Take this with a grain of salt, but I remember a reading a quote from GRRM that he started writing these books from that opening image: seven children, the dying direwolf mother, and her seven cubs. So it starts with this portentous event, which, being human, everyone is like, "it's got to mean something!!" And I…

As a book reader: the Night King thing has been a sideshow from the start. It's part of the problem with the books. If the threat from the north is really as high-stakes as it is made out, couldn't we elide many of the more irrelevant plot threads and get to "the real story?" The answer would seem to be, the Night…

I enjoyed last year's commentary, and I think Eckstein was invested in the show last season. Harder to tell this season, I agree this article was pretty disappointing.

If you had the horn, the gift would be a dragon, not the horn. It would be stupid to give up the means of control.

Hype that's dead may never die.

You, sir, are in inhuman monster!

Huh, I can only think of The Hound who may be the Gravedigger, but I hardly have an encyclopedic knowledge of ASOIAF characters. There are like a million of them at this point.

It weirdly rolls over to Season 8. So either it happens this season and takers get paid, or it doesn't and they get paid next season.

Yeah, although that outfit is a throw-back. Overall that cover seems weirdly inconsistent with the tone of the book. Just Jim Lee drawing some cheesecake I guess.

I think Stevron may have died off-camera, I don't think he was shown at the Freymoot.

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I thought maybe he'd use a horn to get a dragon? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Definitely Under. There might be one named Frey.

Anyone else feel Hounded by these pun threads? I Sheeran am!

This. I think the article was reflecting the zeitgeist of hate for that character. At least that's how I read it.

Ok I dug up the article that discusses it: http://mashable.com/2016/05…

Arya did the pie thing in the season 6 finale.

It's soul! Boy's soul!

Actually believe it or not if you go through the whole genealogical trees of Game of Thrones, Cersei is legitimately heir to the Iron Throne just by blood, not through her marriage. Would be Jaime but he renounced that right to be in the Kingsguard. At lesst that's what I read on reddit.

Good to see you back, DBL.