I figure they have to do AFFC and ADWD simultaneously, because otherwise there is no type of season-ending climax scene.

Ah, I like it!

Ah, yes, that's right. I know that Cersei goes a bit crazy with all this. I guess I just assumed that Littlefinger had put them in debt intentionally even before that. Littlefinger just made money appear any time Robert or Cersei wanted it. And since Littlefinger seemed to be doing everything possible to incite that…

If that prophecy is even true, I'm pretty sure it will be Jaime. Tyrion doing it is dramatically uninteresting.

But with no flashbacks, how would this ever make it into the show? Without Tywin, Joanna or Aerys alive how would we ever know this? I mean, I could see this getting revealed in the books, easily. But…. unless Varys knows, I'm now seeing how this would come out on the show.

Yeah. he's too much a weasel in the performance. Littlefinger gets away with a lot of stuff because everyone overlooks him. I feel like Gillen is playing it way too much like, "Hey, I'm a scheming creep!"

The orgy was one of the only scenes I liked!

No, in an interview with EW Jack Gleeson said he was on set, lying there with stones on his eyes during these scenes.

It is a real let down for me when they end episodes with Dany scenes. They are inherently anticlimactic for me.

I feel like the showrunners view Stannis as some kind of villain. This whole story is off-kilter for me in the show.

No, I think the show Cersei is portrayed as more sympathetic. I'm not sure why, though. Certainly not at this point in the story. Why on earth should we be rooting for Cersei now?

The issue, sadly, appears to be that the director didn't even realize it was rape. Which is really making me angry.

Well, I haven't memorized the details there. But, since Littlefinger was in charge of the finances, he was the one borrowing against the Iron Bank, right? Clearly, he was completely unconcerned about ever paying that back. So, I just assumed it was intentional in order to weaken the Lannister position. Or am I…

I don't even know what they are doing with the Ironborn story. The timeline there seems way screwed up to me. Like, Ramsay and Theon are going to go liberate Moat Cailin? But, they haven't cast Euron or Victarion yet. So, what is the point?

Since the show seems mostly uninterested in the stuff that happened before the books start, I can't imagine this will make it in.

Since Dany was so powerless already in that scene, and it was kind of questionable in the book, it seemed okay to present it as rape.

Didn't Littlefinger already intentionally put the Crown in debt to the Iron Bank? I think he would have no problem with your suggestion.

Is that it? Is it the accent that is throwing me? Still really not liking Gillen's portrayal of Littlefinger.

Good God. Just…. no.

Ick. That makes me feel even more uncomfortable. Is this what men think? Like, they actually think that became consensual? I really want to read Sonia's piece now.