Yeah — perhaps good for another leech or two.

If the White Walkers could cross water, there wouldn't be a giant fucking ice wall across the narrowest part of the continent.

| If both Dany and Stannis die, using current knowledge, the kingship, (without war), would fall to the eldest male relative with the greatest blood tie to the Baratheons.

"We were just simple television farmers!"

Damn, I was thinking this exact thing! In retrospect, it's great how they showed the Scythe as being ridiculously overpowered or over-engineered just to take out some human climbers. "Pull it back up and reload!"

Shambling Mound, AD&D first edition Monster Manual (1977).

Back to the issue of 8000 years of history and human memory, perhaps "Winter is coming" originally meant the WW, then gradually shifted to just mean the long winter seasons. (Which, presumably, have happened many times while the WW have been "sleeping under the ice for thousands of years".)

If a future reveal shows that the zombie army has purposefully been moving slowly towards the Wall, for some reason we don't yet know but that explains that weird pacing, that would be super cool.

I hope that seeing those wights lemming down the cliff means we'll get to see them scaling the Wall before this is all over. Release the Scythe!

Maybe Ramsay kills Stannis, the Onion Knight kills Ramsay, Melissandre gets to turn Shireen into blood magic, and an army of smoke monsters descend on the Boltons at Winterfell.

Sort by Oldest lasted for only five "Load Mores" this week. Five. So now I have to read them sorted by Newest, like an animal.

I agree about Jon, but then again… setting him up as the savior of the North and then killing him off could just be suckerpunch #3 to set up the return of Bran.

I would be satisfied with him getting stepped on by that giant.

I predict Ramsay runs into Melissandre and it ends badly for him. Then again, that might just be wishful thinking.

Myrcella told Jaime she'd been in Dorne "for years". The timeline seems screwy.

The Archmage could do a better job of this than me, but I read that as the Ice King having a once-per-day power to instantaneously turn 100-1000 people into ice zombies/wights.

Also, the fact that Ygritte is eating fries from a styrofoam take out box somehow just kills it.

"Thank you, Jon Snow."
"It's Kit."
"Thank you, Kit Snow."

Totally agree. The relative levels of hope vs. despair in this show are really effective. When a small moment like that hits with so much impact, I think it's the show working as intended. At least for me, it has gradually drawn me in to literally expect the worst and most horrific outcome at each step — for example,…

Yeah, that was great! I really liked all the character/actor crossovers. Ramsay and Theon, Sam and Jojen. Pretty clever writing there, and more than I expected from it. The way they slow played the actors arriving was great, too — for a minute, it really seemed like the best they could do was King Robert and Ramsay,…