We don't technically know if it's a loop or a paradox or what, because we don't exactly know what Bran's or the Raven's purpose was in going to that scene in the past.

Like Arya, she is still too governed by feelz. But that may just be a limitation of Martin's, seeing as it could be said of Dany as well.

His dialogue was way better in Season 1.

It's hard to play scenes like that when even the writers probably don't know yet whether you're supposed to be acting sincere or acting like you're pretending to act sincere. He has to just come across in every scene as neutrally slimey.

I got the impression we were supposed to think he had indeed warned Bran about that: why else would Bran try to lie about being touched? Also, didn't Bran sneak into that warg?

Tyrion has been more fleshed out. He seems to be at least trying to be an adult. Dany and Arya, sadly, seem to be getting less fleshed out than they used to be. For women in the middle of extreme circumstances they both seem to me to be acting more and more like stereotypes of teenage girls. Jon's ok. But Bran was…

You forgot that he took a little sneaky warg and got himself touched by a White Walker.

Dude. Her name was Vasquez.

That guy seems super unnecessary to me. At this point, since the plan seems to be to kill off minor beloved characters and head to the endgame, wouldn't it make more sense to streamline things and just have Yara be the one with the plan to take the fleet to Dany? I mean, if that's what's going to happen?

"…but if you see me in another scene this season, be assured that I will have teleported myself into it, and I will be bearing news brought to me by my bionic ravens."

Yes. We have. She seems no further in her "tests" with Ja'aquen than she was last season, if she can't handle seeing her family made fun of.

It would have seemed more impactful to me if we had spent more time in Bran's wargs and gotten more of a sense that he had accomplished anything in them. As it was, it felt as if he was just getting started.

Sansa to Littlefinger: "Did you marry me to Ramsay because you're an idiot, or because you're super, super evil? Asking for the AV Club."

I thought that was the point of what happened to Hodor. His loyalty to Bran made him emerge enough out of the warging to save Bran. Bran didn't emerge from the warg, but Hodor did. Enough to get Bran out of there, and "hold the door." Which means that Hodor experienced himself dying in the future while he was warging…

He wasn't just having a premonition and it wasn't just the warging. It was a time paradox thing. He experienced his own future death. In a way, the Hodor we knew was a big, kindly zombie.

Hecate pledged allegiance to Ethan last season, in what was obviously a next-season table-setting scene.

First of all, the house couldn't have gotten as run down as it was in the amount of time that seemed to have gone by since the events of last season. Secondly, Vanessa could not have cleaned even the front lobby as well as she did in one day. Third, if they go on to show Vanessa living in and maintaining that huge…

But "treacly" already has a meaning. Sickly sweet in a way that sets your teeth on edge. Insufferably sentimental. Usually to do with a portrayal of a child, or children. Almost the opposite of Mr. Lyle.

Last season I might have been happy with that. This season I don't even care. He just bores me and makes me angry at the writers.

I definitely get the impression the show thinks he's someone watchers love to hate; and I think the show is really, really wrong about that.