I think in addition to the theatricality, it was the fact that she did it within Daes Vothrak, obeying the rule against weapons. She is a weapon.

Was that what Cersei promised LF? I think that's right. Crazy. But then the joke's kind of on him, since she fell out of power rather quickly after that, and seems headed to losing control over Tommen for good.

Stark girls. They are indeed stark.

Wow, those are great points! And considering how much of the show has revolved around secrets and who knows them, what are the odds that any of those three remain secret to the end? Or that Varys doesn't already know all of them? So cool.

But she's not nobody to him. Reek told Ramsay exactly how Osha outplayed him to steal the two Stark heirs away. To Ramsay, she was a player.

How did Jorah go from Fighting Pits badass to unable to hold his own against random Dothraki guy so fast? I seem to remember a lot of punching wrastling from him last season, so it's not like he should be helpless without a sword.

| I think Ramsay is pretty screwed now that LF has finally set his sights against him.

I was trying to make some sort of "next action" joke, then realized that 950-odd Merlin Mann podcasts later, I still have no clue how GTD works.

In Tyrion's meeting, a Master from one of the other slaver cities reminded us that he'd once offered Dany a whole fleet if she'd just pack up and leave.

"Wait… somebody tell me more about this Thenns thing!"

I say she was the knife, Littlefinger was the killer.

Yes, pretty sure he said something to the effect that each time he came back as a little less of himself. But that's a long way from "only death pays for life".

I'd like to know how that scene goes in the book — if Martin had Oberyn twirling and showboating — or if it was all invention of the show.? But I'm not venturing out of the Newbies' thread to find out. Still too paranoid, despite the new circumstances.

On the other hand, Thoros of Myr didn't seem required to offer up a death for his resurrection spells. So I wonder if the hedge witch's magic does require it (she said this when she brought Drogo back), but the LoL's does not?

That's a cool point: Bran thinking he can change the past — while not actually being able to — could be a symptom of the "drown if you stay too long" problem the Raven warned him about.

Hodor.

True, but I'd argue that doing unreasonable things for their own sake, or ignoring their costs, was completely fitting with Oberyn's character.

Oh right — I forgot that the Umbers was Rickon's destination when we last saw him.

I skip them, so I don't know. Maybe they showed him to reference the Bolton's plot line?

Agreed, but with an exception for Oberon. I took all his twirling as showboating in front of the Lannisters, and possibly to conceal his use of poison. Also, he wanted to win, but he wanted to burnish his family's image just as much — he was vain enough to think he could do both.