Wow, reading this reminded me just how dense this episode was. The plot is moving at a frantic pace, which for the most part is helping it.

Before every episode I dread the inevitable return of the Sand Snakes and am relieved not to see them.

I assume he went back to get married and is enjoying his retirement in relative luxury?

You'd think Michael Steele would have at least some knowledge of the Reagan administration. It wasn't THAT long ago… he's met a lot of those people, right?

Indeed, Davos is the kind of man who has learned not to ask tough questions to people in power, especially when the answer won't help anyone.

Yeah, my suspicion is they are going to trim Victarion for simplicity. Yara will lose the Kingsmoot and set sail with her loyalists (and Theon) and possibly end up in Mereen or somewhere else in Esteros.

My assumption is the Greyjoys don't just lack manpower, they lack the know-how and discipline to defend territory and withstand sieges. They're seafaring raiders by nature, and can defend the Pyke with ships.

I hope you're right too. Another alternate theory is that happens but he ends up working for the High Sparrow, leading to Clegane vs. Clegane trial by combat.

Well…. technically sodomy and incest are non-imaginary crimes in Westeros, even if the way they deal with them doesn't quite fit our modern way of thinking.

There's probably a lot of overlap in fandoms.

Well, my biggest issue with Stannis is the Red Woman. And Stannis showed time and time again how vulnerable he was to flattery, possibly because he lacked any real friends.

Still murdered his brother.

The best modern comparison I can come up with for the Stannis way of thinking is Singapore. Yes, their cities are very clean and they have a low crime rate, but it's also a place where tiny infractions result in very extreme punishment.

Oh, Renly and Stannis are both idiots for fighting each other. But Stannis wasn't in a position to bring the Tyrells to his cause the way Renly was. Guys like Stannis make better Small Council members than Kings.

Well, my thoughts on Stannis are mostly colored by my real life friends who have read the books, where the consensus was "Oh God, ANOTHER Onion Knight chapter???" But we're a bunch of liberal Californians, so maybe Stannis's cold approach to the Law and Fratricide were both big turn offs.

I'd be pretty nervous if I met someone in real life who claimed they really liked Stannis. He follows a certain cold letter of the law approach that promotes law and order at the cost of personal freedom.

Of course the shortcut turned it into a really stupid level to multiplayer on.

Depends which version of SF2. Chun Li could out-Vega Vega in a lot of versions.

Kid Icarus had some really inconsistent level difficulty issues.

I believe you're right that in the first cave level in Red/Blue/Yellow you're unlikely to have enough repels. Although in Yellow Pikachu should make pretty quick work of any bat.