The Aegon plotline is a detour the show is definitely not going to take.

So guys: Lady Stoneheart? Brienne is headed to Riverrun; I assume Jaime will also be headed that way after this Faith business gets resolved. Presumably that's not going to happen just so we can have some scenes with the Blackfish.

Yes, but the Children of the Forest aren't, and ancient happenings of ancient history between various non-human forces aren't going to be major emotional beats in this show. They gave us enough to understand the situation; I'm not sure what more you want here.

So, the whole hard drive plot was stupid. If those people were as ignorant as all that, there's absolutely no way Jared shouldn't have been able to buy back the hard drive.

We really don't know that at all. Yes, obviously Stannis can't do it before attacking Winterfell. That doesn't mean that it isn't Stannis who does it. I rather think Benioff and Weiss considerably foreshortened Stannis's arc.

The play scene was good, but did we really need to waste two minutes with yet another scene of the waif beating up on her and telling her she's not worthy?

We have been distinctly reminded of Benjen's existence this season.

As to the specifics, yeah, not terribly exciting - maybe better if it was something like Ned's return from Dorne.

No, I mean, in the show, Hodor had his fit then, therefore that's where Bran has to be.

Choices have to be made, and the question of "what is the precise relationship between the White Walkers and the Children of the Forest" was never one that was going to have the emotional punch of the Red Wedding.

There wasn't much background, but the basic narrative made sense - we already knew (on the show) that the Children were in Westeros before the First Men, and today we learned that they were at war, and losing, and thus created the White Walkers to defend themselves. What else do you really need?

Your concerns mostly revolve around ethics in gaming journalism, I take it?

Shaggydog is dead.

But that was when it happened. That's when Hodor had his fit. It had to be then.

Fucking David Copperfield is an author self-insert. So is Steven Dedalus. Author self inserts are not a problem in literature.

I thought "giant guns" were the most important character of 90's X-Men.

In the Claremont/Paul Smith era, Kitty is always petulantly calling the New Mutants the "X-Babies" because she thinks she's better than them, even though they're mostly older than her. So, in that sense, we're getting the X-Babies.

Havok's pretty much okay, though. Poor Havok. All he wants to do is go to grad school and fuck Lorna Dane, and he keeps getting pulled back in to crazy bullshit.

Yeah, not at all surprised. I wasn't really saying that the mutant stuff isn't obviously a major theme of the X-Men. But the X-Men have always been about tons of other stuff, and the space opera stuff, in particular, has been a major, major part of their story since Claremont and Cockrum resurrected Jean the first…

Viserys was indisputably a Targaryen, and he certainly wasn't heat resistant. Targaryens aren't immune to fire, *Dany* is.