I had to turn off captions for this one because the brightness of the white lettering made it even more difficult to discern what was going on in the dark-as-hell episode.

I guess it’s true what they say: if you remember Woodstock 50, you weren’t really there.

It’s clearly the best decision. We wouldn’t want anything to tarnish the memory of Woodstock ’99.

There were 6 episodes. 2 3/4ths were the battle in the North and 3 1/4 are for the Battle for the Throne. They just told them in two pieces vs. interweaving them equally over the first 4-5 episodes.

I don’t understand why people are so shocked at this. The white walkers were a “big” story, but on its own kind of a boring one. It was a good reason for someone to always be chiding people that their maneuvering wasn’t important, but it wasn’t interesting in and of itself. The dead army just existed to be beaten.…

I loved it. I thought the darkness and fog brought us into the experience the characters were having - everything is shadowed and confusing, chaos and death on every side...it felt very visceral, to me, and still does, hours later. And I am THRILLED at the low body count among named characters. Everybody can take…

Maybe letting the Night King kill Theon, literally the last obstacle standing between him and Bran, made him overconfident and allowed him to drop his defenses?

I think it was essentially brilliant that in the end, all those legends, promises and prophecies were pretty much bullshit; just thousands of years old tales that never had any bearing on the now and here.

Myles, there’s one element that I thought you’d pick up on and didn’t and wanted to hear what you think but maybe I’m off.

I consider Bran to be the physical embodiment of The Old Gods - he is the memory of the trees and forest, he said so explicitly - and his power is greatest when he’s connected to a Weirwood. I do think he is the closest thing to a living god on GoT, at least a human one. The Seven seem to clearly be human inventions,…

I’m not really sure why people are complaining that the NK plot (seemingly) ended in this episode. Though I feel like it is the more interesting of the storylines there are a few reasons why it makes sense for it to have played out the way it did:

I think Theon needed to die for the the NK to feel overconfident about easily killing Bran next; that gave Arya the window of opportunity. The NK and his entourage were on high alert until Theon died, who they assumed was the last threat in their way.

That’s unfair. He bought time.  That’s all any of them were really doing.  Putting up a good show so the Night King felt safe going for Bran.

Man, if I wanted to watch bodies just stumble around in bad lighting and a heavy frost I’d watch a Bills game.

Bran: That’s for the orphan boys you killed 6 seasons ago!

It’s too many coincidences. I’m sure there are Jeopardy contestants that don’t know what that number means, but there is zero chance of those players ever betting $1488 in the game.

Doc was so good at making them work with one another in a healthy way, and I would have said Brad was, too, until this season. But I’m not sure that’s the right take. I think the right take is that nothing Brad could have done would have made them all smarten up (at this point in their careers, with that group of…

Brad Stevens is a poor coach for the chemistry issues the Celtics had this year but his real strength is in the sort of Xs and Os tactics that can give his team an edge in a seven game series. I trust him to adjust more than Budenholzer. 

Al Horford might be the most underrated player in the league. Best player on the floor today, which is what he almost always is for the Celtics in big games and the playoffs. Yet he has a negligible national profile, struggles to make All-Star teams, and even in Boston you get plenty of meatheads calling him “Average…

Boston busted Milwaukee’s offensive system wide open