The exaltation of the Comedian's physical prowess fits the comic's positive assessment of him.

I thought we saw Tarly all burnt, tearing off his helmet. It would be a miracle for him to survive the shock and infection.

In a way it's to be expected that a charlatan like Miller can impose himself on the massive ignorance of Hollywood.

The double take the Dothraki chasing Bronn does when he rips open the tent and sees the scorpion also makes them figures of fun. Setting them up so their annihilation makes the Night King et al. seem really badass, but we are bummed out over losing characters?

Not in the TV series, he wasn't. The pre-Qyburn Mountain would have killed Tyrell's pansy ass in in a heartburn except for the Hound. And as Baelish pointed out Tyrell cheated even to unhorse the Mountain. Tyrion and Tywin beat Stannis at Blackwater Bay. Even Cat Stark knew enough to despise Loras just as much as…

It's not clear to me why a corpse who killed a handful of nobles decades ago is so much more hated than someone who just indiscriminately slaughtered numerous nobles and clergy and commoner bystanders. Except that in the supposedly realistic world of GRRM, the common people love their lords, even to the point where…

There was much commentary in the threads about how obnoxious her titles are (earned or not,) which I'm surprised you missed. I don't think people were a bit wrong in thinking the joke was at Daenerys' expense. If you felt differently, you felt differently, but I think you were much in the minority on that. I think…

How would I change the story?
Somebody would have pointed out to Daenerys the death penalty for leaving the Night's Watch, as a way of dealing with Jon Snow's pretensions. Should be Varys.

There isn't any dramatic meat to the episode. It's a brainless action piece. But it's a really, really exciting brainless action piece, theater level on your TV set. But watching is the thing for that. Doesn't lend itself to positive reviews, because there's nothing to say, just feel.

Possibly. In my defense, you're very cryptic, don't address facts and don't present arguments. When you aim to be dismissive, you don't communicate much.

It would be useful to Cersei. If the northerners hate southern lords as much as Jon claims, the revelation would threaten his position. And if "complicating his relationship with Dany" means maybe putting them at war with each other for the Targaryen claim, oh, yes.

They've already gotten us to suspend disbelief in dragons, prophecies, unrelieved genocidal evil because, etc. As much as we want to believe, sometimes the straws break the camel's back. Skilled writers like to get the little things right just to help us with swallowing the big ones.

Didn't insult anyone except possibly the producers and GRRM. They are crying all the way to the bank, your heart bleeds for them. You are a generous soul.

It's the way things are done. The boss who orders these things is the one who people bend the knee too. If Danaerys doesn't end the wars by taking the Iron Throne, then Cersei will be Queen. Currently Danaerys has no great house giving her loyalty. The adhesion of the northern kingdom would be a huge step towards…

Excessive revolution, of course, going too far. I repeat people like you always support these dictators at the time. It's only later you pretend they were always the inevitable results. They weren't inevitable. The support of people who thought like you was invaluable to their rise to power.

Part of what's going on with Theon the character may be GRRM incompetently confusing a hostage with a fosterbrother. Fosterage was fairly common as another way of sealing familial alliances. If Theon was a fosterbrother of that kind, he would indeed owe a familial loyalty.

Then she has no right to order any soldiers to the North to fight the white walkers, and she no right to steal supplies to sent to the North, She should tell the Unsullied and the Dothraki they have the right to do what they want. And basically she should fly back to Essos.

If so, then GRRM is an ignorant fuck with a swollen ego who thinks his random opinions about history and society and human nature are somehow truth. Or, maybe he's been knowingly selling trashy reactionary fantasy for the money, and that's why it's killing him to finish this putrid crap.

Two points: Star Wars had a much lighter touch than Game of Thrones. Makes a difference. Also, even more important, if Star Wars had been an open-ended serial dribbled out in weekly installments over years, those questions would have started when the credits rolled. There are tasks intrinsic to the serial format that…

Never thought of that. You may be right.