Uh oh. You're gonna have a problem then. Why did you think she had to kick Daario to the curb? So there could be a song of ice and fire, as it were.

Indeed, 3 episodes since Battle of Bastards and 3 mass council sessions in which everyone in the room plays the same role each time. And Jon you moron, try practicing your ideas on Sansa in private first, so she doesn't become the main person who disagrees with you every single meeting.

I think it is just a big audience fake out, so that people think the major threat to the dragons is from the south, distracting from the real threat of "conversion" in the north.

I think what the show is doing is preparing everyone for the idea that no one will end up on the Iron Throne, and the world will be the better for it. Once the army of the dead makes it past the wall, people won't give two craps about the Iron Throne. And as the woman said tonight, who cares who's on the throne,…

"A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell, and I am going home." Yeah, I think that pretty well covers it.

Sam puts Jorah in a giant vat of hydrogen peroxide. I would pay extra for that scene.

"Oh God, when is Dany going to get to Westros, 7000 pages/6 seasons and Dany is always off in Boringville, this is killing me, just do it already, just do it, do it, God, please."
Dany gets to Westros.
"Nothing happened."

Well, and he had to build his fleet and man it from scratch. Where does the Iron Islands get the gold for that? Where do they get the wood and tar and sailcloth for that? Do any of their lands have, you know, *A* tree, much less a forest? Where do they get the food and other stores for that? Where do they get the…

I heard it as Pink Floyd's Money, and also a bit of the rhythmic humorous bed-bouncing scene in Delicatessen.

1/6 would pound patty.

Agree, it's complicated by the fact that Okinawa and Tarawa and Iwo Jima really were that hellish, where the blood and guts and brains soaked every square meter of earth as the squads of men struggled back and forth. But I can't tell from this essay whether the depiction here is ludicrous or appropriate to the…

If that girl stays in the commercials, I'm for them.

+1 for Heathers reference.

Ok I don't know if you're the first to come up with that, but if so, congrats.

He really says Sauron has no origin story? Like The Silmarillion doesn't exist? I would have thought a story showing your origin going back so far it was before time existed would be sufficiently originny enough for most people.

The horse has to be dead. Otherwise what's he eating north of the wall for years? Rabbit? God save us from a carnivorous horse.

Did how the battle went last week make you really say, wow here's a demigod who is gifted leadership beyond all merits? It made me say, this guy is very flawed, no matter how well he can fight.

I don't think it will matter. By the time we get there everyone will be so "oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit" about the White Walkers they'll forget all about the Iron Throne.

Scanning through the comments I haven't seen anyone mention yet the death of the Meera being Jon's sister theory. I really thought when they put her father as a survivor of the Tower of Joy fight that we'd have twins and Ned would take one and Howland would take one.

Yep, it was True Detective that broke them of their tendency to let creative roam entirely free. I bet the collapse of True Blood from alpha tier to sub-omega tier didn't help.