Ugh. The audience already gets it with Theon. The AUDIENCE doesn't need this. Honestly, WTF does this tell us about Theon that we didn't already know? I mean, even Newbies!

Flayed alive and then charbroiled after.

It's a shame this wasn't the last scene, because that was thoroughly delightful.

It's just frustrating because we get all that development for Theon in the book without having Sansa be raped. Yeah, yeah, Jeyne Poole. Well, that was awful too. And I hated it.

But, in the episode Littlefinger says that when Stannis liberates the North and installs Sansa as Wardeness, Stannis will win the backing of the North and finally be able to take the Iron Throne. This doesn't benefit Littlefinger

Doesn't matter. What I'm saying is that Littlefinger in this episode tells her that he's just going to leave Sansa there so she can wait it out, be rescued by Stannis when he liberates the North, and have Stannis name her Wardeness of the North. All of these things benefit Stannis. And giving Stannis more power does…

EXACTLY. I'm pretty sure Littlefinger says as much in Book 1/Season 1, yeah? Littlefinger is the guy who sold out Ned Stark to the Lannisters. Do D&D realize that Littlefinger would not live longer than a week under King Stannis Baratheon?

While I kind of like the idea of Jaime and Bronn going off on an adventure together, my God, Jaime looks like a moron here. What is your plan, Jaime? You're going to sneak into Sunspeare or the Water Gardens and just abduct Myrcella out of Prince Doran's court? And this is somehow NOT going to start a war? When the…

I must say, this show version of Littlefinger just seems way more stupid than the book version. Like, freaking *Sansa* actually calls him out in this episode. "Um, aren't you banking a lot on stuff that might not ever happen?" Which feels even more true than usual because we as yet have no idea what really happens to…

I feel like these 4 episodes in Season 5 are the only time Stannis has been portrayed correctly in the show.

That now seems a distinct possibility. That would be a pretty cool scene, actually.

I figure one can never have too many shadowbaby assassins.

I now really like that they've aged up Tommen in the show. He's now just old enough to realize how bad things are. But, young enough that he hasn't got a clue as to how to fix it. The actor really nailed it in this episode.

I assume Arya is just going to murder Trant. Which I am greatly looking forward to, as everyone is, I am sure.

I just pretended he'd been rejected by the Dany whore. That at least made the scene amusing.

She'd probably need to not be in King's Landing for herself, Tommen and Myrcella to be safe.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, this was a great snapshot of the Meereen mess. Which hopefully means we'll be subjected to less of the Meereen story on screen than what is in the books.

I didn't even think about them using the warg route. I kind of thought the whole point in even sending Team Dragonstone up to Castle Black was to have Melisandre there to resurrect Jon.

And it is way easier to use Jaqen for Arya's training since the show audience already knows him. Plus, that actor was very skilled at making quite inane dialogue and sentence structure sound like a legit style of language.