Also wanted to add that I was really glad Daenerys sympathized with the widows. In last week’s episode, the show seemed to be setting them up to be antagonists, the outsider versus the Dothraki. But this week’s episode seemed to indicate that the widows aren’t treated that much better than most women in Dothraki…

A question: Has the High Sparrow actually sentenced Margaery to a walk of shame? I don’t remember what the choice she and Cersei are given—confess and walk of shame or confess and trial by combat. I thought the High Sparrow was still waiting for Margaery to confess and that Cersei telling Lady Olenna that Margaery…

Oh my God, I loved the faces Brienne was making at the dinner table, between looking at the food and the other people there. Like it was just so awkward for her being in some sort of society.

I was wondering about that too, in the preview for the next episode. I couldn’t tell if the horde gathered outside of Bran’s tree were White Walkers or Wildlings who like to wear other people’s skin. The White Walkers don’t quite look like the ice zombies I imagined them to be.

Oh, it was just a rumor I read somewhere online. Given that critics didn’t get advanced screeners of Season 6, it was most likely something someone observed from a distance during the shooting of the battle of Winterfell, that there were two flayed/burned bodies on the battlefield outside of Winterfell. Edited this…

Sounds promising. I’d totally forgotten until this episode that Cersei still had to face a trial. I’d gotten to thinking that the Sand Snakes versus The Mountain would wrap up that storyline, but I think The Hound versus The Mountain, brother versus brother makes more sense.

That’s what I was hoping initially, until he threw a severed direwolf’s head onto the table.

I love how that’s two episodes now that end on Jon metaphorically dropping the mic.

Oh geez, do you think it’s Rickon and the wildling woman’s bodies that will be flayed and burned and put on display at the battle at Winterfell? Read some rumors about two such bodies on the battlefield as Jon approaches … That’d really bum me out, but it would seem to be the only thing Ramsay is capable of doing with…

Ha, I’d forgotten about the greyscale as well. I think I minded at first that Peter Dinklage is obviously so much more attractive than Tyrion is in the books. But his acting is so fantastic that I don’t really mind. (I guess one could argue that his ugliness in the books leads to the plot developing in certain ways…

Oh my God, and Don Lemon giving Larry the middle finger on camera … I admire Larry for his unfailing delivery. I guess comics have to be, but I was cringing for so much of his speech.

That would be poetic justice, especially if it were Nymeria leading a pack of wolves or more than one dire wolf tearing Ramsay apart.

I had to Google an image just to make sure you weren’t trolling me! I had forgotten as well that Tyrion’s hair was ever blonde in the show.

Wow, what a testament to Peter Dinklage’s acting that I think of him now as the definitive Tyrion. I’d completely forgotten that Tyrion, in the books, has that Targaryen-colored hair and odd-colored eyes.

I think Roose’s line about “if you act like a rabid dog …” will end up being prophetic. At least I hope so. Ramsay is the worst.

I think so?? And his imprisoning the Sand Snakes for their role in the conspiracy. I also remember his revealing the plan about marrying a Martell to a Targaryen. I thought he was a shrewd leader.

OK, so it wasn’t just me. IIRC, Doran was a competent king in the books and seemed to have a few schemes up his sleeves. I always skimmed those Dorne chapters, but I’m not sure we ever spend any time with the Dornish people and get their perspective on what’s going on.

I haven’t liked the Dorne storyline at all. Ellaria always struck me as petulant—feeling as entitled as Cersei and as frustratingly fettered by her gender, though unlike Cersei, she’s got her Sand Snakes to back her. So I was surprised at Doran and Trystane’s killing. All this time I’d assumed Ellaria was pursuing her…

IIRC, didn’t he join up with a group of rebels in the Riverlands? The Banner … Brotherhood … those guys. I remember being disappointed when he and Arya parted.

Exactly. Drives me crazy. They act as if they’ve never had to find health insurance coverage for themselves and their families (I say “act” because I imagine some politicians have and are just disingenuous about how onerous the process is). Or when they talk about “shopping” around for health care, ignorant of the…