Actually, for that particular bunch of bullshit, it wouldn't have been that hard to fix. As I saw someone else describe, you could have had Jon bringing a captured Jamie Lannister north to show him the threat beyond the Wall instead of the idiotic plan to capture a wight. Beyond that, as part of the planning (which…

I think I might actually prefer Fonzie jumping over dragons on a motorcycle to this episode.

You were hoping they'd talk about how rad zombie dragons are?

Having finished the episode, fuck these writers. Davos staying behind because he's a liability is exactly the reason Gendry going is asinine.

They got him a wet nurse, so he's doing okay.

I don't think Westeros ever ratified the Geneva Conventions.

I think they're banking on the earlier seasons of character development to carry the series home. It'll work for some people and not others.

I think it's fair, seeing as either he can't fight (along with no experience traveling in snow, dealing with the cold and so on) well enough to be anything but a liability beyond the Wall, or he is magically able to do everything necessary without any training or experience whatsoever. Neither of those is good writing.

Did you even read the first sentence, or…?

Because it's what he's trained to do? Maybe he rediscovers the trick behind forging Valyrian steel because he's such a great smith? It's cliche, but at least it makes logical sense for the character.

It's the other definition of acquit, relating to one's conduct or behavior.

Fine. The writers are great and smiths aren't used in the forging of spears.

I reiterate, fuck these writers.

You'd still need pommels for swords, shafts for spears and so on. It's not the stone age where they're going to be tying the tips to sticks.

And he's a natural, I suppose.

I only got through about half of the episode this morning, and Davos was at the beginning of his scene with Gendry when I had to stop. So are you telling me that instead of bringing him on to smith weapons from their obsidian, they had him take up a weapon and travel beyond the wall? Because that's the best way to…

You mean the giant bridge that is the only means to move large groups of people between the north and south and that made the Freys at all powerful in the first place? Nah, it's not important.

Rome's ability to manufacture items in great quantity was largely due to its size, organization and labor pool. Most European medieval societies, maybe all of them, would have been hard pressed to equal their productive capacity. One city in England, which is basically what we're talking about here, certainly…

He asked Bronn to be his champion in the trial by combat the episode after his trial. They bantered and Tyrion understood why he didn't. There was no enmity.

I guess I'll go ahead and do this here: