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She's vindictive and has largely been shielded from the immediate repercussions of her previous vindictive behavior, either through her status as queen (done) or through her dad's help (also done). She doesn't realize — yet — that she can't get away with this shit anymore.

First thought upon seeing the scores: Geez, there are wildly divergent opinions regarding this episode.

I don't think there have been very many "decisions" about who to marry in this show. Robb and Talisa — the rest seem to be engineered to bolster family power.

Actually, Jorah's only beginning to become The Thing.

I meant in general villain watchability

An even creepier Grey Gardens.

Seems like Stannis and Brienne might end up in the same place sooner rather than later.

You seem to have misspelled "Amazingly"

I think he's referring to when Aemon was talking about how Dany is all alone, and then suddenly Jon Snow barges in.

Yeah, I laughed out loud when that happened.

Roose is a lot of horrible things, but I don't buy that he's a bad father (except in the sense that his life lessons are 100% horrifying). Last year, a commenter brought up that it was Roose's lack of honor that allowed him to legitimize Ramsay, where Ned Stark never could do so with Jon Snow.

Huh? Is there any reason to think this? He's just a Tarly with a shitty dad.

If Theon's arc doesn't end in redemption in one way or another, that might be the cruelest thing to transpire in the whole show.

To be fair, wasn't Bronn not too long ago in charge of the City Watch?

He and Cersei are certainly holding down the fort since Tywin's passing.

Given that people in this show are routinely destroyed by events of their own creation, I'm guessing the Boltons' demise will be coming at the hands of Reek/Theon.

No, he definitely told the Boltons, which is why they sent up Locke to go kill Bran last season. They just want to keep that information on lockdown so that they can continue to try to kill them.

Make one really appreciate how incredible Season 4 was, though.

Favorite Sansa/Bolton interaction was Sansa very explicitly not cheering.

Shireen was featured so prominently in the previews that I was 50% sure she was going to bite it. Glad they were just reminding us that greyscale exists.