"Dang, it's so cramped… up here in the penthouse of the city I just conquered!"

I think she's figured out that spicing up her schemes with a little sincerity is more effective.

Tywin's line about not liking Robert patting him on the back was great.

I like how he swung the door shut behind him, to make sure it'd be a one-on-one fight and that he'd be the one to serve justice, but without Gilly #7 he'd have lost. Perfectly fits his character.

Shit, they might even all be named Gilly.

The bit where he greets Littlefinger like his favorite uncle was great. Dude can manipulate anybody.

What did Bronn say? 'Gimme some climbing spikes and ten good men…'

Now I'm even prepared to believe that his wavering accent is deliberate!

I think we were supposed to assume it was Cersei, just like we were supposed to assume she poisoned Jon Arryn. As deceptive storytelling, it worked beautifully in both cases.

Exactly! And the implications of it keep rippling outwards. That the man who pulled this off understood how all the major players would respond, or had contingency plans for the variations, and still no one (as far as we know) really suspects him.

So was this relegated to a glancing mention in the review because it was written before the episode or something? Everything else in the review seems pretty minor by comparison.

Ugh — the worst.

I think it's about the biggest thing since Ned's death. In terms of where all this might be headed, perhaps even more significant than Joffrey getting whacked.

I love the way it changes Littlefinger's role in the plot all along. He practically sent Ned a handwritten invitation to King's Landing, and was going to be in a great position no matter how that turned out.

That reveal was executed brilliantly. They tricked us into taking crazy Lysa's claims about Jon Arryn at face value, both because we trusted Catelyn's perspective and because it just seemed like a foundational fact of the show as it was being introduced. Then something like 35 episodes later they reveal a sub-basement…

This comment reads even better if you imagine Noah Adams's voice saying it.

Right. For example, if it ends up that the only thing that can kill them is dragonglass, then they'll be pretty unstoppable unless the humans can come up with a lot more dragonglass.

It would be an interesting twist if they can't turn all human babies into WW's, but only certain bloodlines.

Yeah. Even just another shot of a dragon shadow on the landscape would have added a lot without, presumably, costing a ton.

But you've gotta admit that Thorne & Slynt would make a pretty good buddy cop movie.