Do they still have pay phones in NYC? Anywhere? It's filmed in Toronto, so maybe Canada still has payphones/books. I'm voting for "convenient plot device."

The book was written in the Dark Ages of 2009; phone video not as common.

"plotting to take over the world in one unadorned conference room after another." Scientology?

I wasn't surprised by the lack of Lady Stoneheart. Remember, in the next TWO BOOKS she shows up for about a sentence. How do you do that in a show? The writers can't drop SH in the finale and then not show her (or Brienne) until 2017, but, until GRRM writes the next book, HBO won't know what to do with her. I think…

Lindeloff thinks everything he writes wil be remembered as "the best." He's wrong.

Something often glossed over in looking back at this show is that Abrams essentially bailed for Hollywood when Mission Impossible: III came out, leaving a writer's room scrambling to determine where the show would go without their primary writer. While others (see what I did there?) handled the script duties, Abrams…

"Jon being commander of the Night’s Watch…could be dreadfully boring."