Did anyone else find the way they were riding to be odd/awkward? I thought it was strange that Arya was sitting side saddle instead of astride.

Fits the character—he's not good in stressful situations. Yeah, he killed an Other, but he had to screw up a little to undercut the bravery. It wouldn't make sense to have Sam going from a guy who can't even light a fire to one who can handle dispatching an ice demon perfectly.

They're doing their best to keep people from figuring out a certain big event that is coming up. If they did it the way it was written in the book, then that would be too much of a clue to alert viewers. Having Stannis toss Robb's leach into the fire so casually was the right choice.

Tyrion actually says, "Can't. I could, I would…" So they got across that he finds her attractive, but didn't linger on it to prevent it from being too creepy.

Even the way they introduced him was cliched, "This is Blahblahblah Blah and this is BlooBloo McBloo. And this is—say, what's your name again fella?"

I think the hair was a deliberate nod to how Sansa wore her hair in S1 when she first got to King's Landing. She began styling her hair to look like Cersei's. This season, she began wearing her hair like Margaery's. They had her go back to the Cersei hair to show that she's stuck with the Lannisters for good.

That's quite a strawman you've built. What fine craftsmanship.

I don't understand these complaints. The show has always been like this—characters heading to some location and talking a lot until something dramatic happens. Then they talk about what happened. People seem to misremember the past few seasons as ones where there was constant action and excitement when really, the…

Even the few seconds of full frontal male nudity we've gotten have been slightly out of focus. Only female nudity gets the slow, lingering, up-close shots. It's annoying.

Oh please. Tyrion was definitely drunk during that scene. Not as drunk as he was in the show, but he wasn't stone cold sober.

You know nothing, dawesterity. And it's gross how quick you are to call a 12-year-old girl who didn't want to marry a man twice her age whose family murdered her father, a "bitch".

That's a slightly misleading excerpt. Sansa never knelt while Tyrion put the cloak on her. She did it later in the ceremony. Here's the entire scene from the book:

So now we're fat-shaming women about their ankles? It's the worst parts of 19th and 20th century misogyny rolled up into one turd of a comment.

The entire wedding scene had me cackling with delight. There were so many great character moments. Lady Olenna making her grandkids miserable, Tywin making his son miserable, Tyrion being sloppy drunk and threatening Joffrey, Cersei cutting off Loras's long-winded anecdote before he got it out, Joffrey being a little…

Cuz she thought she was going to marry the handsome, wealthy, gallant knight of her dreams. Would you really go off with some huge, sketchy guy with a fucked up face if you had a good shot at someone who ticked all your boxes?

Apparently, sass-mouthing your john means you deserve comeuppance.

@avclub-07175a64289e25cc60baf30ed7832068:disqus That's flat-out wrong. Daenerys was being overbearing in Qarth perhaps, when she was penniless and powerless and yelling that she was going to destroy them all. But she has a huge army now as well as three quickly growing dragons. She burned the fuck out of some wizards…

@avclub-ecd1c184fc20f875e7adf649ca44182e:disqus Jaime didn't know Bran and didn't really know the cousin/squire either. He does know Brienne and has bonded with her. He would not have jumped in the bear pit for anyone else (outside of his family). That bit of character development is completely plausible given how…

They could have titled this episode "Discipline & Punish".

Good. That theory never made sense to me. Ros is way too old to believably pretend to be a teenager.