And corduroy. And condoms and a persisting fear of AIDS.

Hmm….The Oklahoma City Bombing!?

Cuz the face ain't listening, homeslice! Catch you on the flipside! I have a working memory of the Cold War and understand the dangers of terrorism exist within a context! I have experienced a variety of economic conditions and I accept that my generation isn't the first to have it rough!

The land turned sour!

I mean, yes. But, I'm starting from a baseline of certain people who think that black people had it easy starting in 1865.

1. So, is Ghost the only non-homeless living direwolf? Also, where is Ghost?
2. Good episode, and great for FINALLY making the Iron Islanders something approaching the fearsome things of the book. This was the first solid pirate sequence we've had.
3. Am I misreading Dorne, or is hostage Ellaria NBD? She murdered…

Millennials be like, "What's a bank? What's a pen?"

Who are you, GladOS? The cake is a lie!

Does that mean it's served cold?

Hot Pie isn't too far away. Maybe she had a fun Weekend at Bernie's situation going on where she ran dead Freys over and pretended they were drunk, got them butchered (by Gendry?) and then baked into pies! There, fixed it! Headcanon!

I smell a spin-off!

Whatever all of you fools. HER BEST FRIEND WAS NAMED HOT PIE. AND SHE'S AN ASSASSIN. In a show with dragons and Pod Payne as the world's sexiest man, I can believe that Arya picked up tips from H. Pizzy.

So many innocents die in the show that it's hard to care. Beyond the White Walkers being ignored, this seems like a "secret story" suggested in the books but not really the show. The "smallfolk" have good cause to riot and destroy our protagonists and antagonists.

Oh yeah… sorry about your… kid?

Who do you think you are, an Archmaester?

That's mostly right - except that Jon Snow is perhaps the most persistent and sympathetic figure in the books. (I detest book Daenerys.) But you are right - for 80% of the book (non-Jon/Bran/Sam chapters), the Walkers are not important at all.

Wait, so when Bahstan bros get into bar fights with Haffenreffer and inevitably smash the bottles on the bartops and drunkenly wave them, they can kill Others? I smell a new hit Wahlberg Brothers show!

Dragons can't get behind democracy? Speciesist much?

Yup. Hence my stubborn view that this is all about climate change.

An entire commentariat of fanwank? Yes, really!