My main complaint with the book (and the show) is that the existence of magic has no real repercussions: England has exactly the same history than in the real world with the same king, the same war with Napoleon that goes exactly the way it went in real history without magic. This is not a "what if" speculation, just…

The Red Wedding was telegraphed ? I can't say I read the books before but judging from the reactions, nobody who was not spoiled had guessed it.

I think they explained the numbers and even explained them too much. The numbers are exactly the kind of things you should never explain.

OK. I do love open ended things - not too much open ended but still. I like when the door is open to multiple interpretations. And I like questions more than I like answers that are always disappointing. So I like answers only when they open new questions, this is what Lost did and this is what WP did in this episode.

I am not American and do not live in the USA.
I think Lost handled the delivery of answers very well overall. I have a few complaints but there were a lot of mysteries. Also we will see how WP manages the revelation of answers after 120 episodes, 6 seasons, and dozen of huge mysteries.

By the way, very funny to call this show the "anti-Lost" when the entire first scene of the show is a copy paste from the very first scene of Lost and when this episode gives us a weird "Orientation" seance.

Everyone is entitled with his own opinion but since the general opinion is that Lost was a great show, you can't say that "being the anti-Lost" is a good thing as if it was consensual.
By the way season 5 is one of the best.

Great episode and great show but as many people have pointed out, the "explanation" makes no sense or at least has a lots of holes: why wait 2000 years to awaken the people ? How were they chosen ? Why such a small city ? Who built the town and when ? Why do they keep the adults from the truth and why the need to…

Being the "anti-Lost" is not a good thing you know ? Lost was one of the best TV shows ever.

Well since I understood or at least suspected very early in the episode that it was a flashforward, the effect was much stronger for me and this episode was never among my favorite ones. I remember my reaction *reading* the Red Wedding and it was one of the greatest WTF moment of my life - but I had many in Lost like…

The Red Wedding ?

You guessed The Prestige twist (you mean the finale, simple, one, not the "cloning device" one) after 10 mn ? How could you, there was nothing to even suggest it until Christian Bale starts his "solo" carrier and the "Transported Man". And that was a great twist. So simple, in front of us all the time, and even…

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Well he had a Motorola Razor cellphone which was a 2007 cellphone, so for me that was a pretty clear indication that we were in the future, as we knew his life pretty well until the island and "bearded Jack" matched nothing we knew. So I guessed it very quickly.

Jennifer Lawrence is a mystery - not particularly beautiful (good looking but nothing special), not a particularly good actress (even bad in what I watched, in particular the X Men movies), and yet a mega-star. The same happened with Shia Lebouf a few years ago until it stopped as suddenly as it started, hopefully she…

My exact sentiment. That is not how it happens in the books, they are more like you describe them, a nuisance but not a warring force able to threaten Dany's army. That does not make any sense.

You know that there is no "correct" interpretation, right ? The rabbis have been discussing this for over 2000 years, even before your "correct" christianity was born. Maybe Christians have just one dogmatic interpretation, but if that's true that's a profound misunderstanding of the power of the Tanakh.

It was both Agamemnon and Abraham. Agamemnon was not asked by the Gods to sacrifice his daughter but someone and "fate" or random chance designed her, and he went with it on the moment because he gave his word in front of everybody. Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son by God himself and accepted, even if God…

And what is the claim of the Targaryens ? They also took the throne by force. That's the point of the books/show - all these legitimacy claims are just rationalization of power.

Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth) told us there’s a scene “more shocking than the Red Wedding” that comes “towards the end of the season.”