I'm completely unsure as to what the show is doing with The Hound. He and Arya are just wandering the Riverlands all season? What?

I really hate the look of the White Walkers on screen. They look too fleshy. Too much wrinkly flesh. I wanted them to look much more inhuman. And as if made of ice.

I, too, find option #2 much creepier at this point. Especially for book Sansa who is much younger. I'd honestly prefer her to kill Robin as at least she would possibly be doing something to help herself? Maybe??

When I clicked that synopsis link just now it no longer mentions the Night's King. When I just read it the wording was simply "a Walker greets the infant and lays a finger on its cheek".

I, too, thought Locke overheard Jon and Sam talking about Bran maybe going to Crasters in this episode.

I really liked the Grey Worm/Missandei scene. This is the kind of added scene that works for me. I felt it deepened both characters.

When Dany responds "I will answer injustice with JUSTICE!" all I could think was, "Ser Barristan Selmy needs to sit Dany down and explain to her just why it is that no one wants Stannis Baratheon to be King".

Ah, and here I assumed Locke going there would be pointless. Now this would be watching a Bolton by proxy get eaten by a direwolf. So, that might be cool.

Him being at The Wall and going to Crasters just HAS to be pointless, right? What's he going to do, kill Bran?

Might Varys know? Or, yeah, any of the Reeds?

Though, I'm with Todd. It would have been awesome to see the White Walker come in and devour those horrid mutineers at Crasters.

It certainly made me curious as to the content of Tywin's "birds and the bees" lecture last week.

I've been bitching to non-book reading friends about how interminably boring Dany's scenes are. And they are saying they love watching her build up her army. Sigh.

Wait, what? HBO said it was the Night's King? WHAT?

I'm pretty baffled. As I posted, I can't shake the feeling that this is all just a way to kill time before the Wildling attack. But…. this episode makes it seem as if it all means something. Maybe? I can't tell.

The entire sequence at The Wall and North of the Wall is just a huge WTF? at this point. At first, last week, I thought that Jon's desire to go and wipe out the mutineers at Crasters was a giant time waster, because they had set up the Wildling attack too quickly and now needed to kill time. (I still do kinda think…

Ah European history. My Jeopardy weakness. Hanseatic League? LOL, I had no clue.

This song is so bland, I'm not sure I can muster up the energy to hate it. Although, I can see his point that it is the blandness that makes it so hate-worthy. Hard to believe so many people took so much time producing this song.

I quite love how book Stannis is so unlikable. I think he's a great character in the books. The show really makes him feel like a puppet of Melisandre.

Hey, I remembered *that* part!