Jessica Alba was terrible in the movies, but I think her story about Tim Story telling her to "cry pretty" absolves of her any blame for those miscarriages of filmmaking.

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.

Or maybe cuts to Ramsay or his men? It was so weird that they didn't show the people who actually did the sabotaging.

Only if it's accompanied by a slide whistle.

Eh, I don't think they are in any position to take the high ground when it comes to writing.

Yeah, I saw that…it would be acceptable under other circumstances, but there's no way for next episode to feel triumphant even if Stannis takes Winterfell and kills Ramsay and Roose. There's no way to root for him now.

The whole damn thing with Melisandre's magic in the show is too damn ambiguous. A king's blood can mean so many things, but apparently burning Shireen is the one way to get them victory? What do they expect to happen? In the other points of the show where they used magic, Stannis and Melisandre had a clear objective.…

Out of all the characters who have been given short shrift by the show, Stannis is the most prominent. It's always been apparent that Weiss and Benioff have no understanding of his character; now it's just weird that they're positioning him as facing off against the villains of this season if they don't want us to…

Qyburn seems to be pretty infamous among the other maesters for his experiments at the Citadel. Pycelle knows all about him, so I doubt the character isn't who he says he is.

It would be wonderful if a zombified Rattleshirt shows up later, wearing his bone armor over his own skeleton.

I have no idea what argument you are trying to make.

"RAMSAY!!! WELCOME…TO DIE!!!"

They didn't need words. The look on Jon's face said "We're fucked" better than anything else could.

One of those things does not exist in the real world.

The White Walker in that scene was presumably turning the baby into a wight. It seems that the Others are not remotely human, they're some kind of ancient race with a control over the elements and even death.

The show simplifies it quite a bit by removing a lot of the extraneous characters Martin introduced into the main Meereen plot of the books—some of whom might be appearing later, others who will probably never be in the show.

Well, that all sounds pretty good on paper. But most of the lords of the Vale would be pretty suspicious of Littlefinger, given the circumstances of Lysa Arryn's death—and also considering that most of them probably disliked him anyway. There's also no indication that anyone from the North would follow him,…

Yeah, that would be the second instance of killing off a really popular supporting character by complete non-characters for no plot-related reason this season.

Yeah, not really. There's nothing to suggest that anyone from the Vale, Riverlands, or North would follow Littlefinger into battle. He doesn't have the family name, the popularity, or the appropriate success in warfare to do such a thing. Most people don't know who he is, and those that do probably would not trust him.

Speaking of the timeline being messed up…