I don't quite get what you mean. The Rhoyne ends at Volantis on the left side of Essos on this map, just to the east Valyria sticks down like Greece (which is a very nice parallel for either Rome or Greek civilization), then Slaver's Bay is to the east of that. Valyria is between Volantis and Meereen.

And they wouldn't have been able to start SCDP without Joan's detailed knowledge of the workings of the old SC office. You saw the relief on their faces when she walked in in that episode: they needed her. In a different way from Lane, but they still needed her. She earned it too.

I believe you did not *intend* to infer anything about her weight.

Yes, to qualify her as partner. She basically did Lane's job - and possibly more competently - and he was a partner. Why not her?

Perhaps. But I picture schlumpy as "Jean Teasdale" (whom Don would not have looked twice at - he's not that guy from Sideways). Dark, mopey, morose, absolutely no fun yes, but I feel like you guys are giving her the "overweight suburban housewife" treatment and she really doesn't deserve that.

Weird that my comment disappeared.

"Dumpy" implies a certain chunkiness, flabbiness, fatness or at least lack of form/shape, like a sack of junk.

Actually, I am saying that. If you sign up for a year of military service and don't actually discuss it with your spouse, you do deserve to be divorced. Especially if you are a stone-cold rapist, which Joan referenced when she told him to get out.

Joan does have honed skills. They're not in accounts, which is a new thing for her still, they're in Operations. But she has them.

I didn't read the scene where she blew off the women that way. Yes, she does seem to have trouble seeking support from women, but I got the feeling that she blew them off because she saw that all they really wanted was to get on her business, and they were disrespecting Peggy which wasn't cool.

She wasn't dumpy. She was dreary and nihilistic but dumpy she was not.

Am I the only viewer who actually doesn't like the battle episodes? I find them…eh. Just not my deal. I like character climaxes.

The show hasn't made much of her desire to burn people with king's blood. I don't think she's out to sacrifice anyone.

Some aspects are better, some worse.

Soon enough. Soon enough.

I think she's not just doing it to arrest Loras - she wants to undercut all the Tyrells and anyone else and thinks she can control this brand new army she's so proud of having raised.

I thought it was a weird candle, a pet lizard or possibly a super kinky dildo. But it could be a pickle.

Probably, but I always felt that storyline got dropped a little weirdly.

And another thing this episode reminded me of.

With the cray-cray eyeshadow she was practically channeling Jane, I thought. Purposely so (purposely from the show's perspective, not her's).