Send a raven or send an envoy to the Neck? I assume he did the latter, but I haven't read Clash of Kings in a while. Loyalties in the north being divided it's entirely possible the Crannogmen would be inhospitable these days. I'm also not sure how much respect they'd have from other northerners. I honestly can't…

Ravens can't find their seat because it moves. Someone would have to be dispatched to the Neck and then find someone who can navigate the swamps.

The Crannogmen don't fight openly in battle, if memory serves. Robert's Rebellion features Howland Reed riding with Ned, but there's no talk of Crannogmen armies that I recall. They also stayed in the neck during Robb's battles. They are described as small, and they fight with nets, spears, bows and poisons. They are…

I think they should have devoted the whole episode to Jon Snow visiting 20 potential allies, just to see how many different ways they could have someone else make an argument on his behalf.

She was on-screen in practically every Arya scene since she got to the temple. All they needed to do was give her anything other than the exact same thing to do in any of those scenes.

I just want to say that I hate almost everything about King's Landing at this point. That is all.

They don't have to be fully fleshed out to be more than one-note characters.

I'm with you. You need proper setup for a payoff to have much impact. With the rushed stories, you end up with payoff and no setup.

This is the equivalent of the, "Just turn off your brain. It's an action movie." line people use when someone criticizes a shitty movie like Transformers.

If Joffrey had let Ned take the black there would have been no civil war either. The Lannisters aren't blameless.

Summer died bravely at least. Beats being shot full of crossbow bolts in a cage or getting beheaded by fucking Umbers.

Not sure. R'hollor seems like the counter to the ice beings, or whatever malevolent force gave rise to them. I can't believe he would make it as simple as a fire god versus an ice god, but who knows?

The Others have been gone for 8,000 years according to legend. Dragons didn't arrive in Westeros until about 300 years before the events of the story. I should probably look it up before I say this next part, but even if dragons were a balancing factor, the Freehold of Valyria didn't get them until about 5,000 years…

That's the big mystery. It could be that nothing changed. Martin often plays around with mythology, presumably to make the point that such myths are largely bullshit.

I am the walrus.

The problem is that there's no sense of what time it is in any given scene. I can talk myself into believing, for example, that the Littlefinger scene last week happened, say two months, before Sansa arrived at The Wall. I can't talk myself into the idea that the Ironborn are going to build 1,000 ships in time to do…

I wasn't suggesting they were repulsed by them, but it's not a particularly attractive appendage. Some straight men don't like the appearance of vaginas. But whatever, it doesn't really matter. I probably should have just kept my stray thought to myself.

I'm not a gay man, but do they want to see dongs? I've always sort of assumed it is the muscular (but not overly muscular), fit male body that is the turn-on.

Between that, Littlefinger's arrival in Mole's Town and the speed with which they're obviously going to bring in Riverlanders and the other northerners, I've just given up on the show adhering to any meaningful timeline. Things will just happen when they need to. Martin has never been great at it, but Jesus.

She's a repressed virgin and not a lesbian, if that's what you want to know. She grew up ugly and no suitors gave her the time of day. They were in fact very mean to her. That's why she loved Renly. He was kind to her. Her only other romantic interest of which I'm aware is Jamie.