Say what you want about George W. Bush's foresight but imagine they capture a member of Al-Qaeda in Iraq circa 2004. Bush spreads the word privately that they're going to put him on trial (I know, this is already heavily implausible, but stay with me). A local Shiite official decides to summarily execute him instead…

She'd better be careful with that, then. There isn't anything the show runners like less than someone they perceive to be a religious fanatic.

I was going to ask if this was the first episode since early in Season 2 where Stannis' behavior and motivation weren't significantly altered from the books but they still had that line about how Mance was executed for "treason (read: refusing to bend the knee)," not "betraying his oath to the Night's Watch." Book…

Mance is dead. Brienne and Pod will take the place of Abel and the spearwives if necessary. (Also, LSH is never showing up. Just thought I'd be mean about that, too.)

Dany was acting like AFFC Cersei at the end of the episode. Secretly thinking what she was doing was politically astute while on the face of it anyone else could easily see it would backfire completely.

But, as far as is portrayed (and that I picked up on), the only people who knew that she'd captured one of them and then decided to put him on the trial were on her council. Doesn't she have "plausible deniability" there? It could've been (and was) the ex-slaves, not her. So, imprison or banish the ringleader if you…

Maybe the funniest tinfoil theory I've ever read is that the Dusky Woman is Euron in disguise.

The thing with the Ironborn is they don't have much of a role to play on the show. Balon's death in the books is used to demonstrate the potential power of blood magic to Stannis. Show Stannis needs no demonstration. He does whatever Melisandre says whenever she says it, rarely asking any questions first. The Ironborn…

You're Littlefinger. You want Sansa to keep trusting you. She's just been through living at Joffrey's mercy for a couple of years. Now you think you can talk her into marrying Ramsay, the son of the man everyone seems to know murdered her brother and mother (and everyone seems to know used the sword on Robb himself)?…

Don't know if Littlefinger's plan will be derailed. His character will be derailed if he does that. I know show LIttlefinger sells prostitutes off for sadists to murder but he doesn't think of Sansa the way he did Ros. Some consistency, please.

Sansa's dye job only works if you've never seen her and the only things you know about her are her age and hair color. If they try to pass her off as Arya, someone at a wedding would have to recognize her. Rumors that "Arya" looks a lot like Sansa aren't going to get back to KL? I expect a lot of handwaving to explain…

Glen'll be fine. He's going to marry a Vietnamese woman. Cultural allowances are perfect for him. It's the Barcelona ending: "You see, that's one of the great things about getting involved with a foreigner. You can't take it personally. What's really terrific is that when we act in ways which might objectively be…

Mathis still doesn't get it. Roger can talk about Lee Garner, Jr. wanting to wank off Don because he employs charm (and probably euphemism). From Mathis it just sounds sordid! (And reminds Don that he fired Sal for refusing to do what he later told Joan she shouldn't.)

Did she? I missed that. Look, I know there's a lot going on in your life right now, Glen, but you do not bring a girl you just met to Betty's house. Teenaged girls are right there on the list of people and things you keep away from Betty Hofstadt Draper Francis.

Maybe he'll start his own franchise upstate when he gets back from 'Nam. The girls will all be blonde. Naturally blonde, before they cut it off to toss in his massive hair pile (that he sleeps in). Everyone will be required to go to the bathroom outside in front of each other. Wife #1 will be renamed "Betty." Their…

Yeah, Marten Weiner might be normal. As played, Glen Bishop will always be unsettling.

He applies the same "dead on the outside" affect to playing Glen Bishop as he must've in school every time a new group of classmates discovered "Marten's Holden his Weiner!"

It's O.K. We made it. It's over. Though the hint early in the episode was frightening, Sally didn't lose her virginity to Glen Bishop and she didn't come home to her mom Mrs. Calvet-ing him in the kitchen. Thanks for prolonging the war, Nixon!

I'll bet Scout's Honor cracks her right up.

She does attract a certain kind of male. Henry's maybe the least screwed-up one, and he only got through because palming her baby bump was part of his seduction technique. Sometimes people only pick up what you're laying down, is what I'm saying.