Margaery is playing a long-con ... she knows Tommen is malleable and Loras is weak, so she will bring down the High Sparrow all on her own. Her machinations will cast down Cersei and take all she held dear.

I have to say, good on Sam for taking the Valyrian Steel but also, why didn’t he tell his family about the White Walkers in order try to get more men, supplies, etc? Use your connects bro! Also, why does his father hate wildlings so much? Horn Hill is pretty far south of the Wall, so I doubt he’s come into much…

The creators refer to Benjen as Cold Hands. His contribution is just manifesting post-TER death.

Nice to see Benjen return. I guess Coldhands will not be making an appearance ever.

Arya hasn’t made all this way to end up dying to The Waif. She’s going back to Winterfell... and kill a few people on her list on her way.

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He isn't predicting anything, he is getting info from an inside source and leaking it out, HBO has every fucking right to shut the bastard down.

The less lighthearted questions is how does copyright law apply toward a script? When the thing you’re copyrighting is essentially the story itself, does that extend to the plot points?

Yeah, the Rickon/Osha reveal was the first thing this season that made me raise an eyebrow toward the writing. If its really part of the Great Northern Conspiracy, it’s an incredibly risky/stupid move, considering Ramsay’s well established rep for impulsive murder and torture. If it’s a legit turn by the Umbers, why…

When they flung Shaggydog’s head on the table, I moaned “oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no......” and my husband laughed at me. He does NOT understand.

Not to worry. I have a little bit of hope opened up for the North storyline turning. Want to know why? Manderlys, dude. Here’s something that seemed to be increasingly cemented in the season (now, some stuff’s already happened in the episodes, but here’s also some potential for what’s to come, along with book-based…

Well, they are clearly setting up the Jon/Sansa super team. Jon is going to have an army of wildlings behind him, and used correctly as guerrilla fighters backed up by more traditional troops from one of the houses that hasn’t thrown in with the Boltons, it could be quite effective. Also, they come with the best siege…

If I was purely going by the TV show I’d be 100% sure that Shay is going to slit Ramsay’s throat in the middle of the night. But I don’t see book Shay doing that, but I know Martin wishes he’d written the character as well as the show did, so maybe he’ll bring her back and give her something cool to do, (like slitting…

I love that in this universe Tyrion literally created Never Have I Ever.