I rather enjoyed the Iron Born, and I liked Connington himself, though that story seemed like a diversion from everything else going on.

I've sort of been wavering back and forth this season. I don't particularly like the changes they've made from the books. I decided to wait and see how they developed before I passed judgement, for it could have simply been the fact that there were changes at all. As the season's progressed, Tyrion's story has turned…

If Tywin didn't know then who would? Will some woods witch fill Tyrion in? Will he tame a dragon and come to some conclusion about it? I'm sorry, but the whole theory just seems like wishful thinking by people who want to see Tyrion ride a dragon.

The main problem with this theory is that Tywin didn't strike me as the sort of guy who would suffer Tyrion to live if he wasn't his true-born son.

Joffrey was poisoned. Slavers were burned by dragon fire. Lysa was thrown out the moon door. Jamie Lannister lost his hand. Some people receive their just desserts…eventually.

I actually like the Dorne story and Doran's plan. The Sand Snakes are secondary characters in the books. They serve as a potential threat that Doran has to deal with in order to try to play out his long game. They're mildly interesting because of what they do to flesh out Oberyn, but the meat of the Dorne story has…

You've read the books presumably, right? What happened to Sansa was tame compared to what was done to Jeyne Poole on the page, along with Theon's complicity with the act.

Seven save us from TV writers who are actually concerned about "think pieces" on Slate.

I thought he was considerably more interesting in the books once he went north and infiltrated the Wildlings. Maybe that partially had to do with his potential as a warg that the show hasn't really addressed. But I also don't remember him being as whiny in the books as he was on the show during that period.

Why would it be confusing? You'd just need a couple of scenes establishing the Martell plot to overthrow the Lannisters.

And in the books one of Robert's bastards is Stannis's ward.

Spears aren't good for close quarters combat. That said, you'd think they'd be trained to use something other than spears, with which they would equip themselves in the city. Maybe a nice shortsword.

Stannis is marching on Winterfell. His wife would certainly be willing to sacrifice the girl. I hadn't considered it, but it seems likely unless they're ditching that part of Sam's story altogether.

Maybe, but it's not like they're saying anything particularly interesting to one another on the show. If I cared about that sort of thing, I'd probably hope for a much better show than Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to showcase it.

Maybe I missed all of the fantastic dialog in episodes 1 through 9, because my biggest complaint with the show from the beginning has been that. I just liked enough other elements to overlook it as the series progressed. I still groaned at least twice an episode.

A_?

The problem with the episode was that the joke clients were too broad. A toilet device for kids that uses obvious porn lines in a goofy voice is a funny idea in an SNL skit or a sit-com. The tone doesn't fit into a more grounded show like this. Same for the secessionist with his own currency. The rest of the episode…

So his still significant role in one of the best comedies ever made was trimmed? Talk about white people problems.

Only if everyone agrees to not smash each other with rocks, and then holds to that agreement. Otherwise, either someone has a big enough rock to keep everyone else from getting too smashy with theirs, or the smashing just goes on and on.

No.