From the UK - OMG SHAGGYDOG IS DEAD!? You Bastard, bastard of Bolton.

Cornwell does this quite often in his books - he likes to leave it to your imagination whether it's mundane or it's magic :)

I'll just add the British perspective to the BBC thing here. Yeah they can be a bit funny but this show here is on BBC2 which means it's considered to be a little more intellectual and so ratings will be less important to them. It's hard to say at the moment as they are under a lot of financial pressure with some…

If didn't didn't love her a lot then it wouldn't have been a huge sacrifice would it? You can't sacrifice something you don't care about.

If they were all talking in Valyrian in Mereen why was the graffiti in common?

I think that WE see it as rape but Jaime doesn't. The threatened rape of Brienne was a hostile and violent situation and would have been an aggravated rape, almost certainly involving knives, various other implements and a horrific, painful and slow death for Brienne. Coming home to Cersei, they were lovers already,…

Indeed. I feel for her as a woman: at this point she has lost her eldest child, the little power she had has been hacked away (admittedly through her own incompetence in the main) and she thought the man she loves had gone but then he comes back a completely different person. She is indeed tragic but I don't feel…

You're so not! I miss all the jesters.