Hot garbage covered garbage with garbage filling. When is the damn book coming out?

God I love Truman.

Also possibly a wizard did it. Also. See, e.g., Apocalypse.

Seriously, I thought that the show was going to have Jhaqen and The Waif not be actual people, but rather faces that many Faceless Men wore around Arya. Instead The Waif is actually exactly what she appeared to be, which is to say a jealous girl, and Jhaqen is actually a murderous magical Bagger Vance.

No, it's just that the show writers have limited imaginations and are slowly disappearing up their own asses with self-referential bits and meta-commentary like the Bronn/Pod exchange.

Not 100% sure, but I'm like 95% sure he doesn't. He's moderately scrupulous about avoiding anachronisms in character speech (e.g., although the narrator describes archers as "firing" arrows, characters always talk about "loosing" arrows).

Yeah, but at a few arms' lengths apart, a rapier is infinitely better. At that distance, the waif was dead whether Arya turned out the lights or not.

"Blackfish, come with us. Riverrun is lost for now, but you're a fabled warrior and hardened battle commander. You are precisely the blend of unquestionable loyalty and courage, deep experience and competence, and widespread fame and connections that your niece and nephew need now to wage and win their war for the…

I think the system is that all knights are nobles, but not all nobles are knights. In order to be anointed and take the vows, one must be a Lord, which necessarily means one must have lands and titles and owe fealty to a higher Lord who is in the chain of fealty leading the Iron Throne. However, being knighted is…

He is referred to as Lord Seaworth in the books.

Modes of address were more complicated in the real medieval/feudal world than they are in Westeros. In Westeros, all nobility are addressed as "my lord" or "Lord X" (slurred to "m'lord," as pointed out by one of the Boltons in the books), except for knights who are addressed as "Ser X." This is not just for…

They do, because it's a fundamentally religious right. The trial by combat allegedly lets the gods judge directly, which is why you can always opt for it over trial by men.

That might be the show explanation, but I'm not sure there's a good reason. In the books, as the story drags on, it becomes clear that being insurgents and outlaws takes a heavy toll on the men of the Brotherhood and it falls from its idealistic beginnings to something more like a gang of common brigands. Which is…

Lem Lemoncloak is definitely in the brotherhood. And the Brotherhood turning to banditry and pillaging is both canonical and a realistic development in a dragging civil war. There's no more House Stark or potentially legitimate Baratheon to see prevail at this point. All that the anti-Lannister forces have to hold…

Come share our warm milk and, uh, warmer but still not hot milk with us and enjoy (breathily) guest right.

"Well, we ugged her up, so she must be into chicks now. Couldn't be a less conventional looking actress who still bangs dudes and tosses them aside when she's done with them. That wouldn't make any sense."

Even better: as a zombie wight whatever, the only way to kill him is fire. Or Valyrian steel, maybe, but realistically we're talking fire. So the younger brother who he horribly scarred with fire, and who has been "unmanned" by and terrified of fire for his entire life, will have to overcome his fear to get sweet,…

"Littlefinger seems sincere" is up there with "Moose agitatedly twitching its ears and pawing ground" and "tiger crouching with bared fangs" in terms of dangerous intention movements. "Littlefinger seems terrified" or "Littlefinger seems to be gloating" are probably moderately less dangerous displays, though still…

You can tell they're the Brotherhood because Lem Lemoncloak was leading them. And, unless I'm much mistaken, the Brotherhood took a turn for the realistic in terms of their Robin Hooding and guerrilla warfaring sometime after Lady Stoneheart took over. They had gone from borderline high fantasy optimism to coldly…

It's still called "the NBA finals" in this timeline, Hackman.