Not all of the villains in this show will be children when we meet them. The Penguin and Riddler already seem to be in their twenties.

The primarily childhood-based traumas that made many of these characters villains in the comic-books are actually very compelling.

Your concept for a Batman prequel show sounds like the most boring parts of 'Batman Begins'. This is thankfully something different.

You mean the 'bad hairdo' styled like a Penguin's beak and the 'weird-lookin' kid' who looks like a ringer for a young Michelle Pfeiffer?

You're right about (b) but at the risk of seeming like I want to treat audiences like children, and let's face it, many of the audience members are children, I don't think it's the type of territory popular TV fiction, especially genre fare, should be touching on, because let's face it, there are a lot of scum out…

Well you and many others might not agree but I see religion and science engaged in a constant power struggle from the Enlightenment onwards.

A waste of a fictional character who the writer is at liberty to do anything he pleases with, including provide with a dramatic purpose.

When you put it like that it almost makes the maesters sound like metaphors for Richard Dawkins and other anti-religion scientists.

I just recall Tywin making references earlier in the show to his children's worst-kept-secret and acting as if he'd not definitely not okay with it but tolerates it in a 'don't ask, don't tell' kind of a way.

Perhaps the Hound could be revived by Thoros of Myr, in the show, and finally get a chance to go mano-v-mano/undead v Frankenstein's Monster against his brother the Mountain.

You're right about Bronn, but there was always a possibility that most of his story would be told second-hand, as with the books. Like you I'm looking forward to seeing how things work out for Bronn onscreen as he somehow manages to evade Cersei's machinations and keep landing on his feet. I always thought it was…

God-knows-where is otherwise called Ireland.

Yeah but the 'Matrix' sequels aren't too popular so I didn't want to evoke that particular franchise.

Remember, if you don't see the body…

Maybe, but where the fuck is Ben then?

If you read this, thanks for not being a Moaning Minnie about spoilers, and you're right, it would have been an awesome scene.

What is this? The biggest and most expensive genre show in the world or a fucking smalltime soap-opera dependent on cast availability?

I feel bad for you. It's an annoying spoiler. But not as bad as if it had been spoiled before turning up as this season's climax, because as endings go it's a great one but if you've no intention of reading the books it's not too big a deal, especially seeing as it probably won't feature as a future element on the…

Practically everyone was in the finale except Sansa, LF, Jorah and a few minor characters so what we're you expecting? It had to be something pretty significant to constitute a feature.

Cersei/Lena Headley is going to do a lot of heavy lifting next season with some great emotional scenes, including various humiliations, and Tyrion and Jorah's mini-odyssey has some great moments, as does the intrigue surrounding Danys' marriage of convenience and Barriston's attempts to hold things together when she…