Maybe theft is no longer a big enough problem to warrant the inconvenience of chaining up the books?

Magic.

If the long winters are a reasonably predictable, regular occurrences, then it's certainly not outside the bounds of possibility that evolution takes care of the rest. Migration patterns and extended hibernation would evolve amongst the fauna, and the flora would adapt by evolving hardy seeds that could survive the…

But they don't make any more sense even when they're stone cold sober.

Still a better argument than theirs, even though it's completely fictional.

Shh! Don't confuse GOP representatives with facts…

Well, except for the fact that the second line is a link to their website. An attempt to boost their SEO score if nothing else.

Or there are just a lot of book-snobs around…

She had to try. Knowing Ramsay Bolton as she did, she knew Rickon was as good as dead and didn't want Jon to die futilely.

(And I bet he doesn't cancel HBO)

Not really. If you didn't know who he was, his acting was perfectly serviceable for the small part he played. You may disagree with the stunt casting (and I do) but "travesty" is ridiculous.

Not forced at all. They have been shaped by completely separate and starkly different lives for the past few years. And given that Littlefinger has been a constant at Sansa's side for much of that time, there is every reason for her to disagree with her brother's methods, as some combination of her experiences and…

Well, some commenters like to debate the differences between the books and the show, or ferret out information that could indicate what happens in a future episode, or simply spoil some of the subplots that only appear in the books.

For some reason, I've gone off the idea of having soup for lunch tomorrow…

She has her own HTML tag now?

That's what you get with a well written script along with good acting and directing. Some people know how to make watching paint dry enthralling (and that's not a knock on this episode, which I enjoyed).

A reasonable explanation for nobody being there would be, once the decision was made not to defend it (for whatever reason), those who remained fled before the armada got there. The second part is plausible, assuming the first.

They refused to acknowledge that the world had changed.

Okay, so I'm just going to assume that Grey Worm's forces had thoroughly scouted Dragonstone before Daenerys and her lightly protected entourage breezed through it.

I guess some people who haven't read the books yet would still prefer not to have them spoiled?