I’m a little worried about this one. Mockingjay is a book about ptsd, and how no one ever really survives a war. Katniss looks like the typical untouchable badass superheroine here. That’s not what the book portrayed at all.

Yep. Depending on what happens next week, I may be on Team Night’s King from here on out. That dude even saves orphan babies.

If only there were a really awesome character inside Rooses’ camp, secretly working to restore the Starks. Someone in command of a fairly powerful Northern house, pretending loyalty to Bolton so that he could get close enough to undermine him. Someone like.... yet another book character they left out of the show.

Oh, come on. Just sing “The Neverending StoreeeeEEEEEEEE!” with the rest of us whenever Dany hops on Falc...er...Drogon.

“1. I knew Shireen was going to die as soon as Davos handed her that elk. Guarantee he comes back and finds it on the funeral pyre, and that’s how he knows what Stannis did.”

Yes. To add to that, missing out on several people’s continued journeys through the Riverlands really robs us of understanding just what a hellscape this war has created outside walled cities. Jaime, Brienne and the Hound all have long journeys through the landscape that leave you with an understanding that, outside…

It’s difficult ground for a storyteller to walk on. As a father, part of me understands her giving up in that moment, and can imagine having the same reaction to seeing undead children. But we have to take it in the context of the entire story D&D have put together...which has been tilted toward some pretty sexist…

Though there’s no shortage of historical inaccuracies in the show, it is the costuming that bothers me most. Particularly that of the Anglo-Saxons, somehow wearing matching uniforms at a time when no one on the British Isles could afford to standardize military equipment, and wearing 16th-century Spanish helmets in…

Fat lot of good it does him, but we all love us some Edd.

Not to mention, “no, you will never walk again. But you will fly.”

I think that rumor came from the fact that the actor who played Uncle Ben(jen) was listed on the imdb page for the episode

It’s a longstanding debate among book readers. There is a well-documented strain of some sort of madness in her family. I think, in the show, some character even used the book line “when a Targaryan is born, the gods flip a coin. Mad or sane.”

Yes. Confirmation of two major supicions of many book readers this episode. One — Valyrian steel is dragon steel, and can kill The Others. The other, well, let's just say Sam might as well have winked after looking directly into the camera and saying those last few lines.

Quite a bit of difference.

Both Cersei and Qyburn have referred to the plot line you are thinking of as his “work” this season. Yes, he was updating her on precisely what you're thinking of.

When Tormund finally called him Wun Wun I was so damn happy.

In the books, only fire kills a wight.

The only explanation that made any sense to me is that the kid she stared at was family. She mentioned brothers she’d lost (though I think she’d lost them to the watch?).

Assuming you’re not a book reader, all I can say is that Sam’s speech about how “sometimes you must do what you know in your heart is right, even if other men think it’s wrong,” will probably turn out to be Sam inadvertently convincing Olly to do something Sam very much would NOT want him to do.

As a parent with a student currently applying to colleges — yes, yes, a thousand times yes. It’s astonishing to see the way that universities have become self-marketing machines who are no longer interested in being good at the thing they’re supposed to do.