"It may be our one chance at finding Mina"—-um, Mina has appeared to you or Vanessa at least 4 times this season, and then another time you stumbled across her in a warehouse. Not sure the pessimism is justified.

I remember reading one of GRRM's critiques of LOTR, where he basically mocked the whole "and he ruled justly for the rest of his life" style-ending with a line line "well, what were his tax policies? when two of his lords fought, who did he support?"

A little more than that, I think, "The bearer of this coin is worthy to be trained to be a Faceless Man. Bring them to Braavos and you will be rewarded handsomely. FAIL to bring them to Braavos and you will spend the remainder of your short life regretting that decision."

Brienne's lucky to be alive. I did not like her chances once she told the Hound she didn't want to kill him.

I assume it was "Lysa's dead, so we're not letting in anyone we don't know."

What's nuts is that it killed 90% of their population and the people love it. Goes to show you, people are crazy.

Is Maddox a general? He's SecDef, but I don't remember him being referred to as a general before.

I did. The name of the series is "A song of ice and fire." The dragons are fire, north of the wall is ice. They seem destined to meet. I guess its more like the white walkers are ice, but the wildlings seemed icy enough to me.

It wasn't really dumb, or at least, no dumber than fighting the Mountain in the first place. Oberyn had two goals in that fight, kill the Mountain and make him point the finger at Tywin. And Oberyn (reasonably) thought he had won the fight, but now his chance for the rest of his justice was slipping away. If the…

It is funny. You start to root for Dany, and then she mentions her family and its like "oh right, your family was awful and deserved what it got."

I don't find them likeable. Complex, resourceful, formidable, and interesting to watch, yes, all of those. But they're killing people, many innocent, in the service of a corrupt and authoritarian state that's presided over a 70-year harvest of horror, all while lying to those closest to them, especially their…

Jaime's teeth-gritting reaction to realizing Tywin had deliberately led him into offering to give up the Kingsguard if Tywin will spare Tyrion was pretty great.

I was thinking that its only available for nobles/those of noble birth, which would make sense because peasants don't have legacies to lose.

He might know anyway. I thought there was a mild chance that Oleanna broached the subject with him and got the tacit go-ahead, sort of similar to various military officers considering a coup in their country might run the issue by their local American counterparts as an "FYI/is this cool?" conversation.

The only relevant part of her testimony was the (fake) part about Tyrion offering to kill Joff for Sansa. Her testimony has the same impact on the trial if she just says "he and I had a relationship, it stopped after he got married" prior to saying her fiction.

Hope you're right. That's what I originally thought, until other publications started tweeting at that account as though it were the real Dalton.

Aloof and grumpy is putting it nicely. He's a bit of a loon.

I do remember this show getting mentioned when Condi Rice declared that no one could have predicted that airplanes would be used as weapons as one of the examples, both in fiction and in real life, of people doing just that.

They want Lysa brought into the fold. LF claims to be in a unique position to achieve that, and has demonstrated nothing but loyalty to the Lannister cause. But yes, he set it up to seem that way.

But she has to stay alive to do anything.