There's more backstory that would have made Bran's arc more meaningful. The Starks are a different race and religion than the rest of Westeros. They have their own "chosen one" figure. I'm disappointed that we missed out on that folklore, because I thought that was supposed to be the point.

I am glad that Sansa isn't a sniveling victim, but this season largely glossed over her trauma and mental state. Sure, she's spent a lot of time in the orbit of powerful people, but those people were Joffrey, Cersei and Ramsay. She's bound to have a lot of conflicting feelings about the nature of power and her role in…

Is Arya good enough for Lady Lyanna?

I'll be brief with this because people don't like any book stuff here, even if it clarifies the show and contains no spoilers.

The "grammar" of the show is all over the place. We're supposed to root for Tyrion as he kills his dad and Olenna as she kills a child, and we even forgive Theon for killing those kids in season too, but up until now, we were supposed to condemn Cersei for having someone else kill the husband who was abusing her and…

Rhaegar would have been mayyyybe 20-ish? He was the same generation as Ned, Jaime, etc. Jaime reportedly really admired and respected Rhaegar.

Yeah, I'm a little uncomfortable when GOT fans act like there's no ambiguity in Arya's arc. She has gone down a very dark path that might not make her a stable ally for the "good" side of the fight. She has spent her formative years adamantly NOT learning how to function in society. In both the political and…

He has a Matt Damon face.

I agree. Dany has never had trouble finding warrior-types to follow her around. I totally buy that Yara would be up for the adventure. Book-wise, Targaryens, Varys, and Dorne go wayyyyyyy back. It's a problem with the adaptation that this wasn't conveyed, but it's not something that the showrunners just threw…

I agree somewhat. The point with Dany is that we're supposed to understand that she's captivating, that she has an innate power that makes people believe in her. It's not meant to be logical.

Davos is the true moral center of the show (Brienne too). It bodes well for Jon that he listens to Davos.

Sansa might not want power for herself. She hasn't had great experiences adjacent to it.

Plus Dany's as bulletproof as ever on the church/state thing. Kings Landing suffered for it, but apparently it was super helpful to pull the Red Women into Dany's cause.

Dany might be taking on a villain arc as well. She has already invaded cities, attempted to enforce a new regime, and then left them in ruins when things didn't work out. If she attacks full-force, she might as well salt the earth of her new kingdom. And
really once everyone rolls over, what are the Dothraki and…

Fat Walda was taken too soon!

*gendry down the stream

He still has to find a way to the other side of the wall. He may end up at Castle Black just in time for Jon to get back up there and deal with a perfectly timed White Walker insurgence.

We've mostly forgiven Theon for killing two children and Dany for stupidly letting dragons fly free/kill children. Arya's narrative is situationally different, but she has killed children. She relishes violence but the "grammar" of the show tells us that we're supposed to find it cool. We're grading on a curve with…

Not when it comes to stuff like this. IMO if you're not going to show the parallels between Jaime and Brienne, you might as well cut Jaime's endless treks out of the narrative altogether. The point is to see them on their individual journeys at the same time and draw comparisons. It's not about the fact of Jaime…

Well if the writers had chosen to adapt Arianne instead of Ellaria, we'd have seen that the Dorne story had a point, and we'd also have some clue as to how Varys was connected to Dorne. But GRRM never told them to adapt Arianne, and I don't know why. Wouldn't an author care if his work was being adapted in a way that…