The High Sparrow's dialogue with the Queen of Thorns last week is particularly relevant to that.

The show had been so lifeless this season, I think largely because it was operating on a purely functional level, instead of actually giving us action and dialogue which existed for its own sake. I'm so glad to see that turned around. This episode was obviously completely gripping and it pretty much immediately…

Ditto.

And by first you mean for the hundredth time since season one?

Facile and historically erroneous.

"Nothing at all" is exactly what they did in the books, it's not that surprising.

Yeah, my main complaint was that Jon apparently forgot the crucial lesson he learned about killing Wights in season one…

It's mainly the fact that she claims to hate tyranny, and yet her main obsession is her "birthright" which was obtained by conquest, maintained through violence, and ended by popular revolt.

That's just basic plot… Stannis's legitimacy rests upon Robert's legitimacy. The survival of Viserys and Dany is common knowledge, but their line was overthrown…

Adventure Time has never been primarily about a long term story…

Didn't Cersei also lack a Kingsguard at that point in the books too, though? I think Trant waited outside the Sept or something.

How was my comment pedantry? It was insinuated, without any basis, relevance, or truth whatever, that I was not among the enlightened circle of people who "don't like rape". Taking objection to that is not pedantry. The comment is offensive, delusional, and at the most inferior level of discourse. I have no interest…

Yeah, I've suspected it for a long time. There was a scene a while ago with Mel and Stannis's wife talking about how "disobedient" his daughter was.

They could've bumped it to eleven episodes if they'd wanted. An extra hour would've been plenty to cover the material. Regardless of the cause, my point was really about the effect. Let me ask you: are you honestly gripped by Winterfell and the impending battle? Does it feel like the entire North is at stake, or just…

Drogo. He's embellishing what Tyrion told him about Jorah killing Drogo's blood rider.

I don't know, but Game of Thrones is not written specifically for "Sexy Duck Cop", is it? Brutal violence is still hugely relevant to many places in the world, and the show's writers are not beholden to cater to any particular culture's specific sensibilities.

Yeah man, I love rape. That's exactly what I said, isn't it? Boo to people who don't like rape!

That brutal violence is as much a contemporary issue as rape.

Wasn't Cat of the Canals prior to her face change? Looks they've just cut it out.

What a blatantly specious comment. Please tell me you're trolling.