cersei, the hound (again/still?) the mountain, Melisandre, berric donderion, thoros of myr, and ilyn payne.

I read something a few weeks ago that said if Tommen and Margery died without and heir, the throne would legitimately fall to Cersei through the convoluted rules of succession and who her distant relatives were. i'm not sure what, if any, bearing the fact that Cersei is the reason tommen and Margery died without an…

Brans story of the rat cook was mirrored by the way arya killed frey. If you violate guest rights the gods make you eat your children.

But that's kind of the mountains thing: he rapes and kills.

had she told him, they would have just been wasted like the rest of the army when Jon decided to screw the plan(such as it was, anyway) and just rush out forcing the rest of his army to do the same.

hey, if it's good enough for the lannisters…

I don't think she wanted them to die, but I do think she knew that jon wouldn't be able to help himself after rickon died, so she just incorporated that into her own plan

actually he didn't do either. if he had zigged he might still be alive.

it had some cool shots, but I also found it really frustrating because it was so kinetic and frantic it was hard to tell what was happening and to whom. also, it feels like we've seen that arrow tracking shot they used a million times.

Jon did exactly what Sansa told him not to do. But I think she knew he would do exactly that (he couldn't help himself) so she incorporated that into her own plan. On the one hand, it's good she did cause otherwise the battle would have been lost. On the other hand, maybe if she had told Jon about the knights of the…

yes. do it. you won't regret it.

Maybe Sam didn't expect it to work. Maybe it was all a pretense to get one of the last valyrian steel swords in existence.

and gilly got a new dress

but this time she means it.

I think it was more of he was usually only just a dick to sam. he seemed to treat everyone else(who isn't a wildling) pretty nicely.

I would say it changed, and then they changed back. so yeah, they're back about where they started. through their adversity and perils and tragedies they found their way back to each other. although, maybe they were never far enough apart to justify that.

I thought there would be a blood bath between the tyrell's and the sparrows. Margery outplayed everyone and I do think she's playing here. maybe she did just sell out the crown and the kingdom to save herself, but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. she was kept in seclusion and not allowed visitors, so it's not…

their daughter was murdered, their father was murdered, cersei had to "atone"…so a lot has happened between those two between then and now.

yep. arya goes to bravos, wastes everyone's time, then decides to go home. great story!

i was actually more upset about Summer than Hodor. My main thought was about logistics. Meera is, i guess, going to have to drag Bran around now? yeah, they're going to get real far, what with Hodor maybe buying them a minute or so.