Lodge Kerrigan directed Keane, one of the most moving and simple films of the century thus far (with Damian Lewis doing his best work).

No. If that were true, they all would have just gone together, since it's the same direction. Bran told Osha to take Rickon to the Umbers.

I don't either. Only mean to say, perhaps that's what she perceived.

Well, he approached her with great anger. Maybe she recognized his murderous intent.

They're not going to Castle Black—they're going to meet another Northern house, the Umbers.

Bingo.

He had to marshal his remaining forces on Dragonstone, and go to Braavos to get money to buy a fleet.

At first I thought it was pretty strange, where it ended. An hour of flawless action filmmaking, ending with…the prelude to peace? The wildlings still stand as legion against our paltry few heroes. What exactly was accomplished?

Fuck them.

Well, Dany's shown herself to be pretty uncompromising. She executed the Masters, when apparently more than a few might have welcomed their new Dragon overlord. She "answers justice with justice". We'll see how that turns out.

Can't Tyrion go to the Wall?

You're closer than you think!

As I recall, he had a rough time in school.

I went to middle school with the guy on the right (hi Ariel!). Glad to see he's doing well.

He and Zach Snyder are in charge of some of the most iconic characters of the 20th Century.

I encourage you to read the books, as they're quite good. I would say that your internal "was this in the source material?" detector is a little off—most of the things you mentioned occurred pretty much as they did, and many other equal perceived contrivances are done straight. Indeed, the show does a lot to…

No?

She was maybe 4 years old, and he'd just killed her mother. Seems sad, but not wildly out of place.

Rorge threatened to rape her with a stick way back when.

Seems like the last time they were around and active, thousands of years ago, humanity was nearly extinguished.