You put it perfectly. I’m rewatching Stranger Things with my partner, who’s watching the show for the first time. I told him I honestly didn’t think he’d be interested because for all the show’s fantastic elements, there’s a lot of pre-teen/teen drama. I think that’s part of why the show has such a broad appeal. At…

It’s why I can get behind what ImprovEverywhere does. Not that they claim what they do is performance art, but I find their “pranks” to be good-spirited fun, and the people who get upset by them are the ones who take themselves too seriously. What this woman did sounds like it was just a huge inconvenience to everyone.

I think the trailer for that freaked me out more than the one for The Rings.

That was my first thought: there already was a sequel to The Ring. Although I don’t remember anything beyond the fact that it existed (was it Naomi Watts again?).

I still remember an interview White did on some late night show, maybe with Conan? And being charmed when he told the story of picking up one of his Olympic medals from the dry cleaner’s after his mom dropped it off so the ribbon (???) could be cleaned. It came back to him on a wire hanger. I just thought he and his…

I couldn’t help thinking of that as well. Isn’t that what the Mountain did to Elia Martell? The scene was dark, so I couldn’t really tell what was going on, like it could have been just the septa screaming her head off after seeing the Mountain’s zombie face.

I’m highly considering getting the season 6 soundtrack. The music was so epic, each song tells a story so well.

Interesting. I wonder too if it’s possible that Sansa will just come right out and accuse Baelish of murdering Lyssa. But I suppose she’d have to make an ally of Robyn first or Arys (is that his name?) of the Vale.

Lena Headey is one of the main (eight?) actors to be getting a pay bump for the remainder of the show. Which I took to mean that Cersei will be alive until the end or close to it.

Wow, I didn’t even think of that. I just thought it was nice shot, but it’d make sense that the small flag is for watching the wind.

It was unbelievably satisfying. Reading through the article and comments, I realize there were a lot of things that didn’t make sense and creative liberties taken (at this point I accept that the Faceless Men can switch faces, I don’t care about the mechanics of it). But I thought Game of Thrones has always done…

I assumed if Daario was to remain behind in Mereen that the Second Sons would as well. Though now that I think about it, I don’t even remember what the mercenaries looked like, other than in leather like Daario. I don’t think I saw any such group on any of the ships at the end?

I thought I detected almost a romantic look pass between Dany and Tyrion. I don’t think they love each other romantically, but I believe they respect and value each other, which is more than Tyrion’s gotten from most of the people he’s encountered.

I had the captions on while I was watching the episode, and I believe the only words they captioned was something like “you know he’ll kill him” and “promise me, Ned.” I’m not sure if Robert’s name appeared in the captions but “Rhaegar” definitely wasn’t nor whatever name she gave Jon (assuming Ned chose the name Jon…

Good point, that if Jon knew, his army would have known about Littlefinger coming with the cavalry (assuming he wouldn’t have been able to keep it a secret). But Jon’s army has got to fight as if everything is on the line. Any less and who knows, maybe Ramsay would have slinked back into Winterfell and opted for a…

I don’t know, it didn’t bother me that much, although I agree with commenters who paint what happened as a Helm’s Deep—style save. It bothers me that I don’t know if it was a strategic decision by Littlefinger (if so, how could he possibly keep the cavalry in reserve until Jon’s army was on the point of being…

I’m not sure I can imagine Jaime killing Cersei, only because he seems so devoted to her despite her faithlessness (sleeping with Lancel) and selfishness (my suspicion that she loves power more than she loves her children). And I love the arc of his redemption in the books. But who knows! It’d certainly be an…

I like that interpretation. That makes more sense to me than the idea of an assassin being “no one.”

I saw some mentions of that online. Maybe that’s part of the reason the whole plotline just annoyed me. After all this time, and I still don’t understand how this poisoned water works (did it heal Arya’s blindness?) or what this idea of “no one” is meant to be. I assume the Waif was also apprenticing to be an assassin…

I appreciated that development in the story and have to admit I didn’t foresee it. I always expected a trial by combat, but you’re right that Cersei blew it. It’s what we’ve come to expect of her—no subtlety at all—and what I’ve come to expect of the High Sparrow as a master manipulator and strategist. I wonder if the…