Is Castle Black currently without ravens? The maesters run the raven communication network, and does Castle Black have a maester right now with Aemon dead and Sam in training in Oldtown?

I agree with your overall point, and helping to make it even more clear is that "20 thousand or so men" is a number that's low by at least an order of magnitude. The best estimate is that something like 750,000 to 1 million men served as Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Not all of these were serving at the…

It was not well explained. It's maybe possible to sort of do what Varga tried with straw buyers and inflated appraisals, but that type of fraud doesn't fit very well with what we saw of the situation presented here.

To your last point, one of those for me in this episode was the bargain sale of the Stussy Lots assets to the Widow Goldfarb for $100k leaving behind only an indebted shell with hundreds of millions of dollars of debt. That's not something that comes close to "working": a bankruptcy court would simply unwind that…

I don't know the business and billing model of those independent contractors, but the way I see it is that Kim isn't just facing the risk of losing Mesa Verde as a client but also simply how many hours of outside legal work they need over any period of time.

She knows but I'm almost certain has purposely never said it in so many words and has also made sure that Jimmy never tells her in so many words.

Tastes differ, but I've liked the humor of seeing Jimmy behave that way in small doses.

It would be pretty reasonable for Kim to want to have some diversification and not be a solo practitioner who completely depends on business from just one big client (Mesa Verde). That said, it's obviously not worth taking on the work if she doesn't actually have the time to handle it, which looks to be the reality…

I generally agree with your conclusions in the last couple paragraphs. It's an interesting perspective that cuts against the consensus of a lot of the comments here.

Movie effects budgets per minute of screen time are very different than the amount available for a Gustavo Fring spin-off.

Yes, I also found the "gallons" rather than "barrels" to be jarring as I watched it.

See the good point above about aging of the actors.

I agree.

That's very tough to square with what's been presented on the show. His "Slippin' Jimmy" history, as told in his own words, seemed a lot more about finding a mark who was well-insured and/or had deep pockets.

To overwork herself to excess is clearly foolish and counterproductive, but for any solo practitioner attorney to want to have more than one client - no matter how lucrative that one client currently is - is simply good business sense.

Would you say the same about Philip and Elizabeth? What Tuan's doing - "ends justify the means, the mission is what matters more than anything else" - is really not any worse than what they've done on too many occasions to count.

I was somewhat concerned that he was going to jump off the bridge when he stopped there this episode.

It's conceivably from a mole somewhere within the U.S. intelligence community - i.e., not necessarily anyone who is a character on the show.

I obviously agree with what you say about the scene feeling unnecessary (and to me worse than unnecessary).

Fair question.