She's an ugly woman who fights like a man and likes pretty men.

Yeah, what's the line? Something like, "The First Men killed half of them with bronze, and the Andals killed the other half with iron."?

It could be, but I assume there's some purpose to greyscale, and Jorah's the only connection to it right now on the show.

If they hadn't, you'd have gotten to the section of the book that contains it and thought, "Oh, this going to happen." So I don't see the big issue.

No, they don't like man, and with good reason. But what they created was worse, which is why the helped man defeat it way back when. I think the wall is likely what it's supposed to be. Especially considering there were still men beyond it, and not in insignificant numbers.

The only way to not spoil the books is to have nothing happen. In which case, why bother making the show at all?

I hope to God it includes Jamie's break from Cersei.

That's likely true, considering Martin has said she isn't fireproof. Though I guess he could have been lying.

I'd give that title to Mereen. It involves two characters everyone likes put in a setting with no interesting characters and hardly has them interact. And even those interactions are mostly poorly written.

Are we still expecting them to foreshadow things?

Eh. It all feels a little convenient.

The Andal invasion was separate from the Targaryen one. Of course, the north wasn't conquered by them, so they maintained their old ways for a long time, while the Seven were forced onto everyone else. The Targaryens adopted the Faith of the Seven, but they were not the fanatical holy warriors the Andals were. Which…

The shot of her naked in front of the burning building was great, but the why of all of it is still baffling. Why are the Dothraki suddenly bowing to her as if she's a god? She's already performed a similar "miracle" in front of others who left her to die in the desert. She even came out with dragons that time. It…

Exactly. The Ironborn are the least sensitive people in Westeros, which is saying something considering how terrible pretty much everyone is.

It definitely could have been worse. The reunion of Jon and Sansa was nice, and, well, that's mostly it. I usually enjoy Littlefinger, but the scene this episode was painful. Tyrion's negotiation with the slavers wasn't awful.

When did Carthage's problems enter the discussion?

Well, yes, new cities arose, but Rome, for example, didn't have to fight another series of wars against Carthage. It solved their problem.

Yes, the High Sparrow has an agenda, but it's not as if it's his own self-aggrandizement. I tend to take him at face value, a religious ascetic who believes the Faith of the Seven being ignored by the nobility has caused all manner of problems. That carries with it a lot of problems, not least of which the mob rule…

Ned WAS beaten. He was disarmed and about to be killed.

I will repeat this, but no, the conspirators' reasoning is not more rational than people will credit. If Jon had joined with the wildlings to enlist their aid against a normal threat, then yes, that could be debated. Say, if some splinter group of wildlings did not accept the King Beyond the Wall and were willing to…