OK, I’m only 2 and a half episodes in and it’s already competing with Revolution as the most awfully stupid clusterfuck of shit I’ve ever wasted time on. Cretinously written characters, contrived events and poor decisions in place of drama - you could make a better script by photographing used toilet paper and getting…

Imprisonment probably wasn’t an option, not logistically - you need a location, staff and supplies to maintain it which then becomes a military target, and as she said, it then becomes an easy option. I don’t think there was a good option, though she could have returned him to his castle and kept Dickon as a hostage…

Not equal, but a great example of cruelty. A person who can do evil things to people is still evil, even if they only do it to people who are supposedly worse. She fed someone to a dragon arbitrarily - no trial, no fact-finding, just pure bloody vengeance. They still have it in them to murder their enemies, even if…

Except that anyone who would deny her the throne would be considered her enemy - look at the whole of her interactions with Jon Snow over season 7, constantly looking for him to pledge allegiance. She makes no attempt to earn his loyalty, she demanded it. Now that he is THE rightful heir, anyone who would support that…

That’s always been something that amused me with much love Khal Drogo got - it’s a charismatic performance by Jason Momoa, but he is every bit as evil as Ramsey, Joffrey etc. This is the speech where he promises the help Dany get her throne
“And to my son, the stallion who will mount the world, I will also pledge a…

Why? She knows there is someone there with a better legal claim to the throne than hers. Given what has been done to Kings Landing and the citizens, who would dare to press that claim? It’s essentially terrorism - control the people by making them too afraid to step out of line.

The whole breaking the wheel thing is a…

This is my difficulty - IF there is a physiological difference between the biological sexes that means we need to segregate sport (a), and IF biological gender is not a simple binary division (b), where along that continuum do you draw that division in a way that the system can’t be manipulated by questionable states?

I…

The third fastest time belongs to Pamela Jelimo of Kenya, who seemed to have her career disintegrate after getting married and making a lot of money at a young age in the Diamond League. She has subsequently had a daughter, which possibly disproves the 46 XY DSD contention for her (I don’t know how it affects…

It’s going to be a minor miracle if GRRM closes half of the hanging threads in the books, let alone does so in a satisfactory fashion. Isn’t there something like another secret Targaeryan, some mystic implement to control dragons, Lady Stoneheart and more amongst the plotlines the show didn’t implement? I'm somewhat…

Wasn’t the knife drop also a call back to the training fight she had with Brienne? I’m pretty sure that had a similar beat, but haven’t had the time to check yet

Cavalry sucks in a siege, it made sense to use them as shock troops to try and trim the numbers that got to Winterfell. It was futile, but in all honesty there probably wasn’t room for them inside the walls. I’m in two minds about having them just disappear in darkness though - it made for a great visual and a…

Can confirm Florence Welch as the end credit singer. It was the first thing I searched for after the episode!

The arguments for a lady triumverate seems to ignore than the women on the show are just as petty and awful as the men. Sansa wanted to punish children for the actions of their fathers (and seems to be a good deal more like Cersei than Ned), and Daenarys solves problems by burning people which only creates more…

Maybe the unsullied could be used for gathering nuts?...

It’s something that bothers me when I see people lauding Martin as a great writer - the books are fun, but they are more full of plot than meaning and they feel like they are full of things that he once read about and thought was cool. Whilst I’m not convinced by some of the show writing (like the Stark girls vs…

If the core theme of Game of Thrones is personal ambitions/vendettas blinding people to wisdom, then I’d say he was used correctly, as a way of showing that. I didn’t see too much hatred for him online, it was more within my groups of friends and acquaintances, and it just irked me how inclined those folks were…

I think it's going to be used to mark the progress of the Nightking's army at the start of the episode, so each week those flipping tiles will get closer to certain locations

I think the Nightswatch are finished. Between the whole in the wall and most of the Wildlings being dead, I don't think they'll continue in their current form after the series ends. If any sworn brothers survive it'll be interesting to see what happens

It made perfect sense to me too. The thing I never had much patience with were the people who hated Olly. As much as Jon's decision with the Wildlings made a humanitarian and strategic sense, it also made sense that someone would not be able to move past their personal loss and grief. His actions were detestable, but…

Never understood destroying the supplies in the loot train episode. Sure it made for cool visuals, but it was such a stupid decision strategically. They'd be kind of useful about now...