I like how she was busily sewing when Littlefinger came to her room, then she shows up in that new superhero costume.

It's going to be pretty awesome if Sansa ends up being the brains to Arya's brawn.

All those teeth hitting the pavement would have been sufficient for me.

It's like meta meta entertainment.

In that case, wouldn't it be that the other gods can't figure it out?

Not "Gouge Away"? Or: "Slicing up my eyeballs, oh ho ho ho!"

I think that's the extra special twist in how all this works out for Tyrion. Oberyn just showed that the strategy Bronn outlined could have won. And we know from when he championed Tyrion at the Eyrie that Bronn would have only been fighting to win — without Oberyn's hubris and agenda.

Any thread without an Archmage DM call is kind of a disappointment.

I thought it was to his back — kidneys?

I liked how Tywin was pronouncing the result before anyone else had even processed what had happened yet. Looks like Cersei learned that trick from dear ol' Dad.

I assume he's apologized profusely and sworn it'll never happen again.

Do you really think the guy who invented this world and all these characters is a simpleton?

I don't. This show has earned enough trust that I'd follow it all the way into that Lost timewarp crap and beyond.

What if Ramsay is his "Reek" name, and he's just as enthralled to Roose as Theon is to him?

I think those are very good guesses. But I'm starting to believe that there's no narrative convention that this show wouldn't happily break before it's done, including the idea that someone we can root for makes it to the end alive. So it's possible that those are the characters that the writers want us to think are…

That's a nice compliment, but I've never thought of it as restraint. More like actively tuning out 90% of the world in order to keep this one thing a surprise.

It's hard to imagine how he won't die, but that's the brilliant thing about this show — the way it keeps our hopes for some sort of redemption or justice alive, but just barely skipping along the bottom.

I really like the idea that Tywin might try to rig the fight between Oberyn and the Mountain. We've seen the Mountain lose a fight to trickery before, and it'd be just like Tywin to pull the rug out from under Cersei just as she thinks she's going to get what she wants.

Every time I see your avatar, regardless of what you say, I want to type "George is getting angry!"

Brienne's expression when Hot Pie said that was great.