On Stannis: Brianne told Davos and Melisandre that she had executed Stannis, so I'm pretty sure he's dead. No reason for Brianne to lie about it, and it isn't her style.

My perspective is nearly opposite of yours. I've been watching GoT since the first episode, and although a lot of characters I liked have been killed, the forward movement of the story has been maintained. On the other hand, I stopped watching Walking Dead once the cannibals came into the story, but that was really…

The Jamie thing was all discussed on the way back to King's Landing when Jamie and Brianne took a bath together. In short, Jamie killed the Mad King when said King told his pyromaster to burn the whole city.

I found the entire Dany scene completely confusing and very un-Thrones-like.

The thought I've been having about this is that Jagen has been expecting this exact situation to arise and expects Arya to kill the Waif as her final test. What happens after that is anybody's guess, but Jagen knows who is on Arya's list, and maybe it's time for the House of Black and While to come off the sidelines…

Well, as has often been said in this show, you don't trust people; you trust them to act in their own self-interest. Balish thought that Sansa's value to the Boltons would assure her good treatment. Balish knew Roose Bolton, but not Ramsay, and Roose was always more discrete in his application of cruelty. Roose…

At the pace this season has maintained, she could be in King's Landing in two weeks.

SkyNet, dude . . .

You know, as I'm thinking about this, it seems to me that Balish is running out of moves in this game, at least in terms of playing at the top level. His gambit to have Sansa rule the North has failed, at least in its original form, and his promise to put heads on spikes at Winterfell doesn't look to be happening as…

I'm not so sure, Littlefinger really does have love for Sansa, and I believe he really did think Sansa would end up as Wardeness of the North after Stannis killed Ramsay, but the best laid plans etc. I really don't think he knew Ramsay was quite the sadistic sociopath that we've all seen, or I don't think he would…

I can understand what you mean, but to me, these last few episodes seem in a rush compared to previous seasons. I've always enjoyed the journey of this series enough to not be too worried about getting to the end.

This isn't a guilty pleasure, Television rarely approaches art in the way this show does.

She may not even recognize these two people as being the same person. John Clare's appearance is a bit changed.

It may well be that Satan/Dracula took over Clare's body to talk to Vanessa, as he did in other situations in the past, and Vanessa in her somewhat deranged state killed him,

Ethan and Lily were in love in her previous life, and the memories of that recall her humanity at that time. The vengeance she has planned requires her to suppress that humanity to achieve her goals. Actually seeing Ethan might be a very difficult moment for them both.

I have the feeling this is just more tuberculosis, which was fairly common at the time.

That's an interesting theory, except that we know these two have known each other for many years, long before Jekyll had developed any of his potions; we've not seen anything to lead us to believe Frankenstein is seeing anything unfamiliar about his friend's demeanor.

I think Dorian could be on this ride for quite a while. Lily is doing all the work, on her crusade to mastery, and this suits Dorian just fine, because he is tired of trying do find something interesting to do, and she just keeps coming up with things. It may be that in his life, he never had the urge to kill…

Dorian has been alive for centuries. He figured out how to get the money early on I'm sure. I have the feeling he has so much now he'd never have to work again.

I thought that was a great scene, in the sense that with all the blood we've seen on TV, if you told me what they were going to do I would have thought it would look silly, but when they did it, it looked much more powerful than I would have imagined. Just another example of how when other people do things it looks…