Considering the torture we saw overseen by the Mountain or Ramsay, the treatment of prisoners was rather mild, doing no permanent damage to Cersei (though she kept her short hair afterward for some reason). And Cersei was able to get out of his custody by pretending to be penitent.

That’s actually used on plenty of Ironborn who aren’t even candidates for election. Just part of their religion.

I didn’t watch that show and I don’t think Josh whatever his name is a good actor. Curtis is the lead, and she gets more to do than she did in Halloween 2.

Dragons were born when a moon got too close to the sun and cracked open. It is known.

I would have thought Inglourious Basterds rather than Django would be the relevant film when it comes to real people from history.

Ashara Dayne had fairly normal dark hair. Why would her kid need to dye it blue?

Weird that we’d get the writing of Pink Letter so many years after we read it.

Framing Daenerys burning people as thrilling was part of the point, not a mistake on the part of the show.

Must be the same breed of dog Will Ferrell would sarcastically insult in that SNL commercial sketch.

Jon burned his hand in the first season. He’s not fireproof.

Pretending your mom is still alive sounds more like Norman Bates. In the book he believed in some pseudoscience/magic that permitted her to come back to life, although in this show that sort of thing really exists.

What makes Quaithe a compelling character?

I remember when I heard that Michael Green & Ian McShane were reunited for American Gods, my first thought (not having read the book) was the look up the characters to see who Wes Studi could play (my second was whether Brian Cox could join as well for a larger Kings reunion). Too bad it seems that won’t happen.

We never actually see the Devil’s face, just his lower half.

Drogo wasn’t “paralyzed in a riding accident”. He was wounded in a fight, and treated by Mirri Maz Dur, who used blood magic to punish him & Dany for what Drogo’s khalasar did to her people.

Assassins don’t “by definition have a boss”. Charles Guiteau was famously unemployed!

We’d seen her do the knife drop, but not the jump.

AV Club alumnus Todd Vanderwerff said it came off as a dig on GRRM, but his own most recent works are “histories” purporting to be written by maesters which have been purposefully made unreliable in parts. Within the novels Tyrion criticizes a commonly accepted work of history as being inaccurate and not making sense.

Jon has always been moody & vaguely stoic. I don’t think he “defected” to the Wildlings either. The Nights Watch opened up their gates to travel north into the woods, which is exactly the same thing that happened with those three rangers in the opening of the series.

The High Sparrow was the one character who never killed anybody, sold his own possessions to feed the poor and tried to subject the aristocracy to the rule of law. So viewers hated him.