"omidge" is correct, but I've heard people wrongly say "Oh-mahge" forever.

they're keeping him around for something. at this point he seems too peripheral to be of much use in the next 8 eps. "dies in a heroic act" seems right. just make it soon.

I agree. we're not really all that invested in the night king's arc. we're not in his head and he's not in ours. defeating him would be like defeating an earthquake or a hurricane. the real story is who rules westeros. dispatch the dead first, then conquer the kingdom.

like most women, she wanted to know if the prospective hubby can get along with her kids and/or pets. If no, it's a non-starter.

can't wait for the end when all the wars are over and Drogon starts acting like the flintstone's Dino. a big slobbery puppy.

homage or ohmahge?

Bingo! I mean Dingo!

he never liked being in battle, and using wildfire in the blackwater was really his only choice. but yeah, this isn't a village or a city or a castle she burned, they were soldiers who would (and did) act just as ruthlessly as she did.

"I don’t know why, but all of a sudden I find myself hoping Cersei gives birth to something inhuman in a literal, biological sense. Not a smoke baby, but something dragonlike? I don’t know."

re. question of the week: I think they're both being nagging hens. But I don't get Varys' reluctance. he knows how the game is played. These were defeated soldiers on the battlefield. she has no more reason to be merciful with them as she did the slaver across the narrow sea.
He's up to something.

the baby is going to be a dwarf.

so, he's Azor Ahai reborn?

Right! Yes, I remember the patch now.

Bran will say something when the time is right, but like all good seers and wizards, it will be cryptic, ambiguous and not the whole story.

who?

So, in next week's previews, is that Tormund holding the flaming sword?

you are correct, like the horn of the north, not mentioned in the show as yet.

nor Theon.

Gendry was brought back for one reason only - to save someone next week, then he'll die.

either, or, both:
The Mountain is the father of Cersei's kid.
The kid will be a dwarf.