Melisandre is much, much (and possibly exponentially) older than she generally looks. I don’t think that death -by fire or otherwise- holds much in the way of terror for her. Especially since her afterlife, at least as far as she knows, will be one in which R’hillor rewards her decades(?) of service. The death that…

As it turns out, Jon doesn’t actually *have* the birthright to Winterfell, since he’s not a child of Eddard Stark. In theory, Winterfell should go to Bran, but Bran would probably point out (if asked) that the “Three-Eyed Raven” is even <i>less</i> a child of Eddard Stark than Jon is. That leaves Winterfell where it…

The books taught me not to presume that anyone is alive or dead just because the end of their chapter made it look that way. . . but the show has taken that caution to a whole new level, by having characters routinely survive things that they couldn’t possibly have lived through.

The Horn of Winter always struck me as a red herring, even in the books. I always had the impression that it was most likely a shabby bluff. But conversely, the Horn of Dragonbinding (or whatever name it had in the books) seemed like an altogether different kettle of fish, since it had visible effects when it was used…

That’s one of two scenes that I thought were missing from this episode. The other missing scene is the one in which Davos acknowledges that he’s no longer Hand of the King (and hands back his pin) since Jon Snow’s pledge of fealty to Danaerys would have dissolved his office.

Speaking of which, just testing to see if this works. . .

Just randomly testing to see if this works. . .

Presumably, flat-earthers think that the sun and the moon are both objects that move through the sky. . . so why is it so mind-blowing (even for them) that one of these objects might occasionally pass in front of the other?

Oh. Well, in that case, I give up. How the heck did Euron run into them?

Based on the set up, it looks as though Euron's fleet was sailing from King's Landing to Dragonstone in service to Cersei at just the same moment as Yara's fleet, coincidentally, was sailing from Dragonstone to King's Landing under orders from Danaerys.

Even if Cersei plum forgot about Dragonstone (an act of strategic malpractice, but it would not be her first), there would presumably still have been a number of lesser Houses in the area (House Celtigar or House Sunglass, perhaps) that might have had an interest in laying claim to it themselves.

Where were you when the showrunners decided to set half a season in Dorne?

Well, sure. I can't imagine that any rational garrison would see that on the horizon and stick around. . . but how difficult would it have been to simply make that explicit?

Very plausible. A quick shot of that (or even just a line or two of dialogue) would have been more than sufficient to explain all this. . . perhaps Sam's montage of emptying bedpans could have been cut 10 seconds shorter to make room for that?

I agree- but that does reopen the question of why and how Dragonstone came to be left undefended. It's too valuable a fortress to have been left unoccupied. Even if Stannis was fanatical enough to completely abandon it, someone else would have long since capitalized on the opportunity to seize so valuable a prize.

Even normal fire is deadly to Wights. As we saw in Season 1, they're not only vulnerable to flame but also highly flammable. If Wights can be killed by simple torches, they can almost certainly be killed by Wildfire, but the White Walkers are a different story, since their mere presence is enough to cause ordinary…

MsFjordstone, your wish may just be granted. There's been a spike in interest in The Leftovers since the series was cancelled. Nora was a compelling enough character (played by a compelling enough actor) that a 4-6 episode miniseries about Nora's trip through the 2% world might just be a viable proposition.

The door isn't really open that far, given what we've actually been shown. I believed her completely. Nora's journey through the "2% world" could have consumed an entire season (and probably would have been the "B-Plot" of Season 3, if Season 3 hadn't been designated as the show's last). My guess is that the nature of…

So pushing Child Patti down the well was exactly the wrong choice to make? The Englishman with the noose strongly implied as much, but what other choice was available?

Perhaps we just thought we did. . .