I read the books during the hiatus, and for the life of me I can't understand what people love about that speech so much. It's 4 pages long and doesn't say anything that Brienne's story hadn't already conveyed with far less long-winded speechifying.

He would have raped Sansa given a chance to get away with it.

I don't believe it. Steffon Baratheon was (apparently) an only child, his father Ormund was the only son and heir of Lyonel Baratheon. ASOIAF wiki lists an unnamed sister to Ormund, so she would conceivably have male children.

The Stormlands basically don't exist, apparently.

That was… not a "few minutes".

He is getting dunked on by a 10-year-old once per episode so he doesn't really have a lot of cred in those Winterfell war councils right now.

Westerosi custom dictates that the queen does not take the king's last name when marrying into the royal line.

You're joking (I assume) but no, that's really not how it works for people in the public eye.

Probably not, which is why it's a totally idiotic thing to complain about.

Can you not comprehend that he picked that still because it's the most famous movie on his reel and therefore the most likely to make you click and watch it (instead of manufacturing outrage about a very sad incident in the comment section below)?

It's his 2016 reel.

Yeah I'm making a clear distinction between the show and the books here, since Martin was mentioned. Jon, I think, is essentially back to normal on the show; the books remain an open question, and I suspect Martin will be a little more ruthless with how fully Jon returns to "life" (barring some warging-into-ghost…

Many people misread that scene as BADASS!!1! but Arya's quest for revenge has been disturbing since "Two Swords". People like her because she's a cool, little girl assassin, but the "DO NOT DO THIS, REVENGE IS BAD AND WILL DESTROY YOUR SOUL" theme is not absent in the show. We just get a more visceral kick from…

Roose Bolton literally throwing the Battle of the Green Fork was particularly striking. Dude didn't even try because he was already planning on betraying Robb.

Game of Thrones escapes this somewhat, because ultimately there's no actual story

Martin hasn't brought back Jon yet. He could easily come back different (or worse). Just today, he revealed in an interview that Beric (and LSH) aren't "alive", they're simply fire wights. If that's how Jon comes back, he isn't Gandalf the White, he's a shadow of his former self who feels like every single day is a…

The season six finale was such a triumph because it burrowed into the heart of every story and rolled reveal after reveal into the character progression we were waiting for.

The gap is narrowing though.

Westworld was (is) a lot like Bloodline, in that it had basically all the trappings of a "prestige drama" in 2016—the beautiful vistas, the movie stars giving breathtaking performances, the twists and turns and Shakespeare references—except they forgot to make a good show out of all those Swiss watch parts.

Ummm…. guys?