The show makes it seem like they're dying off, but there's no shortage of great houses in the books.

Apple.

I guess we'll never know. I wish some intrepid commenter could tell us for sure.

Are we sure it wasn't Robin?

Does anyone know if Lyanna told Ned not to tell Robert? Or was it Rhaegar?

It would explain why they went to the trouble of muting the first part of her whisper to Ned.

The only question is whether he is actually a bastard.

I don't think she meant that autumn and spring don't exist in Martin's world, but I could be wrong. I took it to be her pointing out that the seasons don't follow our normal pattern.

Because the seasons exist. They just don't follow a yearly cycle.

It's not an "everyone else does it" defense. She specifically has burned countless people at the stake. Those weren't murders?

I guess there are worse things to base a legal system on than Davos' feelings.

It's adorable that people still expect the writers to acknowledge the ramifications of actions. If it's addressed at all, it will be tossed away in the same blase manner as Sansa keeping the Vale army from Jon.

He took a helicopter from Sunspear to the boat.

So why was her burning of Shireen murder while all of the other people burned at the stake weren't?

I'm pretty sure the Frey pie thing was in the book's Winterfell plot. It was a ham-fisted inclusion of something from the books in a running theme of ham-fisted inclusions from the books.

Considering they called him the White Wolf, it might have been nice if they showed Ghost walking around or sitting up on the dais with him or something.

Did anyone else have, "Oh dear what can I do?/Baby's in black and I'm feeling blue" pop into his head as Jaime watched Cersei's coronation?…Just me? Okay.

Of course dumb decisions can make character and narrative sense. Robb Stark's decision to marry Jeyne Westerling in the books and Talisa in the show was dumb, but it made sense for the character (behaving honorably towards the girl he deflowered in the books, being young and in love in the show). And he didn't…

You can get to the finish line and still give your characters proper development, motivations, and keep the narrative compelling. I don't expect it to be Breaking Bad, but I can wish they'd have kept it at the standards of the first few seasons.

Totally agree.