Now I'm sad they introduced Lyanna because it's only gonna make her a standard to which internet jerkoffs are going to hold every other girl on this show

All she did was a somewhat snide remark towards a guy she doesn't really know and who has plans she disagrees with.

Yeah, but we haven't seen the character since season 4 ended and while that would make sense if they built up to it, as of now it would require way too much character work done off-screen

I actually like the character and how he completely uproots the KL dynamic, but he needs to go at one point or another and if he went this episode there would be too much unfinished business. Things would pretty much shift back to how they were, except with Cersei and Margaery both significantly more fucked up, but…

Honestly this was the best episode of Orphan Black since at least when Paul died and maybe even way before then. When Sarah and Helena hugged in that shower. I was not emotionally ready.

Yeah, plus getting rid of the High Sparrow now seems counter-intuitive. The sparrows have been built up way too much and if they defeated them mid-season it would kind of just leave that whole plotline as a thing that happened for no reason. Cleganebowl kind of seems like the obvious thing to lead to but I'm still…

Lancel is such an obvious choice to kill off it hurts.

This was a mixed bag for me. I didn't flat out dislike any of the sketches, but most of them erred on the side of too obvious. They mostly delivered the punchlines when they needed to and/or took a welcome sharp turn into absurdity, though.

She seems to really have it out for the Gwyneth Paltrow/Blake Lively kind of celebrity, what with the name of her talk show character and the lifestyle website plug in this episode's sketch

I think you're kind of inventing a new sketch out of different things she did, because the talk show one wasn't really about the "down to earth" thing, but you're right that comparing the two really doesn't do any wonders for this one - I didn't think it was bad, but it was broad to a fault, basically showing her as a…

It's the spiritual awakening I'm not buying here. He could be working for the Faith, though.

I've gone from hoping for Lady Stoneheart still happening to being worried about it because Brienne is going south.

Yeah but the critcism are mostly about specific kinds of violence that ONLY the women in the show are subjected to and the way it's framed narratively - show me a male character that's been treated by the show so poorly and for such a long time as Sansa only to then have her resolution in that season hinge completely…

I don't think that's quite true. She always seemed to have fun with pop music and the last album she was allowed to release, Warrior, had a variety of songs in different styles, all of which she seemed kind of comfortable in. Maybe that's just me as a fanboy speaking, but there was never anything wrong with her music,…

Thank you, that makes sense!

My understanding is that Renly and Loras aren't as important in the books and they're not even confirmed to be gay?

that's exactly how I feel… maybe if they switched their personalities around? then annoying!Renly could die and not drag out the five kings thing and we would keep cool!Loras and everything would be right with the world

yeahhhhh I can get that but I strongly disliked him even before… he wasn't pulling the Lady Macbeth thing off at all

Okay, so I don't know if I'm stupid or what, but can somebody explain to me why Evie is so invested in destroying Leda if she says it's obsolete and is already working on a ton of other stuff? Like, I get "we have better things than the clones with the faulty genes now", but I'm not getting why they need to go to such…

I never minded him too much (mostly because Dylan Bruce is really hot, not gonna lie), but I thought his death episode was so good it actually made me feel feelings even though Paul was never a character I was particularly attached to