BEST KUKUDIO THEORIES 2016:

Now that this episode is up: remember a day or two ago when I mentioned my friend who is a CO?

Prison is basically letting them go nuts. There's no mediation or mitigation of their unhealthy shit.

If she wins, she beat up a crazy person. If she loses, she got beat by a crazy person.

In Jon, she sees an obstacle to LF's plan. And any obstacle to LF's plans is going to be in huge danger.

Best ridiculous idea I've heard was giving Jorah Victorion's plot - greyscale infection cured by a Red Priest, giving him a fucked up on-fire arm.

I think there's a couple of things to "blame" here but first and foremost is passing GRRM and the books by. The books have a depth that can be mined. Rough story outlines do not. Beyond that, the books' willingness to subvert fantasy tropes has been replaced by a TV network "keep 'em happy, keep 'em watching"…

For the audience - I don't think it will matter in the broader scheme of Westerosi politics, though.

And without documentation thereto, it doesn't matter.

The prophecy says "younger brother", although some nerds argue that the actual Made Up Word in the prophecy is a gender-neutral term meaning "younger sibling".

There is apparently off-camera tension between the actors who play Cersei and Bronn. That's why we've never seen them on-screen together; they refuse to be in the same room with one another.

"At the end, the HS was arrogant, unlike Margaery, that could smell something was going horribly wrong, even when she couldn't possibly know exactly what."

Cersei was in check, until she kicked the table over and scattered the board across the floor.

That's… not an uncommon choice, particularly among book readers.

"I thought I saw a graham cracker."

Jon's a bastard, though. Dany is a legit heir.

Man, a pirate with an actual eyepatch? Cmon.

Why would Arya confirm that Jaime Lannister was also at the event where she was going to knock some names off her list?

I took that as a look of "Oh shit. Littlefinger is going to try to get Jon killed. I'm gonna have to protect this lunkhead."

I think I said this elsewhere, but - Margaery and Olenna are very good at chess… until Cersei flips the board over and demands that we play something else.