If they do it next episode, I feel like they could just show Thoros and Beric in the "previously on" section and then have Thoros catching a Frey and then him and the rest of the Brotherhood reintroduce themselves as they put a noose around his neck and have Lady Stoneheart walk out of the shadows as they start to…

I was on such a high from watching this awesome episode and then I saw the preview and it totally killed it for me.

Yeah, in hindsight it's pretty funny, I just remember it irritating me at the time.

I liked the episode overall, but I remember feeling that it cheapened a lot of things that had happened on the show by having those two bumble their way to discovering so many mysteries first…

Nope.

I remember Carlton and Damon saying that they introduced Nikki and Paolo because the audience kept asking about the background characters on the show, but because everyone immediately hated them, they decided to kill them off.

Part of Bran's motivation is that he was a little kid who had this romantic idea of growing up to be a knight and had it all taken away when he was crippled. I think he sees this mission to find the Three Eyed Raven as something that brings purpose back to his life and that's why he would put it before reuniting with…

"Lannister's Gold's dried up!?! Wait, didn't smartypants Tywin invest any of that gold's wealth into anything? No assets? Just wars?"

I think it was definitely a vision. Maybe he was seeing his own death or maybe he was seeing that Craster's Keep would be burned down at the end of the episode… or maybe even that the whole series "ends in fire"?

I guess that's possible, but it feels like they are really trying to drive the Dorne stuff home so we remember next year. They did the same thing by repeatedly mentioning Stannis in season 1 and this season with the Iron Bank stuff.

I actually think it was an improvement from the books. Can't get into it because of spoilers but it's in a different context and felt even more forced to me.

It was awkwardly revealed in the books too. I think they did the best they could with the source material.

We watched the episode with a few friends who just started watching the show this year and binge-watched all three seasons before the premiere, and they had no clue what they were talking about until we explained it a few times. I think this scene was especially confusing for more casual viewers because they were…

It's what Littlefinger tells Lysa right before shoving her out the Moon Door.

Ah, ok. It's been a while since I read it, I just remember feeling like there was a lot of forced exposition in that scene, so it makes sense to me for they to spread the info dump out a little on the show.

Yeah, I thought that was a great way of showing that even though Cersei thinks she's being clever, Margaery sees right through her bullshit.

I found this more realistic than the way it's revealed in the books with Littlefinger's evil villain monologue straight out of a James Bond movie.

Yeah, this episode seems to confirm that the Dorne stuff is in next season. They have been namedropping Doran Martell all season and this episode touched on Myrcella, the Sand Snakes and even mentioned the Water Gardens.

I got the impression that it was cramped and that's why Jon was having a difficult time.

This has to be the final scene. Hopefully they can save "Only Cat" for the finale, immediately followed by the Stoneheart reveal and then cut to credits.