Each of the religions has their own Chosen One figure who has a special magic sword, or something. Within the grammar of this type of narrative, we're supposed to surmise that all of these different prophecies are all talking about the same person, which is enough to make us think it's valid…to paraphrase something…

The show has never underscored the fact that the Starks' religion is fully different than that of the Seven, nor has it ever (to my knowledge) stated that the Starks are actually a different race (First Men instead of the Andals) than everyone else in the seven kingdoms. There's a whole lot of lore that the show never…

I think it made sense. Varys told her that he supports whichever rule is the mostly likely to serve the realm well. That makes sense from his perspective. As a potential queen on a fantasy show (a genre that has a very loose view of murder), Dany isn't going to say, "Cool, if things don't work out with us, just go…

I honestly thought the greyscale thing would end up moving Jorah to Dragonstone - it makes a weird sort of sense that Shireen would be cured by living on top of dragonglass. But the cure to this disease is just…cut it off? Underwhelming.

For plot reasons, Bran probably needs to stay at the Wall for a while so the show just isn't addressing it. Kind of like how Arya hung out at Frey's house for a while and never thought to check out the dungeons. Poor Edmure.

Yeah, Jon got back from Hardhome pretty quickly. Where did the White Walkers go after that? Did they reenact Dany's endless desert walk?

My theory is that the writers only wanted to include one uncle and they picked Euron because he's King of the Ironborn, but then the writers realized that Victarion would be the better addition to a show that doesn't actually GAF about spending time on Pyke. This version of Euron is a welcome change from yet another…

I was betting on Fat Walda.

I know what you mean. She could easily be annoying but I just happen to like her. I think they've tried to transition her from being a one-off gag character to a commentary on the younger generations being continually forced to fight their parents' wars. Dany/Yara and Dany/Tyrion talked about that a lot last season so…

Those featurettes never air on TV. You can see them if you pull up the episode for On-Demand viewing but most of the viewing audience is never going to see them. I just checked and tonight's episode isn't on the menu yet, probably not until next Sunday.

Arya has always been troublesome from a morality standpoint. She's awesome in a fantasy story but I've never been interested in rooting for a child to become a cold-blooded killer.

The Nymeria scene felt like a final send-off to the Stoneheart Truthers. We don't be seeing this wolf again, and she won't be pulling Cat out of the River.

That's my sense of him too. Euron was a sailor too but the way I read it, his characterization was more about sorcery.

I agree, Euron even wore Victarion's armor tonight, which was a huge thing for Vic, being so arrogant about never being on a sinking ship that he'd wear heavy armor on a boat. I think they just kept the name that was easier to say.

How do you see that featurette without waiting for HBO to put the episode in the On Demand offerings? If you watch the episode in real time on TV (which is what the reviewers do - no screeners for GOT) you don't see them.

Arya's "That's not you" recalls when Ned told her she'd grow up and be a Real Lady and she said, "That's not me." Nymeria isn't a pet and she already has a life. She's not going to leave her pack and go back to Winterfell.

So when I watch a show like this, it starts to get very easy to spot the puppet strings. On Game of Thrones (as on Lost), you just know that things are going to go wrong when people make grand plans to move around, but those plans seem weak. So Tyrion's plan was to sail Ellaria back to Dorne, flanked by a largely…

I hope it's not a spoiler to say that in the trailer for the season, there's a shot of Yara that I don't think we've seen yet.

My local mall was built on top of an old morgue. No point to this, but it seemed sort of relevant.

Jon's heading to Dragonstone now and Jorah seems like he'll be on his way soon. Theon could be a good fit for either one.