No Jon at all in this episode, which is fine; they can gloss over his story as much as like this season, at least until he and Quorin set off from the Fist.

I think Hoat actually rode a zorse, a zebra/horse hybrid.

I think they cast another Aussie for exactly that reason.

They better at least disinfect the crown, I hear it's molding.

McBride also hedged a bit about there possibly being more Kenny Powers down the road:

McBride has never been shy about the fact that neither he nor any of the other creators (Hill, Green, Best) were baseball fans or really knew anything about baseball prior to doing the show. They created the KP persona first and worked out his profession later. It's why there is so little actual baseball on the show.

Tarantino definitely set out to film an all-time great chase scene there and succeeded. People always complain about the overly talky bits, but both chases, especially the second, are epic. Being Tarantino, of course, he had to use the bad-guy car from "Bullitt" and the good-guy car from "Vanishing Point."

I never appreciated car chases as a kid, until I started driving, first a go-cart on dirt roads, then late-60s V8s on the streets, and eventually motorcycles. I never had a crazy-powerful muscle car, but lots of cars like the LeMans Popeye drives in the clip above. The go-cart safely taught me all the shit you can do…

Robert and Stannis are quite close in age, but Robert fostered in the Vale and they never built any sort of brotherly bond. Robert always viewed fellow foster Ned as a brother and Jon Arryn as a father much more than the real ones.

There were a bunch of times in the episode where he's shows that he's come a long way with his past. Talking openly at the dinner party about growing up in the country with no running water, telling the madam that his mother was a prostitute, even correctly identifying the San Antonio shooter as Whitman. None of those…

The plan to attack the North was already well underway by the time Theon got to Pyke. I think Balon learned he was fighting alongside Robb and wrote him off for good.

Even in Book 2 I had some sympathy for him because he never actually figured out whether he was Greyjoy or Stark. He always hovered halfway in-between. During his rule at Winterfell he was baffled that they didn't recognize how generous a ruler he was, compared to someone else from the Iron Isles. He reminisced about…

As long as you're drawing a distinction between winning a crown and holding a crown. Renly might have been a fine king, but he was a fairly weak conquerer (keeping in mind that he was defeated by magic not generally in play at that place and time and that the man who defeated him was subsequently defeated, mostly…

Too old, already. He's got a long career as "shifty henchman" character acting ahead of him, if he wants it.

Neither Maisie Williams nor Peter Dinklage are near as ugly as their characters are described. That's just how it goes on TV.

The realm was bankrupt under Aerys (and others before him). LIttlefinger introduced something resembling banking to Westeros and increased revenue ten-fold. Robert's spending increased ten-fold as well. Thus, just a modicum of restraint, say an eight-fold increase in spending instead of ten, would have kept things…

Stannis cares only about procedure. I don't think he ever once expresses any desire to actually *be* king or to accomplish anything as king. It's a duty that is his by rights and that's all that matters. That's what chopping off the tips of Davos' fingers is all about: procedure.

Stannis wanted to outlaw prostitution (and liquor too?) in King's Landing. Altogether too rigid. The problem with monarchs is that they think their word is absolute, but of course it isn't. Even kings have to compromise, and manipulate, and  bargain, etc, etc. Only a handful of people raised to be kings truly…

They'll probably build up a few scenes of Robb in the field to show the countryside devastation. It seems unlikely that they'll leave him off screen for the rest of the season, so they'll need to manufacture a few scenes here and there to remind people what he's up to.

Well, sending Myrcella to Theon does make some sense since at that point they are fearing that he will convince his father to attack the Lannister coast and Lannisport as Robb burns their fields.