I think GRRM even outright clarified that Dany's immunity to fire at the end of GoT was primarily the blood magic and not her lineage.

Well, now that Euron is around, his massive fleet would suddenly appear in that moat whenever the camera panned back over it and Riverrun would be toast.

Not to mention—which holy fuck how did I forget it until just now—you'd think she'd remember this vision of a burned out Iron Throne covered in snow she had while meeting actual warlocks.

Last traveling comment (I swear), but it really is funny to think about how long it's taken Jon to get from Point A to B in prior seasons in terms of actual distance relative to his new land/sea speed record for traversing Westeros between last week's ep and this one.

Lady Stoneheart, I bet.

That's the biggest issue to me. Any other character: totally fine. If Tyrion had trouble buying it? Believe it. The woman who somehow ~knew~ those three eggs would hatch and would be unburned when she walked into the fire? Nah.

He is Joshua Jackson and Ewan's son, and he is trying very hard for all of us.

GRRM really should have bit the bullet and figured out how to make the infamous time jump work imo. Without it, the story has spiraled out in ways just to explain stuff that I think he could have legitimately covered in flashbacks, dreams, and stories like he did in the first three books.

I, too, love megalomaniac monarchs!

The books mention that people try to cut off the affected areas, but it hardly ever works.

The one thing that confused me about greyscale is that they keep mentioning "does it hurt?" etc etc, when I thought greyscale removes all your feeling and leaves your body numb (hence the whole pricking yourself to see if you caught it thing in the books).

My only major issue with the time jumps in between scenes is that it makes the White Walkers even more ludicrously slow.

Yeah, I looked at the first three ep's and they're definitely spot on thus far, so super fuck this dude imo. I flagged it, but we'll see.

Yup. I think he's supposed to sort of Dr. Manhattan-esque in how he's losing his ability to see from his original, human perspective. Probably getting glossed over due to time, but it's there.

I think the show pretty much messed up his arc by changing around the Riverrlands arc from the books. Feels like that one is more clearly building towards his turn against Cersei whereas it's been happening in fits and starts, with plenty of backslides, since the beginning of Season 4 in the show.

Do we know how long it takes to sail to Dragonstone from Winterfell? The only trip I remember being given any definitive timeline in the show is that it takes about two months to ride from King's Landing to Winterfell, which the first season did in, what, about two episodes?

Right, even with the factions that deserted, the Tyrell army has been noted as being mostly still intact and the only remaining faction with any real food stores. You think they'd be able to hold up in Highgarden for much longer than the show depicted (though, I can't recall any descriptions in the book of how well…

Jon and Dany are definitely going to fuck. Feel like it's inevitable regardless of whether or not the actors can give off the chemistry to justify it. "I've brought fire and ice together."

The show's never mentioned that as far as I recall, but you're definitely right w/r/t how the book sets up the "rules" of skinchanging. I feel like the show has pretty much eliminated the ambiguity and potential evil of the skill (let alone the moral question of possessing "higher" creatures) and just let it be a cool…

Sieges apparently no longer exist.