Beautiful-grotesque. Reminded me very strongly of Guillermo Del Toro.

I still can't tell which is which. NO thanks, Internet!

They've been burning heretics, including people as powerful as the Queen's own brother, so that's another reason to not rock the boat.

Amusing, maybe. But it seems like a waste of time.

What is with people acting as though we have to rank two horrible things? Rape is terrible and so is child sacrifice. And the former is far more common than the latter.

I like this theory. It's strange that a fire priestess seems to not care that a woman has emerged from a funeral pyre alive and with three dragons.I can't remember if this was depicted on the TV show, but there are priests of R'hllor in Essos who are preaching about how Dany is some kind of god/messiah. You'd think…

My theory is that she saw the other kings' deaths in the flames and then concocted that leech ritual to regain Stannis's trust in her powers.

I think a lot of people commenting here don't understand Stannis's character. B&W are not adding anything new to him. He is as he was in the books. I think everyone has just taken the "Stannis the Mannis" thing way, way too seriously. He's always been a bastard.

It's a mistake to latch onto any character as someone to identify with and root for. They're all compromised or will be compromised in some way.

Ripping off children and childlike adults is a solid way to generate profits.

You're right, but a lot of younger people simply have no memory of Bruce Jenner, the world-famous Olympic athlete.

Those are names for great-grandmothers and toddlers. 65-year-olds these days are named things like Kimberly and Linda.

If they wanted her dead, they could have just killed her right then or there. Or poisoned her.

Doubt Roose would be too perturbed. Sansa is still important as a link to the Starks, but with a baby son on the way, he doesn't need Ramsay all that much.

The 1% vs. 99% framing of the show seems a little off to me. I guess the High Sparrow introduced that this week, but the show has always been about power more than anything else: who has it, how to seize it, how to wield it, how it corrupts.

The North is larger than the other kingdoms combined and settlements are more spread out and sparsse. It's harder for the Warden to retain power without the cooperation of his vassals and I imagine the same relationship dynamic holds true for the lesser lords and their peasants. Winter is the great equalizer.

I don't think it's about raising up the poor so much as bringing down the rich. You could call that egalitarianism, but it's more accurately asceticism.

Dorne sucked in the books too. I recall plenty of people complaining about how it seemed like a waste of time for very little plot development + the ridiculousness of Dark "I am of the night" Star.

This has got to be an MRA parody account, people. Look at the user name!

Isn't there some other commenter who does the same thing? I remember people getting into long arguments with him about that in the comments.