Cersei is not very smart, and neither am I, but neither of us needed a prophecy to tell us our children would die someday.

Yes. I guess so. I'm still confused about the place of honor the flashback got and why it was there at all. Surely something pretty definitive has got to happen to Cersei that has to do with her relationship to her kids to justify it. Something that goes beyond everything we've already seen?

Oh. Ok. Well now I'm really confused.

No, it said she would SEE them in shrouds of gold. Meaning they would die before her. True you can't believe prophecies but why did the show go to such lengths to emphasize this one at this point?

Liked because I assumed you meant Worf; didn't read far enough down.

This season opened with the only cold open the show has ever done, correct? And it was a flashback that could have been inserted at any point in the show. So if Myrcella and Tommen don't end up in "golden shrouds" by the end of next week's episode I'm going to be wondering what the point of it was.

It's fine if you want to argue against art, which is what you are doing, but what you are describing is still not "hypocrisy."

TJ Miller is a master of hands/stomach interplay.

You just name-checked a Friends character and What's-his-named Dangle?

I do, it's just that I tend to keep my questions to myself.

The way Ramsay and the Unsullied are portrayed the show makes it seem as if there is no point to having might on your side. Which is ridiculous because that is one of its main themes. "The strong always crush the weak" except if the weak "know the land better" or "are better in alleyways." If that were the case there…

The prophecy was about all of her children dying before her. I expect both Myrcella and Tommen to die in the next episode or I'm going to be wondering why they showed the prophecy at all.

How could such a fanatically loyal army let all of those fires not only start but get out of control before noticing them? It made no sense.

If by "really interesting" you mean "headscratchingly pointless-seeming" I agree with you. It would help if Myrcella and Trystane weren't both being played by marshmallows, I guess.

It was a dirty piece of trickery to make the total lack of urgency seem plausible. I hated it.

It made the confusion about which side of the gate was being attacked by the White Walkers last week seem more glaring, too.

I'm not a reader and I have a terrible sense of geography but the scene of Jon and the Wildlings trudging up to the Wall felt totally off to me. You can't see them loading onto boats one minute and then see them walking across a seemingly endless white expanse the next minute without it being jarring.

Objection: the Unsullied cannot kill anyone.

Except — oh shit — it was Rickon.

Wait. I think the early King's Landing scenes were awesome.