The trade negotiations are mentioned in the opening crawl, and then within three minutes of the film it's made clear that they're just a cover for the Emperor trying to take over the universe. Then trade routes are mentioned like, once after that.

I don't know why they're not more willing to let these films take 3 years to make instead of 2. It didn't harm the audiences for the first 6, and surely a great film is better for long terms profits and prestige than a rushed, ok film.

KENNEDY: "For FUCK'S SAKE Johnson! What the fuck is this? Where's the ice planet? Nobody got fucking frozen at the fucking end! And I counted zero fucking asteroids, zero cities in the clouds, and only one speeder vs walkers battle! Jesus Christ. Get JJ on the phone. Maybe we can still save this. Stop cryin' Johnson.…

Why in the wide world of fuck is this a story that's trending on social media? "Upcoming big film is the same 2 hours and 15 minutes running time as a great many blockbuster films." Better tell the New York Times to drop that Trump Russia stuff - this needs to be on the front page of every paper in the land tomorrow.

GRRM: "That wasn't smoke, it was steam - steam from the steamed hams the midwife's assistant was making. When the midwife saw that her aide was cooking, she used some 'salty' language to get her back to the task on hand."

I loved that about Stannis, and would love it if modern politicians did that kind of stuff. His introduction scene is one of the best bits of quick characterisation I can think of.

"You'll never believe… I went on the internet to talk about Game of Thrones in intense depth… the whole place was full of nerds!"

'Twat' - according to wiktionary - could be related to an Old Norse word meaning 'cleft', and its first appearance in English was in the 17th century.

I think it's funny that Bran seems to have only recently affected this manner.

Daenerys is a hard character to write: she has to be a take no shit, severe leader, but one who exudes compassion. Sometimes - not unlike with Sansa - they fumble, and when aiming to write her as authoritative land on blinkered or pompous. She absolutely should look for proof or a proper explanation, but…

"You know how monarchs, the basis of our society, work? It's exactly like that."

Olenna was totally beaten at that point - she just managed to maintain her wit and dignity till the end. Everyone she loved had been horribly murdered - I don't think she'd be interested in living longer.

Oooooh maybe. I'm sure I remember Mance and his friends denying it though, and while they *would* deny it, it seemed, in the context of the novel, that we were to believe them.

In 'A Dance with Dragons' - while the Boltons, the Whitehills, and the other Northern houses are snowed in at Winterfell, someone starts killing people, including one of the Walders. Theon bumps into him in the snow at one point, but his hood's up and we don't see him. It's one of those great bits in ASoIaF where we…

"Now, my repeatedly cornering your mother and telling her I loved her didn't work, but that, Sansa my dear, was only because I wasn't repeating it every waking hour of the day."

I think the character that's suffered the most from whitewashing is Tyrion - since the start of Season 5 he's pretty much been 'calm, wise, and jokey', where in the books he was a self-loathing, entitled, often petty, sometimes mercilessly pragmatic, but fundamentally decent man.

Me too - it's become her Imperial March in that whenever she does something evil - sees the wind lance, poisons Tyrene - it plays.

HBO PRODUCER CHECKING FOR REQUIRED NUDITY SCENES: "I like it!"

"Ah, the Twadwtpotsn gate, built by ancient Westoriosian Welshmen."

In the book Euron explicitly has some knowledge of magic - I'm quite happy for the series to nod to that with him striking quickly and spookily. I rewatched Episode 2 before this one, and the Silence, um, silently coming out of the darkness while flames and weird white lights flash around it was really frightening.