NOT spoilers but clarification:

I agree that Littlefinger's plan is along those lines. It's dumb though - all Sansa has to say is, "I was like 12 and Cersei forced me to write it."

Dany's arc has always been full of wheel spinning. She's important to the endgame so obviously she had to be around from the beginning, but jeeeez, Arya went to Braavos and back in 1/4 the time it took Dany to finish her desert walk.

We're at the point in the narrative where it's refreshing to have uncomplicated characters like him. Unlike Jon, Gendry has no angst about his bastard status. We know he's up for an adventure. He was nice to Arya, so we automatically trust him and buy him as one of the good guys. Plus if we're still doing the whole…

I thiiiiiiiiink fire kills the wights but not the walkers.

That could be relevant, especially since that was Oberyn's trick in battle and Cersei's bound to be reminded of that right now. I doubt it's in play yet, just because Drogon is the dragon Dany always rides and I don't think we'd lose that one.

The more I think about it, the more I'm not sure if Arya's remarks to Sansa were malicious. They were pointed and definitely a taunt, but they can be taken as, "Just admit your ambitions already." As much as Arya loves Jon, I have a hard time believing that Arya would stand against being ruled by a woman who had the…

Davos is going to pick up a stone in the shape of a heart.

I was annoyed that Arya would reflexively oppose Sansa perhaps wanting power for herself. Shouldn't Arya be cool with a woman in power?

In the books she's on the verge of not being barren anymore - she miscarries Daario's baby after Drogon takes her away from the fighting pit/Harpy attack. She's not quite not-barren yet, but it's a symbolically important moment because it means that prophecies are starting to line up ("When the sun rises in the west,…

I don't see Gendry dying. He'll probably end up with the Stormlands/Baratheon stronghold. I think a reunion with Arya and a visit to Winterfell are in the cards. Brienne is the character that often delivers a lot of fanservice and there's a moment in the books where she sees him and, not knowing who he is, she's…

I expect Sam to put the pieces together eventually. Non-Book People probably won't have seen Rhaegar's name spelled out or heard it enough to realize (without help from us) who Ragger is.

Forcing people to repeat her party line or face execution isn't the best way to spread your message of peace. It's a great way to make people fear her, not freely choose her.

The Greyjoys work in the books because they add color to the fictional universe. They're not viable contenders now that the show has made it clear that it's really going to be about who wins without any of the other narrative flavor. Is anyone out there thinking that Euron might win the throne? I appreciate that the…

I liked that Jon and Gendry kinda repeated the Ned/Robert "you got fat" exchange from the first episode.

Jessuca Szohr is beautiful but it's hard to undo my hatred for Vanessa From Brooklyn.

Shelly is always wrong about men.

I'm starting to worry that there's not going to be any narrative reason for why Cooper is taking so long to wake up. Is there a switch that needs to be flipped? Do they need to find all the horcruxes first? Or is he just going to magically snap out of it in episode 16 when it could have happened 13 episodes earlier?

I preferred Monica and Chandler too. I never cared for the drama of Ross and Rachel. I liked seeing Monica and Chandler have a relationship that mostly just worked out.

The whole group doesn't make sense as anything besides a perfect amalgamation of disparate tropes. Monica would never still be friends with Phoebe for over a decade. Phoebe's the sort of person who would become "That crazy anti-vax roommate I had for six months after college" in Monica's stories about being 24. I…