How is being arrested, jailed, and going through two years of hell for something you didn’t do “getting it right”? Getting it right would be “was pulled over for a broken taillight, given a citation to get it fixed in 10 days, and sent on his way”.

Yeah, Jaime as some sort of great battle general is one of those realistic falsehoods that comes from his last name and the fact that more often than not, he’s on the side with a gigantic advantage. When he showed up to end the siege of Riverrun, it wasn’t his strategic prowess that ended things, it was what he’d…

Quarter inch?!? A human being couldn’t move with 1/4” steel around them. Plate armor didn’t get over about 2mm and that’s only in certain areason the body towards the end of its existence. That’s .078” thick. That’s a bit more than 1/16”. That’s why the long bow essentially ended plate armor. An arrow could penetrate…

There is a story among the Dothraki about how 3,000 Unsullied protected the city of Qohor against 25,000 Dothraki screamers. The Dothraki did not respect infantry so they chose frontal assaults rather than simply outflanking the Unsullied. The Unsullied repelled 18 charges and 3 attacks by archers. The Dothraki ended…

It really seemed like the main danger from the wight army was being crushed or suffocated.

Nor does it make Arya a “Mary Sue” or whatever those MRA dorks call it.

In your comment, you say that she was able to sneak around a dozen wights in a silent room. She wasn’t caught until she made a noise. This tells us that Arya has mad ninja skills.

The lack of outer defenses bugged me. Real castles are mazes of walls within walls within walls, where every wall you get over just leads to a courtyard between two walls where you are a sitting duck until getting over the next wall. If you were expecting a seige, you would build even more walls, moats, earthworks and…

Yeah it’s pretty clear that Theon’s sacrifice was not pointless, because it distracted the Night King long enough for Arya to get the drop on him. Without Theon charging in, maybe one of the White Walkers would have noticed Arya climbing up a tree (or whatever she did). It’s also clear that Bran knew all along…

Good points. Another reason is also that, during the wight demonstration to Cersei, Jon stabs it with dragonglass and it instantly dies. To me, at least, that sort-of implied that simply wounding them with dragonglass should be enough to put them down, and that it might not necessarily require the kind of ‘critical…

Multiple lines of trenching would be a good idea, sure, but they didn’t have forever to get ready and were already shown to be surprised by Tormund’s news that the dead would arrive that very night.  I’m okay with “they did the best they could” on the battle works.

Agreed! Most of the Wights fought like an ocean wave - not everyone gets pulled down, but eventually they will wear on anyone.

The battle leaders had a little bit of an idea about how to fight them - but didn’t know everything. Hardhome and being trapped on the frozen lake should have given them some idea, but in the…

I’m a real softy. I’ve read all the books multiple times and seen every episode at least twice. I’m fully in the bag for this world and the stories therein. Just thought I’d share how a full on pollyana saw the episode.

I was in the Navy and this is the only interesting thing I ever saw. I was in the Naval Guard force tasked with guarding the ICMBs on a Sub base. Inside the magazine storage area there are 6 100ft guard towers manned 24/7/365 by armed sailors and marines. After guard mount, I arrived at the tower I was relieving and lo…

TRUMP: Would you like to work at the White House by any chance?

It would have been so awesome if one of them had chirped adorably, “My daddy says you’re a fuckwad.”

At least Trump didn't tell them a story about a drug fueled orgy on a yacht like he did in front of the boy scouts. 

Creative! 

“It is now jarring to hear a Michael Jackson song at a wedding, or a coffee shop, or on shuffle via an old Spotify playlist.”

I’ve always seen her as ultimately a villain and there’s only four more episodes left for the show to prove it. She’s got a little bit of the Mad King vibe to her