It's the thing Dubya used to avoid the draft. You sit out as a reserve pilot.

He is just an awful, awful father.

The terror that hung over the episode, like a miasma, was a clever little device, I see; Mitchell's near-death-sentence is not so far from Don completely falling apart when he realizes exactly how fucked he is, and what a terrible thing he's done.

I think he genuinely admires Tyrion and his potential, independent of the plans he's set in motion.

Her being a likable character only makes the inevitable more devastating.

The first half of next season. There's a lot of book after that wedding.

Rat Cook means only one thing. Wyman Fucking Manderly.

I don't think I've ever gasped as loud as when the smash cut implied Walder Frey eating Theon's penis. That really got me.

How come you always talk like a hoo-er?

I LOVE imagining Peter Falk reading A Storm of Swords to his grandkid.

It's completely unfair that everyone in the cast is so smart, thoughtful, and good-humored.

I'm sure they would've if they could, but that actor left after season 1.

Exactly right. Not for nothing has it been juggling a million other stories, with two set in the almost literal opposite ends of the world.

The Freys have no reason to kill Edmure; the son of Edmure and his new bride would inherit Riverrun.

The King you're referring executed the Warden of the North, Ned's father, in front of hundreds of nobility in the throne room. This signaled to half the kingdom that NO ONE was safe anymore; if a lynchpin of authority, the governer of half the kingdom, can be summarily executed out of pure insanity-driven…

Really? Ain't that some shit.

I don't think so. In the books, the Baratheon house is a bastard scion from way back when, but I don't think that's brought up. Definitely non-spoilery, in that case.

It's a link to the similar historical events in medieval Scotland that inspired the wedding.

My parents did too—the war between the North and South was their paradigm for watching the show, and now that war is definitely over. I had to coyly tell them that, starting now, the story reveals its true colors.

Next week. It ended right after Cat got her throat slit, as the book did.