this doesn't make sense: "The strong man who curbs the excesses of the revolution, killing off the fanatics, is the typical dictator." it's the dictator who curbs the excesses? excess what?

I honestly don't get her being portrayed as a tyrant. I see her being portrayed running into the pitfalls and difficulties any revolutionary would encounter during the upheaval she brought to the slave cities. Of course the masters are going to resist. Of course there will be turmoil. of course they would fight to…

didn't see it on cable until the next year. It was a good, maybe great movie, but I've only seen it once again since then.

at the height of ww2, the US was launching a ship a day, but that was with millions of men and women working on them 24x7 in a highly mechanized world. and the iron islands, I'm going to guess, don't have a whole lot of old growth forests.

interestingly, he build the first scorpion in the dungeons beneath Kings Landings. hope they've got big doors down there.

I watched again, and Tyrion wasn't on the beach when Theon came ashore.

that's the thing that bothers me the most - they would have had a team manning that thing and they'd have taken it out of the camo tents and been setting it up the moment they saw the dothrakis coming over the horizon, let alone after seeing dany and her dragon flying towards them. this team couldn't get it set up…

To some, the revolutionary is always and forever the hero, and the ends always justify the means, even if the desired ends never materialize. Castro's Cuba and Maduro's Venezuela come to mind.
I'm Team Dany, and not even remotely weaselly, but events could morph her into what she despises most - the line between…

I'm still not sure they don't first just leave Cercei alone and starving, surrounded by the Dothraki horde while they go take care of WW business, then turn back and take care of her and Kings Landing in the finale. the Doth won't be much use in the north what with only owning loincloths and sandals.

If Dany is indeed barren, Jon will have to sire children with someone else to carry on the targ name. they're the last ones left (unless there are other bastards)

Pretty sure he's working on a need to know basis. any 'seer' worth his salt would not reveal everything about everything, as that could alter perception and reality - causing people to do things they're not meant to do, causing a butterfly effect, changing history, etc. plus, he's 'not ready' to be the 3ER - both he…

"uncovered". that's an unusual way of saying "stolen".

agreed. it didn't make sense to me either.

I've seen in several different reviews (and comment threads) that it was littlefinger who hired the catspaw.

Yes, he really was.

so, all this stuff was in the books, I presume. and all the reviewers out there (including The Ringer) saying it was littlefinger are talking out their butts.

I don't get the hate the foos get from the so-called cool kids. they, more than much anyone else continue to carry the rock and roll banner high in a world of pop princesses and EDM dreck. And Dave Grohl seems like just the nicest guy alive - and the guy BROKE HIS FUCKING LEG FALLING OFF STAGE AND FINISHED THE SHOW!

I do miss Margaery. I thought her sparring with Cersei was great - but that wasn't going to last long from the beginning. She was too bold. too conniving. Cersei would never stand for it for long. don't know the books, but TV Margaery was never going to stay around kings landings long.

why give him the dagger? Joffrey loved his weapons, that would have been his favorite toy.

what was his motive?