Yeah, women went shopping for cloth, not dresses. And then they'd take the cloth to a dressmaker.

Dizzy and his wife ftw always.

It was very German Expressionism, that tree. Also reminiscent of the tree in Bergman's Hour of the Wolf.

Why? She wasn't speaking to us; she was speaking to the girl. And she made it clear elsewhere in the episode that she didn't have the most positive attitude about men and their treatment of women at that time. She was telling the young woman to be more on her guard next time.

I'm even more behind and I'm reading this! I agree, and also thought the idea that women would have been involved, in the pub scene and at the burning, was pretty anachronistic.

What made him nervous was supposedly Bran getting too involved in the scene. Even then he didn't shut it down until it looked like Ned sensed Bran's presence. I think both of those things were shenanigan reasons inserted to spin the reveal out a little longer.

There was that scene last season, though, where he was a disrespectful dickhead at Maester What's-his-name's funeral and some of us talked here in the AV Club about how it was apparent he doesn't really respect tradition. So I felt that death scene was cheating a bit.

It was cool how she managed to hold off until the exact moment the battle ended to let out that scream.

Other Lord of Light resurrectee.

The Arya storyline is so phoned-in it's as if it's supposed to be tongue-in-cheek.

Clare was a rural, Romantic poet who suffered from bouts of violent madness. I'm wondering if the monster is meant to be him, because I think he was too obscure for the monster to have heard of him.

You couldn't just get a divorce at that time by asking for one. It was only barely legal. Both the rich and the poor came to "understandings" with each other when marriages broke down. As long as people's private affairs didn't affect the family's finances everything was cool.

Well, Caliban is a creature of the Romantic era and obsessed with Romantic poets, so in this case it made sense.

By "good about it" I should have said "what Philip was attracted to about it." I agree with you except that I don't think she walked in the door intending to manipulate Philip into seeing EST her way. I think she just couldn't pull off "being nice" about it, which is what she intended to do.

Ok, but the whole center of tension in this show lies in Philip and Elizabeth's attempt to be real people, not spies, with each other. It makes more sense to me to read the argument as an honest clash between the way they perceive things than some devious spy maneuver on Elizabeth's part.

I thought she honestly sympathized with Philip, but honestly thought it was bullshit. I didn't think her hesitations were manipulative; I thought she really didn't want to get into it.

I thought that was one of the most realistic things the show has done. So many marital blow-outs happen because one partner is trying to be nice about something the other partner is into and then just can't lie about how they really feel. And then everything else comes tumbling out, too.

How, though? It sure looks like Tatiana is doing her best to seduce him, doesn't it? So wouldn't that suit whatever her higher-ups' agenda is?

That's what I heard too.

I thought she was pretty clear-eyed about it. She could see what was good about it, and that was all she meant to say to Philip. But she loves him, so she couldn't help but be honest with him when he pushed her a little. And she's right — EST was a scam. A pyramid scheme that was half pseudo-psychology and half…