The High Sparrow's a great foil to the families that make up the rest of the cast. The Starks and Lannisters are at each others' throats but they're more similar than they are different.

Man, the common folk sure hate Tyrion.

I just like the idea that there are investors for individual Tumblr blogs out there looking for the next big hit

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if she bit it next episode even.

Not really, if Tommen dies and she is not pregnant with his heir, she'll still be around, though it will require some machinations to get back into the game.

If he's on the throne, she'll bone.

When Tommen inevitably kicks the bucket (and if Margaery is still around and not pregnant), it'll be interesting to see what happens. I'm not sure who the throne will revert to, but regardless: Three dead husbands is not a good look.

Holy shit, I just remembered: Isn't House Stark founded by a "Bran the Builder," who built the Wall and is Bran's own namesake? Is Bran Bran's own namesake?

"The A.V. Club says: Well, he’s not exactly a bird, but still, he’s probably pretty safe inside that tree, unless something goes horribly awry during one of Bran’s visions."

Exactly! I didn't realize that until a conversation with some friends. Clearly, that has something to do with their vulnerability to dragonglass.

Fleet's gonna meet up with Sansa/Jon. Meaning Theon may be the one to off Ramsay Bolton (yay!)

It happened in either the first or second episode this season. Tyrion and Varys witnessed it.

One of the other things that I didn't expect Game of Thrones to ever introduce were time paradoxes. Bran isn't merely viewing the past, he's interacting with it. I wonder whether Hodor is merely the first taste of Bran's real interactions with the past, with lasting and important consequences.

Did you at any point in this entire series trust Littlefinger?

I liked how she also attributed his brooding-ness to his recent death — nope, it's just par for the course.

That scene actually made me a bit queasy from how drastically the representation departed from the events as we've seen them. Ned's a buffoon usurper, and Tyrion's a grotesque sexual predator. Joffrey (Ned's savior) and Cersei (Robert's loyal and wise wife) elicit sympathy. It's a great distillation of one of the…

She and Ghost are the only ones left now, right?

I dunno, "travel halfway across the world to team up with another international power" (which clearly is not going to end well for him) seems kind of like the opposite of "build the wall."

Dude hasn't woken up yet from his vision. Download in progress…

So I know there have been a lot of scarring events in this show — the Red Wedding, Hardhome, the deaths of Ned Stark and Oberyn Martell and even Joffrey — but Hodor's origin is the first time that Game of Thrones bought a tear to my eye.