SweetRobin would die in transit or would need to borrow Littlefinger's teleporter.

The show was definitely clumsier with it, but that can be said of practically everything.

It's war. He could have marched his armies out and lost or have his brother assassinated. He gave him the chance to bend the knee. What he did was unsavory, probably immoral, but it wasn't illegal.

I agree. I just find the idea of Littlefinger winning amusing.

Snow's moving south at the end of the FeastDance narratives. I'd say next season, we'll see the south realize what's happening.

Half the point of the story is to poke holes in romantic stories. In the case of the Brotherhood without Banners, he takes the shine off of Robin Hood and similar tales. If he stays true to form, there will be a happy ending to the extent that humanity survives, but the rest of it will be gray, at best. Personally, I…

And then finally breaking, deserting and doing whatever you can to survive, living day to day and not caring about anything. It was one of the best bits from A Feast for Crows.

Littlefinger is the only possibility. Brienne is on her way to the Riverlands. Any other northern lord would have already been sent a raven or been treated with directly. Anyone else in the south is of no use.

The only reason Cersei has seemed more intelligent than Kevan and Olenna is because they've been written as idiots this season.

That's not a fair representation. Two things drove Stannis. 1) He was an absolutist about the law. If he had been Renly's younger brother, he would have supported him. Since he wasn't, he sought the crown that legally was his. 2) He had a sorceress telling him he was a legendary hero with a grand purpose. And she…

It's not that hard. I don't care if it happens, but the Hound can easily end up assisting the Faith Militant in taking down some of the Brotherhood and teleport to King's Landing in the next episode. The show hasn't done much buildup to a number of set pieces already this season.

I always took it as a normal training practice in the books as well.

Maybe, but the two she's killed for her own purposes were a Night's Watchmen and someone mentioned in a sample chapter, which I won't get into in case people are avoiding those. Neither of whom is wealthy.

I'm halfway hate-watching the show at this point. I thought I would get a reprieve from my annoyance with Jaime's story now that he's in the Riverlands, but I mainly found myself annoyed that they wasted all of that time with him in Dorne and reuniting with Cersei. The emptiness of the northern storyline is a more…

Was the Hound being the gravedigger really speculative? I mean, it seemed so obvious when I read the book I assumed we were supposed to know. The only thing that could have made it more obvious was somebody flatly stating, "Oh, that's the Hound."

I've always gotten the impression in the books that the Faceless Men don't particularly care that she's retaining herself. I don't know what their ultimate purpose is, but I don't think they ever intended Arya to be a normal member of their little church.

One would think you'd open with something like, "Winter is here on your doorstep, and the North must be united." to anyone willing to grant an audience. Maybe they decided Kit Harrington can't seem commanding enough to take it seriously.

Yeah, I haven't yet decided how I feel about the scenes. It's completely out of place in this world on several levels, but it was so fun watching Ian McShane lead his group and interact with the Hound.

Guerrilla tactics aren't particularly useful for a siege. There are no ambushes to lay. There are no supply lines to raid. You can't poison walls.

I didn't mean that the Reeds' loyalties have shifted, just that an envoy sent from Jon and Sansa may get filled full of arrows before they deal with any Crannogmen. Unless they went themselves, which I'd honestly love to see. I've always wanted some direct perspective on the Neck, but that wouldn't be practical.