The Nights Watch is basically disbanded entirely. There is no Wall to Watch on. 

Like, maybe - and I’m just spitballing here - a whole bunch of people? the only reasonably safe stronghold in the North? Two more dragons?

Um, he breached the wall when he had a dragon to breach it with. 

Dany being pretty sure she’s not having any further children would put a kink in those plans. 

I know, right? Dany used to care when her dragons ate goats that belonged to other people ... I think they are doing a very good job of slowly setting her up to be deposed because she’s unfit to rule... maybe it’s too gradual for some to see, but I think she’s steadily becoming a true despot

I think without her idiot son mucking things up and not taking her advice, Catelyn would have been better off, so maybe Sansa is going to be fine.

Isn’t he technically a half-Targ, though? So it seems the rules aren’t as cut and dry. And I agree with the commenter below who said dany probably assumed it was a favor to her from Rheagal. 

Eh. I was a senior in college in 2005-06 and there was a burgeoning movement among “cool” people against visible labels even then. Thrifting was huge, and skinny black jeans (the minimalist of pants) were just starting to take off again in a harkening back to the punk era. I’ve also had a half-baked thesis idea of the…

I mean, Bernie Madoff is famous in roughly the same way and the only pay-out he’s getting is from guys in jail who want Swiss Miss. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-series-casts-bernie-madoff-not-only-as-a-crook-but-a-product-of-a-corrupt-system-2017-01-12

The AVClub article says saturday. So that would, for any person living a normal life, very late on Friday night. We’ll see if that’s accurate. But at least its information! 

precisely 12:01 am PT, but... which day this weekend? 

And hey, it worked for the Queen.

my understanding is its Bill

I saw a write up or ad or something in the NYer a few weeks ago about this and I swear I almost bought a bus ticket that day. I’m not ruling out doing it, if my baby doesn’t arrive early, though I believe OBs frown on 39 week pregnant ladies taking 5 hour bus trips but what the fuck i love Laurie Metcalf. 

do they need anyone new at this point, now that Bran is basically a deus ex exposition? 

the marathon that hbo is airing right now made me realize how much less sex there is in recent seasons... there’s a lot less need for the vast data dumps they did in season 1, so there’s a lot less need for random naked chicks in the background... 

at least one of them dies if not both. 

You are so nice to people in the comments who basically say “your thorough reporting is worth the same as my hollow and uninformed speculative feelings.” So much nicer than I would be, obvs. 

agree 100% ... by saying the terrible thoughts out loud - even better, singing them - I take the sting out of them, because they are blatantly ridiculous, and everyone acknowledging that by celebrating that song reminds me of that fact. 

Villanelle would never have gotten with 50 yards of Helena, the way she dressed.