It’s absolutely bizarre how dogged she’s been about retaining the North as kingdom. What difference does it ultimately make? Sansa’s hostility and suspicion toward her is completely justified because, while Jon was right about her resources being essential to the Great War, it was by no means essential for to make…

I don’t think they’ll muck around with who or what kills her, I’m just not sure the Valonquar will necessarily be as straightforward as some people think. But I’ve heard some interesting theories, and at this point, I read interpretations that cover every younger sibling on the show —from Jaime, Arya, the Hound, the…

See, I look at the pairing of Beric and Hound as further confirmation that one of them is going to die, (I think at least one person from each fighting team will probably die) and you’ve said, it won’t be the Hound as his further contribution to the narrative is a lot clearer. Beric is already dead in the books,…

If any zombie direwolves do show up, Summer’s the most likely candidate which could be interesting since he was Bran’s wolf. All the others were decapitated or killed in or near the riverlands.

I disagree with your picks for the dead pool because Tyrion, Bran, and Arya’s arcs haven’t come to a narrative conclusion just yet, so they’ll live to fight for at least another episode or so. But I agree that if the Battle for Winterfell ends in victory, it’ll be Pyrrhic at best. I think the most likely candidates to…

The Free Folk’s practices seem to strongly suggest that the Night King can raise any dead since they insist on cremation in all circumstances.

I can understand if gathering in the crypt is less about keeping them protected per se, and more about keeping them out of the way, but let’s say something happens in the crypt and the interred dead are reanimated. All the living will rush to flee and spill out into the courtyard in a panic. What then?

The Valonquar is only mentioned in the books.

I recently heard a new and compelling theory about Cersei’s death.

Yeah, I know I’ve read too many texts about sex and marriage of historical nobility because the whole aunt-nephew thing was not that big a deal to me, at least within the context of this story.

I mean, I was creeped out from the moment Margaery snuck into Tommen’s room. But for me the key difference between he and Arya, besides emotional investment, is the amount of nudity that’s actually shown. Plus, the actor who plays Tommen was cast in season 4, whereas Maisie’s been with us from the beginning.

I agree. His affection for her was definitely originally platonic, he saw her as a kid, not a budding sexual partner. It all reminded me of Little House on the Prairie when Laura finally gets Almanzo Wilder to recognize her as a woman instead of the little girl he’d come to know. Except with more side boob.

True, that’s likely. Also poor Rickon would probably be a the bottom of pretty big pile. 

Oh yeah, I forgot Rickon’s probably down there, and his corpse is practically fresh as a daisy.

I was only addressing the idea that Jon’s claim only takes precedence because sexism! When actually Jon’s claim takes precedence because that’s how the line of succession works, regardless of gender.

I didn’t figure they embalmed the body, but stripping the bones seems like a lot of effort. But rewatching the scene where Cat is presented with Ned’s remains, I can concede there’s no way that box, given its size and ostensible weight, contained his entire body.

Were we to understand it was his literal bones and not his remains? It seems like an extraordinary amount of unnecessary effort, even as an insult on top of injury, for the Lannisters/Joffrey to have had Ned’s flesh and muscle tissue removed from his bones. 

I assume you meant to write “If Jon were Andrew or Edward, he would still be the heir.” But the point is that he’s not Andrew or Edward. He’s William, and thus higher in the line of succession, not by virtue of his gender privilege.

that a Man is more right to rule simply because of his gender

I legit thought —and it would’ve been better writing— that he would begin to tell the story, get to the part where he insists Rhaegar didn’t rape Lyanna, that they were in love, and then get interrupted by the horn just as Dany says, “Wait, how do you know that...?”