Kinda wanted another National Rains of Castamere, but it would have been too on the nose.  Don't think I've seen a silent credits sequence before.

They held on her for exactly the right amount of time before that Frey came in off camera.  Shot of the episode.

I jumped out of my chair.

They can paper over it.  She let him go and the Karstarks leave, forcing Robb to go begging to the Freys, which results in the Red Wedding.

And no one gave him a weird basket of snakes!

Let's all breathe a sigh of relief for the Blackfish.

Aaron Sorkin walks in the room and slaps Lena in the face.

Same.  I look over at my DVD shelf and that set is lumpily sitting there, mocking me.

Krusty really doesn't do enough finger-tenting.

The clock sketch was one of the more effective pictures of mental illness I've ever encountered.  Will's perception of it versus the reality conveys so much about what that must be like.

Hannibal's introduction is going to be one of my favorite shots this entire year.  I'm absolutely buying these Blu-rays when they come out.

Don't forget the mushrooms grown from comatose victims!

Liked for Contagion.  As a science-oriented person with a deep hatred of alternative medicine, that film was made just for me.

I'd give it to the Gossip Girl scene as the best cutaway.  Peter lying on the bed and saying he's the Gossip Girl was the most I'd laughed all season, whereas I usually just watch with a grim look on my face.

Craig J. Clark; In all fairness, though, that is a pretty great branch of Big Red.

In a perfect world, I'd go Boyd Crowder, Richard Harrow, Jaime Lannister, Mike Ehrmentraut, Roger Sterling, and if he submits for Supporting, Hannibal Lecter.  Jesse Pinkman can sub in if Mads goes Lead, as I don't think he was as good in 5.1.

Gyp Rosetti can suck it.  Al Capone/Richard Harrow or GTFO.

There's the scene where they're stuffing the suspect in a box, trying to get details about a possible bombing.  The suspect just starts blurting out days of the week.  I thought that thoroughly explained the poor quality of intelligence obtained from torture.

Jon's got plot armor.  Who tells us what's going on at the Wall if not Jon?  Melisandre is the only other POV character up there and I don't think she's going to get a dozen more chapters in each remaining book.  Pretty much every POV character in DWD got a death fake-out.  Why should Jon be any different?

Calling it for next season.  Episode 9 will be only the battle at the Wall, a la Blackwater.