The Mountain surely has to be Sandor’s to kill, though? Surely?

Cleganebowl must happen!

LF was already fucked way before Bran or Arya returned. It’s not magic.

I actually have a headcanon theory for this, if it helps?

Cersei was incompetent because, for too long, she was fuelled by passion and resentment. The former particularly.

I don’t see her as being competent at all, or any more competent than she’s been so far. She just has better allies in Qyburn, Jaime and now Euron. No Mace Tyrell, High Septon or other fools on her small council to stop her.

That was a fun way to establish that she can fight and win against more or less anyone, other than maybe the Mountain’s zombie ass* - if she can fight Brienne to a draw when she’s really trying, she’s pretty blatantly in the top five or ten fighters on that continent, before she ever gets to magical face stealing and…

You are spot on. Since Qyburn’s dumbass reveal ... <The fact that Ballista don’t appear pretty much everywhere is more surprising> ... this is what I have been screaming.

It’s more like he has always dealt in a world without magic, he’s cunning and clever but he’s not imaginative enough. Last episode Olenna laid it out perfectly when she was talking about her lack of imagination being her undoing. Littlefinger is simply out of his element in a world where Bran can see the past and…

You were not the only one, Arya just giving them the slip without any effort was an okay-ish consolation prize after she didn’t beat their asses

Cersei and Jamie have both learned from mistakes, and experiences.

That episode was bananas. Bananas Foster to be precise.

I loved a lot about this episode, but I am tired to death of Cersei’s sudden competence. The primary thrust of her character, consistent through all of the books, is that she has this colossal chip on her shoulder: she believes being a woman has held her back for her entire life, that she is the greatest and wisest…

What was funny was I was wondering how she would fare against two larger adults in full armor. Then I saw her fight Brienne and realized I shouldn’t have worried.

• Those two goddamn guards doing the old “We don’t believe you belong here and we’re going to super-rude to you” routine until Arya pulls the even older “what if I am real and you didn’t let me in?” shtick was a low point.
  
  I can’t be the only one who really really wanted Arya to just kick the ever-loving “Fook” out of…

But he doesn’t really. Sansa can end his relationship with Robin in an instant. “He killed your mother.”

I feel like that’s a mistake the writers made with respect to Littlefinger.

Ahahahahaha (dickon) hahahahahaha (dickon) hahahaha (dickon)

Also, Qyburn’s giant crossbow rocket launcher is terrible and looks like it belongs in Army of Darkness or Dragonheart or any of those ‘90s medieval fantasy movies where they have impossibly complex weaponry just to make it more badass, and the fact it was hidden in giant wagon that had collapsible walls was even…

Littlefinger’s reaction was priceless. 

Can you imagine the whole series but with Arrested Development style commentary.

This season has some great reactionary comedy lining up though, you gotta say.