Face/Off, face off.

Yeah, Cersei's gonna kill Tyene in front of Ellaria, and then Ellaria's going to die, too. Yara still has a chance, I think.

It's not as though Jon has the same information we as an audience have, though. He may seem untrustworthy but the extent of his machinations are only obvious to us, and maybe Sansa.

"The sequence where Sam carves off Jorah’s infected tissue in secret, stopping every few moments to shush his patient, is presented as comic relief why? Jorah reels back into a diagonal close-up whimpering like a dog. Yellow pus oozes to get those good gross-out laughs. Is the substance of this operation funny to…

I liked it the first episode because it seemed legitimately organic and it was unexpected. I don't like it now because it seems very intentionally designed to produce the same reaction and, as it is narratively extraneous, shoehorned in.

Fan service is material that is self-consciously added in order to appeal to the wishes of the audience. The wink-wink-nudge-nudge nature of their interactions certainly makes the interpretation credible, I think.

Roll of Umber, Hear My Cry

I haven't seen the Harry Potter movies, but a friend told me that Broadbent apparently had the same narrative function in those films, denying young Voldemort access to forbidden knowledge.

Yes. The table that she caresses at the end is the same table Stannis used to plan Blackwater and the defense of Castle Black, etc.

Baelish is putting him through a hopeless training regimen, under the auspices of one of the Vale lords, in the hopes that he will fall accidentally fall on one of his daggers or shoot himself with an arrow or some other stupid shit.

The other thing I like about that scene is the subtle contrast between Euron and Jaime as people who have stigmata attached to them; Jaime's a kingslayer, Euron a kinslayer. The difference is that, as much as he might be loathe to admit it, Jaime has a bit of Ned Stark in him. He cares at least a little bit about…

Dany is best when she goes a bit off the rails and embraces the whole savior myth because she's legit unpredictable and even unhinged in those scenes.

"Tell them The North remembers. Tell them winter came for House Frey."

Everyone else at my GoT showing: "Ed Sheeran? Gross."
Me: "What the fuck's an Ed Sheeran?"

Yeah, she was totally planning on killing them until they started sharing wine and talking families. She was eyeing their swords something fierce. Even at the end, she was clearly provoking them with her quip about going to King's Landing to kill the queen.

Don't like it. Feels like fan service to me.

His clothing selection was great. Dude was wearing the Westerosi equivalent of jeans — spoke to his absolute contempt for formality.

I was laughing out loud. Funniest Game of Thrones moment since Hound's chicken dialogue, hands down.

Getting shot by 250 arrows within a span of seconds?

This is literally how every fight ends, too.