The short scene of the border guard asking Emily if she wanted asylum was about 1000x more powerful than the endless Elizabeth Moss close-ups and voiceovers, silent/slow-motion sequences, and Rad-Hitz-of-the-80s music cues that lard up the rest of the show. I have no idea why the strongest part of the series–the…

I said this before, but it’d make far more sense for June to have gone to Canada at the end of Season 2 and was recruited by what was left of the CIA to go back to Gilead and network with resistance cells from within.

The ending did what few shows have done for me. It succeeded in retroactively ruining much of what came before it and I will likely never pick up the remaining books, assuming they are ever finished.

I wondered why Yara didn’t speak up at the time, considering that the Iron Islanders pick their kings / queens through a vote. But there she was, laughing at Sam with the rest of them. I guess she wanted to fit in. 

After Sansa said the North should be free and Bran agreed, my first thought was “oooh, I bet the rulers of the other kingdoms are kicking themselves for not having had the idea first!"

So it turns out all those prophecies and the R+L=J stuff were completely pointless.

JON PET GHOST 10,000 A PLUSES

But seriously, some thoughts:

Both men have made it clear they have listened to the numerous criticism of the way the show handles sexual violence and have made it equally clear they couldn’t give two tugs of a dead dogs cock.

I was a little put off by the burning of the dead in the opening scene. Except for Theon and Jorah, didn’t most of their battle casualties get re-animated and shattered into crushed ice after the Night King got the shiv by Arya? I could have sworn they showed the little Mormont girl as an ice zombie last week, but…

Do you know how many *thousands* of years humanity went using wood spears before they realized they could put stone heads on them? Or throw them? Or fire them from slings? We’re talking tens of thousands.

What if crossbow but big? Isn’t exactly advancing technology. 

1) Robb Stark really could have used that fast travel that everyone seems to have mastered by now

This episode was an incoherent mess but I’m here to talk about one character interaction in particular that didn’t sit well with me: between The Hound and Sansa.

Reminds me of hostage taking in the 1970's. A victim brought to the door of an airplane or (in one case) that of a train and then gets shot. They had plenty of time to grab their executioner, and jump off with them. They were going to die anyway.

The New and Improved GoT: Don’t you see? Rape builds character!

Varys and Tyrion didn’t know who Jon was. Sansa broke her promise and told Tyrion, who told Varys. There’s little doubt about that.

They’re rushing through everything, because GRRM is too busy enjoying fame and fortune to finish the books, or at least give them a detailed outline of what should happen, and so left to their own devices and with production costs skyrocketing and under pressure from HBO and dumbass fans to show big battles and less…

Jon would bend the knee at the first person who challenged his title.

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.

Agreed. I was very critical of her and Kit’s acting ability last week and while my point on Kit stands, with Emilia it’s more of a byproduct of fluctuating writing quality and general lack of consistency in her character.