Varys should have walked in on that scene in the brothel. "Too old."

You'd think there would be just a touch of fear.

We've got that. That look has been exchanged since Olly killed Ygritte. I mean that just on a plot/realism level it didn't make sense that the Night's Watch (who somehow knew what had happened) were still more concerned about a few worn out Wildlings than they were about the ICE ARMY. It was like going back to square…

Was anyone else disappointed to see mopey Jon Snow back? His attitude didn't ring true to me. I get that they would all be sad but there was no sense of urgency. The big point was supposed to be that Ser What's His Name is still a jerk and Jon feels like a failure? When there's a fucking ICE ARMY right there?

The question about how much time has elapsed is becoming more and more of a problem. I hope they can find a way to bring the storylines closer together next season even if that means sacrificing a lot of book stuff. There is too much jumping around. I mean, going from Dorne buffoonery to a little girl getting torched…

Especially with Tyrion left dealing with the mess on the ground. I am more and more confused about why we are meant to root for Dany.

But Dorne was super important and that made up for everything.

It makes more sense to me when you say "Jonestown" I'll admit.

Whenever he shows up again? (I think Littlefinger will turn out to be the worst of any of them, btw).

Yeah, I've seen Selyse as more brutally repressed than anything.

Those are your opinions and they're good ones but it's too possible to have differing opinions. By the time a guy his daughter, a character a show has done a good job of developing for it audience, we should know if we're watching something really sad or something really evil.

I thought Mereen was totally cheesy.

I groaned so hard at the "they know the land better" comment. Glad I wasn't alone.

And then the spice worms come.

Yeah, seems like you'd save the daugher-killing for a more decisively final moment, doesn't it?

I don't find him tragic. I find him exceedingly sensible and fanatically cruel with no essential character binding the two extremes together. I don't know if Melisandre is playing him or if he is playing her. I don't know how much either of them believes in the Lord of Light. I mean, I know they believe in magic but…

I guess I was supposed to be cheering at the end but I was really more like "Oh great you've created a huge shitstorm, sat there like Cersei and let your lover taunt your husband-to-be and now you're flying off leaving Tyrion in the middle of it?"

He essentially agreed to it last week. His "no, that's crazy" went to "But I'll consider it" in a split second.

It was not a hard decision for him. He agreed to it right away and even tried to have sex with Mel right then and there. That scene was just to make it hard on the audience.

Agreed. There are a lot of people who comment that he has always been doing what he thinks he has to do, but I think that when taking the easier more treacherous route looks like the only option a sign of a nonasshole is that he steps back and questions his outlook. Melisandre's "hold" over Stannis seems to jibe too…