Sounds like you spend your Mondays a lot like I do. Read them all!

Charlie, these are notably better than grantland’s, salon’s, or vanity fair’s recaps. This one especially. You just “get it.” Kudos.

Hmm....

And those Sparrows better watch out too...

Not on the same page as you about Phantom of the Opera. Perhaps because every gf and their best friends were signing it every chance they got in the 90s.

*chickens

The Iliad & Odyssey

...but, you know.. done right.

Been there, done that.

I’m with you. Whenever someone says something like “I don’t like it when fiction gets political or too real/relevant,” I just roll my eyes. When, exactly, did we forget why stories exist?

None of these things bother me at all... the High Sparrow being a kind sweet old man whose followers are raving assholes makes total sense to me, and feels very much like real life. And I think it’s similar in the books, too. Cersei didn’t tell Jaime to go to Dorne with only one dude helping him, that was Jaime’s…

I think that these were the most important parts of the episode, all these little scenes reinforcing the hints that were previously laid down about Jon Snow’s parentage and seeding new hints. This is some major foreshadowing for the big reveal.

“Great Sinners Shielded by Gold and Privilege” I now kinda want that as family motto, even tho we lack all 3

Since they have removed most of the fourth and fifth book new POVs... they can probably squeeze both books in one season... one and a half at most.

Stannis and Shireen...damned onions...

Maybe, possibly, quasi-spoilers below!

Come on, Cersie! Even Jorah the Dwarf-flinger thinks your schemes are lame.