I'd never thought of that. Seems like the only other reasonable option for his character (other than dying).

And I'm subscribing to it.

Hahhhaaaaa yeah he's pretty alright. :)

Yup, Stratego still exists! It's my boyfriend's favorite game.

I don't know what's happening there, but I assumed that Ellaria was there at Doran's behest. It seemed like Doran was about to demand Ellaria to…well, I don't know. Demand that she do *something* that he wants. I'm eager to see how they play Doran's machinations on the show.

He seemed to be worried about Shireen, certainly, and we know he doesn't trust Melisandre at all. My guess is that Davos has enough faith in Stannis to believe that Stannis wouldn't agree to allow his own daughter to burn at the stake. Davos will be heartbroken—he will have lost a daughter-like figure and the respect…

You're probably right, I just have a hard time viewing any giant act of faith as pragmatism, even considering earlier magic done by Melisandre.

I'm in the same boat. I desperately want Stoneheart but I give it about a 5% chance of happening. And I am confident that I would totally hate it if they used Sansa for this role. DO NOT DO IT, D&D.

Yeah, it sounds like you've just had too much of a frame of reference for the actor to work for you.

According to last night's Inside the Episode, it sounds like GRRM told D&D that Shireen is going to be sacrificed in the books…so maybe bookStannis won't continue to be so great after all. I'm mourning the admiration I felt for him, he was charming in a prickly, terrifying way.

Right! This man is single-handedly responsible for the death of his only two heirs!

I think I agree with you both, to an extent. He's done plenty of awful stuff so yeah, it's not outside the realm of possibility…except that this is his only child we're talking about. And despite his zealotry, which always seemed kind of tame compared to his wife's, he seemed like a rational, pragmatic man with some…

I don't mind Robert's physicality on the show. He's like the high school football star 20 years later, all the muscle turned to boozey fat.

I think their numbers swell to include the previously poor but free people because they are angry about the slaves being freed and therefore being put in the same sort of caste as those they had looked down on. Not only have the vestiges of any pride or superiority been stripped from them, but now they must also…

I'm going to be watching those "previously on…" like a fucking HAWK.

That's true but those people posed a threat to her, yeah? This guy doesn't.

They could have gone for skeleton breasts: http://40.media.tumblr.com/…

But Dany has possession of the only three living dragons in the world—that we know of. And she doesn't appear to be lending them out for the purpose of reforging Valyrian steel. So how, then, did Ice become Widow's Wail and Oathkeeper?

It's the skeleton wights that take me out of it. The ones that look more alive are way spookier.

Holy shit.