I love the way it sounds more like “Yah Squeen.”

Love this show, solid review, but there’s something wrong with the comments section...I’m starting to suspect this might not actually be the Good Place...

If she was willing to "abandon" the war to fly in blindly on the miniscule chance she would traverse the immense distance and find the group in uncharted territory in time to save them (and she nearly didn't), she should have been willing to fly up there for a reconaissance mission.

So it's not possible for the show to have improved on the books in some ways during the earlier seasons while now struggling because of not having books to rely on for direction?

How would they even have wrapped the chains around Viserion's corpse in the first place when he had sunk into the lake? Bizarre.

Any theories on how Jaime not only avoided drowning without taking off his heavy armor, but managed to get far enough away to avoid capture when Daenerys would have every reason to want to take him prisoner? Varys the merman helped Bronn pull him up and out?

Have we seen evidence that heavy armor floats rather than sinks in Westeros? Have we seen that fire doesn't burn wood or set off explosives? Have we seen people just float off the ground because gravity stopped affecting them? Have we seen being stabbed in the heart do good for a person's health rather than kill him?…

Exactly. This "let's go hunt for a walking dead soldier" quest seems pointless when all it seems to take to get a wight is a human dying north of the wall.

"Show me on this doll where the Red Woman put her leeches on you."

All evidence has pointed to "yes," other than times that the supernatural was clearly involved.

Sci-fi and fantasy worlds (at least well-done ones) should have a set of rules that they abide by. "A wizard did it" was making fun of many works' failure to maintain logical consistency, not a justification for it. What evidence have you seen that normal physics is NOT supposed to apply in this world outside the…

The world of GoT is set up as "like our Middle Ages, except with wonky seasons and some magic and dragons that have suddenly returned after an absence." Unless a dragon or magic was shown as saving Jaime, then physics should follow its normal course. Otherwise it feels like there are no stakes because producers can do…

I didn't get the feeling that Sam realized who Gilly was reading about. She also pronounced it weird, like "Raggar" or something.

If you've finished the 5th book, you know the character the show cut definitely can't be one of the three "heads."

I can accept the idea that sometimes you just have to "fanwank" that enough time has passed, etc., in this kind of medium. In contrast, the "who cares about logic because dragons" kind of argument irks me.

That makes sense, but the self-serving attack could still be directed at Howland by ppl from other regions, since he is a Northerner and why wouldn't a Northerner want his own king to sit on the Iron Throne.

This is such a tired retort. To be compelling, fantasy or sci-fi worlds have to have rules they follow, otherwise there are no stakes. Game of Thrones posits a world that is like our Middle Ages except for a few key differences (primarily the existence of magic and some mythical creatures). If teleportation is not…

Excellent summary. Jon might not really be a bastard though. Rhaegar may have taken Lyanna to wife to try to fulfill the "dragon has three heads" prophecy, and Targaryens have a history of accepting polygamy.

At the end of Book 5 she seemed to get her period back.

Jon's claim is better, assuming Rhaegar took Lyanna Stark as a second wife, because the succession would first go through crown prince Rhaegar's line. Also the Targaryen rule (post-Dance of the Dragons) was that females could only inherit the throne if there were no male claimants.