Well, there will be many ships bringing supplies from Braavos to The Wall, this winter…

I was a little disappointed that they didn't live happily ever after and have babies.  Baelish's "Well, that was fast," was a pretty good segue, though.

An ass worth its weight in sapphires.

"It's hard to explain to people who don't read the books why Dany is unlikely to take (much less keep) the Iron Throne."

I always assumed the Drowned God was Cthulu, between "What is dead can never die" and his followers' obsession with tentacle monsters.

And doing surgery in rooms lit only by single shafts of eerie light, apparently.

Whoops, good call.  For some reason I always assumed Coldhands was an Other, but I guess that's because of his sentience, not his physical description.  Are the Others' weapons really obsidian?  They're described as pale, translucent crystal with a blue aura, I think.

Whoops, good call.  For some reason I always assumed Coldhands was an Other, but I guess that's because of his sentience, not his physical description.  Are the Others' weapons really obsidian?  They're described as pale, translucent crystal with a blue aura, I think.

"People."  It sounds colloquial if you say it emphatically enough.

"People."  It sounds colloquial if you say it emphatically enough.

I thought the creature shown finding Sam in the last scene was a wight, not a white-walker — it was riding a horse, holding a shimmery magical ice spear, and apparently leading the white-walkers with its call.  As the camera panned back over the crowd we got a glimpse of a similar creature on a horse, also seeming to…

I thought the creature shown finding Sam in the last scene was a wight, not a white-walker — it was riding a horse, holding a shimmery magical ice spear, and apparently leading the white-walkers with its call.  As the camera panned back over the crowd we got a glimpse of a similar creature on a horse, also seeming to…

"Your father doesn't believe in the gods?"

"Your father doesn't believe in the gods?"

I thought it was initially ambiguous whether that was really magic or not, more so in the show than the book.  (The book had dancing shadows that didn't make it into the series.)  Drogo could have recovered through non-magical means but sustained brain damage from his illness, and baby Rhaego could have been stillborn…