This was my favorite episode by far. Viserys was weak and ineffective but god I felt bad for him. Seeing him look like he chose poorly for the Holy Grail was rough. Made worse by knowing he died thinking he solved his family fighting but in reality nothing changed. Poor lad.  Paddy did an amazing job.

Podrick clearly did.

Jon Snow’s birth father was a Targaryen and he (Jon) wound up with dark hair. I think the show is just saying: whoops - two bad coin flips = brunette.

mendelian genetics are deterministic in GOT world

In your extraterrestrial name I pray. Amen. 

I’ve said it before: I think Fire & Blood is pointless outside of its publishing order. Its placement occurs right around when readers really start wondering what Dany is trying to restore, and it sucks the air out of her argument that anyone wanted the Targaryens back, which was never fully articulated on GOT as a…

I don’t know if we’re supposed to be on her side, but I do think we’re to understand how she went from this very naive girl to someone who will slowly lose her humanity to protect her children. Whatever horrible things are to come, she would never have done horrible things if she hadn’t been forced to marry into the…

Probably the relative ranks of the victim/perps and wanting to deep six the real reasons why each beating happened. Joffrey was functionally a nobody and they could probably cook up some excuse as to why a Kingsgaurd would beat him to death to avoid all the questions about the true motive. Criston outranked Harvin…

They probably should’ve divvied it up more — started the flashbacks sooner with always using the Outpost as a framing device. To just drop it completely for, what, 5-6 episodes? Really thwarted momentum.

Now that you mention it, that did have essentially zero payoff after the fun reveal in the early episodes.  AHS tends to throw out so many plots that you don’t even notice when half of them get no real resolution.  (What WAS up with those damn aliens in Asylum?) 

I thought the implication was that she was going to bring back Madison, she was just going to wait and make her sweat it out first.  

So, we got Mutt and Jeff and Gallant...making Billy also Goofus?

Like Rosemary’s Baby has taught us, inadvertent and unwilling conception of the AntiChrist at least come with pretty sweet real estate.

The least believable part of this entire episode series was that a millenial couple a few years post college with a baby in their early 20s would be able to afford such a sweet mid-century home in California.

I was fully on-board with this season until two weeks ago when it began to be apparent that AHS would do what it always does: throw interesting ideas in the air and then squander them with an utter lack of the writer’s interest in resolving the ideas and riddles they create. If AHS were a book series, I’d’ve abandoned…

I really don’t understand the season’s story structure here at all. I can get doing an in media res opening with the apocalypse to tell us that it is coming and won’t be stopped and then jumping back to the backstory. But why spend three whole episodes in the bunker and then backtrack to spend what’s now the majority…

I found this episode incredibly boring. The horror was when I kept looking at the clock and seeing there was still loads of time left in the show. This season has ground to a halt with all this flashback backstory. I don’t need every little detail filled in. He’s the antichrist. We get it. Can we please get this…

Very lazy.  They’re relying too much on the goodwill of fans in seeing these characters again which, admittedly, seems to be enough for some fans.

I mean this is all...fine, but who’s brilliant idea was it to turn half of this season into a narratively pointless flashback? Assuming the next episode is still Coven Pt. 2, are we about to witness our first AHS double-season, or is Ryan Murphy the madman seriously hoping to wrap it all up in two episodes?

PS: Where…

The house was built by a Montgomery.  It was saved by a Montgomery.