Well, I said I'd read the reviews before I decided if I wanted to watch the show anymore. I said I was thinking of quitting the show altogether.

I don't think I'd even heard of the AV Club when I read that book.

So, actually, Bob Baffert should be paying for the Burger King to move to Kentucky and come out every morning for his training sessions.

Very true. Being buried whole is the highest honor a horse can have. Only a very few were buried that way. Secretariat being one. Seattle Slew and Affirmed were, also.

Show Stannis or Book Stannis? Because I think Show Stannis has been written terribly, and there is no justifying a lot of the stuff he has done.

I will be reading some recaps of next week's show before I decide if I want to watch it. And I'm really debating even doing that.

I'm now seriously considering quitting the show. Honestly. I mean, I bitched about the rapes, but they never made me think about quitting the show.

Or, you were on an athletic team with a game that night. And if you missed class, you were prohibited from participating in any athletic activity on the same day? Yeah, that is what happened on my school's Senior Ditch Day.

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Mild book information: Sometimes when characters amputate the infected limb it stops the Greyscale, but sometimes the Greyscale just re-appears on the remaining limb.

What feels very strange and interesting to me in the books is Bran's apparent connection with the Cold/Dark side of that.

I thought Melisandre in the books is just flat out wrong. I'm not sure she even knows much about Dany. And it seems pretty clear that she was kind of ignoring details about Jon.

Yes! I am now feeling the whole Qyburn scenes might have a point! How exciting!

Sansa can have Ramsay. Or, Sansa and Theon can do a tag-team kind of thing. That will leave Roose Bolton, the filthy traitor to Stannis. Someone who does not take too kindly to traitors.

By the final scene I was into it. But, it did feel like we spent a lot of time watching a zombie attack. It was a little too much zombie attack and too little White Walker for me. But, thematically, it really kicked ass.

It was easily the worst part of the whole sequence. Yeah, let's create a cool female character, and then make her child focused so the whole audience knows she's going to die and then have her freeze in a battle because some of the zombies are children.

It's just that House Martell seems a freaking obvious ally among the powerful houses. It is weird that Tyrion would leave it off the list.

Yeah, Stannis has Theon in the books. He is planning on executing Theon. But, Theon is actually helping him…. so I don't know.

I really hope so. It would be a terrific scene if Selyse and Melisandre try to sacrifice Shireen and Stannis stops them and sends Melisandre away.

Jaime's plan never made sense. There was literally no way he was going to march into the Martell court and abscond with Myrcella. He's lucky Doran's guards got to him before Ellaria. At least Doran isn't likely to kill him.