Hmm, I hope you guys are right… I'm getting paranoid on the clones' behalf!

Oh god, the images! I'm going to have nightmares…

Agreed. Plus, if Chad is going to cheat it's so going to be with Felix.

Nah:
F: Paul
M: Felix
K: Vic

After wiki'ing Leakey I'd say definitely yes. Good catch!

You're not even going to mention that Felix had the tracking program on his computer?!?!

You have a (hilarious) point but I guess Floki is a kind of mystical figure, someone with a link to the gods and therefore forgiven for some eccentricities. Plus, he did claim to be a descendant of Loki at one point this episode.

Loved the bath scene. Nikolaj Coster-Walday has real acting chops, and I think he might have won the audience over to Jaime's side with that speech. Extremely well done, and I'm not sure it would have been possible to do it in the books without making him a POV character.

So, I get that Jorah was trying to find out if Ser Barristan knew about his spying, but did Barristan play him back or not? He either knew more than he was saying or he has a very strong suspicion. The Lord Commander of the Kingsguard would know things like that whether he was on the Small Council or not. Especially…

@avclub-2d0cca95ad6a2061d208d765e79af478:disqus I bet Idris Elba would make a feathered cloak look sexy. The Summer Islands were never more badass!

The way they had Shireen singing Patchface's song was one of the creepiest things I've ever heard though. Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Eurgh!!

Basically, I'm going to choose to forget all about this episode. To me Fusco was not forced to go dirty like that, he was actually dirty.

Haha, the probem is that in those days "Haraldson" wasn't a name at all. It was a description. It just says that his father's name was Harald. Even today only English speakers use those names ending with -son and -sen as first names. In Scandinavia they're family names and probably mean that at some point there was a…

Another thing that I loved about this episode was the Uppsala reveal. Not the scene in itself, but the way it reminded me very strongly of a very famous painting by Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen. The paining is based on a traditional fairy tale about Soria Moria Castle, and shows it glowing gold on a distant…

I guess. It works if you know about Scandinavian folk music but most Americans won't. For my own sake I'm glad they included it though.

It's all a bit confusing but I think the show ended up with the ironborn just abandoning Theon unconscious at Winterfell and Ramsay coming in to scoop him up and burn the place after. It's too bad they cut the Reek/Ramsay business, but I guess they had to once they decided to cut the siege, "rescue" and razing of…

They did, but it doesn't really matter. Any excuse for Targaryen family history exposition is absolutely fine by me.

I'll take Frøy and his… appendage…

I hear ya. I'm not an academic, but I am Norwegian, and there are quite a few things that just don't work. The worst example is probably the name of Jarl Haraldson. Eh, Earl Son-of-Harald? He doesn't have his own name? Right…

One moderately important correction. That wasn't a sitar, it was a fiddle. Possibly even a Hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle in English). http://youtu.be/RDJth3RkJYA
Also see Norwegian band Gåte, who mixed traditional music with hard rock. http://youtu.be/3JZAhpigTr4