Rewatch Season 6 Episode 10; Ginsberg had an extremely similar mental breakdown in front of Bob Benson and he was able to pull him together. If only Peggy had the same level of interpersonal skills.

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The only foreshadowing they've done for Lady Stoneheart is Bran's Dream in Season 3 and Sansa's description of her "burial". They'll also need to reintroduce the brotherhood without banners, and the only time they've been brought up this season is in Arya's bedtime prayer.

I think they decided it wasn't worth it after Theon bit Yara, but it was the most rushed and shoddily edited scene the show's had to date so I couldn't tell. If this was a video game that section would have been patched.

To me it just seemed like an obtuse sense of humor as a way of dealing with tragedy, not mental illness.

I have a feeling, after Peter Dinklage's acting in this episode, that the series finale is going to be a TV episode for the history books (Assuming 8 ends with the trial by combat and 9 is entirely dedicated to Castle Black). They've no doubt written a formidable scene for him and Tywin that wraps up both character…

Did anyone else notice the extra in the elevator in the first scene that looked like Lane? The camera put a lot of attention on him.

Best case scenario is he's on large doses of Clozapine in a relatively good nuthouse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Whatever they're going to do with Ginsberg's mental illness will be similar to Sal's homosexuality - a 3 season arc for a minor character that deals with an issue that's seen very differently now than when the show was written. That seems fair for the character and the actor (although IIRC Sal wasn't meant to be…

I can't wait to see the inevitable youtube compilation of foreshadowing that Ginsberg was becoming increasingly mentally ill as the series was going on. Nobody noticed because it was all part of the "eccentric genius" character; I'm reminded of the "Mr F" arc of Arrested Development more than anything else.

I was eerily reminded of Dick Whitman's brother Adam from season 1 with the Stephanie storyline. Maybe this is how things are going to come full circle for Don/Dick -

Excellent analysis; Artie and Charmaine last appear being polite but distant with Tony and Carmella in "The Blue Comet".

Season 6 could have satisfied this point; the characters learned what they needed to know to work out their issues on the island, and now the "changed" characters are back in a world where the plane crash never happened (regardless of the nature of the world), ready to find peace.

If only they did this. Instead they had characters that were kind of like the survivors (but not really) be replaced by their souls from the real world as soon as some vague plot event happened that mirrored the island.

Also Sun spent 2 entire seasons doing nothing but asking where her husband was. There's this scene in the season 4 finale where she takes over her fathers company like a badass, but then they just make her character completely dull until she dies.

They did have a definite plan which kind of worked:
Gradually Introduce Time Travel->Use time travel to "prevent" the plane crash->The Flashsideways to set up the afterlife coda.

When I gave my friend the series I secretly switched around the episodes so "Across the Sea" came between "Everybody Loves Hugo" and "The Last Recruit" to get rid of the "I'm not sure whether to feel sorry for MiB or not" whiplash. It worked pretty well.

Then the episode was immediately followed by Charlie betraying everyone as part of Sawyer's long con.

The biggest sin of Season 4 was convincing everyone that the writers knew what they were doing and made the most of the opportunity they had from being given a set end date.

The finale worked on an emotional level, in fact I probably cried as much as I did for the Six Feet Under finale, but it doesn't hold up to any kind of analysis.