Here’s a plausible answer- Sansa didn’t exactly know that they’d be there. It’s a long way from Moat Cailin to Winterfell- at least five days hard march if not a week or 10 days. She sent the raven from their field encampment, not from Castle Black or on the way, and they weren’t there that long. Also, she probably…

I was struck with the similarities of Jon and his (presumed) father, Ned Stark. Jon acts as if everyone is honorable, and it bites him in the ass every time.

Probably. In the books he’s on Skagos, the “Isle of the Unicorns”. GRRM paid attention to him just long enough to invent the most mythical of mythical beasts to keep him company, though in Westeros, the Unicorn isn’t a majestic, moonlight radiating, rainbow shitting giver of wisdom and granter of wishes it is in other…

Dude, you do awesome work. As does the majority of the Deadspin crew. For your sake, I hope they take two of the sites here, sell them off into oblivion, keep the rest of them together, split the pay of the ones that get cut among all of the staff at the remaining sites, and let you have a product that you can be…

The important thing in all of this, aside from the meta-narrative of combining book characters (Brienne is now also the still-alive, still-at-large Blackfish), is that one little shot of the the Green Fork river right as the Hound is finishing up taking a piss. That one extra shot. Two weeks ago, I was dead set…

This is obscenely nerdy, but according to the now apocryphal Star Wars EU novels, this is explained. Basically, it’s shown that the Death Star is a hollow shell with the interior housing the power plant (Star Wars “scientific” plans for power generation, when they try to be like Star Trek with technobabble actually…

Guessing that’s who Sansa wrote the raven to, rather than who she mentions, then a quick arc of Davos going to wrap it up with Wyman in time for ep. 10, and the Manderlys save the day. Who wouldn’t love a character who gets his throat cut but doesn’t die because he’s so fat that the extra chins protect the arteries?

I’ll go ahead and take back my comments of last week regarding a certain LSH. I think she’s pretty much a must at this point and will probably be one of a number of End of Season cliffhangers, and they might even have an opening to tie her into the Blackfish story now, depending on the size and the depth of decent…

Hey Rob. Great recap as usual. I feel I should point out something that struck me as an oddity for the show this week. As far as I can remember (and I’ve also read the books a few times), there has never been a character first introduced in an episode where another character is performing part of their book roll.…

Part of your (very valid) feeling that there’s now a whole race of the non-wight undead on the show has to do with the show’s complete disregard for the books’ timeline to play better in a TV episodic format, among other things. In this case, Coldhands (Benjen) would have come and gone in season 4, the arrival of…

Great summation, as always, and great followup, which is also also nice to see (especially around here, as previously noted). While I don’t watch the other Thrones recap show either and so also missed the Hodorgrim reference, the immediate “Inside” the episode clip following the show on HBOGO has D.B. and Dave saying…

Another part of this episode adds to my theory on the endgame as it relates to the fact that the show has added sub-plots with Dorne and the Iron Islands, which seem stupid or at least uninspired and half-assed. In short, its all coming to a culmination which settles world events and the different powers that held…

He totally has a reason to hate him. Tyrion’s birth caused Joanna Lannister’s death. It’s explicitly stated in the books that Tywin Lannister was an extremely clever and capable man all of his life, but that he was actually a happy person while his wife was alive. I forget who says it, but someone asks if Tywin ever…

Ironically, this same smith, Walter Sorrells, has a video up on youtube talking about “real” vs. “fake” damascus steel. He prefers to call it pattern welded. Also true that laying in a hamon as shown here is a completely different thing.

For people other than Walter Sorrells, I’d probably agree with you. Not in this case, though. Check him out on youtube. No only does he forge blades, but he’s one of the few out there that actually makes tamahagane steel, and goes through the process as closely as modern archaeology understands how the old swords were…

That’s correct. If I’m not mistaken, the children (light daughter and dark son) of the Father in the Clone Wars Mortis arc represent Ashla and Bogan. That story line was hard to get approved because of what it added to the canon regarding the Force, but also because Qui-Gon’s spirit showed up.

Germaine,

I expected that this was just something that didn’t make the final film- as in the lack of a few different classes of fighter. Having read the book now, which goes into more detail- the Resistance is portrayed as being really, really small and very underfunded/not cared for in the book. Its put out there that the few…

So Leia held on to that 2nd twin for what had to be a very uncomfortable decade in between birthing sessions? Rey would have been an abnormally large fetus at that point, no? It’s been confirmed by multiple sources now that the character of Rey is 19, whereas Kylo Ben 29-30.

They have an official term for it. It’s called “make wrong”. If they had simply pointed out that the dough was right in front of him the whole time while he threw a tantrum, they would be making him wrong for having an angry or “low tone” response, which would basically mean that he’s a shitty person (or Degraded…