Yeah, but this way Cersei can just get all her enemies in one spot in the season finale, set a trap, and leave us hanging for a year with a cliffhanger.

Rather disappointed Immigrant Song didn't start playing as our guys set out on their quest. The Karen O cover even has the kind of electronic rumblings the show likes in place of actual music.

I feel like Beth's influence was finished before this season, so I'm okay with them focusing on the core group of sestras. Not that it wouldn't have been fitting.

I think I remember her saying that she could feel all of them, and that there were so many.
I'm glad they just dropped that whole thing for the most part. Between the child actress' sulky delivery and the new agey aspect of it, the whole thing always annoyed me to no end.

They really should have taken a nice, long vacation before they wrote this season. It just didn't have the same twists and turns, speed and emotional heft of Orphan Black at its peak. Everything felt a but undercooked.
Despite that, I'm still happy with where everyone ended up. Nobody deserved a happier ending more…

My impression of the Maesters is that they're secular monks. They must have done research at an earlier stage though, but they seem to have settled, like all of Westeros, into this rather ossified state.

She wore that pile of furs for years, dragging Bran's bony ass across the frozen wastes, and nobody at Winterfell could bother to give her something new to wear?

What I mean is you can try to analyse it, but you'll wind up nowhere since there's no rhyme or reason to Martin's worldbuilding.

Only if you assume that Westeros is vitally important to the Iron Bank, but I have a feeling that Westeros' feudal economy doesn't fundamentally support them. They do business on the eastern shores as well, and if they see Cersei's success as a way for he slavetrade to resume it makes sense that they'll back her…

Yeah, it would have been appropriate and fitting, considering the show's general willingness to dispose of characters at this point in the story.

I find it funny that thing was so effective; when Qyburn demonstrated it, it was stationary and the spear barely managed to clear the room.

I'm not sure if there's much of a point in trying to analyse or make sense of Westeros. Martin writes for flair and effect, and the show does whatever it feels like. Things are pretty much arbitrary.
To me the big question is if the seasons are stretched out, how does that affect migratory patterns, etc. And in a world…

What annoys me about it was that the Lascaux paintings are quite detailed. It wouldn't have been hard to do a version of the white walkers that was recognisable as such, but not such a stylistic break.

And he'll also have produced a hundred of them in time for whatever advantage the plot demands for Cersei.

Daily schedule at Septa Jermaen's school:
5am breaking of fast
5.30 Flogging of serving wenches
6am introductory strategy for fancy lads
9am Smoking of pipe leaf
1pm lunch
1.30 more flogging of servants
2pm more smoking
4pm how to match your eventual children for fun and profit
5pm supper
6pm personal time (for sword practice)
8…

Somehow there will be a dozen of those things on every turret of King's Landing I imagine.
I find these things a rather boring attempt at leveling the playing field.

I took it all as Littlefinger trying to find an angle now that he's surrounded by one Stark who knows more than Littlefinger can guess, and a Stark who can slice him into little pieces. He went from having Sansa all to himself, to a suddenly very uncertain place.
Who knows what he's going to do to turn things to his…

I knew Jaime couldn't die, which is exactly why he should have been killed.
But at the very least Bronn should have been incinerated.
Would have been interesting if both of them had been grievously injured, in terms of reunions with Tyrion.

Most of Jaime character development the past season or so has been shooting strained looks at Cersei.

Yeah, that was hilariously annoying to me. They even gave them little blue eyes.