Meanwhile, in Sansa's story…

This is certainly true. In that respect, she seems to have more sense than Aerys.

I know this is fast for a lot of people, but after reading the last two books, I'm all in favor of actually getting things moving.

I didn't understand the Dany hate until she was placed in opposition to characters I actually care about. Between the droning about birthright and her obnoxious intractability, I found Dany to be immensely tiresome tonight.

This is what happens when you have no actual generals in the squad.

"Damn, Olenna, you cold."

Puberty hit no one on this cast harder than Isaac Hempstead-Wright. Dude became a grown-ass man virtually overnight. He looks like more of an adult than I do, and I'm 32.

I want nothing more than to never see the Dornish again.

Honestly, I was kind of in the same boat. As monstrous an act as it was, Cersei wasn't entirely in the wrong. Oberyn lost fair and square under the law, and Ellaria lashed out by killing the innocent Myrcella. It sucks, but this is what Ellaria risked with that move.

That scene should have bothered me, but I'm too busy melting into a quivering puddle whenever the Theme of the North/Theme of House Stark plays, especially when it's paired with a teary-eyed reunion.

Talking shit straight into the grave.

Since when does the gender of an inanimate award have any sort of reflection on the person winning it? It's like Outrage Culture has been replaced by Preventative Outrage Culture.

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

I don't know how his publishers are okay with him going to cons and editing Wild Cards and writing hundreds of thousands of words for fake histories on a series that isn't even completed yet, all while the sixth book is yet to be done.

You joke, but she'd do it. You know she would.

So they saw Battle of the Five Armies' love story and thought, "Us too!"

I love the hubris of George assuming he'd have three extra years to finish Winds on the expectation that they would take three seasons to get through AFFC and ADWD, two books that occur concurrently and feature hardly any forward plot movement. What's crazy is that three years have passed, and the book still isn't out…

He was "months away" in October 2015. I honestly think "months away" are his house words.

It's a legit possibility that the entirety of Game of Thrones will have aired before George finished any book in the main series (since ADWD was already completed before Season 1 aired).

Yup. They aged her up, which they've pretty much done with everybody.