Technically, you were remaking conversation.

Agreed.

It decreased the impact of the Red Wedding and contributed to the feeling that death has no meaning in the story.

That's not hitting us over the head with it, because at no point did they approched the subject of Jon's father.
A Targaryan, yes, sometimes. But Raegar being his father? No.

No.

Yeah, that's not what happened.
And as someone who had trouble enjoying the empty spectacle, I found the review pretty great.

I'm sure GRRM has no idea what will happen to Daario, so he couldn't tell D&D.
They just cut him from the show as quickly as possible, killing him would have gone against the "Winning Dany" theme of the season.

Yes. Exactly.

What about Varys' hair?

It was refreshing, actually.

It's really annoying.

That's the classic fantasy ending, though.
I'm not so sure Martin's want to go there.

It's because the music was good.

But he waved goodbye to Brienne two scenes later, how adorable!

My non-reader friends have no idea who the father is, and they did not understand that Ned was fighting against kingsguards a few weeks back.

Yep, you're definitively the first to notice.

I feel they tried very hard not to imply rape in any way.
So, goold old torture, as far as I'm concerned.

Favorite joke of the season.

Sure, Qyburn and the Mountain will have great scenes together once Cercei is dead!

Completely agree. They really need a better ending than that.