I found that part in the books pretty weird because they focused so much on Master Raymond’s mystical magical healing and the sporadic use of magic in a book that’s otherwise kinda grounded in reality (except, I guess, for time travel) always jarred me. I thought the show did a much better job with it.

Yeah this really killed any sort of residual JT lady boner I may have had from the mid 2000s.

It’s true. I never thought of it before, but she’s perfect with a wildling. Their women are supposed to be strong and fight along side them.

As soon as that dinner scene happened I needed a gif.

I love my cats but I wish they didn’t poop in a box in my house. My parents have an indoor-outdoor cat that poops outside. That’s the ticket.

Yeah I know a lot of people are like YOU GO GURL with Claire but I find a lot of her decision-making to be seriously impaired.

That was kinda my bonkers fan theory about Jon Snow’s fate, that he warged into Ghost before he died. Now I’ll never realize my dream of Jon Snow as a direwolf saving Westeros.

Maybe I’m reading what I want into it, but in the books it’s definitely pretty heavily hinted that they ran off together, I think.

Thanks dude I didn’t want to be that guy but my nerddar was like DINGDINGDING

I missed the teaser. I guess not!

It gets more exciting later, but some of that is absolute ridiculousness. So it will depend on what the show adapts/how well you can handle super cheesy plot twists. They’ve dropped a few of the most redonk things so far, so hopefully that bodes well...

I didn’t think about the dead body part, but I was definitely like “Ew, she sure is burning a lot of hair! I bet it stinks!”

Yeah, in the books he’s seeing the past through all the weirwood trees (old trees with faces that people in the North consider sacred) and is not physically present, so I assume it’s more or less the same except with less emphasis on the magic tree part (which does sound a little dumb when you write it out).

I heard a fan rumor that they were filming in a location that appeared to be the Tower of Joy, so I’m also guessing they’ll reveal Jon Snow’s (OBBBBVIOUS) parentage via a Bran trip into the past.

My fav of all time is Bianca del Rio, who was a bitch (albeit a talented, funny one) but they gave her a more complex narrative with shades of mama bear.

I figured they were just looking for a villian narrative. After Acid Betty left they lost the season bitch and they needed a new source of conflict.

But she healed him with her vagina and magic maybe?!

On that note, this book is the first one that really starts to bring a lot more of the woo-woo mysticism into things, I wonder if they’ll keep that element? Aside from the obvious time-travel shit, one of the things I liked about the first book was that they were otherwise pretty realistic. So when it was like, OH BUT…

Maybe they’re finally pivoting based on some of the scathing criticism from last season?

That’s what I was curious about. Is she preparing to give the breath of life to Jon? Are we supposed to think that every night she turns back into an old lady and crawls under the covers or this is some explicit show of vulnerability as she prepares for... something? Some kind of sacrifice?