He wasn’t failing upwards while the series was tethered to the books. Yeah he gets killed but he successfully defends Castle Black, escapes the free folk, delays their attack on the wall through misinformation and then successfully brings thousands of Free Folk through the wall both increasing it’s defenses and…

I loved it because a marriage with them would absolutely fit both of their arcs. Politically excellent choice, they both respect each other, Sansa is years beyond her age in maturity, and they genuinely like each other. If you also think about it, he treated her with the most respect and care of anyone who wasn’t…

Watching Jon constantly failing upwards has grown particularly tiresome.

Jorah’s sword is Valryian steel, so he doesn’t need a fire upgrade. 

Yeah, I’ve always been of the mind that The Night King/wights was a representation of either the black plague OR the very real global cooling that took place during the Wars of the Roses (or potentially both). A sort of bigger, environmental threat that is completely outside of everyone’s control but has enormous…

The White Walkers were the biggest mistake George RR Martin and the show made. Replace their threat with the wildlings and you still have all the narrative pieces without diluting the “Game of Thrones” story arc. The story’s biggest twist is Jon’s parentage, which has nothing to do with the White Walkers. These…

As someone who dated a guy for a year before meeting his family and discovering that his younger brother was WAY hotter... I feel this comment.

I agree that the Night King arc ends next week; season gets divided into two chapters.

I’ve basically come to expect that any recap regarding GoT on io9 by Rob tends to fall flat and incessantly whiny.

And there is the fact that Jorah and Sam share their own unique connection—Sam saved Jorah, so now he’s arming Jorah (the better warrior) in hopes of Jorah helping to save Sam’s family (Gilly and little Sam).

He’s Danys general, he’s heroic, he’s badass, I love me some Greyworm.

Yeah Jorah’s scenes were great. The fireplace scene was one of the best in the past few seasons.

Maisie has been pretty open on Instagram and other social media about her feelings for being typecast as a little sister/kid/tomboy/etc. The scene was kind of a surprise in the amount of skin she opted to show but hopefully it helps her get out of everyone seeing her as a little child.

Yeah and it’s show cannon, too. When Sansa reflects on what happened she says they “cut my mother’s throat to the bone then threw her body in the river.” Presumably, it was never retrieved.

Just saying as a person of “color” or whathave you: Missandre and Greyworm’s scene was important because here they are willfully supporting the initial battle for these wypipo that sideeye them wherever they go. She mentioned her culture is peaceloving and doesn’t know war. She could easily be back home in Miami,…

I dont think their happy ending on a beach will come about, but I think Grey was saying what Missandei wanted to hear because as a soldier, he knows the risks of not coming back.

Grey Worm’s growth has been the best part of Dany’s arc, save for the scenes of the dragons ruining people’s shit. They weren’t picking a vacation spot, they were rejecting the kingdom that has rejected them, and ending their servitude to Dany.  Claiming their agency and deciding how they are going to live is the most…

No GRRM does the unexpected, Ben and Weiss are like like “you know what this show needs... tropes!”

Damn that is a great point, and makes me even more mad that all of the smartest battle minds and most experienced White Walker fighters are all there, yet the strategy seems to be lacking. 

I gotta say, your takes on this week’s scenes are pretty bad: don’t care at all about Greyworm, the kidnapped, mutilated child soldier who learns his humanity, becomes a leader of his people and fights for a cause he chooses for the first time ever, and Missandei, the slave girl who is freed and chooses to serve her…