Well, that was a wild ride! Payoffs and hints at so many theories and ideas readers/viewers had ranging from R+L=J to Jaime being the prophesied valonqar.

Pretty neat, I like when artists do stuff like this.

Ozymandius was indeed third from last, followed by Granite State and then Felina.

That's so interesting because I usually skip that one when I'm listening through the album, I just find it rather grating (especially the featured singer). Perhaps it's the sort of thing where I'm just not on the same wavelength as the song.

Yup, she wrote the rootkit (or whatever it's called) and called him a dickhead when he didn't immediately grant her access to it.

Same for me (the first season is all on amazon prime), I'm reading each review and comment section before I start the next episode so as to further my appreciation of the show.

A year late in commenting but I totally get where the author is coming from; I also skipped over Spaceman Spiff as a child. Although I very much understood it was Calvin playing pretend, I just couldn't utilize my imagination in such a way. Perhaps it was because I was more exposed to and interested in fantasy worlds…

I found that shot to be a vivid representation of one of GRRM's favorite themes: To paraphrase Varys "Why is it the innocent who suffer when you high lords play your game of thrones?"

Perhaps the siege resulted in the walls of their prison being opened up or at least weakened?

Perfunctory is the word of the day and a very fitting one at that. I've felt that the writers have decreasingly trusted the audience to handle subtle characterization and plotting, instead opting for the sort of "OOH what shocking reveal will be had next week?!" kind of storytelling in which the depth of the…

I would have expected her to stay safe at Bear Island, although I suppose that it would lend the Starks' cause more weight if their loyal highborn bannermen accompanied them into battle.

Haha in your defense I only knew it because of other comments, so worry not!

However much I'd love for the High Sparrow=Howland Reed theory to be true, I think it's just wishful thinking. That being said, gaining control through organized religion is all about playing a game, knowing what scriptures to quote and how to frame oneself so as to seem to appeal to divinity, etc.

I had mentally prepared myself to be giddy at its unveiling.

" For battle Ramsay wears dark armor with a red helm and a pale pink cloak. His rounded helm and gorget resemble the face and shoulders of a skinless and bloody man whose mouth is open in a silent scream."

While I agree this episode hammered in the theme of "War is hell" I think it attempted to take it even further into GRRM's critique of violence. To paraphrase Varys, "Why is it always the innocent who suffer when you high lords play your game of thrones?"

Yeah the writers really dropped the ball on the political intrigue between the Starks/Boltons/other Northern Lords, that's where a lot of the dramatic weight and satisfaction for the Winterfell plot came from. Those are some of my favorite chapters in the series.

This is where a lot of the dramatic weight has been lost throughout the adaptation process. The conflict between the Boltons and their vassals are among the best chapters in A Dance with Dragons, full of vivid characters and thrilling political intrigue. The show scraps all of that to suggest that, for some reason,…

A part of me always felt that the perfect death for Ramsay would be a swift, honorable beheading.

It was a very effective scene, I felt the panic, the breathlessness, the fear…For me, not being able to movie my body while maintaining consciousness is utterly terrifying and the editing sold that scene well.