Maybe I’m alone but Theon’s “beat me like a punching bag” beach fight just seemed sad. All the important people are handling dragon fire, insane siblings with undead murderslaves, and an army set to extinguish all life, and I’m supposed to cheer because Theon finally stood up to a bully? Eh.

I just have one question: IS TORMUND FUCKING GIANTSBANE ALIVE?!?!?! I NEED TO KNOW. NOTHING MATTERS TO ME AS MUCH AS THAT RIGHT NOW

Rhaegar thinking up names for Jon:

Rhaegar believed one of his children would be the prince that was promised and he wanted that person to be called Aegon, hence the double naming.

Sansa and Arya weren’t working together until this episode. Arya legit thought Sansa might be a traitor. Sansa legit thought Arya might kill her. Sansa has never trusted Littlefinger however and when he was counselling that Arya would never betray her she had her doubts because she basically believes the opposite of…

This is such a shitty thing to do to Elia and her children. And I don’t mean coming from Rhaegar but coming from the showrunners. It means they didn’t need to be brutally murdered by the Mountain, they weren’t even Targaryens anymore.

in the after the show bit with the creators, they basically say this! “We didn’t know how they could break through, so we gave them a magical undead dragon”

Theoretically, the magic in the Wall was undone when Bran crossed. At least, assuming that whatever magic was binding the wall was the same as what kept the cave under the giant weirwood from being invaded by the wights.

Like everything else even remotely magic-related on this show, I’m guessing the answer is “because”.

I’m having a grand old time hating on it, actually. Its shittiness gives me power.

So there’s this thing called honeypotting where the audience desperately tries to justify a piece of media’s terrible stupid choices using speculation that is in no way supported by the text and this is pretty much a textbook example of it.

Really, it would have made more sense for his ice breath to freeze the sea for them to walk across vs. melt the Wall.

The fact that he isn’t makes me wonder what the hell the point of that whole conversation was. It made no sense for either Cersei or Jamie to engage with one another that way given how they’ve acted for all 7 seasons, and Cersei threatening to kill him but not makes zero sense. It also means that she had to have a…

Very funny, I once talked about this with a coworker who had had the same sanatorium fantasy (and had read the same books, obv.)

I just wanted to have an unlimited amount of leisure to read. If TB was the ticket, then so be it!

It needs to be stressed that this wouldn’t have happened without crowd-sourcing his identity. The Cville police have made no effort to investigate these people. Every single arrest has come only because private citizens have identified these people and assembled evidence themselves.

Goddess grant me the confidence and hubris of a completely, mediocre white dude.

Me too! I cheated on my eye tests.

Same! Also wanted acne!!

I knew I would find a kindred spirit here. Same for me for all! I also wore my retainers well into adulthood until I lost them. Glasses have become part of my face, but I’m at an age where the period is making its final grim efforts, get gone already!