Josh is great fun as a cowboy sharp shooter who can play a lack of expressiveness as gruffness. I wonder how much of the emotion-based backstory was planned for the character before Josh was cast, because he's perfectly fine-okay, but you know. Not the best, not even on this show.

I don't disagree. I just have a hard time blaming someone for something that someone else did. Blame Ethan for killing the Apaches who weren't fighting back, but not for the deaths of the people he adamantly did not kill. IMO Jared is doing a lot of work to avoid owning the decision to send one kid away while he kept…

I'd say there was probably an underlying reason why dad wanted Ethan away with the army.

I have a hard time seeing how some of these "sins" are truly Ethan's fault. I enjoyed seeing the parallels between Jared and Malcolm, and you can't argue with Jared's perception of events, but I really can't fault Ethan's actions after being forced to join the army. It's a very Theon narrative: when a dad ships his…

I'm ready for the Fergus & Murtagh road show. I miss Arya & the Hound.

I don't care for the way the character is deployed later. Apparently Jamie is the object of every single gay man in Europe?

Hmmmm….lol I don't even wanna meet John Grey.

I guess we can credit Michael McGarry for being suitably cryptic regarding spoilers.

You don't think so? I mean, I don't care about John Grey or his subplot so it's no loss to me, but they first meet him in Dragonfly.

Just wiki'd…Hal is John Grey's brother.

Hmmm, I don't know why Gabaldon would feel that way. No one likes Laoghaire. She's more of a plot-driver than an actual character, and Gabaldon doesn't give us a reason to think otherwise.

How many episodes are we getting this season? I admit to not keeping up with production notes.

what did she think she was saying about the scene though? I didn't see anything wrong or misplaced about it.

Does Gabaldon not know what "jumping the shark" means? I agree with pretty much everyone that Laoghaire's teenybopper schtick gets old fast, and ugh she only gets more annoying, but without the framework of the book it was a good way to remind us of Claire and Geillis' trial, which is a road that readers were being…

It's not wrong to get us thinking about Geillis again, which is why I assume Laoghaire was brought back - to spark the conversation. The whole point of the France plot was preventing the rebellion by making sure that Charles didn't get the money he needed. But now since they're going ahead with the rebellion, they…

I'm with you there. Ideally Sansa would have told Jon, "I don't want Littlefinger on our side, but FYI we'll need to deal with him eventually." Instead, we're going to waste time charging into a problem that could have been avoided if people had just talked to each other.

Fat Walda too :(

There are a few ways to look at it though. It's not stupid in itself for Sansa to decide that Littlefinger isn't a trustworthy and loyal ally.

Seeing "Ned" in the play helped me put the pieces together later when we saw young Ned heading up to the Vale. I'm not sure I would have made that connection so quickly/attached it to Jon Arryn if I hadn't already been primed to think about Ned becoming Hand.

I think it depends on what function Stoneheart would serve and what D+D plan on doing with Brienne, who has reached Bronn levels of fanservice delivery (and I love it). Man, I'm looking forward to the Brienne + Tormund road show.