THIS IS KATANA. SHE HAS MY BACK. I’D ADVISE NOT GETTING KILLED BY HER. HER SWORD TRAPS THE SOULS OF IT’S VICTIMS.

I’ll see both of you, and raise it with the Prot0-Gwyneth, Blythe Danner, who was version Mark 1.

It’s so hard to tell anymore. I feel younger, stronger. But also, stupid.

Is that you, Archmage?

Yes, although Dany surviving makes sense.  I don’t understand how the rest of them made it.

What’s funny is the show uses Meereenese Knot in a much different way than GRRM did, from the wiki:

Thanks. It’s the kind of thing that could just be thematically creepy, or Easter-eggy where the characters in-show never find out... but the audience at the end will say, “Ah. Should have known do to the corpse-spirals.” As for spoilers; the Bran/is this or that has been worked over enough by now that it all kind of…

Kind of weird to focus on memes, for what may arguably be Game of Thrones’ finest hour. Just as an episode, Hardhome catches you by surprise, coming out of nowhere in the second half. This is a clever change-up compared to the entire episode focus that big battles had normally been given with Blackwater and Watchers…

Godard has already signed on to direct the “Rocket Raccoon” solo film, which will actually be two hours of a raccoon crawling around in his backyard shed.

I have bad news for you, he talks and is voiced by Ryan Reynolds.

I’ve mentioned this before, but the Night King of the show is this generation’s Borg Queen, and while I think the show White Walkers won’t quite suffer the same cosmic faceplant that the Borg did on Star Trek, both the reasoning behind it, and the ultimate effect, will be pretty similar.

Ever stop to think that maybe Hawkeye was getting a haircut and his barber turned to dust mid cut and that’s why he ended up with shitty doo.

Karsi’s death at the hands of the dead children was another stand-out moment for me. For a character that had just been introduced in the same episode, it was especially affecting. I found her to be immediately likeable, and I thought she'd be around longer. Then came the gut punch.

I know lots of book readers hated the invented subplot in season 4 of Jon’s attack on the Nights Watch deserters, but to me it was the first time he seemed anything like a compelling lead and was also the first time he was in any sort of leadership position within the Watch, presaging his election later.

I feel like this is where everything starts to go downhill quality-wise (books and show). This really should have been the climax of the series and Martin should have started wrapping things up at this point. Say what you will about Martin defying genre conventions, but loosing so many interesting characters so…

there is some book overlap in the show. In the book, his wounds get infected after he fights in the bar. Subsequently, he gets worse and Arya leaves him to die of his infection. It is similar in the show, but different events lead her to abandon him.

I remember hating the end of this episode because I was still expecting the Stoneheart reveal. It didn’t come and I was furious.

chokes on a turkey leg and falls down the stairs.

Here’s mine: “Taxes are like The Legend of Zelda, in the sense that they’re currently under the control of a large, angry, porcine monster known for threatening young women, who is also currently living in a large, white castle.