Someone in their HR department is falling asleep on the job.

The way they played out the kingsmoot drove me nuts. Dragonbinder is kind of the lynchpin of Euron's whole plan, why even introduce his character then? Just skip it and have Asha come up with the notion of sailing for Mereen herself.

You've just described every politician ever.

I won't say that Martin wasn't influenced at all by current events, but to tie it into this election cycle, perhaps the weirdest in American history, seems tenuous to me. Or at least save these observations for the Kingsmoot.

I knew someone was going to write a piece like this before the season even started. "Look: GoT has politics. We have politics. Clearly there is some kind of direct causation here!"

I don't remember all of the details, but basically Euron found it somewhere when he was out exploring. There are also all sorts of allusions to him delving in the black arts, he visited Ashai by the Shadow, which is the epicenter of a lot of the mystical sorcery in the world of ASOIAF/GOT. Melisandre is comes from…

If they haven't castrated him they might as well have with how he's acting. WTF happened to Loras' character on this show? Dude was way more badass in the books.

All the lead up to the Kingsmoot in the books is kind of boring, but the scene itself is great. Basically it exists to debut two key pieces of the puzzle: Dragonbinder and the fleet sailing to Mereen. We find out how the Targaryans were able to control their dragons, and we have a fleet of ships headed to Dany that…

This is true. But in a way that gives them less of an excuse. Of all the book plots, Dorne had, shall we say, the most room for improvement. What they managed to come up with was watchable only as camp. But at least the rest of their adaptive choices, while successful to varying degrees, haven't been outright…

But Dorne dude. C'mon.

I don't consider myself a book purist, but I think the book purists make good points sometimes. I think there's room in the conversation for people demanding something closer to the books and people who just want to watch some titties and dragons.

I'm not counting out the Mummer's Farce theory just yet. It would be a much more interesting turn than just handing Ramsay another win on a silver platter. Then again Dorne would have been more interesting if Doran was a cautious schemer instead of an intractable pussy, but we all saw what happened there.

Ramsay: "I'm not a bastard, I have the legitimization of the king!"
Jon Snow: [stabs Ramsay in face] "It's just been revoked"

Looking ahead, I really hope they don't fuck up the Kingsmoot and just make it about Asha and Theon coming together. The whole point of it is to bring in Dragonbider and give the Greyjoy's something to do in this story.

Aging up some of the characters for the show causes a lot of these problems. In the book she's basically a little girl, which explains some of her decision making and makes the whole thing strangely poignant.

Could have been worse, we could have watched her get tortured for 3 episodes

In the fanmade video I think that was more the quality of the acting/directing. You could make it work with a higher set of talent behind it.

I guess I more appreciate the positive side of what he was attempting, since he was basically on the right track with everything, he just botched the execution at numerous turns. I read someone say that he was behaving more like a king than a lord commander, overestimating the strength of his authority, and that he…

The problem with Cersei is that she can't conceptualize politics outside of court intrigue. She just can't seem to see the bigger picture, probably because she was never raised to rule in the capacity reserved for men, and her contempt for book learnin' ensured that, unlike Tyrion, she would never be prepared for the…

Jon really wasn't a disaster in the books. He negotiated a deal with the Iron Bank for some much needed funds. He managed to keep Stannis Baratheon happy during the uncomfortable situation where he saved their ass but is still kind of a political liability to have around. He started rebuilding castle black and was…