I've always thought that, if you look at it in a vacuum, Kirby kind of comes off worse: Lee was almost always willing to give a ton of credit to Kirby; by the end, Kirby was basically trying to say Lee hadn't contributed anything, which seems pretty clearly unfair. But, of course, it wasn't in a vacuum - Lee, though…

From what I've read, it seems like there's a mix of Shooter getting scapegoated for things that weren't really his fault, or that were actually necessary, and him being genuinely difficult to work with. Like, DeFalco had to execute all kinds of terrible corporate mandates too, and certainly didn't run Marvel in a…

From what I've read, it seems like there's a mix of Shooter getting scapegoated for things that weren't really his fault, or that were actually necessary, and him being genuinely difficult to work with. Like, DeFalco had to execute all kinds of terrible corporate mandates too, and certainly didn't run Marvel in a…

R+L = J is absolutely confirmed if they confirm it on the show, since the whole story was that he gave Benioff and Weiss his blessing when they told him who Jon Snow's mother was. But I've never thought there's any doubt about it anyway.

The Tysha back story couldn't have possibly worked in the show. They had to rework that.

I always thought "rapid aging syndrome" was when you cast new actors so that someone on a soap born 5 years ago is now a teenager, or whatever. Art Parkinson is aging at the same rate as all the other actors.

I don't see any reason to think there's going to be 37 new Ironborn. It's going to be Yara vs. Euron.

I mean, we're definitely going to see the Tower of Joy. Guy who looks like a young Ned, in the desert, fighting Kingsguards, with Bran and Bloodraven watching. Do you really think that could be anything else?

I think there's some reason to think Benjen is still alive. I certainly don't expect narrative efficiency out of GRRM

Jaime is a Kingsguard. Presumably whatever other Kingsguards were there (waiting outside?) escorted Tommen back to the Red Keep.

Siding with Edd and the Wildlings against Thorne made sense, because Jon was the one who was friendly with Stannis and bringing the Wildlings over was sort of part of Stannis's plan (although I don't really remember how much that was true in the show last season). But, yeah, the resurrection was weird. Why not have…

The Ironborn of the War of Five Kings era are really much more like if a bunch of 15th century Danish people decided to do some very, very intense Viking cosplay than they are like 9th century Vikings. Also, I don't think I really read ASOIAF to get realistic depictions of unpleasant medieval characters. Victarion is…

What else could the gift be? Of course, the Umbers might still have their own agenda.

Euron killing Balon on the bridge is arguably what actually happened. Almost certainly it's *effectively* what happened.

Agreed.

My only quibble with the flashback is that there was no Brandon.

I don't think there was anything to suggest that dude was Asha's (sorry, Yara's) uncle. And certainly he's older than the actor playing Euron.

It's the Umbers offering, and we've been told Rickon is with them. So, yeah, it's Rickon.

I already care more about the Iron Islands than any of the nonsense that happened in Dorne last season. I actually like "Yara", Theon's headed that way, Euron seems potentially interesting. They seem to have decided to use the actually interesting Ironborn characters (and hurray for no Victarion!), rather than their…

Trailer for next week. We see Umber banners. Then Ramsay says "Why have you come to Winterfell?" to someone we've never seen before, who I'd assume is an Umber. Guy-who-is-probably-an-Umber says "I've got a gift for you."