I have four words for you that you can look further into on your own or ask about at your discretion: Battle of the Bastards.

What I loved about it (I apparently had fewer issues with it than other fans, but whatever) was the thematic exploration of identity, between Lionel as a gay black man not fitting in with black men or white gay men, Sam's insecurities with her biracial heritage, Coco's everything and Troy's class vs. desires vs.…

Can the movies do that too?

That's an. .overly literal/realist way of looking at it, but beyond that, that's still actually the point, the whole point is that everyone was and is too distracted by petty infighting and political nonsense to pay attention to the true threat, the Walkers, that's slowly arriving. They've remained more vulnerable to…

The whole point is that winter is physically coming with them. The land will freeze as they keep marching forth until the whole world is consumed by the Long Night, i.e. a winter that lasts far longer than their normal ten year long winters.

Yeah, this is not a perspective on what the narrative is doing that I agree with at all. The emotional payoff of the story is good people coming together and cutting through the political bullshit everyone has been mired in for years in the name of stopping an inhuman force that will overwhelmingly devastate the…

Littlefinger, the guy that's literally responsible for the entire plot via murdering Ned's mentor/the previous Hand and then orchestrating Ned's death in turn?

I took the break the wheel speech as further set up for that idea of the more democratic system, the council or the democratic monarchy. She included her own family as one of the spokes on the wheel that cycles and never ends, so I don't think breaking the wheel is purely in favor of the Targaryens.

(Also in the books there's this whole prophecy that is believed to be setting up the resolution for Sansa/Littlefinger, I'm a big believer in it.)

The friggin' Walkers/Night's King, man.

(I could also see him and/or some of the others dying somewhere down the line, but it'll be very late in the game if so.)

I have money (not literally) on Davos being one of like five characters who will form a parliamentary council type of thing as political reform in the wake of the defeat of the Walkers and dissolution of the Lannisters' monarchy. Tyrion, Varys, Davos, Sansa, Dany, and probably Jon. Maybe Margaery too.

I grew up on the animated movie! But I remember talking about this, I had my own generation of animals horrifically dying/suffering books.

HE LEFT HIS FAMILY BEHIND

Clancy Brown was great. "I. . .might know where you are!"

I remember back when we all thought the Ghost Woman (Shoko) was going to turn out to be Finn's Mom.

To me, Is That You was about reclamation of identity in the wake of grief/trauma, with obtaining the Finn sword as the beginning of that reclamation in the wake of coping with Martin's treatment of him, Prismo's loss, etc. And the overall theme of this season has been said to be identity. The destruction of the sword,…

It's interesting that this is apparently what happens, I'm looking forward to seeing how that turns out.

"It reminds me of when, early on in the show’s run, we talked about Archer’s father all the time, and then one day, it was like, [tired voice] 'We’re no longer talking about Archer’s father.' "

Don't forget the Bruce Campbell Mysterio setup.