There needs to be unattached outsider characters for people to cheer on. Tyrion is attached now to the intrigue, Jon Snow as well though his intrigue of a more warrior nature, and Arya is turning into a font of revengeance. Gendry is just puzzling out his royal origins and being detained, which is somewhat more of a…

But then how will they show the Tower of Joy!!!! They had better not convey it with just a story like they had Jaime tell Brienne about slaying the king.

Nah, it's sort of like, "Bring on the Ides of March!!!"

And Sansa?

So are a lot of these characters going to come back in flashbacks? I can certainly imagine needing Catelyn's actress around if Bran has any more dreams or visions involving her mother. Will Sean Bean return for the duel at the Tower of Joy?

No; it was identical to the portrayal of slit throats from the Crazy-88s fight from Kill Bill, and from multiple episodes of South Park, which is the problem.

Nah, during that conversation, I was expecting her to ask, "What's a book?" The fact that she knew what a book was was impressive.

Aside from being corrupted by Melisandre and being driven into doing worse and worse things, Stannis always seemed to be the strongest claimant to me. He is the rightful king by succession, and he is a man of law and order. His doom is that he's uncharismatic and thus his support base is the foreign religious zealot.…

That ending was pretty much the repercussions for Romeo of the Juliet being the violence of Julius Caesar resulting in the political fallout of the Hamlet.

One Tully's a-fucking, and the other's a-pissing. Clearly it is the bodily functions of rivermen that save them from certain doom.

Isn't ISIS pretty dysfunctional and pretty much the Bluth family to ODIN's Sitwells?

Voyager made Jeri Ryan a star, and Jeri Ryan lost her husband's Senate Seat. Star Trek Voyager brought us the Obama presidency.

Agreed. This season has been really good for pushing the story along and introducing characters and conflict. It's a crossover mass audience hit. But I don't see how it's supposed to be something that transcends its genre and makes it the show of the year. Then again, I'm spoiled by its own excellence the same way…

Add her to the list of characters this show should have dug up (Packer, Jan, Charles Miner, Hank, er the IT guy)

Man, now I'm really wishing that Ben Kingsley had been the one to play Khan.

There's a whole passage in The Golden Compass/The Northern Lights where a character explicitly names names of the Abrahamic God and deems their enemy the servants of God.

Nothing beside remains.

Well, he is from 1996.

What happens when thousands of Tom Cruises fought hundreds of Hugo Weavings?

I assumed the problem was that the rebels didn't have fancy ships and the secret lake was probably thousands of miles from their base. Wasn't the base in Chicago, and valley around New York?