Hey, don't overly literalize my fetishes.

I thought she was actually pretty solid in that scene of the finale when she chained up her dragons. The sadness reached her eyes in that scene.

You seem to be weirdly obsessed with the Tysha business. It's been obvious since they introduced Shae that they were transposing some of the characteristics of the Tyrion-Tysha relationship into Tyrion-Shae for the show.

They can't see his face. It's covered by a scarf. And in the book, Brienne notes his immense size. That's part of the evidence that it's him.

"Emilia Clarke will play a nurse" … well, I know what my dreams are going to be like tonight. They will be very good.

"I trust GRRM more than them, and he wrote that scene how he did for a good reason."

I really don't understand the anger some people have about the Tysha decision. You really thought that was going to be part of this episode? When she's only been mentioned during one scene in the entire show and that was three seasons ago?

I would be surprised if her reveal opened an episode. That is definitely an episode closer. It would have been the perfect capper to this season, but oh well. I would be shocked if she were written out completely because her presence causes legitimate narrative momentum for Brienne and her story (unlike Coldhands and…

BOOK THEORY INCOMING!!

…Because the newbie reviewer is slower? Why can't you wait for the newbie review to post?

"Minimal possible respect for the source material"? Are we watching the same show? There are very few adaptations I can think of as faithful as this one. And I really don't know what could be pissing you off so much from tonight.

I would be shocked if Stoneheart is taken completely out of the show. Coldhands and Strong Belwas make some sense because they weren't really necessary to drive the plot. But Stoneheart absolutely is. Brienne's story wouldn't make sense otherwise. The fact that Michelle Fairley has hinted about the possibility of…

A few quibbles: 1) I still think it would have made more sense for Ygritte's raid on the Wall to happen in Episode 7 or so, then have Episode 9 be the big Battle for Castle Black with Stannis' arrival at the end. I think Stannis showing up tonight just felt weird and out of place, and Episode 9's ending felt…

That's true. People who were either in awe of him or greatly respected him began to desert him, and that's a pretty major point for Book 5. Seems like this is trading a more meaningful death now for less character development later. I don't like that. This is the "snowball effect" GRRM loves to talk about.

Right, but this said "don't go over to the experts." Why would you do that anyway if you haven't read the books?

Am I missing something? Isn't that why the expert reviews are there? For them to talk about the books separately?

But who will he bounce off? He's funny when he's responding to guys like Grenn and Pyp. He's not funny on his own. Are we really going to have a full season (possibly more) with only two named Night's Watchmen around? Just Jon and Edd?

Anyone else have a problem with them killing off Pyp AND Grenn? I know Grenn was a substitute for the one-armed guy from the books (whose name I forget, was that Donal Noye?) because we've at least seen Grenn before and the audience would have a connection there.

You forgot the comma. "Hodor is an Android, man." Oh shit, spoilers… sorry guys.

Would you say that was the end … of the innocence?