Cut scene: Bran, overcome with emotion as young Ned Stark tries to comfort his dying sister, cries "Father!" Ned sees him and, freaked well the fuck out, reflexively pushes him out the window of the Tower of Joy.

Hot Pie's going to become Westeros' version of Sean Brock; he'll put out a cookbook that's all about seed preservation, canning and his grandmother, and it will be called "The North Remembers."

Two skeletons with cobwebs.

So I'm guessing Tyrion's in love with Daenerys, now? If someone ever looked at me like he was looking at her last night, I'd feel pretty uncomfortable. All those assurances that other men will love her, such pauses, so pregnant.

I wonder if he took his helmet off for Elia Martell.

I haven't read the books, so I took the reviewer's assertion at face value. I'd ask you to do the same for me; my reply was a question, not a correction.

Turns out there's a fully-fledged vocational school in the house of black and white. "To be a pie-maker is a special thing, but to be a faceless baker? That is something else, entirely." "To be a book-keeper is a special thing, but to be a faceless certified public accountant? …"

"she whispers to Ned that he—meaning Rhaegar—'must not find out,' and what sounds like Jon’s true name."

I hear they did that with another character in the books, more or less.

Crazy. He does look a little like Gendry, no?

I wasn't worried for Sansa as I was that they would continue with his hyper-competent Lex Luthor/Strider/Hannibal Lecter schtick to the very end.

Naw, man; Yara's going to build a new economy for the Iron Islands on tourism, like most other islands in the world. And the ziplines will be /insane./

"Raping Sansa" sounds like the worst independent film ever made.

+1 for mixed messages! Fog of war, brah.

Richard Sharpe would have said the same thing if he weren't busy being Dead Ned Stark.

I daresay Eddard Stark would likely have taken the same risk (or made the same mistake, if you prefer). If Ned had lived, perhaps he would have told Jon "you're no son of mine," and Jon's only reasonable response would have been "I am, and have always been, your son."

My trouble with getting behind the pro-Sansa arguments for withholding whatever information she might have had about Littlefinger and the Knights of the Vale (Jon's a mansplaining incompetent, more or less?) is that Sansa made her decision to play Jon in episode five of this season. That's weeks or months (I'll leave…

Totally how I rocked my coif as a teenager in upstate NY.

Yeah, I really liked how spooked the Free Folk were by the Bolton army's hella-disciplined battlefield maneuvers, but they'd mean fuck-all to the wights.

So, let's talk about the wars to come. Based on what you've seen, who would have been the more effective leader against the White Walkers - Jon Snow or Ramsay Bolton?