Seeing how enchanted some of the kids were with him almost justifies the existence of the movie to me, and that really is saying something.

And he kept doing them for his great-great-great grandchildren.

I thought that Driver did a great job of giving Abrams exactly what was on the page, but what was on the page was badly misconceived. It's weird because they do so much to ape the original Star Wars, and then they make their Vader take off his mask and look angsty and sad and weak as the one thing they do different.

I don't think anybody really bought that he would stay retired, did they?

Jon Snow's exceptions are grandmothered in.

We don't know that he was in charge when Roose was. The timeline isn't clear. He also isn't coming to swear allegiance, which is something Roose would've insisted upon. Ramsey is in a more precarious position, so he can make the alliance, and then see where things lay after the immediate need is filled.

He didn't do that for information, though, that was in his spare time.

And don't forget, women aren't allowed at Castle Black.

How is killing the lord commander of the watch *not* breaking your oath to it?

I was talking to a friend today and I said that I thought that she had already gotten her sight back in the books, which he said she hadn't (he's not quite up to date, and I haven't read them), but the thing is that I honestly wasn't sure (and he was asking me things knowing little spoilers like that might come up). …

If staying loyal to the Starks can't keep his people safe, what's the benefit? It might be shenanigans, but I think people are looking for too much complication up there; the idea of finally setting up a character who teams with Ramsay as a power play instead of just out of fear seems like enough, to me.

You're assuming that The Waif is displaying a genuine emotion, rather than being deliberately unfair, which is something that has *always* set Arya off.

I could've sworn I wrote a comment on this, but it seems to have disappeared… anyway, my prediction is now Littlefinger.

I'm going with "Dany takes command of the Dothraki horde by way of her dragon" as a general prediction. If they were just going to have her escape, there wouldn't have been the need to have all the tribes there.

I thought she was digging for Meryn's name.

And Joffrey too. (I wondered if *maybe* you just don't go around admitting you wanted to kill the king, even to an assassin's guild.)

When you put it like that, I think maybe she kills The Mountain.

I think their plan is to betray Ramsay because then they can be in charge. Getting rid of the only person they are aware of with a claim to Winterfell would help with that, and if they don't kill him themselves they can wash their hands of it later.

The only one that comes to mind here is "Shit sandwich".

I mean, technically, in theory, he could have been extracting something to keep the giant body that he was Frankensteining together alive, you know "We need his giant heart" or somesuch, but it seems like a stretch to me, yeah.