Weirdly, I was so happy last week to see the return of Palmer Family Ceiling Fan shot which is one of the creepiest things Lynch has ever done. I hate that fucking house.

Which wouldn't be far off from Fire Walk with Me operating both as prequel and slight sequel to the series.

The books, in particular, really hammer home that the outcome of War of the Five Kings means little to the small folk other than more chaos, but they'll still suffer despite who wins.

I was surprised because the Iron Bank was being so adamant about how they'll be so supportive once the gold is there, it felt like they were writing to upend that.

My guess for how they discover Jon's lineage is that the clues to it turn up in the papers Sam is currently transcribing. I see them going a combo of that and Bran rather than taking the time to insert Howland Reed into the narrative.

Varys wouldn't make any sense, though, because the show has had him helping Dany for ages (ignoring the poisoning attempt which is muddled since the show is ignoring Aegon), and he's known for a long enough time that she's pro-magic it would make no sense for him to bring Dorne and Highgarden into the fold if he was…

The gold's already in King's Landing, though, from what we know.

In both show and books it's mentioned* that Bran the Builder constructed the wall with giants and the children of the forest after the Long Night.

If he's not now, I fully expect him to make the list before the end of the season.

My biggest issue at this point is that this has all supposedly happened in a fortnight which still doesn't make much sense. But they did do better with the small scale timing this time, I think.

She's still his aunt tho.

I think the show is more likely to go the "they bone and THEN realize it's bad" route.

I think we're supposed to assume she watched him while impersonating the server and learned what to do. The show really did a poor job of convincing us that is a skill she picked up during her "training" though.

I definitely feel like one of them is gonna bite it by season's end just to up the stakes.

I really want it to be good, which is precisely why everything about it makes me feel like it's gonna be awful.

It's insane to me that opening line isn't the tagline for the film.

The movie will be terrible.

They had already been turned to wights at that point (Sam notes that there's no rot despite them being dead for some time), but they don't reanimate until in Castle Black. Why they waited, I don't know other than maybe storytelling.

Don't the White Walkers have to choose to reanimate the corpse though? And would likely have to be nearby. Seems like an idea that will end up fucking them over.

Here's a timeline that attempts to at least lay out the timing from the books: https://docs.google.com/spr…