You mean The Seven that allow The Three-Eyed Raven to view human history via Heart Tree? No that's the old gods, right?

I hear you but I think they show that conflict to create suspense for the audience about how Arya is going to react. The writers can later explain that Arya didn't trust Sansa to be adept at lying so she couldn't let her know too soon what was up.

Yes they spent all that time on her becoming a lie-detecting, invisible super-assassin to have Arya be so easily played. Looking forward to her gutting PB like he's a non-Tully fish.

The only "why" I can imagine is that they were led into this trap slowly, covering their tracks when Maeve first walked out of surgery and each week they get sucked deeper in, afraid to admit all the violations of procedure that have led them to this point.

Don't think they'd lie about Arnold being dead — something everyone including Ford clearly believe to be true — but it's possibly the thing in the maze is a robotic recreation of Arnold that he created in a stab at some sort of immortality.

Because what's the point of him destroying his brain? It does him no good but if he is acting as a part of a collective (maybe a scout to find the limits of the park), he keeps their secret by destroying his mind.

I think you missed something going on in the stray arc — the stray didn't kill himself because "robots be crazy". They were taking it's head back for examination and it destroyed it's own head to hide something important. That hints at collective action by some of the robots.

I'm betting big on the wildfire theory. Cersei is going to blow up the Sept. Of course she'll try to arrange things so Tommen won't be present but this feels like one of those trying-to-prevent-the-prophecy-brings-about-the-prophecy deals. Cersei has to survive so we can see her realize what she's done.

Lancel is about to fall to one of The Mountains horrific head-based murders. I'm practicing hiding my eyes already.

I get that this is the Newbie's review but shouldn't the author understand that the rose is Maergery unambiguously showing her true allegiance? It wasn't meant to be a head-scratcher, dude.

"Edmure has a Stark target on his back and the Blackfish is unreliable" Huh? (to both comments).
Edmure is a Stark ally (a kind of wimpy one tho) and The BF is insanely reliable.

I've always felt that Cold Hands was controlled by the Three-Eyed Raven — a sort of good-guy version of the White Walkers. If that's the case, maybe he'll show up summoned in the T-ER's last moments and Bran can control him.

That's the best line from the books! Who says it? An old woman I think, One of her kids says "They hung father" and she interjects "You mean hanged. You lord father was not a tapestry."

Great John Umber was known for holding oaths to be sacred. While it's possible that his son (Small John) has trashed that legacy, it seems just as likely that he would find a way to trick Ramsay without swearing a false oath.

I'm sticking to the theory that Shaggydog is alive and the "gift" is a fake-out to get two operatives inside Winterfell. Umber's unwillingness to swear fealty was the giveaway. Not sure what Osha and Rickon do next in this plan but I'll bet it's awesome.

McCarthy's got SO much talent but she could become the female Adam Sandler if she keeps making lazy choices. Remember he did some very well reviewed parts along with a diet of crappy hits — until the heights of crap mountain scared the good directors off for good.

"The Ring" seems like an obvious precedent for this kind of horror.

I remember the first time I saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure. It was so amazing but all we could talk about afterwards was "Who the hell was that girl in the Alamo!" It wasn't an overtly weird character but so perfectly played that it was hilarious.

Not to mention "Sunshine" in which two consecutive crews on the same save-the-world misson fall prey to insanity.

A sure sign of a deleted scene.