He's like a shark…

Agreed. I mean, it would have meant less screentime for Natalia Tena, but wouldn't it have been a more interesting departure — and a sign of how far the character had come on her personal journey — if she had died defending Rickon from Ramsay's men? Rather than surviving to attempt a seduction, and then fail because…

I had absolutely every expectation that they'd be kept separate via Mario Bros. bullshit. Like, she'd get there just after Jon had left, and she'd have to go find him at another castle.

Of all the possible eras you could set an ASOIAF game, I have no loving idea why you'd set it concurrently with the show. You can't really tell your own story, and you're stuck within very tightly-defined constraints. It was positively infuriating every time Ramsay showed up onscreen, because you knew you couldn't do…

Jorah: "Pocket sand! Sh-shah!"

I also want TWOW for comparison (among many, MANY other reasons). I'm also anxious to see if/how death changes Jon. I imagine it won't affect him the way it did Catelyn, since he was only dead a few hours, whereas Catelyn had been dead for days. I imagine it'll be more like Beric, who didn't seem any more appreciably…

There's no real explanation as to why she suddenly believes Jon Snow is TPTWP, other than that Stannis clearly wasn't. At least in the books, we can believe she might change her tune when she realizes that all the "snow" she's been seeing in her visions wasn't literal but figurative.

I don't know why Sansa thinks rallying the Northern houses would help.

It really was. Granted, I don't see why we needed to have two separate storylines this week feature a woman being threatened with gangrape by a guy and all his men.

My issue with Dany has always been the entitlement aspect of her character, and that'd be fine if it were actually the point. But, like you said, it seems like the show wants us to root for her to take Westeros without any indication that she's fit to rule or that she'd be any better for the kingdom than the setup we…

I do find it interesting, however, that the two key figures in the series are viewed as gods by the people they wish to lead, with Jon's resurrection earning him the worship of the wildlings, and Dany earning the khalasar's respect by torching the holy place to the ground after refusing to join The Real Housewives of…

"Look at me. Look at me. I'm the Khaleesi now."

There were an awful lot of threats of sexual violence against women made this episode. By which I mean, two. The Khal's threats and Ramsay's letter. Well, three, if you count Ramsay appearing to be aroused by having murdered the shit out of Osha.

It's the kind of expediency of plot that I think Martin could stand to employ. Maybe not so brisk, but maybe fewer travelogues and more actual progression, so that the book's climactic battles don't have to be pushed to the start of the next book.

I never realized how badly I want it to happen this way until now. Just meet, and then Arya is so far gone, that she refuses to recognize her family, until the facade all comes crumbling down. I really just want the Stark kids back together, under one banner.

Me too, particularly once the Stark theme (or Theme of the North) kicked in. They didn't have a whole lot of interaction before this, but just seeing two Stark kids together again legitimately got me teary. And hearing them reminisce over a fire didn't help matters either. Seriously, how long has it been since we've…

Thank God they aged the character up.

"And the director said, 'Here, eat this apple. It'll make you look like even more of an asshole.'"

Jon: We got a Wun Wun.
Ramsay: I've got twenty good men.
Jon: Fuck.

I would certainly hope Ramsay gets his by the end of the season, but I'm not entirely sure Jon doesn't lose somehow (causing a retreat), and it's then up to Daenerys to save the North/The World.