This is crazy and unlikely but I LIKE IT and I'm here for it.

Wasn't she bisexual in the books?

Never have I ever tried to maim myself while boozing!

What space robot said and also in a later Cersei chapter, Kevan visits her in her Sept dungeon and tells her that Jaime disappeared with a woman.

Yes, but I think we later hear secondhand that Jaime went off with Brienne?

I don't think it would make a lot of sense for the High Sparrow to choose Tommen. Tommen would be killed by The Mountain and then what? A total, chaotic power vacuum and civil war in the city. Why make that choice when he just became Tommen's puppet-master, which is a much easier and cleaner position to be in?

Absolutely agree. I mean, don't get me wrong—I would LOVE to see The Hound return to the show (and who wouldn't love to see him destroy his monstrous brother?!) but Loras as the Faith's champion makes the most sense.

They didn't do a close-up or anything, but his hands were definitely blackened.

Your preferences remind me of one of my major curiosities at this point—will Tyrion stick with Dany? How will he feel about her plan to essentially decimate whoever stands against her in Westeros?

I can't remember who exactly the loyalists were, but I do know that there weren't many loyalists among the wardens (the Martells only grudgingly sent some troops after Aerys threated Elia's life).

She also just kind of hates all of the major families, doesn't she?

I've been wondering the same thing myself. I can't figure out if I'm reading too much into it or if they will, in fact, bring in some of Arya's wolf-dreams.

Why wouldn't you root for Jon or Bran? Just because we're supposed to (how contrarian!) or are there other reasons?

ok [tightens hat]

I've always wondered why they bothered to reveal Pycelle's infirmity to be fake, considering where we end book 5.

I'm firmly on Team Dany-Will-Be-An-Antagonist so I think that all of the time in Essos will end up having been the story of why Dany is unfit to rule Westeros and the origin of her misplaced egomania.

Mission Dracarysed!

This, but also the Waif appears to have a lot of ego that she doesn't seem to recognize. Her indignation at Arya's treatment is more about how she thinks its unfair to her rather than having anything to do with Arya herself.

NOOOOOOOO

Consider the Margaery/Loras scene in "Book of the Stranger," though, and the scene that preceded it. Margaery responds to the High Sparrow with lowkey sarcasm before you see her wheels start turning. She pulls almost directly from his speech in her conversation with Tommen in this episode. We have to remember that…