You say that like you don't eat lunch every day after bathing in the blood of the innocent.

No. We cannot be happy when Arya doesn't murderize anyone. She's a manic pixie murder machine. I don't want her heart to soften. The lion's sure won't.

If I hadn't recognized him on my own, I definitely would've recognized him two seconds later when my wife squealed, "IT'S ED SHEERAN!" and grabbed my leg really hard like she does when she gets super excited.

What's important here is how much credibility he has for not being a total creep.

I'm suddenly glad I wasn't awake early enough for that.

It's so dense; every single rehearsal has so many notes going on.

It really feels half baked. Maybe not as bad production-value-wise as the mega-early-'90s "The Stand" miniseries? But of sort of a similar level of sloppy, thoughtless adaptation.

As much as I've enjoyed Lena Headey's performance as Cersei, she has never fit my mind's eye for the character, especially next to Coster-Waldau, who is about as perfectly Jaime as they could've found.

Hrm. It's been years now since my last read through, so I guess I don't specifically remember it working both ways, but I'll trust you as you seem to be closer to the material.

The Greyjoys and Iron Islanders have always been one of my very very very least favorite parts of the book (The Damphair very much excepted, because he's the best) because they just make no sense. And they certainly make no sense to be a major part of the story's endgame. But, you know, off we go!

Even though it would be much more convenient for commute purposes, that is exactly why we aren't even looking anywhere west of downtown. Horrific.

But this time he's all costume. None of that gross, intangible CGI nonsense.

On the scale of "how much is this a serious spoiler that you should make a stink about," where 1 is Hot Pie eats a hot pie and 10 is spoiling the Red Wedding, this ranks at about a 2.3.

Suddenly found myself in house-hunting mode (well, condo-hunting, but real estate, whatever). Went to 8 open houses. Saw one maybe worth bidding on. That one, of course, had the most foot traffic, so it's likely our bid wouldn't even get a second look.

Guests are protected from hosts by eating and drinking. It's not reciprocal. The whole point is that guests are on someone else's turf and surrounded, so they're naturally at risk of harm from their hosts.

Asking the important questions here.

While I agree that she was trying to process that tension, I guess I'm just not convinced she didn't (or won't) murder them anyway. I think part of the problem is that Arya's Braavos arc was not super clear about the lesson she was supposed to take from it or who she is now.

They're lame because they're literally pirates, who inexplicably also care a lot about following traditional power structures and having castles.

That's what having a season 7 budget versus a season 1 budget does for you. All of Dragonstone looked amazing, and far more regal either than it ever did under Stannis or than King's Landing ever has.

I had the same thought. Pretty hilarious to imagine that an entire castle has been abandoned completely just because Stannis left or that Stannis literally took every single person there north with him.