The only way they could have been less subtle about that is if they had him longingly gazing at his sister's fiancé or something.

I sure won't miss Van Helsing though. Not too wild about that archetype.

Would it be so easy to link Varys to Tyrion's escape? The news that he escaped death would get out anyway and I doubt Varys would just do this without a good plan to cover his tracks.

I guess Jaime (who is both The Kingslayer and who visibly supported Tyrion where Varys appeared to speak against him) is pretty fucked too.

Evil Tori Amos = brilliance

I have to begrudgingly admit that he seems to have really grown as a character over the last two seasons and that he no longer knows nothing. The fact that he's probably going to be super important for the endgame still bothers me though.

I just don't see how Tywin's death would have been such a big deal for Varys' position.

I suspect that in the old days she would have gotten a lot of training tips from older, more experienced dragon people whereas the situation she was in forced her to just go on instinct. And when the dragons were smaller, she apparantly had much more control over them which gave her the false sense that they wouldn't…

That's a matter of interpretation. He did praise a lot of it, he just ended up comparing it unfavorably to seasons 2 and 3.

I liked Jon Snow this episode. That does not happen often.

Haven't read the books, still want Lady Stoneheart in my life more than most other, more important things.

It's still pretty damn substantial though.

Ï love how giving a beloved thing a B+, a grade which would be considered very good most places, means not liking it.

"Haven't you been listening to anything my father says?"
"Not really."

ok

Rosebud was a Connie Britton eating brains.

Well, what I was arguing was that the violence is not the point but a tool that's used to shade out the world and give the story a sense of gravity. It's used a lot, but I'd say it's used pretty well. There aren't many instances in which I thought they should have gone a different way. There's stuff like Jaime raping…

I'd argue that violence is far from being the point of GoT, however much it's the go-to mechanism for plot advancement. The show would still be good if we thought the characters in King's Landing were relatively safe from harm (even though far less exciting), but it would suck if it was just a non-stop bloodbath…

You take that back about Nicky and Boo!

To be fair, animated Tennant and Smith don't look like real Tennant and Smith at all.