No worries. I've just seen that movie skeighty-billion million times — it always aired at Passover time when I grew up in the NYC metro area! — so that line kind of rings in my ears sometimes (and comes up in conversation surprisingly often!).

I don't disagree; probably the stout was the only one that was reviewed positively in my house!

I'm trying to remember: in the show, did Cersei burn down the Tower of the Hand? Or was that only in the books? Because if they *had* done it in the show, it would go a long way toward providing a precedent. She did that out of grief, because her father was killed there. So if, say, Tommen were to be inexplicably…

Oh yeah…Genna and Emmon. I really wish we'd have gotten them, but everything important is already spread so thin.

Yes, in order to be able to BURN IT ALL DOWN when the occasion arose.

Actually, it's "So let it be written; so let it be done." And "Brynner" rather than "Brenner." :-)

I cannot disagree with you; I thought the Sansa/Theon jump was a nice dramatic moment, but the Arya stuff was all kinds of ridiculous on every level, from the physics to the medical implausibility. Just: ugh.

Yes, in the books, it was Jeyne Poole. Her storyline with Ramsay has gone to Sansa in the show. But it wouldn't have been correct to say that "Theon and Sansa jump off the Winterfell walls into the snow in the books."

There's no Edric Storm on the show, either. In the books I thought Shireen might come into play in a Tommen-is-killed scenario, but…oh well. King Gendry Waters?

Theon and Jeyne jump off the Winterfell walls into the snow in the books, and Jeyne's only major damage (broken ribs) wasn't caused by the fall; it was caused by Theon landing on her. So your annoyance at that point really ought to be directed at GRRM rather than Beniof and Weiss.

Long live King Gendry Waters, the first of his name!

I don't think the Mountain eats anymore, so he certainly does not shit anymore.

I think the Take the Black stout is excellent, in fact.

I thought there was a little bit of longing for a normal family unit in her expression, a wistfulness at holding this child who was going to get what she was suddenly denied. It ties in with what she said to Matthew about "do you ever wish that you were a little kid again?" In her case, I think it's a desire to go…

And even if she did try to send a letter, all mail for — and from — someone in her position would be read by the state, and redacted as necessary.

And living in what passes for the lap of luxury in mid-1980s Moscow. She really, really deserves that. Poor Martha!

I think it would be less dramatically satisfying for them to leave that vague in our minds if the ultimate goal was for it to be the straw that broke the camel's back for Philip. If that's the ultimate goal for a presumed Martha death, I think they would have shown it to *us*, so that we would continually worry about…

Did he actually say *two* kids? I haven't rewatched yet so I can't swear to it, but I thought it was just "kids" or maybe "a couple of kids."

It was 1000% apparent at that moment that Stan doesn't have daughters, and doesn't think like a guy who has a daughter. The dichotomy of their reactions was hilarious: Stan was all dude-bro, so completely proud of his boy he nearly pounded his own chest like a caveman; while Philip, in his preoccupation with…

Sure, if this were happening in the real world, it *would* be stupid to assume that one bad-tempered black stallion has got to be the *same* bad-tempered black stallion that your old buddy/nemesis used to ride, because clearly there are more than one of those in the world. But this is fiction, so the appearance of a…