When Martin says he feels closest to Tyrion (even if he's actually most like Sam,) I believe him. That's why Tyrion gets all the best lines, why no one snarks back and why he can murder a woman without anyone caring, then sneer at Theon Greyjoy because he doesn't *look* liked he's suffered.

The absence of skis, snow shoes and dog sleds really pretty much says it all about the ability to world build.

It is very common for US soldiers who prisoners usually can be safely managed nevertheless to refuse surrenders. That's not a problem but Daenerys executing defeated soldiers who openly refuse parole, much less surrender, is unacceptable?

But he can imagine how he'd feel if Ghost was killed, and project his feelings onto Daenerys, leading him to identify with her sorrow. Most people do not get really sentimental about dangerous creatures like dragons and dire wolves. The ones who truly love them I suspect feel the world is by and large unsympathetic. …

It is not at all clear to me that he knows he needs to kill Arya. It is not at all clear to me that Littlefinger is on her list. It is not at all clear to me that Arya won't randomly decide to resume checking off names on her list. It is not at all clear to me that Arya is supposed to be a rational character, or one…

Almost all of the effort was spent on mindless action, even more mindless than usual for GoT.
Still, unlike the loot train episode, this one did actually try to do some drama.

If you compare Daenery's reconstruction of Slaver's Bay to Reconstruction in the US, it should be obvious how much the writers have stacked the deck against Daenerys. Daenerys is portrayed as a tyrant in the making precisely because she is so close to being a revolutionary. The producers hate revolution and the masses…

I think you are exactly right about the producers' goals.

First, no one ever supported Viserys for good motives. Daenerys said it herself, then ignored her own words, a piece of dramatic irony the writers would love as making her a fool unfit to live.

I thought the really important thing about Valyrian steel swords is that they don't shatter like glass when the special zombies with the magic swords strike.

Yes, at any moment Daenerys could pose as a defender of the laws and cut off Jon's head.
And correctly claim she's just following the customs of the land, instead of acting like an ignorant foreigner who doesn't care about Westerosi laws.

If Beric dies, and gets raised as a walker, then Thoros resurrects him as a human (more or less,) doesn't he have insider information? Obviously the walkers are in mental communion of some sort with the Night King and his lieutenants.

Qyburn said to Cersei, "I can give you something," as Jaime came into the room. There are three possibilties: Something for difficulties attending pregnancy (such as nausea,); something to induce abortion (to save her life, or avoid the discomfort of a futile pregnancy, fates implied by the prophecy of three…

"Impossible" is…shit, you may be right.

tl;dr—-the auteur theory is BS.

If I live long enough, I will. I'll start as soon as it's finished.

I'm still watching the show, and the throne is still the main event on screen. Everything else is scanted. It doesn't matter is Jon Snow is Jaeherys Targaryen or whoever, but that's the big tease.

Never read the books. Have obviously seen the series. Strictly speaking no one can say whether they are a fan of the show, because it's a serial which isn't over yet. Have had hopes that there was a lot of dramatic irony people were ignoring. As this becomes less and less possible to hope for, my distaste for the…

Then G.R.R. Martin is a nasty fat fool. Also, Benioff and Weiss are not obliged to copy stupidity.

I was a little disappointed a sex columnist had no thoughts about the likelihood of whether people "dropping out of the dating and marriage game" was a moral panic about fewer white people being born. Or a sign of people lying to pollsters because they're getting nervous. Or a product of people not being able to…