All of the AMC promotional material has specifically named them as a certain two guys from the comic book.

This is from the GoT Wiki entry on Davos

There's a scene (I think) around the time where Melisandre uses the leeches on Gendry for blood magic, where she explains to Davos that the War of the Five Kings is a small part of the bigger picture, where she needs to unite Westeros under a victorious King Stannis to later fight the Army of the Dead.

The metal is supposed to be white, possibly even slightly translucent, and yes sort of glow.

I'm guessing he realizes the White Walkers are a far greater threat than the Wildlings, and knew Thorne would undo Jon and Tormund's fragile alliance.

I think they made it a point last season that if they tried, the Sparrows would kill Margarey before the Goldcloaks even broke the door down.

I think Bran sent Osha and Rickon to Last Hearth, assuming the Umbers were still loyal to the Starks.

It was pretty cool. My only complaint is that his sword, Dawn, is made from a fallen meteorite and is supposed to be even weirder and more magical than Valyrian steel. Was kinda hoping they'd show that.

Reminds me of my conservative clan in 2000:

This screencap of OSI's profile of Vendata says he was originally created as Venturion in 1976, presumably from a mortally wounded test subject, ala Robocop. This episode stated that "the bounty was claimed" on the Blue Morpho by a Guild assassin n 1976.

The ladies Jonas Venture invited over for their foursome didn't seem too shocked when BM dropped his pants.

He also blew the Charles Keating trial with his incompetence, but not properly giving the jury instructions on the burden of proof.

He also didn't pick up on his cop wife very blatantly lying about claiming to not know Mark Fuhrmann, although that could be dramatic license.

I still remember O.J.'s goofy facial expressions during that. He had that weird face when you're trying really hard not to smile, but doing a terrible job of hiding it.

Fox News gave a show to Oliver North.

Not only did we think it was dramatic license, we also thought it didn't even happen in the context of the show. It was just going to be something that Darden was imagining Cochrane was thinking, and it was going to cut back to a confused Cochrane wondering why Darden was staring at him.

I think most of the nicknames are either from Shore Leave, or the bartender in the strip club when Brock loses his OSI license to kill. Great callback, though.

Yep. I'm watching it with a friend from Finland, who was a toddler at the time, and she had only a vague, hazy idea of what had happened. I think she only knew, "American athlete killed his wife and got away with it." I have to keep her telling her, "nope, that's exactly how it happened." about half a dozen times…

The real Fred Goldman was kind of hysterically overwrought in his public appearances during the trial. One of those Stranger Than Fiction things.

I also vaguely recall a lot of the media very unsubtly implying Ron Goldman was a sleazy gigolo making a housecall to Nicole the night they were murdered.