If just coating the mace was enough then they could use that metal to make an awful lot of bullets. Also we saw a previous life of hers using a gun for self defense so we know that she did have some experience there.

It takes genuine work not to hit someone with a gun if you're within even two or three times the distance required to smash them with a mace. Also they're easier to learn than effectively using a mace.

I'm continually baffled by how Oliver and Diggle keep trying to shoot Dahrk. Guys, that does not work. I think it's time to work on a new strategy, like, shooting the idol. The idol that you can break with your bare hands. And when you break even a piece off of it he loses all his powers until it's put back…

It was baffling why Oliver seemed to think this made the situation more confusing. Hey - they're genocidal maniacs! Moral qualms.. removed.

It's the sort of thing that should make the rest of them feel a lot less sympathetic to the other HIVE characters.

And it could be so great, too!

I laughed out loud when Thea yelled that if he drugged her again she would kill him. Woman, he has drugged you many many times.

It seemed like a surprisingly bad matte to me, too. They could at least have had the backlighting flickering or something to look vaguely like the way light from a fire does.

This is right: they're not good fighters, they're good infantry.

He still has the Unsullied/whatever else. The problem for him is that (1) that doesn't help against non-traditional*/guerilla tactics and (2) it especially doesn't help when your ships have mostly been burned. I think he's bargaining more from a "if I decided that screw this then I could absolutely march over there…

Her whole plan has always (pretty explicitly) been to amass a huge army and then show up in Westeros, kill off practically every other viewpoint character (Lannisters, Starks, and Baratheons at the very least), burn large chunks of it to the ground, and establish herself as an all powerful queen.

They make it a lot more consistent in the show than in the books, but I suspect it's a magical invulnerability rather than, I dunno, really thick skin or something, and that would make it a lot more situational.

I suspect a lot of them would be subject to serious collective action problems, though, even leaving aside the value of oaths made to the more powerful houses.

Heck, maybe even Ramsey. A relatively weak night's watch - even if he assumed the wildlings would decide to help out, which isn't at all obvious from someone watching from a ways away - would have serious trouble against a much larger force holding a fortress, after all. And provoking an attack rather than going up…

It was still thatch somewhere between one and two stories above them. And thatch isn't that easy to get through - it's straw, sure, but it's usually tied up in bundles not just tossed on there.

And then the rest of the last season could be like the ending of the Lord of the Rings where everyone goes back home and beats up bullies!

The Greyscale does seem to be weakening him (he already seems tired/worn down more than he used to), but also in the pit he was mostly fighting with weapons and here he was having to fight hand to hand. I can believe that a trained knight would be a lot better in the former context than the latter: he'd have a lot…

I tend to think that Littlefinger gets the retroactive benefit of the doubt from a lot of viewers: he's really good at plotting but that doesn't have to mean that when things turn out well for him it's because he planned it that way a year ago. Shifting his plans in the face of what happens is something that he would…

He looks more convincing to me than like ninety percent of people who lead highly conservative religious cults in the real world. Showy displays of poverty/humility aren't that hard to find now, and if you go back to a lot of medieval centuries it was common as all get out.

I've had hangovers that made me feel like that too.