season, and based on this episode it looks like he will. I can't wait to see Stannis kick some ass in the North.

The showrunners are simplifying where they can. They've already removed Mance, so I would be surprised if they thought that his role was essential to the Winterfell storyline.

The Tommen age up is intentional.

Yeah, he was great on Rome; he should have gotten more to work with on Thrones.

Mance was never really established as a character on the show, so I'm not surprised that he was killed off.

I hope that you're right, but I think it's likely that Jenn, Joe, and Shirin are taken out before the rest start targeting each other.

Sandra is maybe the fifth most memorable person from Pearl Islands.

Everyone else hated Russell and Parvati - Sandra won by default.