Good point. That said, I do think if they were planning a Tai blindside, this was the week to do it. If he wins immunity next week or uses his advantage to target someone unprotected, he's essentially guaranteed final four, because the idol means he's going nowhere at Final 5. And at final four, he's just one…

I've always wondered why no one has bothered inventing a character whole cloth before.

I don't know what was colder: Julia threatening to kill Mark, or Aubry's vote confessional.

Yeah, I suppose if he played it and didn't have to, he'd hold a grudge against Aubry for telling him to. That said, it's even more of a reason to have gone with Jason's plan to just vote Tai. Worst case scenario, you lose Tai when he doesn't play the idol, but the idol is out of the game anyway. Best case, Tai plays…

I'd love it if all of Tai's personality was revealed to be an act, right down to the accent, being gay, and his nature-loving disposition. It'd be the greatest final tribal council blindside of all-time.

Why wouldn't Aubry just tell Tai to play the idol? I know he's an ally, but it really is better to just have it out of the game.

I suppose you're right. But it just seems like the sort of thing that would have made a nice surprise in the movie, like all the different cameos they got for the fight scenes in the Anchorman movies.

This would have been a nice surprise.

At this rate, I'm just going to assume every preview for next week ends with "in two weeks, ON FOX!"

Yeah, if nothing else, I'd like to think Ellaria would have some sense of fidelity to Oberyn's memory. And I can't imagine stabbing his brother in the heart, murdering his nephew, and violating the "we don't kill little girls in Dorne" assurance is something he would have wanted.

Benioff & Weiss: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I enjoyed Varys and Tyrion's conversation, although I have no idea what Tyrion's comment about Varys being cockless had to do with their conversation, in context.

The goal is to realize that before you start doing the Dorne plot in the first place. It's just as big of a sin to go into the Dorne storyline thinking you can do it, getting a great actor like Alexander Siddig, actually bringing in the badass Areo Hotah, and then deciding, "Well, we don't have time to explore this…

I doubt Benioff and Weiss even remember Nymeria, at this point.

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like wastes of a good character.

Probably caught a bit of it on a flight to his next con or something.

The continent hopping is why I'll never understand why people get so up in arms about the divergent storylines not beginning to coalesce. Sure, the stories will eventually get to a place where everyone is involved in the same conflict, more or less. But I don't want them all to be in the same place. I love this world,…

This was 100% me last year.

The problem is that it doesn't feel like anybody lives there. We only see the royal family, with no indication that there's a populace. If you're going to try and tell us that the people hate Doran, maybe show us the fucking people.

It'd be funny if next week's episode reveals Ellaria has only conquered the Water Gardens, and they end up getting their shit pushed in once they decide to step outside the perimeter.