Had a thought about Brans bizarre description of Sanaa's wedding. Maybe he isn't talking about her shotgun wedding to a psychotic murderer, but her future marriage to some worthy husband once all of this war stuff is done? Bran's mind is kind of unstuck in time and he may not realize that he's talking to…

The preview made it sound like she goes "fuck it, I'll rule over ashes if I have to, release the Screamers!"

The Greyjoys would just build another 1,000 ships in like 3 weeks.

Not likely. It's not like they ever really loved their brother, and now that he's hanging out with Dany I don't see how Cersei could ever welcome him back. Jamie is just a lapdog now, so he's not going to defy his sister. The only possible ally Tyrion could have on that side is Bronn, and I'm guessing Cersei is…

Probably getting run over by Euron's murderfleet.

Littlefinger's spiel can only be setting up his demise as Sansa blindsides him despite his need to constantly wargame in his own head. It's also clear that he's completely out of his element up in Winterfell. Do they even have a brothel? Or do you have to travel all the way up to near the wall? He was coasting up…

Turns out Bran just sucks at explaining things.

I think the bank may have had some side dealings that were not entirely on the up and up. What bankers ever let morals stand in the way of making gold? Certainly not the ones who are thinking of propping up the Murder Queen of Kings Landing.

"Wow, how were we not conquered ages ago?"
"I don't know…"

It seems surprising that he had such decisive victories with only half of his fleet at either location. It was kind of like Highgarden. To dig Cersei out of her hole we need her to win a bunch of decisive victories at exactly the right time…so that's what she does.

I've been wondering if they were going to do some scene in his head again to give us an idea what he is going though, but given the beakneck pace the writers have set it doesn't seem likely.

I took that to be more that the banker suspects that she's really gotten into poisoning enemies lately and he's not sure exactly where he stands with Cersei.

Bran is fulltime on the Weirwood channel now, he doesn't have the time or inclination to be a king or warden or anything like that.

Yeah, Sam's got grayscale now. He didn't even put so much as a scarf over his face. just a couple of ill fitting gloves.

The Maesters seems to have a strong oath about never ever offering help or advice to the outside world. The whole reason Sam is down there is because the tight lipped bastards don't want to even give a cliff notes version on the whole White Walker thing Jon asked them about.

Trash day and the curb outside the Dreadfort is piled high with stained and rusty torture equipment, dog carcasses, etc…

Did anybody else find the Maester's reasoning of "well, it wasn't that bad in the past, so we can probably ignore it" not terribly enlightening? I get it that these guys are supposed to be ivory tower academics and all, but this is a motivated student who wants to do a deep study on a specific topic, what's the…

I'm personally torn on Jon's decision to not depose the Karstarks and the Boltons. On one hand Sansa has a point that if you don't reward people who are loyal to you then you won't have people loyal to you and if you don't punish traitors you'll be surrounded by traitors.

It makes me curious what GRRM is planning to do with it in the books. This would seem to be a major spot of divergence with the show.

Have you head her talk lately? I believe that 0 charisma score.