To explain this, you need to understand a bit about how primogeniture works. The line of succession travels through the heir to the throne, so assuming that all of Aerys' children who were alive at the time of Robert's Rebellion had lived, the sons of Rhaegar would have held precedence over Viserys in the line of…

She was born on Dragonstone in the middle of a gigantic thurnderstorm.

I'm pretty sure the rationale for the plan to get Cersei involved revolves wholly around the fact that Lena Headey is under contract until the end. I don't see much of any other reason to continue to keep her around, especially given that she lost the bulk of her forces last week.

I think the show is perhaps too cynical to give us the pure DS9 ending, but I can see the blueprint for it being there. I don't think they are going to go super-nihilistic like many seem to believe, but I've been wrong about this sort of thing before.

You can sort of see the blueprint for the 'traditional' ending now, assuming that's the way the showrunner decide to go.

I suppose it probably depends a lot on the time of the whole thing,

If you believe that, then you probably believe that it was plausible for Ellaria Sand to stab Doran Martell in broad daylight and then declare herself the ruler of Dorne because reasons.

It just occurred to me that this episode was probably the most enjoyable for me thus far this season and it, in no small part, was because Euron Greyjoy wasn't in it at all.

I don't so much mind Rhaegar actually being more dickish than his reputation would have people believe. I just don't like the notion that he was so stupid that he failed to do something simple that easily could have prevented his own demise simply because the plot demanded that he, in spite of all anecdotal evidence…

All of the Stormlands and even the Westerlands late entry into the war was in support of Robert, not because of the murders of Rickard and Brandon Stark. Tywin Lannister and Robert's bannermen could have cared less about them. You can make a good case that Robert Arryn joined the rebellion because of the murders and…

Well, Sam also forgot that Stannis told him that Dragonstone was sitting on a mine of Dragonglass even long after it was revealed that the only thing that destroys White Walkers is Dragonglass. They've shifted Sam over to being pretty absent-minded this season.

I still think a lot of the lesser lords might have said, 'okay, this interpersonal bullshit is none of my business and I'm not getting my men killed over Robert's bruised ego' if Rhaegar had let it be known that Lyanna Stark was going to be the next queen.

I guess any late game reveal like this is always destined to make one character or another look kind of dickish, but damn, does this one make Rhaegar just look stupid as hell too.

TV Arya has always been sort of a 'bull-in-the-china-shop' rogue.

It means that Rhaegar married Lyanna and Jon is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne because his birth was legitimate..

Yep, I wish Ghost was around more. He was such an integral part of Jon's character for so long.

Eastwatch is a has a harbor. They bypassed White Harbor and the long overland journey to Winterfell that would have entailed.

Daenerys: "Dear Diary, spent the morning standing regally on the steps leading up to Dragonstone again today and watched the King of the North working shirtless with his men collecting all their obsidian. I must say that I find him quite dreamy in a brooding sort of way and…"

Have to admit, Sam's brother may have ended up on the wrong side, but he did sort of go out like a boss.

Yeah, it's a pretty transparent ploy from out point of view, but if Arya is overconfident enough to believe that Littlefinger couldn't possibly be onto her, she could potentially believe that Sansa asked Littlefinger to conceal it for her.