I'd rather watch a video of GOT nerds watching video of George ploughing through KFC Bargain Buckets while periodically clutching his heart and screaming: 'Oh god, it's the big one!', then chuckling and going on to the next bucket… And still with two books to go!

You need to recalibrate your expectation. I knew he was a pig-faced fatty with a Cap'n Ahab beard and the cap of a Dutch child molester but I didn't expect him to be a dwarf.

I didn't realise he was so small.

"@spinachleaf Show me where he said complexity itself is intrinsically funny."

"Nothing in this season was based around the idea that complexity is intrinsically funny. "

How about Buster not getting any focus until Episode 14?

Don't be angry with me just because my loyalty to the former show isn't strong enough to proclaim this new season as a cavalcade of comic genius even when it patently isn't.

On the plus side, having had the excruciating embarrassment of Tyrion and Sansa's wedding and then the horror of the Red Wedding, at least we can be pretty sure that nothing will go wrong with the third big wedding coming up, Joffrey and the Tyrrael girl. I am sure that will be a lovely, peaceful party with jokes and…

Well, we should find out in four days. I am prepared to be the farm the final shot will be Caetlyn's eyes opening madly, burning with revenge. That would certainly be a dynamite - and surprising - end to the season. Let's see what we shall see.

Some of us, me for example, sincerely believe that both circumstances and critical choices caused Hurwitz to create a fourth season that was absolutely not of the same quality of the preceding three seasons. More than that, the new season fails in comparison with other comedy series coming out at the same time - for…

By 'funny and sweet' do you mean 'dull and thick'?

The Campbells are Scots, you idiot.

Don't be silly. You know no one comes back from the dead. That's part of the great realism of Martin's creation. No one comes back from the dead once they've been killed. Especially not a Stark

I diagree. It would make a sensational last minute of the last episode of the season - and really set up the coming season

It's not in Martin's books either.

'Jesus Christ, what the fuck did you do to me, you little turd… ? Wait, I can articulate now? Well say hello so the All-New Super-Hodor!"

All in all, they're a pretty unlucky family, the Starcks. I wouldn't like to be their actuary.

Martin does make feeble efforts to add PC elements into the show - the idea of Talisa being a saintly nurse would have made no sense to anyone until the Crimean War and Florence Nightingale. Before then, a woman on a battlefield offering medical services would have been a vivandiere, a polite name for a hoor,

So do you think they're going to

Sorry, but as we saw from the first episode the new season, that udder’s been dry for a while though, hasn’t it?