THEN HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WAS BORING????????????????

Non-union Pan-Asian equivalents?

Well at least he has health insurance.

Would really rather see her headline a small show instead of opening for Belle & Sebastian at the Sony Centre.

Cool. Cool, cool, cool. (Are we still doing that?)

I think the primary lesson of this story is to be far more careful throwing around the word "villain" than you've just been.

Sure but if you get three dragon-riders, are you assuming all three make it to the end of the show? You can have three, then kill off one.

I believe the Mountain never actually died, technically.

That isn't what retconning means.

At this point, they're probably arming every able bodied young man they can

This presumes that Bran is headed to Winterfell. I know that it's on the way, but I'm guessing he's Greywater Watch-bound.

As opposed to wheeling it out completely at random during the Kingsmoot?

Dany's put the finishing touches on her long journey from Dothraki rags to Targaryen black and red.

He probably should have married Alys to Tormund (in place of the Magnar in the books) and taken Ned Umber as a ward, with a betrothal promised to one of the loyal Northern houses like the Hornwoods.

Yeah, at this point, "rightful claims" don't mean shit anyway.

If it's royal primogeniture, the heir is Tyrek Lannister, no? He's missing-presumed dead, sure, but I think he has the "rightful" claim.

Gonna go out on a limb and say they didn't "waste" any time. "Dragonstone" was ~59 minutes long, there's a 63 minute episode coming up next month, and the finale is 80+ minutes. These episodes are as long as they want to be.

With the important caveat that those chapters are told from the perspective of a 13 year old, and so we really have to consider the unreliable narrator element, I will admit that he's scary forthright about wanting Sansa.

Duh! I should have known,,,.

That was very striking to me. They were all very young, and trying to act like seasoned men. They ask "Are you old enough to drink?" and "we are, we swear" goes left unsaid.