Now would be the perfect time to introduce the Dorkstar,

I suspect it would have lasted the two years the Blackfish predicted it would last. The nice thing about only having a skeleton force is that you don't have nearly as many people to feed from your castle stores.

I've actually enjoyed Harrington's performance for the most part. I mean, I think he embodied an idealistic, 16 year old kid pretty well and is now depicting a guy who has been through some shit pretty well. The worst things about the character are typically not issues that I have with the actor's performance, but…

Even Cersei's scenes are starting to develop a sense of rote monotony though. At this point, I'm mostly like, "Okay, yeah, she's a terrible person, get on with it."

It really doesn't help Clarke that they've basically been having her repeat the exact same character beats in a loop ever since she reached Meereen. She was actually giving a much more engaging performance when she was desperate and almost helpless.

It's kind of difficult to give Cersei actual credit for outwitting anyone when all of her plans depend on Euron's superhuman ability to be everywhere at once and defeat every naval force he faces with no casualties and for Jaime's equally superhuman ability to march his infantry army either from King's Landing or…

I have no idea. I have no idea why Olenna Tyrell went back to Highgarden if she knew that she was only going to be able to rally 30 soldiers either.

And the show has already established that it is possible to refuse a title, as Aemon Targaryen discussed way back in his first monologue in season one.

Raining down arrows on your own troops is a pretty terrible military strategy.

They are ignoring the dozens of other viable Martells, (made doubly so by the fact that Dorne uses a cognatic version of primogeniture that recognizes women having equal rights to inheritance as men), that are out there. Someone mentioned last week that we should regard it as a palace coup and now that it seems to be…

Jon is already in a de facto state of war with the Iron Throne. Assuming Dany defeated Cersei, she would inherit that war unless some separate peace was negotiated with Jon beforehand.

He refused his title.

Medieval knights were devastating in medieval warfare, especially if they had an open, dry field to charge across. It's sort of ridiculous that the show depicted the Lannisters to have beaten them with what appeared to be primarily an infantry force. They would have charged and broken their infantry lines fairly…

They joined Stannis before the battle of Blackwater Bay, then the Lannisters married Joffrey to Margaery to bring them back into the fold. Prior to Blackwater Bay, the Reach was generally anti-Lannister. All of the Reach's military strength was tied up in its knighthood. But they were the 'Knights of Summer,' as…

Not definitively. So, you could be right in that regard, assuming that they built more than one.

Sailing from Dragonstone to Winterfell actually includes a pretty lengthy overland component to the journey because it is about 340 miles from White Harbor to Winterfell. After that, it's a much further distance from Whiteharbor to Dragonstone, but the distance would be covered much more quickly. Mounted, Jon's…

Sieges never really existed on the show, except to demean the Freys because they were actually engaging in one rather than engaging in some sudden, totally unexpected and completely never thought-of tactic to easily break into one of the 'impenetrable fortresses' of Westeros. In fact, I remember that they used to…

I disagree with that. The show went to great pains to show that the Ironborn supership was in the middle of battle going on in the water. That ship is clearly Euron's and is the same one he used to ram Yara Greyjoy's. That would imply that Euron himself was there because there is no way he would entrust his…

Any plan that did not involve a direct, blitzkrieg assault on King's Landing with the dragons either melting the walls or broiling the Red Keep like Aegon did Harrenhal was going to be incredibly wasteful in terms of the lives Dany's army would lose, the lives the Lannister troops would lose, the lives of the peasants…

My 'haughty disdain' consisted of two points if you would bother to read them: