And showing that on screen would have made it work. But I think if they were going to show it, they'd have tacked it on to the last scene. It would be weird to return to that scene in the same place next week or the week after.

Yeah - almost everybody has written that.

Oberyn Martell was only introduced this season, and apart from him, there haven't really been any major "good guy" deaths this season. We're in approximately the same place as we were at the end of season 3, character wise, except that Joffrey's been removed. So a net gain. Obviously there's still another couple of…

You're right - the Simpsons LEGO figures don't look enough like LEGO to actually make a LEGO episode about them. To make a LEGO episode, you need the characters to actually look like LEGO, not 3D figures that happen to have lego shaped grooves in the bottom of their shoes.

The common consensus seems to be that ALL of episode 9 will be at the Wall. So Stannis will probably show up towards the end of that.

Oh don't get me wrong - Arya's laugh was amazing. That scene could have failed appallingly but she really hit it out of the park. One of my favourite character moments of the season. Up there with the Dinklage stuff.

I'm guessing they won't even bother, given the amount of plot it looks like they'll be covering in episode 10. I'll be surprised if Arya and the Hound are even still at the Bloody Gate the next time we see them. They should at least have shown paranoid Eyrie guards driving them away.

One thing I don't quite buy - The Hound got Arya all the way to the Eyrie gates. Lysa Arryn is dead, but why not ask who her successor is? Robin is related to Arya and presumably inherits the Eyrie fortune. Is it not worth at least sending a message up to the Eyrie? And once word got back to Littlefinger, you'd assume…

Which works in the show's universe, but isn't it contradicted in the book universe (hence less easily accepted)?

Yes - I'm not a book reader, cos I left it too late to start and I now find them far too predictable and slow to read, given that I've watched huge chunks of them on screen, but I AM massively spoiled for future events.

I made my comments before I actually watched the title sequence. The addition of Moat Cailin does rather spoil my points. Maybe the editing team just really love certain location animations more than others. I can't even remember what the Eyrie animation was like. It doesn't bother me too much though: the repetition…

Yeah - but as she pointed out - he was the reason for the assassination attempt, and he only knew it WAS an assassination attempt because it was partly his fault. And then he took the credit for saving her. She has fair reason to be a bit pissed.

I think with the credits they've stopped editing them so often for 2 main reasons:

I think you can fairly safely add Danaerys to that list. If she does die, it'll be right at the end of the last book. There's no way he's done all of that separate story in Essos to have her NOT be vital to the conclusion.

I highly doubt they'll leave something that's so easily spoiled as a season finale. Even if it wasn't so likely to be ruined between season 4 and 5, it would be a weak final scene. Why would TV-only watchers be excited by a season finale that just showed a glimpse of a character that they didn't realise was Cat?

I'm willing to believe that I need to give Sopranos longer to 'hook' me. I normally criticise people who decide they should watch a series and then give up after less than half a dozen episodes. There must be a reason for the hype it gets. It just wasn't apparent to me in episode 1.

I can't seem to get into the gangster genre at all. The massive 'must see' films don't do it for me. I've tried Goodfellas and the Godfather and given up part way through both. 'The Sopranos' pilot bored me. I don't understand what drives me away, but I just can't enjoy them. I've enjoyed shows that are supposed to be…

My biggest bugbear in both TV and film media, is sort of a variation of the 'Will They or Won't They?' trope - the 'Designated Love Interest'. I hate that in almost every TV series or film ever, the male protagonist and the most recognisable female star will end up together (or very very rarely the other way round).

I did sort of wonder whether some of it was intentional: he put on a vaguely English accent around Kings Landing but relapsed into his natural Irish when he wasn't trying to sound "posh" or put on a show. But that theory is kind of spoiled by the unnaturalness of his season 4 voice. His dialog is insanely bizarre at…