Right, another classic TV-Littlefinger fuck-up. He goes to smooth-talk the Lord of Winterfell without doing the homework to find out that he's become a clairvoyant mystic who has renounced his claim to Winterfell. Nice job, Littlefinger.

I thought he killed one, and that with the aid of Dickon Tarley.

For all Arya knows, maybe Bran got married.

This was the best episode of this season by far. Great dialogue (even Littlefinger). Fantastic, exciting battle. Little in the way of magic travel or time line glitches (the Lannister army was supposedly just outside of King's landing, not too far from Dragonstone).

That's a fair nitpick. Why not land further from the battle? It reminded me of Skyrim, when the dragons land after you get them under half health.

Bronn wants to be a paramount lord, like the Tyrells. His ambition is driving him.

Agreed. What made Faegon even worse was that, in contrast to Dany, GRRM had him head to Westeros immediately. It made the Dany Meereen plot seem even more pointless and frustrating than it already was.

I find her to be incredibly lame, and I thought that her resurrection undermined the finality and consequence of the Red Wedding. It removed most of the impact of Cat's death, and it removed an intriguing character (Beric) in the process, replacing him with a functionally mute revenge zombie. I was very…

Cutting FAegon was the best decision D&D made (edging out their decision to cut Lady Stoneheart). I remember wanting to throw the book across the room when I read the FAegon reveal chapter. Plus, FAegon tied to Arianne and Dorne, combining my most hated storylines.

Apparently there's one in the Chambersburg mall. Next time you're in Chambersburg you can swing by and scratch "Visiting a BonTon store" off your bucket list.

Interesting idea, but I doubt that D&D would have been able to pull it off effectively. That would have been a massive departure, and the show is usually weaker the further it strays from the books / GRRM's outline.

I wonder if their Confederacy show will have the same logistic and geographic defects. Will Confederate troops march across the country in two days? Will the Union and Confederate Navies both be in Chesapeake Bay at the same time yet somehow not encounter each other?

Excellent points. Just another instance where logistics, location, and rationality are overlooked in favor of advancing a plot point. In other words, it's a plot hole that we just need to swallow.

It would be either Sansa or Yohn Royce (the elder statesmen of the Lords of the Vale who is currently leading the Knights of the Vale in Winterfell- he's basically the only Lord of the Vale who has spoken any lines the past few seasons). The show hasn't set up anyone else who would challenge their leadership if they…

Agreed. The show was at its peak when D&D were pruning GRRM's best books. But GRRM's last two books suffered mightily from lack of strong editing, and I doubt he'll finish the series. D&D had a much tougher time pruning and streamlining GRRM's later, bloated, meandering tomes. And D&D are simply not on GRRM's…

I've been to several of them in malls in Western PA, Western MD, and Northern WV. A quick check of the store's website says that they're headquartered in York, PA. The map shows that they're basically everywhere in PA except Philly, for some reason.

Agreed. The show has botched Littlefinger, Stannis, and now (probably) Euron, all of whom are characters I found to be fascinating. There are certain characters that D&D just don't seem to like or get. Plus, while some of their creations have been fantastic (Hardhome), others have been cringeworthy (Yara's commando…

I forgot about Ramsay Bolton's guerrilla raid on Stannis. That was some terribly contrived writing there.

There's very little book Euron in show Euron. For the most part Show Euron is a smarter version of Victarion, but without the inferiority complex (a major change from book Victarion since his resentment of book Euron is such a central part of his character). IMO, the swaggering brashness comes across less like book…

In the books, Dorne is tied to the FAegon story, which HBO wisely removed from the show. That eliminates the need for Arianne. But it also leaves Dorne with very little left to do. They could have just cut out Dorne entirely, but that would create problems with the Myrcella story as well as remove the iconic Red…