I don't believe that's the timeline with regards to Dickon, in book or show. And Dickon was played by the 30-year-old Freddie Stroma this year, not played by the 32-year-old Tom Hopper, both playing younger than their age but not teeanged.

I was referring to Dany's speech about her struggles coming to power, and Davos' subsequent stepping in to tell Jon's backstory, not the introduction of titles.

I meant less "Why has no one mentioned it?" and more "Shouldn't more people be mentioning it?" An ENTIRE HOUSE WAS MURDERED.

This is a justifiable response, but I think it's particularly weird that the Starks are not aware—maybe they're saving it for Arya to reveal to Jon or something.

"(of course, it's partly down to the reviewer here not paying attention,
because other characters have already mentioned the deaths of the
Freys)"—true, but the story is moving so fast that it feels like it's ancient history, and we never got to see any of the Starks react to it. Does this imply that news of it hasn't…

I made last-minute edits to that first sentence, so that's my bad, but I'm sticking to self-reflexive over self-reflective. For me reflexive is more likely to contain critique than reflection, but it's admittedly a matter of word choice.

I think the way to think about this is that the glimpses we've seen of the army of the dead marching are in Bran's vision, and therefore unstuck in time: they are one part of the show that is purposefully "anytime," which serves to justify any delays as Westeros does or does not get its shit together.

There was definitely something off about it: the haircut made her out to be some kind of obsessive stalker.

I apologize for any role I played in you trying to piece this together—your labor is appreciated, but I worry a drain on your sanity.

Eh, different strokes is a basic reality, regardless of context. I think for me, I've come to a point of accepting that the logic of this world is a malleable object, and not concrete in the way Martin depicted. Whereas you're operating with an understanding of the Iron Bank as THE bank of Braavos, the show is framing…

Thanks, sincerely, but pro tip: I'm more likely to read your comment from a position of critical conversation as opposed to argumentative dismissal if you address me by name instead of using terms like "this reviewer" that function to strip me of my identity.

By "concurrent events" I meant "Tyrion's description and the raid," not the two raids that were depicted.

Luwin died before all of that, though—¨unclear if the New Maester continued the practice.

How odd—do you think it's possible that this individual only read the opening paragraphs of my review, and responded accordingly? Why, I've never heard of such a thing, who grows impatient with lengthy introductions designed to set up a probably too-delayed thesis?! Don't we all read the entire review before…

No, not everybody is, but I am, which is why I wrote about it in my review of the episode. I'm happy to hear from others who don't agree, but this is nothing if not my personal dialogue in relation to the show, and it struck me as both central to my reaction and a core theme of the episode, and I can't resist such a…

The show definitely wanted the iconography of Dany at Dragonstone, returning "home" and also delaying the dragons being on the continent. They also get to play up the "otherness" of Dany's forces, which is used to help justify why the Lannister allies are willing to stick with Cersei after the Sept of Baelor knowing…

Honestly, this thread is already too big for me to be able to find it again.

But the chyrons you describe are still a sort of structured non-linearity: the in medias res opening is actually designed to create clarity, offering a clear point the narrative will reach in the future and creating discrete questions about how you will get from A to B before you even know what A is. But in this case,…

Hey Jibin, and anyone else reading this who might be writing their own reviews and wanting to post them,

I didn't really point out the second part there, but in regards to the other: the economics of television mean that the show could never tell a complete story in the amount of time it would take to follow the rules of time. This can't be a 10-season show, so this is the compromise—fantasy that began grounded in…