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It would sting a whole lot less if Siddig weren't the perfect Doran. If this is what they were going to do with Doran, I would rather they just have cast Carrot Top or Seann William Scott.

Exactly. If it's as easy as just killing people in power to get what you want, then it's not Game of Thrones anymore. It's Brute Force of Thrones, or Conquest of Thrones.

They're like Fifth Harmony, but without any of the endearing qualities that allow me to enjoy Fifth Harmony.

Yeah, I've heard of table-setting episodes before, but that was like actually watching a table being set.

"Doran Martell, you have failed this city."

That entire scene was more screen time than she got in the Star Wars and Hunger Games movies last year. Possibly put together.

Which makes me fear they're somehow critical to the endgame. Otherwise, this is a whole other level of stubbornness on the part of Benioff and Weiss. Maybe they just think, "Eh, people love the Sand Snakes. They just don't know it yet. Wait til they see what we've written for them this season!"

I forget whether it was D&D or the director of the episode who confirmed that Stannis is 100% dead, which is why it makes it all the more utterly baffling that they didn't just show his body.

Makes me glad they left Strong Belwas out of the show.

It's almost kind of insulting to a man of his talent, in my opinion.

And so Doran and Trystane join Quentyn (and, debatably, Oberyn) in the afterlife of "Martells who didn't accomplish anything and whose stories didn't really go anywhere, begging the question of why they were involved in the story at all."

I was absolutely fucking livid that they offed Siddig here.

I wonder if the target would have been Jason, had Scot won immunity. I know I'd rather have a Jason-less Scot still around than a Scot-less Jason, if I had to pick between the two.

Cydney never looks like she's in trouble in any challenge until she's suddenly out.

But if Aubry knows you're locked out of the game once your elimination is official, why would she chastise Neal in a confessional for leaving with the idol?

Plenty of them win too though, like Boston Rob, Hatch, Chris Daugherty, Sophie, Kim, Tony, and I think even Todd had his moments in China. But I guess it's not enough to really count as a statistic, to be fair.

I, too, would love it if Probst clarified this. I mean, even if you're frozen as a player, you can still fuck up another person's game on your way out by shouting out something spiteful about the person that betrayed you, like "So and so has an idol, btw. Peace." Unless that's disallowed too. I'd really love to read a…

Huh. I just checked, and you're absolutely right. Man, Joe's ghost edit now has me forgetting how many times he's been on the right side of things. I still don't think it amounts to solid gameplay though. That said, if he did make it to the end, he strikes me as the type of guy who could make the loyalty argument,…

Speaking of Fishbach, I wonder if Tai will use the extra vote advantage any more effectively than he did. That said, Tai's is the Dan Foley bonus vote from Worlds Apart, rather than the "I get a bonus vote by taking away somebody else's" advantage from last season. I don't know if that necessarily matters to how the…