I suppose "echoes" would have avoided this problem, but I did in fact mean belongings.

But it wouldn't really make sense yet, given that the Archmaester doesn't understand the Ice of it all.

Those were the dead sand snakes.

Oh, thanks for reminding me, I forgot to mention the Community Bake Sale.

This is triggering, Isaiah.

I see that reading, but for me it punctures the worldview Arya had developed—she treats them as enemies because she's trained herself to, but they are not like the Freys, and seem completely innocent to anything happening above them. It's a similar argument to the one Jon makes at Winterfell about the Karstarks, but…

I am SHOCKED and APPALLED.

Hey everyone—welcome to the comments section. While I'm far less concerned about "book spoilers" now than before, and I feel we've comfortable marked off this space as one where such discussion will take place, I just want to provide one more alert that this will be a space where people will freely discuss elements of…

I think Martin basically killed the dream when he talked about the arguments over Lady Stoneheart (which he lost) in his TIME interview for their cover story.

Think of it this way: one of us spent years in the Citadel poring through books before beginning this journey. The other person just left with the clothes on their back not sure what to expect. Even at this late stage, those are different perspectives.

It's literally the first paragraph of this review. When you posted this comment, it was the only part of this review that existed! I wrote it specifically because I knew people would ask this question! Why do I even HAVE this lever?!

I think all of this is correct and well argued and much appreciated, but the issue was execution: I don't think there was thirteen episodes of story productively generated from the situation you identify here. You're outlining everything that made the riot storyline so appealing for the writers, but I think what I'm…

I have to say I never found Janae's comments to stand out in that way, at least relative to any other characters. For me, I don't think they did enough to connect the dots here, but it's not out of character so much as disconnected.

You are seen.

FWIW: I think this is a reasonable read on the character, but I think you need to go too deep into the text, and none of it justifies the generic indulgence of the slasher/thriller stuff. There's a way this story could have added dimension—the show didn't find it.

As we discussed in the early reviews, this was a huge part of the discourse around the season before it started, so I didn't consider it a spoiler.

It is embarrassing how much time I spend on Twitter.

I think it would be unfair to say that the site doesn't care about participation or comments—I think it would be unrealistic to claim that it is a metric that significantly drives decision-making.

These were all posted in the first day, before there was access to the HD versions of the episodes, and before Netflix had released any additional art for the episodes in question. I've done this in past seasons, but the reviews were shorter this year, and so I decided the wall of text was going to have to do.

I am not privy to those decisions, but I definitely think the number of advertisers who would dig deep enough to consider comment numbers is probably pretty low, to be honest.