Very much agree to both.

In my view it's been a relatively poor season, for a bunch of reasons, although I suspect the departure of Penn Ward as showrunner may be behind all of them. The show has shifted towards more "philosophical", free-form, abstract episodes, but I just don't think the writers are very good at these. This has displaced…

Kinda disappointing to see the show continually return to the status quo though. I mean Finn's dad literally just poofed out of existence. And Orgalorg got re-Gunthered for no reason at all. I mean, it's not like they even needed to bring Gunther back — there are literally hundreds of clones of that character walking…

Not sure about that… that was presumably the "Mushroom War" comet, which seems like more of a Lichy comet than a Finny comet.

"I've put a lot of work in" is a very simple reason, I don't see kids struggling.

And yet she still seems to hate the Westerosi houses.

Did anybody else find his whimsical transmutation of Finn and Jake into inanimate objects… oddly terrifying?

Considering the town hall had plenty of time to catch fire all on its own, I think they had plenty of time to set some of the nearer huts ablaze.

The Finn and Jake dynamic is pretty central in my opinion, so I'd start with a few classic episodes. Try "Susan Strong" perhaps.

Huge kudos to Magic Man's voice actor in this episode, he has incredible charisma.

They symbolised obviousness.

He lost all cred for me when he failed to understand that the pink guy in Lemonhope was Princess Bubblegum in disguise, which was virtually outright stated about five times in the episode.

"Man, that has never happened before"… I cracked up so hard. Comedic non-sequitur at its finest.

That's not true, it's not just that. She repeatedly expresses anger at her family's "usurpers", despite their moral legitimacy, and seems to feel disdain for all Westerosi houses regardless of their actions.

Very good.

"Judgement" is okay in British English if that makes you feel any better about it.

Well, there's no claim that these scenes are concurrent. There is some flexibility with the timing.

Who says there was no element of causation? Quite possibly the White Walkers were slowly amassing their undead army off in the distance, but were forced to strike when they saw the ships of the Night's Watch.

Doesn't seem very likely..? I mean, he may well be, but the sword was enough. We've already seen that random people can kill White Walkers with the right weapons, you don't have to be the chosen one. We also know from the books that Valyrian steel was used en masse to vanquish white walkers.

I didn't actually notice any throwbacks, I'll have to watch again. But the frantic, heavily percussive music was indeed excellent; it made me sick with nerves.