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Considering that Ramsay was the only cartoon villian this show has ever produced and that many many other villainous characters are complex and fascinating, no, I don't think his expectations are too high.

She knows ("I can feel in my body what he did to me"). But I'm also not sure how he would know.

And unfortunately, I consider him the hottest actor in the cast, so that's my downside of Ramsay finally being dead.

Well, nobody expected him to be fleshed out into a main character, but c'mon, why not give him one or two scenes after he's taken hostage to show the audience there's a real person there? They had time for Tyrion making jokes, why not for this? How much better and more tragic would it be, if we got to see some…

It's not just twists that are missing here. It's a fitting build up. If they wanted us to care about Rickon getting killed, they should have made him more than a living McGuffin without any scenes or lines. If they want us to believe that Sansa basically betrayed Jon by coming to the rescue very late, we should have…

Unnecessary in so far as it just went through the motions narratively. There just wasn't anything happening that anybody didn't expect five episodes ago. If you want to bring a storyline to a massive climax like this, you should have more up your sleeve than purely perfunctory narrative choices.

Sansa's reluctance is easily explained: She doesn't trust anyone anymore and therefore wants to claim Winterfell herself and that's easier when Jon's army is weakened and outnumbered by her own army. She was willing to deem her youngest brother a lost cause. She's also willing to let her older brother go down in…

That may be true for people who prefer things "epic" and only "epic". Personally, I like my epicness with more complexity and narrative wrinkles (see for example: Blackwater where the outcome wasn't clear from the get go).

That's because people prefer catharsis over intricate storytelling. Sure, it was epic and spectacular, but no way this was better than Rains Of Castamere, Hardhome, The Children, Baelor, Blackwater, Watchers On The Wall, etc.

My biggest laugh this episode was Melisandre's battle advice: "Don't lose."

Ugh…thanks for the history lesson but I believe in the simple and much older survival instinct which states that if you side with someone almost guaranteed to lose, there won't be any ancestors remembered or descendants left that could be disgraced by your actions.

In this case, the show is clearly more realistic than the books.

The North doesn't remember shit if it isn't to his advantage. That's just how it is in this world as well as in our world.

Except she's probably going to burn her own city and her own son, among other people the audience cares about (Loras for sure, Margaery maybe…) and maybe even herself.

Perfunctory is about right. I'm not complaining. The giant battle sequences of Lord Of The Rings for example were equally perfunctory and with a predestined outcome and nobody complained and instead reveled in the awe of it all. To recreate this on an equally awe-inspiring scale for television is a tremendous…

I think the point of those burning Dothraki guys/Drogon returns scenes was that she indeed is powerful and confident enough now to have complete control over her dragons. She is also powerful and confident enough to go as crazy as her father and it's up to Tyrion to keep her in check, which will probably become…

I was hoping to see Lady Mormont kick some ass. But no. I don't even know if she survived the battle.

Eh…a little more context would be appreciated. Does anybody understand? That transcript is very cryptic. The man in the video seems first to be upset that his weird homoerotic tickle videos are deemed pornography by the movie (which they are). And then that someone in the movie claims death threats were made by the…

Oh god, I didn't know it was a freak accident like that. I want to unknow that immediately. A regular car accident? That's also shit, but it happens. But this? So so fucking pointless.