In general I agree that these last 2 seasons are suffering from their truncation.  But I think you’re reading Jaime wrong--he’s not switching sides again, he’s going south to kill Cersei.  A more tender parting wold have ben nice, but it occurs to me that maybe he was just trying to rip the band-aid off all at once &…

Drunk Lady and Discount Jack Sparrow is still a comedown from the horde of the undead.

Are we gonna pretend Jon would be a great ruler? His leadership positions ended in either him abdicating or getting murdered. Dude never won a battle himself.

I think it was essentially brilliant that in the end, all those legends, promises and prophecies were pretty much bullshit; just thousands of years old tales that never had any bearing on the now and here.

“I know you can be overwhelmed and you can be underwhelmed but can you ever just be whelmed?” This episode’s storyboard was determined to find out.

I think Theon needed to die for the the NK to feel overconfident about easily killing Bran next; that gave Arya the window of opportunity. The NK and his entourage were on high alert until Theon died, who they assumed was the last threat in their way.

It was such a waste of build-up to never have Bran warg into a Dragon, if only to give us the same birds-eye view.

One at a time, single file too

Fewer.

Oh yah, winter’s coming, dontchaknow. Heckuva deal for us white walkers.

I kind of wish he had a super heavy Minnesotan accent, and I also kind of wish when he killed Theon he would have looked right at the camera and had asked: “Cold enough for ya?”.

“White Walkers HATE her! This one neat dagger trick will end the Long Night”

Glad to see military genius Jon Snow once more lead his forces into certain doom, only to be saved by someone not under his command.

And no real surprises, except Lyanna. That one hurt.

Screwing her nephew isn’t big deal for her, her people have been marrying brothers and sisters for generations to keep the bloodline.

I kinda hope the Night King reveals himself to Bran in the next episode and is easily killed by Theon. Then the army of the dead is immediately destroyed. The rest of the episode is everyone being disappointed standing around Winterfell.

My theory is that D&D added that part then so that during the Battle of Winterfell, Dany is going to have a moment when she has to choose to save Jon or let him die (or maybe even kill him herself).

Ghost is getting smaller. By the end of the season he’ll be a Bichon Frise.

Fun fact, Grey Worm is two days from retirement.

The ending with Jon and Danny felt incredibly contrived. It struck me as similar to “24,” where they would need something big to happen at the end of an episode whether or not it made sense to the narrative.