I'm horrified by what happens next: the giant trying to climb aboard a ship, sinking it in the process.

From the looks of it it's not a law in nearly anyone's jurisdiction "yet". And, again, Dinesh wasn't lying to get in her pants, which is what makes it a strawman.

If that's what helps you sleep at night.

The video messages combined with Karen's reaction and guilt to killing ART made me lose. my. shit.

You didn't have to say it, but you were implicitly endorsing it.

It remains that all of Dinesh's actions re: Karen in this episode were to impress and interest her enough to secure a date, a night at the Catalina(?) Film Festival. It was Erlich and Guilfoyle who presented it as a hookup. Dinesh didn't have a discussion with Erlich about Sadé, Erlich offered up seduction tips…

Or Heisenberg.

You know there's a Korn song on that CD.

Wow.

So if Dany burns to death it'll be a 'fan theory' that she was immune to fire, because of that scene where she was immune to fire, and not at all contradictory for a character to say "yeah, but no". Got it.

From the viewer POV it is required because the alternative is a contradiction. Contradicting itself is "profoundly unhelpful to the dramatic goals of the show".

"No" is not a rebuttal, "no, because…" is. Tell us why it won't work, not just that it won't. It comes off as lazy writing when they've already shown it worked once.

If that's the case it's frustrating that she apparently had no rebuttal ready. If she's so confident in her abilities then do the leech thing again; if the leech thing is hit-or-miss or takes too long, don't bother with it in the first place.

The Greyjoys were just as unlikable as the Boltons, so I don't miss them.

If a leech-worth of blood is enough to kill someone a continent away, why bother with the full sacrifice? A handful of leeches would take out all the major players standing in the way of Stannis – Roose and Ramsay Bolton, Cersei and Tommen, Margery I suppose, perhaps Walder Frey and Kevan Lanister.

Cersei pointed the High Sparrow at Littlefinger's brothel. That scene began with a close-up on a Baelish-stamped crow missive, foregrounding the connection.

The female Sparrows were all wearing habits, which suggests there's more to the FM organization than the face-cutting enforcers.

Sansa only recently learned long games exist, hence the pilfered dagger and playing along with the Boltons.

I thought the point of that exchange was that when he returns she'd be married, but not to him. I.e., Sansa's clued in that her uncle has the hots for her, so she was reminding him she won't be his.

In the tradition of the pilot's Don't Dead Open Inside.