I clocked this after Hardhome too. There are lots of wights, but not many actual White Walkers. Do the wights' reanimation rely on the Walkers?

Never particularly liked ELIZABETHTOWN but boy, can Cameron Crowe do a good soundtrack. It had Elton John's My Father's Gun which made me look out Tumbleweed Connection, which is just a blisteringly fantastic album.

"Hey guys, we're making an exorcism movie where the guy Inceptions the demon out. How close can we make the title to Inception without it being obvious?"

I actually think it's a remarkably accessible album. Mid-tempo and downbeat yes, but there's very little in it that's difficult, or hard to see even a modicum of quality and beauty in. And embracing Greenwood's often-lush string arrangements makes for some startling refreshment among all the introversion.

Walder's set to appear this season so I absolutely anticipate some kind of shenanigans like that.

Also, if we're taking R+L=J as imminent canon, I would've enjoyed Thorne to have stuck around long enough to realise that Jon's one of the heirs to the house he swore to.

"Soup" was funny. "Ayyyy" almost killed me.

Fuck you Rick Berman.

I feel like the end of this season puts it in prime place for a Conway victory, followed by Frank making sure every single thing that can fuck his Presidency up, will get fucked up well and truly.

One could say he HAS murdered to advance his political career, given how he admitted that enlisting after 9/11 was the perfect opportunity for someone with political ambitions.

I think in Harry Potter there was a general issue of age casting for those of Lupin/the Potters age. Thewlis, Spall and Oldman were at least 10/15 years older than the characters are meant to be (if I recall rightly they are 21/22 sort of age when Voldemort kills the Potters, and so then 10 years + whatever book…

I must say, Tom Yates annoys me a bit. I know a lot of shows get to the point where their writers want to portray an author, some avatar for themselves within the show; and yes, most times these characters will display knowing tendencies, and be a little smarter than most new characters because they are now the…

I've not really minded that it's been quite an aimless season, it's been pretty consistently great. I imagine the end of the series will close Pimento's story out (as JM said he has an arc, and I had never really imagined he'd be there permanently).

Do What You Want is still my favourite. Mix of a really good song, and the "still not too sure how the fuck they did that" camera techniques over the choreography of something like Here It Goes Again.

C-? So, it passes but it's still hot?

David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Lemmy. All from cancer. All aged 69, except Lemmy who was hardcore enough to just make it to 70.

Noooooooooop.

I just read about an interview from the late 1970s, where Bowie was asked whether he was tired of all his characters, of Ziggy, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke… his response was that he liked to imagine he had them locked in a cupboard, but he'd kept the key.

Or, as a talented writer, know that a certain character might work better with an older Doctor, not the 27-year-old you've just cast and you want to hurry, hurry, hurry and use the character straight away.

Annoyed that Kingston was wasted on Matt Smith when she and Capaldi work so well together. Plus, with Moffat clearly more comfortable to give Capaldi's Doctor stories breathing space (rather than breakneck timey-wimey adventures), it might not have screwed up her character.