I prefer farces about the joy of killing unpleasant people to be much less pompous, pretentious and padded than Game of Thrones. Also funnier, though to be sure that's wildly variant from person to person.

An audience that doesn't need exposition of impossibilties and outrageous improbabilities is, sadly, uncritical. That's really not synonymous with stupid, but it is uncomfortably close. Yes, I know, because I've done it too.

Yes, being sophisticated means being too cool to waste time thinking about this stuff. Quite obviously I am not. Your irony has pierced me to the heart.

The strong man who curbs the excesses of the revolution, killing off the fanatics, is the typical dictator. Cromwell instead of the Levelers, Napoleon instead of Robespierre, Stalin instead of Trotsky. People like the producers like to forget this, because at the time, their kind always prefer the gravediggers of the…

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. Nothing Tywin did merits killing, especially not renting Shae, which is in my judgment what Tyrion killed him for. The world at large should have preferred Tywin in charge of Tommen rather than Cersei, champion of the High Sparrow until it didn't suit her any…

I thought she was eager for details. Must not understand what I see.

I must say, I would have felt even sorrier for Meera if Bran had encouraged her to stay with him. He really isn't good material for a marriage.

Varys was implicated with Littlefinger and Olenna Tyrell in starting the civil wars. No doubt he thinks of it as working with, not for. But he's been there from the start.

I always think of Tyrion strangling Shae and murdering his father when I see him. I do not think his reactions express the moral sensibilities of the audience. God, I hope not.

The idea that there's any conflict in who to root for is more a symptom than a genuine thought.
The real driver is that the producers will never forgive Danaerys for being a revolutionary, of any sort. The witless idea that she did wrong by thoughtlessly overturning slavery without having a carefully worked out plan…

Nobody ever talking about dates is every bit as artificial. In real life people talk about when somebody left and when they'll get there all the time.

Yes, Balon condemned Theon for his disloyalty to the Greyjoys. That's how he got out of his family's good graces. Balon's scorn wounded Theon so deeply because Theon knew he wasn't really a member of the Stark family and he really was being disloyal to his real family. The Starks are hero characters, therefore their…

Theon get back in his family's good graces? How ever did he get out of them?

And when Sansa married Tyrion she should have been loyal to the Lannisters?

The goal is to take KL by siege, which will kill far fewer people than storming the city with dragons causing fire storms. And leave people to collaborate in a new government too.

Also, the producers have made it obvious that the common people all deserve Darwin Awards.

A castle is power over the local serfs and peasants. The lord of the castle is the local judge, landlord and center of polite society too.

I never understood why a hostage Greyjoy owed loyalty to the Starks. If Jon Snow had taken to heart Catelyn's rejection of him and gone his own path, no one should have deemed that a "betrayal." If he had discovered his unknown mother was a Lannister woman, who urged him to avenge her honor, what should he have done?

The claim that the amoral mercenary Bronn who just happens to be one of the best fighters in the world is someone a representative of the common folk is nuts. This really just expresses the idea that everybody is amoral and mercenary. Speak for yourself, Hollywood.

The Hound was reformed by caring for Arya. Feeble, yes, but that's what was on screen. Maybe expecting to die was a part of it. It is entirely unclear whether he has any more use for the Lord of Light than the Seven. Maybe if his vision in the flames comes true, he'll start thinking about it.