On the other hand, he is the only god that noticeably gets shit done.

One theory I've heard around here is that Cers launches her coup with the wildfire, causing massive collateral damage at which point Jaime comes home and is once again confronted with a maniac trying to burn down King's Landing and kills her for her own good ('The things we do for love'?)

Davos is a survivor. Even if Jon's army had been completely destroyed, the next episode would have began with him pulling himself out of a pile of corpses and feeling for his lucky bones.

I used to play rugby and that was giving flashbacks to being caught at the bottom of a huge maul and being unable to crawl out. Really well done scene.

I said that when it happened!

I was yelling out for a shield wall. Jon is no Uhtred of Bebanburgh. I do kinda wish Tormund had called him an arseling, though…

I was at the Viking museum in York and they had the skeleton of a warrior of the time and the amount of deep cuts and arrow wounds (as in enough to damage bone but were partially healed so they survived them) was really surprising.

While it was frustrating, it made sense that Jon's impulsiveness and Stark honour would result in him putting his own army on the backfoot (in a manner of speaking)

I'm glad Ramsey was denied any kind of heroic send-off personally. After having him be some kind of superman for these last two series, it was satisfying to see that he was a coward with no real chance in a fair fight.

Ramsey wasn't really intending to have to get into combat.

And better for it IMO. It fits with this being the fall-out from the War of Five Kings as well - the men have had their shot and fucked everything up.

Well no-one on Jon's side is really a tactician, or even used to battles like this - his war council is pretty much him (whose only real military success is holding out in a siege long enough t be rescued) an ex-smuggler (who openly admits to being out of his element), a wildling (who's a fan of the ol' "run up and…

Also she witnessed his murder of her aunt - pretty quick way to turn the Vale lords against him should she reveal it.

Didn't Tyrion convince the hill tribes the fight for the Lannisters in the first series? We haven't seen anything of them since then - I'd actually forgotten they existed.

I remember the hidden track ('Til Kingdom Come') being really good as well.

The Cribs were brilliant! The only connection to Franz Ferdinand really is that Alex Kapranos produced Men's Need, Women's Needs, Whatever, they're closer to The Replacements and the poppier Sonic Youth stuff. 'Be Safe' from the aforementioned album has a track on which Lee Ranaldo does a spoken word piece backed by…

I'm going to be really heretical here and say the song on X&Y that nicks from 'Computerliebe', 'Talk', is actually very good.

Didn't they point out the fact that he put them into a Godzilla movie and then didn't have them crushed/mangled/otherwise killed by a giant lizard?

This Ain't Science: An XXX Parody

Weird that the Adam Buxton write-up doesn't mention that Buxton, along with Joe Cornish, used to have one of the most popular podcasts around (and still had brilliant, weird songs and interstitials as well). Also duelling Bowie impressions (wuzza wuzza)