This season has been heavy on the trigger-dialog. The Stark kids are constantly referring to Jon as a brother, so we'll be way shocked when we learn he's not. Lots of mentions of Lyanna too, just to make sure we know the name. Either Jaime has reverted morally, or we're supposed to recall the pilot for some reason. I…

Yeah, this episode restored a bit of the balance from the beginning of the series, when some of "our" characters were firmly ensconced on the wrong side of the fight. However much we enjoy following Jaime, we can't root for him.

Varys' thoughts about the Red Women in Meereen could easily be about the Sparrows in Kings Landing. Unless there's a brilliant plot twist, I don't see the point in having these mirroring plot details.

Lyle surely returns from Egypt with some mummies?

Doesn't Billie use a body double for nudity? We've never seen her face and nudity in the same frame. I've seen people say Brona only ever "got naked and died" several times before, and it's obvious to me that Billie herself is not the one getting naked.

I agree with your logic. However, thus Faceless garbage and Jaqen's cryptic Aragorn bullshit was never logical, and it suits the late-game setup of the show to perhaps presume that Arya's test was worth the lost lives. The show has never been pragmatic when it comes to killing random non-characters.

I thought he was grinning, like his work was done.

Friends, let's not forget that the Hound prefers chicken.

Jaime said "the things we do for love." It's an odd callback if Jaime is meant to be on a path of redemption. I took it as a signifier that he'll always be on the wrong side of the fight.

Arya's ninja training was a worse timesuck than Dany's endless desert walk. At least Dany's arc gave us some decent supporting characters to hang out with.

Good point. He did mention ships.

I was annoyed that jaime didn't send the tully army back north with Brienne. Perhaps that would have tied too neat a bow on the ordeal, but it would have redeemed Jaime and made our time in Riverrun not feel wasted. As it is, now we have to get back to Riverrun eventually to deal with the Freys instead of assuming…

It's another trilogy that was extended by the publisher without a sense of the story. For a series ostensibly about Scotland, they sure do spend 7 books in other places.

I enjoyed seeing the Scots and Brits joking around in the medical tent. Up close, they forgot they were enemies.

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I'm thinking mostly of the things that happen after Jamie and Claire are in their 40s. Jamie is running a printing press that's publishing illegal political literature, and he's smuggling on the side. On top of all of this, he's in another phase of using a fake name due to being wanted by the law for…

I think that as a window into a more distant past, Jamie was always going to be more interesting to readers than Claire. Claire is a relatively modern woman who's fairly adept at solving her own problems. It makes her strong, smart, and competent, but it also means that she stumbles into drama a lot less when Jamie…

I agree with this. While we're discussing something "iconic" that had a formative, permanent effect on Jamie, it's essentially over after book 2 of a now-8 book series. It does a disservice to the other 6 books to keep treating this one plot arc like the only plot of the whole series.

I don't know if you're a "book person," but in the book Claire was almost too active. It could be an exhausting book at moments. The problem is that the book had a more Lost-esque flashback setup, with a more contemporary (no spoilers here) Claire doing A LOT of stuff interspersed with the memories leading up to…

In the book, Angus was the bigger one. Even looking at (what I remember of) the characterizations, it really seemed to me like they cast Angus and Rupert and then forgot which role went to which actor.

The whole point is that the rebellion was a lost cause from the beginning. We're watching a stretch of history that the broader American viewing audience doesn't have a lot of knowledge about. I think it makes narrative sense to personify the whole ineffective, borderline stupid (in the form it took)…