I would have gotten a lot of satisfaction over seeing THAT death though, and I hope they include it in the show.

Ahhh, then I amend my original comment but maintain that I'm glad we got to say a proper goodbye to the character.

IMO they completely switched Angus and Rupert on the show.

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Really? For some reason I recall that Murthagh managed to gather everyone back around, but that we lost track of everyone after Culloden, left to assume that they died. Am I confusing Angus and Rupert? I could have sworn that they get to the final battle.

I agree. The whole point of this arc is Claire's knowledge of the battles. Of course we need to see those battles. Plus, given where we know this is going, I think it's right to focus on Sam before we bookend things and end up (I presume) back in Boston in the 1940s without Jamie, or (where the book ends up).

This episode, I was struck by how much of war is sitting around and thinking about the likelihood that you will die. There's far more of that than actual fighting. I like that time was given to Angus and the other minor characters this episode. I believe Angus' book death occurs "off-screen," and the same is true of…

How many murders are you allowed to commit before internal motivation ceases to mitigate our condemnation of those characters? Is a selfish bitch who never kills anyone actually a worse human being than a nice guy who sells people into slavery? A nice guy who kills people? A nice guy who coerces women into sex?

True. But it's still not worse than anything that a better-liked man has done. To go with a left-field example, Jorah has been thoroughly redeemed after committing some pretty heinous offenses that far outweigh killing one dog. Theon killed two children. Dany stood by while her husband murdered Viserys. I adore Daario…

That's a good point. The Northerners don't seem to literalize their "old ones" religion the way the other regions do, which might by tied to a belief in the White Walkers. Given Bran's arc, I expect to see some follow through soon, since it's an obvious set up once you notice it.

She made sure he got really drunk in the hopes that he would get mauled by an animal and die on the hunt. As a fluke, it worked. As a murder scheme, it's pretty weak, and she didn't overtly kill him in any case.

He wants power and control, same as everyone else. Reminds me of Jasmine's arc on Angel.

You're gonna blame her for reacting in any which way to something that someone else did?

Didn't one of Dany's dragons kill a kid a while back?

I believe Brienne looked down the cliff and saw that the Hound's body wasn't there anymore, so I don't think anyone thought he died right in that moment.

I think it's similar to the Lannister's ear of the Faith Militant: the Faith and the Ramsays could eventually be beaten, but the first wave of fighters would die or be tortured before the second and third waves could make a dent.

In the books, Jaime's redemption arc points toward him possibly wanting to opt out of his automatic participation in the Lannister family side of the fight. On the show, he's a good character who's somehow too stupid to realize that the Freys suck.

We're actually getting back to the spirit of the books, which placed likable characters on different sides of the conflict, and inevitably in opposition with each other. We love that Dany and Tyrion are buds now, but it undermined GRRM's point. We like Jaime now, but he's on the wrong side of the battle, and his…

LOL, they gave us "Mhysa" and "Mother's Mercy" and still no Mom Stark.

The BWB recognized Sandor and left him alive on purpose.

I got the sense that the BWB recognized Sandor, either because they were there when he kidnapped Arya from them, or because everyone of a certain age and engagement in the in-story world would have heard about the Hound.