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Is it obvious to no-one else that Cersei is getting pretty detailed and timely intelligence about Daenerys' plans?

Before anyone gets over-excited about Larue Dollard receiving some documents and a pen drive, let's consider who provided them? Swango and Wrench? Varga? "Widow" Goldfarb?

Who arranged the finance which let Varga in? With full knowledge that it wasn't "conventional".

I think that a point is being missed, here. Varga is a garden-variety money launderer (for un-named organised crime syndicates, one assumes). He has the air of a mid-level functionary, albeit a skilled one with a certain level of authority. The real con-man is Sy, he seems to have been the one who brokered the deal

I think it's Watson's reaction which will be the decisive one.

Joan's wardrobe need not be over-thought. Occam's razor demands it.

This episode doesn't even merit a "C", it should have no rating, it didn't deserve it. It felt rushed and was full of, ultimately, one cop-out after another.

It was a jarring cringe-fest. It felt clumsy, hackneyed and cliched (Natural Born Killers).

Sometimes this show descends into the grotesque in order to achieve some comedic effect. This was grotesque for the sake of it. The ugliest BBT episode ever.

Easily among the best episodes of this season, possibly of all seasons so far. JLM's facial acting when in the presence of "Jimmer" was totally exquisite, Lucy Liu's in the presence of a previously unknown half-sister was astonishingly prescient and gifted. Possibly the one un-satisfying plot point was allowing

This review point out something fundamental about the whole canon of Holmes and Conan-Doyle's difficulties with the character. Conan-Doyle tried, unsuccessfully, to kill Holmes off. Ms. Valentine points to one of the possible reasons - it must have been very taxing to come up with sufficiently complex and mysterious

He's not a turtle, he's a tortoise. I do wish people here would understand the distinction and quit what appears to be linguistic laziness.

At least a quarter for the Reichenbach falls reference as well.

Irene/Moriarty could engineer a prison break as part of a fiendishly complex plot, no?