My hope is that Arya will kill Littlefinger. Or better yet, help Sansa do it, since nobody deserves to kill Baelish more than Sansa does. Here's hoping!

Well, there's your lesson learned: Never watch this show while eating!

I kinda feel like they established on the show that the Unsullied lost
both penis & testes when castrated—so, pretty much no penis there
to see, mutilated or otherwise. In real-world history, eunuchs could be
left with a fully functioning penis—still piss through it, still get
hard, still have sex (though how sex for…

HBO includes an "Inside the Episode" featurette after each episode, & this time the "That's not her" thing was explicitly clarified. Maybe the screeners the reviewers get don't have those featurettes attached?

Re Arya killing dozens of Freys + What does it mean for the show?:

Even if he hadn't, the show put the whole "maybe Lady Stoneheart will still show up!" thing to bed permanently, by having Arya perform LS's whole function (offing Freys) in one fell swoop.

If they even stayed THAT long. My guess is they bolted pretty much as soon as they heard that Stannis bit it. Seriously—with him dead, why would they stay?

Yeah, I figured anybody left behind would get the hell out of there once they found out Stannis was dead. The island itself might be strategically important for military leaders, but it doesn't offer much to regular folk, & with Stannis gone, why would they stay? The creepiness factor would just make them take off…

Yup. Honestly, I was expecting Tormund to die in the Battle of the Bastards. I enjoy the character & how he's played, so I'm happy to have him around as long as possible, but I think the writing's on the wall.

Me too—thought we were going to see how Arya was able to catch, kill, & cool Walder's sons. It was a very well done misdirect, & yet allowed the viewer to catch on quickly enough not to be confused.

I was kinda waiting for Clegane to scoff & say he was making it all up just to show how disdainful he was about their stupid fire god. But I like that he didn't—it's in keeping with the character's evolution. I mean, he's not completely un-cynical at this point, but he's definitely evolved, & he's seen & been…

Re "nothing actually happened":
The cold open is significant in two ways—
(1) Eliminating all the Freys (or at least all the most important ones, & probably all the males) is a pretty big deal, & a pretty big blow to the Lannisters, who at this point don't have many other allies.
(2) In the books, the only reason we…

When I teach Roman history to my students, I sometimes clarify that when I say "empire", before the rise of Augustus, I mean "little-e empire", as opposed to "big-E Empire". Technically, yes, America is not a (big-E) Empire, but we've been a (little-e) empire since WWII, at least.

He said that before he was running for office. I mean, it's still weird, but it wasn't all that weird for Trump. What's amazing is that, AFTER he said that—and about a thousand other weird, or ignorant, or repellent, or sexist, or racist, or xenophobic, or just plain mean things—sixty-odd MILLION people still…

I think that's just the perspective? It looks like his pinkie is angled somewhat toward the camera, creating the illusion of foreshortening. But the dude's got weird-ass hands, so who knows?

Seconded on the discovery of known-but-lost works of literature! To your list I would add: Ovid's take on the tragedy Medea, as well as Catullus' poetry collection (collections?), so we can see how he arranged them. Here's hoping!

Grief is a very specific & personal thing—there's no one way to do it "right".

I would also think a new love interest would be glad to be with someone who obviously gives his whole heart, completely, rather than someone who holds back or half-asses it.

For whatever reason, Patton Oswalt has always felt like somebody I actually know—not just a famous person, but someone I feel a connection with, though of course we've never met. So seeing this story makes me way happier than it reasonably should—I feel like a friend of mine caught a great break after going through a…

It had more than its population needed, but not "several brothels on every block". And while no doubt the locals partook from time to time, most of the clientele would have been sailors on shore leave, which is why there were so many for such a small city. Pompeii wasn't a glamorous, Amalfi Coast getaway—it was…