Wouldn’t killing Cersei have been his redemption?

Her willingness to make war to satisfy her ambition has always been morally bankrupt. You characterize gathering an army to take back Westeros as ambitious, not necessarily homicidal, but I think that’s an inherently homicidal ambition. I agree that Dany made a turn into much worse behavior this episode, and that the…

Sure she put her quest for the throne on hold to save the people of Westeros, but a quest for the throne is not a primary goal good people with good priorities have. She’s stopped along the way to fight real evils, but she’s never been willing to give up her main goal of bringing war to a land she barely knows because…

Haha fair point!

Well I should hope so!

It’s been confirmed in the show now, but it still seems implausible to me that non-Targaryen nobility in this world would consider that incest. They’re all pretty keen on marrying within their social class, and there just don’t seem to be enough of them to get fussy about marrying non-immediate relatives. How many…

I was humming “How can I repay--” “Whatever,” for the rest of the episode.

Come on now, be reasonable. This essay might not be worth very much over all and she could still pass the class without getting any credit for it.

Which turned out to be very helpful against the Night King! I’m somewhat inclined to think Jon came back to rally everyone against the Walkers and is now on borrowed time, but I’m not sure how they’d tell that story.

That has occurred to me. I’m not at all clear on what the Lord of Light cares about. Definitely defeating ice zombies, since Beric and Melisandre are no longer needed and also the Night King just sounds like his natural enemy. Putting Targaryens on the throne? Is that a big thing for him? Guess we might find out!

Do we know for sure that Jon isn’t?

I thought Bran was using the crows to watch the battle, but now that I type that out I’m remembering that he can watch anything anyway? It’s not at all clear to me how his powers work, so maybe he needed the crows to get a bird’s eye view instead of seeing disjointed snippets where the people were. Or maybe something…

Or look, if the crypt is the ultra-fortified place in this castle where you’re supposed to hide the most vulnerable and valuable during a battle, maybe do a mass cremation before the zombie-maker gets there?

Melisandre’s comment about Beric reminded me to be on the lookout for Jon to do something critical and then die. It didn’t happen in this battle, but one way or another I’m expecting him to Kara Thrace on out of here by the finale because dude isn’t really supposed to be alive.

I’ve been calling him Climate Change for a while.

I’m jealous you get to watch it for the first time! Enjoy, and skip Series 7!

I’m waiting, showrunners...

Cassie and Chris are both in Winterfell!!

Celiac isn’t that rare, and since you feel comfortable giving us advice, I sure hope you’re one of the few people who bends over backwards to accommodate friends with dietary restrictions when planning social events.

So Stone Soup, basically.