Some say Arya is still rolling.

I really should have scrolled down further before making my comment. I know it makes no sense to compare their religions to our own, but it strains credulity that they would create Trials by Combat in the first place without some sort of parable about how the Seven helped a smaller man defeat a larger one because the…

And yet, you would think someone would argue, "Well, if the Seven judge fairly, then no amount of size or brute strength should be an advantage if the smaller man has rightness on his side."

Good question. I feel like Thoros telling The Hound that they're all here for something larger than themselves could be a setup for Beric making the decision to give his life for Catelyn's. If anything, her being dead for a year or longer before the resurrection, rather than just three days, will go a long way in…

True, but I would consider this to be the unintentionally funniest episode of the season solely based on Braavos. Arya rolling down those steps forever like Homer Simpson down Springfield Gorge, just fucking up everyone's shit all the way down, had me in stitches. And The Waif's Terminator head turn when she came out…

The Waif also died off-screen, because God forbid we get any catharsis out of this Braavos nonsense.

And when Arya is wandering through the shadows while on the run from The Waif. Her silhouette looks like a hooded wooman.

I posted this over on r/asoiaf after seeing similar comments, but for me, I think the episode actually strengthened the Hype, just not in the way we're expecting.

Tell me about it. They didn't even give us the one cathartic moment we might have gotten, since we never got to see Arya kill the Waif. Someone who, by all rights, she really shouldn't have beaten.

I don't know that Ben Mendelsohn himself could make a son that looks or acts as much like him as Owen Teague. But it's an incredible performance because it goes beyond imitation. Nolan is a fully-realized character in his own right, who's nearly as compelling as Danny was. I really hope he gets Emmy attention for this.

YES! My God, it drives me nuts. She's a terrific actor in her big scenes, but the bigger the scene, the more likely it is her accent is going to slip. I really don't know why she couldn't just speak in her native accent. Hell, they could explain it away as Diana having met John while vacationing at the Rayburns' in…

Or even better, just tell him it's none of his goddamn business what the guy's name is.

The sooner she makes it back home to Hot Pie, the better.

I hate to keep beating this drum, but has there been any more tiresome enterprise on this show than Arya's storyline the past two seasons? Even with Ramsay, at least there are immediate implications. And at least we don't check in with the Sand Snakes every single week (or at all since the premiere, really). But Arya…

It's part of a larger issue I have with recasting. I know that they couldn't really help it once Season 1 Mountain decided to bail for The Hobbit or whatever, but this show has a bad habit of recasting for reasons that elude me. Was there some kind of issue with Ed Skrein's Daario? And if not, well…okay, I like…

That's my biggest problem. Even without knowing he's in his 20s, there's no way I could buy he's Sandor's big brother in anything but size.

No Tyrion for two episodes in a row. What a strange age we’re living in.

Actually, the books make Robb's death seem even more tragic, in that he isn't killed because he failed to keep it in his pants, but because he couldn't suffer a blight upon his own honor, or by doing similar damage to someone else's. By banging Jeyne Westerling, he suddenly felt honor bound to marry her, rather than…

I'm surprised they didn't hammer home harder the whole "Rickon, the rightful heir to Winterfell, is literally still alive and a prisoner to the Boltons" point. I feel like I could understand the enmity against the Starks more if they'd been awful as they ruled. But, by all accounts, they were pretty well-loved.

You're the best!
Alive!
Won't be resurrected a second time!