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Barney Bartelby
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Get your slay on, kill bae.
And all that glittery gold
Hair will turn red
Before Tommen gets oooold.

I get this weird feeling that Cersei will end up killing Tommen.

So I guess we're going to learn the truth about Jon's parents through Bran's flashbacks? Maybe I'm dense, but that just occurred to me.

I made this post originally, and then deleted it because I didn't think anyone would get the reference. Glad to have found a kindred spirit.

Right, which is Giantese for Magnarr Midgetstomper.

How many of the northern lords are in Ramsay's corner? I'm gonna say exactly as many as are required to provide sufficient troops for a badass fight scene against Jon Snow's army in episode 9.

Calling it now. He's going to pop up next week and say, "Did I leave the oven on? Ah, nevermind." Then he's going to lay his head down in a permanent slumber. That will be the last we ever hear of Jon Snow.

Roose Bolton: scheming evil genius, yet too dumb to recognize that his mentally unstable and maniacally violent son might be dangerous. Turns out he makes Robb Stark look like Sun Tzu.

Man, I second this. For a while I was gripped with fear that this "what to do with John's body?" thing would be dragged out over a whole season. Now it seems like they're setting up for him to shitkick Ramsay in a big battle towards the end of the season.

Yeah, the writers definitely haven't done enough to make Ramsay unlikable yet. Maybe if he cuts off Rickon's head, attaches it to the end of a stick, and uses it to flog a hospital full of terminally-ill children, the audience will finally get that he's a mean guy and such.

HBO announces GoT spinoff: The Adventures of Genny and Ricky. It follows the zany antics of two young Westerosian bachelors and their wacky group of friends from the local coffee shop as they try to adjust to life in the big crazy city.

Well his name is Magnarr Midgetstomper, so it basically cancels out.

Man, I'm disappointed. This show is ridiculous with the cliffhangers. After waiting months and months since the end of last season, I really hoped that they would finally answer the one question that we've all been wondering about all this time:

Well, Bran has aged a lot since season 1. Puberty will do that. Not sure where he picked up the Swedish accent though…

They're really going all out to make Ramsay despicable. At this point even Joff would be like, "Dude. Too much." Next week I expect to see the Bolton bastard stomping a litter of puppies while bathing in the blood of a hundred crippled children.

Least surprising surprise ever. Now I just want to see if Jon Snow will be his old self or some creepy fire demon.

I don't see an obvious purpose for him. I think him sacrificing Shireen and then realizing it was all for nothing feels pretty conclusive. On the other hand, it wouldn't be hard to find a use for him. The Baratheons still have a big name and he's one of the only people out there who knows Gendry's true heritage. I

Oh please. Elderly bodies are objectively unappealing. That's not culture. It's biology. It is like a rotten fruit that is past its expiration date.

It requires a bit of a stretch, but perhaps they have him captive somewhere nearby. He is presumably injured and not in great riding shape, but they could have thrown him onto a horse and stashed him somewhere.

I'll have to check that out. I believe he was leaning against a tree, so it's still possible that it was the old Hollywood "gunshot into the ground" trick. It may be that he's really dead and that the Bolton dialogue was meant to confirm it, but if so then I feel like they probably could've handled his death better.