Those are good points about Sansa. Still feels like they should have filmed two scenes: one private where Jon and Sansa hash it out and a shorter one where he tells his lords whats what. It would be more believable. I feel this way about a lot of the dialogue in the show actually. It's much too lumped together. All…

Sure. They do. Dorne makes some sense because it's egalitarian (though Doran was deeply loved by the people so his assassination would be really unpopular). Cersei is definitely ruling King's Landing and the Westlands, though because she's a mass murderer Olenna Tyrell has turned against her. And Olenna is only in…

Good point.

Good point. But Sansa has less legal authority than most of the Lords and Ladies in the room (until Jon leaves). She's not a head of anything. Yet she's by far the most tactless and brazen in her disagreements with her King. Ok, she's his sister and a borne Stark but I guess my problem is that all these counsels would…

I'd hope that Arya abandons her new murderous life. Maybe her wolf didn't reunite with her because Arya needs to fully turn her back on that life first before she becomes her true self again. But she did turn her back on murdering the Queen though. So she's already done that. It seems just as likely that her wolf is a…

Ha. Someone else pointed out that if she doesn't turn right around and go kill Cersei now, her moment of realization that Nymeria is now a wild wolf and can't go back to her old life doesn't make much thematic sense. If I was a betting man though I'd say she keeps heading north because: reunions.

I didn't say it was an absolute patriarchy. Women can rule in rare instances (like when they mass murder all opposition or if they are born in Dorne) but in most of Westeros (in the books) as soon as that woman takes a noble husband (which is expected of her because passing on the genes and all that) her husband…

I hear ya, it's just that Westeros is in no way a democracy. It's an extremely top-down feudal society. I'm not even sure that the nobility has anything to protect their rights from their sovereign (like the Magna Carta). And Sansa doesn't even have the authority of a bannerman (whose advice would only be given…

Ha. My bad. Yeah, but in Trump's case it's because he's a raw Id whose shown that he knows nothing, cares less and changes his opinions based upon whatever animal urge is currently animating him. An impossible guy to work for it seems.

Westeros (with the exception of Dorne to a large extent) is a solidly patriarchal society in the books and it is in the show as well (though inconsistently one, changing according to the needs of however the writers drive the plot). In this context Sansa's constant outspoken criticisms of John's plans in the counsel…

Always nice to see how the nuanced, textured writing of the books gets dumbed down for T.V. However, I think the racist, misogynistic characterization of the Dornish characters was just an unfortunate side-effect of the general dumbing down that has always been part of the show (although it's become worse over time).…

I bet you're mad because it's not just a dumb thing to write in. It's also completely avoidable (like you say, you downscale the amount of ships that Yara steals and then you don't have to have Euron preposterously order 1000 new ones, especially beauts like that). Or, and this just occurred to me, you have Euron…

He just needs a scene where Dany hands him a new fur cloak and he tells her he can't bear this weight. Also, he'll call her Swan.

Come on now. The Sunspear junior high theatre troupe worked hard on those scenes.

That's it. I think it's because the more she does her thing the more I realize it's completely unbelievable. She would have adults advising her; she'd be more of a listener and less of a take charge bad-ass. Unless of course Bear Island is actually some Westerosi cross between Sparta and the Amazons.

If Dany wants to win at all costs, yes. Though she would end up quite feared and she's always wanted to be more loved than feared. Still, if she burned Kings Landing to the ground, what would the rest of Westeros do? They'd submit. Maybe eventually try to assassinate her, but submit first surely.

It is dumb.

I really liked Myles' observation that Olenna has never been in a position of power (major power behind the scenes but) and that her advice to be utterly ruthless while fighting this war has downsides to it (for the conqueror) that she might not see. Still, losing the war by dividing up your army and refusing to use…

His axe is a definite Victarion appropriation.

I need to rewatch that scene in a different mood because now I'd like to enjoy it on that leve! My problem is that it involved poorly drawn characters (minus Theon) that I just don't care about. What I did like about it was Theon's reaction to his facing his psycho uncle while his men carved people up around him. It…