That view doesn't make sense. The Academy Award is for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role". That doesn't - or at least shouldn't - express any positive or negative view about someone's behavior off-screen.

Your legal analysis makes sense based on contract law.

I agree that Elliot's timeframe is concurrent with what's happening outside of prison.

In that same flashback to the prior Halloween a couple episodes back, Elliot mentions to Darlene that he'd apparently trashed a server room in a dissociative state. It's a decent guess that's why he had court-ordered therapy.

I would suspend disbelief on the timeframe that it took for Elliot to end up in prison (and it does appear that he's in prison post-sentencing, not being held in jail awaiting trial). I think it's highly aggressive how fast it was even if Elliot plead guilty to charges against him.

I believe that a significant part of the footage of President Obama was from a press conference where he spoke about North Korea hacking Sony. Not all of it, but a good amount toward the end.

It doesn't appear that Cersei is even trying to play up her best legal claim as a Baratheon by marriage, but just rely on a power play. She was crowned as "Cersei of House Lannister", not Baratheon. The latter looks like at least some legal basis to claim the crown.

Agreed.

The issue is how Frey did that, not just that he did it. He broke the tradition of guest right, which is one of the most basic and venerable rules of that society. Within that world, it's a breaking of the rules that is considered to be beyond more typical political duplicity and scheming.

I wholeheartedly agree.

I have. How much farther do you think the Iron Fleet's trip was - as a multiple - than Sansa and Jon zigzagging across the North to visit various houses? I realize that the fleet is travelling vastly farther, but it's also reasonably travelling at 10 or more times the speed of an army on land.

I'm aware that the distance involved is something like an order of magnitude farther than the distances that others are covering on land.

Sailing can be a lot faster than traveling overland by horseback and foot, so I don't see that it's necessarily crazy.

In a sea battle of wooden ships where one side has dragons, the logical course of events is for the side with dragons to devastate the other fleet before it can get close enough to board or engage at close range. It should play out as a bigger version of what we saw outside Meereen.

I believe it was tolerated for the Ironborn to reave under the Targaryens as long as they didn't attack Westeros. So they could plunder near the Free Cities in Essos, for example.

He would be, except that members of the Night Watch give up all claims to their lands and titles. So Benjen can't be the rightful heir.

The society of the Iron Islands - including the Drowned God religion and belief in the Old Ways - is based on the idea of plundering (paying the "iron price"). Trade (paying the "gold price") isn't considered honorable. Sowing the land and working in mines is traditionally reserved for thralls, who are captives…

"When Dany first conquered Meereen she had every single master crucified, against the counsel of Barristan Selmy."

"Obviously, the reveal that the Children of the Forest created the White Walkers in order to fight off men is significant, but also something that doesn’t really change the conflict in any meaningful way."

I agree with you about Arkady.