I hate it when that happens. You were up late last night, still groggy, you put toothpaste on your glock…

"And he wants to bring that Kate girl? How can we trust her? I heard her husband was Chinese or something"

She inexplicably picked up the phone during a critical conversation. I vote mole

Why the hell did that guy desperately reach for the torture sponge, then desperately fingertippily grab the knife, while he had A GUN IN HIS PANTS??

I have a hard time with ages on these characters - yeah, Selmy is old enough to have fought in the same wars with Ned's dad, but Ned's oldest was, what, 16 when he died? Ned's dad could have been under 50, really, so Selmy might even be in his 40s. How long do people live in Westeros? Is he really in his 60s like I'd…

If Tyrion dies everybody thinks he did it. If he lives and still asserts he didn't do it, the issue stays alive and questions might get asked. Even if Tyrion doesn't dig into it (which he may or may not do, hard to say) someone else might decide they like Tyrion and want to know who tried to frame him.

I feel like giving the finger would be too fan-servicey for him, I see him just staring into the camera with a smug grin on his face for 45 minutes

That doesn't seem like too hot of an idea at the moment…

"It wasn't enough to kill him he needed that public confession and he needed him to admit that Tywin ordered what happened."

I think the dye job was a pretty well considered and conniving move.

Surely there are refugees by now, right?

Wouldn't really be in Margaery's interest though, right? If he lives, maybe he asks questions, and maybe he figures a few things out that Margaery would rather keep quiet.

I like your theory more than mine: Barriston knows Dany hasn't decided who gets what land when she invades Westeros again and he'd rather have first pick

No spoilers, I have no idea what happens to him after this episode, but it's pretty clear in the first books that GRRM really, really, really likes John Snow.

I feel like they're all hoping he'll die, too. Even the Lords of The Vale know they don't want to fly.

That foolishness was a deliberate writing choice, though, and not necessarily true to Oberyn's character.

This is where I stopped reading the books and it's become clear to me why I had no interest in going further. How do you write a satisfying conclusion to THIS?

Hurt Locker played off this exceptionally well. It was probably the smartest element of the film.

The Baratheon Family Legacy

I wonder if we'll have a callback to that "only a woman uses poison" comment when (I'm hoping) the Mountain dies from a poisoned spear hole