"Please, NK, the only way to end this winter is to warm your heart. The wall is only a metaphor; you have to let us in…"

Although by the end, the Night King was on the edge of that frozen lake with a clearing all around him as he watched and practiced his javelin throw. I kept wondering if anybody brought some obsidian arrowheads with them…

Goodness, yes! I would love it if GRRM had planned once again to subvert topes by negating the need for an epic battle by having one of the Magnificent Seven there slay the Night King right away from that rock with an obsidian arrow. Then everybody just shrugs, smirks, starts heading south, and the rest of the…

I like to tell myself that the redshirts who died weren't actually "redshirts" in the traditional sense. In reality, they were major characters in one of the myriad of GoT spinoff series that are being filmed concurrently and what we just witnessed was a Ned Stark style surprising killing off a major character on…

My son is just starting middle school in West Virginia, which is way near the bottom of the list of states in terms of education. That being said, he was still taught a little about World War II and Hitler in public ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. I call bull to someone who says they never encountered Hitler in public school. …

This times a thousand. Why wouldn't Arya go straight to Bran and be like, "Why don't you stop, for a moment, reliving all the most horrible events in your siblings' lives and make yourself useful. (1) Under what circumstances did Sansa write this letter? and (2) What is Littlefinger up to?

I was glad to see that as a blacksmith that works with heated metal and fires all day long, he understood the safety and comfort restraints that would necessitate having shorter hair.

I guess we're also supposed to believe in all the time they spent in a boat getting up to Eastwatch that Jon and Gendry would not once have spoken of Arya?

So you're the one who keeps driving through, upending carts, and knocking over huge bins of popcorn and piles of fruit!

At a minimum, you attack at night, right? It's hard to aim at black dragon when it's pitch black out. You get the element of surprise at first, enough to do a strafe run and start enough fires to even add a smokescreen to the darkness. Qyburn is smart, maybe even ahead of his time, but he hasn't invited radar or…

(1) I was kind of surprised that when they started showing the Lannister soldiers getting scared as the dragons and horde approached that we didn't get a glimpse of Ed Sheeran and his buddies quaking and then getting burnt to death or stampeded.
(2) I was disappointed when Bran didn't intimidate Littlefinger by…

When the scene first started with the sound of the Dothraki horde, I bet my wife that she was using the horde to draw the Lannister army one way, and then she she would came from the back with the dragons and burn them all from behind. I was wrong, but it still feels like the smarter tactic.

I could totally see if Jon finally bends the knee, that Dany could add a little "Well, while you're down there…"

I felt the writers went with "It's a long story" because with so few episodes left, they didn't need to waste precious screen time with two main characters recapping storylines that the audience already knows. Just like with Sansa and Jon, the audience can assume that the two will have a sit down off screen and fill…

But Dany could have scored some major points by not burning the food and returning it to the people from whom it had been taken. Instead she went with the vengeful scorched earth policy.

I think if he had waltzed right in and bent the knee, Daenerys would not have respected him. If bending the knee were so almighty important, she would have killed him right away after he refused. Everybody is just feeling out everybody else.

But what about the irony in Cersei saying Oberyn died because he didn't kill the Mountain immediately, and then she doesn't kill the Dornish prisoners immediately, instead taking time to gloat…

Did anybody else see it as foreshadowing when Sansa said, "I have Brienne to protect me from anyone who would harm me?" Is Brienne going to enter the deadpool soon?. And since the show likes to play with conventions, I am worried that she won't be given a glorious death in battle (since that's what she has trained…

But let's not forget that we're talking about who is going to be in possession of the castles closest to where the army of the dead is being assumed to breach the wall. Those families have been given the honor of being cannon fodder to the White Walkers.

Speaking of Dragonstone, but didn't Daenerys and her crew make landfall at the same location from which Gendry went a-rowin' way back in season 3?