BobbyWhioux

The Glorious Basterds (even though we now have evidence that Jon is actually not a bastard)

Bunch of dumb asses keep forgetting their sport isn't football. Baseball has rainouts for a reason. And now the best all around player in the game may have blown out his knee because "oh we can't have two rainouts in a row"

Don't forget the shambling dog turd lurching out of Winterfell's kennels

Gotta learn nothing to know nothing (Jon Snow)

Plus going over on a Stark in Season 7 is like going over on a Von Erich in World Class. It ain't happening, everybody knows it ain't happening, so nobody's really hurt by it not happening. Winter is Coming has given way to Winter is Here, and that means the Starks are in their element and it's time for their enemies to at last reap the whirlwind.

And she ended the training session with that dagger in striking distance of Brienne's throat. One slip in the snow and there goes Brienne's aorta. Valyrian Steel is for go, not for show, and Brienne should've WTFed at Arya even having it on her for what was supposed to be practice. You don't use magic heirlooms for practice. Even Needle is some b.s. in that fight because it's live steel vs Brienne using obvious blunted/practice sword. That's Arya not giving a fuck if she potatoes Brienne and that doesn't jive with the respect she expresses for Brienne in that scene.

Rewound to check the armor/attire on the rescuer because I wasn't sure either and it was definitely the lightly armored Bronn, not the plate wearing Dickon or a Dothraki dispatched by Tyrion. Also unsure whether one of the close ups of a burning body was Lord Randyl or not. I'd think his death would be more definitive but it seems a lot of people are already asking whether it was him or not.

Not to mention her sparring with live steel, and valyrian steel on top of that. THAT should've been Brienne's objection, not "it's too small." Valyrian Steel is supposed to be super sharp and cut through armor (in addition to its anti-ice zombies properties) and super rare, bringing it to a sparring match would be a big pile of NOPE. There was a lot to enjoy about three way Stark Megareunion but the sparring took me out of the moment for a lot of reasons.

He was mortally wounded and/or pronounced "beyond help" by Pycelle. Qyburn did ?????????????????????? and he walks around, silent and never removing his helmet. We don't know if he saved Gregor's life, technically saved his life, or technically didn't save his life. if he's a zombie zombie he should be nice and hackable. If he's a voodoo-style zombie, presumably not. If he's some kind of golem [the other popular fan theory] who knows? It's not much clearer book side, although Gregor Clegane is "officially" dead because his skull was [allegedly] sent to Dorne as an apology for all the Martells he had killed (incl. Oberyn) and the Silent Kingsguard goes by the alias Ser Robert Strong. Of course, everybody knows who it is because Gregor is legitimately gigantic [seriously think Big Show/Andre level] and is not called "The Mountain That Rides" flippantly.

Cersei is dead as soon as that short haired messenger girl gets a second line or lingers in the shot.

Obligatory Re-Post

Jon's negotiating position certainly improved over the course of that episode, didn't it?

A Girl Meets World And Murders It

It's never mattered. Remember Varys' riddle. The biggest army/largest coin purse/most loyal followers is always first in the line of succession.

It was as if they resented being obligated to include that piece of book content and passive-aggressively decided to introduce in the most jarring, discordant, and make-it-look-like-pandering way possible.

Cat thought LF was a little sketchy and she knew he had a permanent crush on her (he was fostered with the Tully kids growing up) but she made the severe mistake of thinking that crush motivated him to help her when it was actually motivating him to fuck over Ned so he could have her. I think the only person left who knows LF did Ned dirty is Cersei who's damn glad he did it so LF's pretty much gotten away clean there. He did, however, murder Lysa Arryn-Tully and sell Sansa to The Boltons and Sansa is firsthand eyewitness to both. If she chooses to come clean to Lord Royce Littlefinger's ass is grass and The Vale Army is truly hers. So the question then becomes why doesn't she? Or as Brienne so astutely asked in episode 1 "why is he still here?"

Littlefinger, much like the Tyrells, is a fan of "Whoever Won The World Series Last Year" (he'd be a big fan of Theo Epstein and Billy Beane though)

now is not the time or place to be the scorpion of The Scorpion And The Frog fame and that's what LF is.

Just as Ned's way of doing business doesn't work down south in the capital of political machination, LF's divisive scheming doesn't work in the middle of a life or death struggle against a common enemy that kills indiscriminately like a harsh northern winter, especially when the winter comes personified by a frozen Lich. And I hope we get the catharsis of that dawning on him before he gets got

Well, it was also a trap. If he steps forward blade in hand Euron just slits Yara's throat and then most likely captures/kills Theon too. One of them needs to escape and survive, even if it's the lesser one. Of course you might also argue that a relatively quick death is preferable to what's probably in store for big sis now (and Theon should know all about THAT life) I think they're going to beat us over the head with Theon is a coward so it feels like something big when he finally steps up but much like having the intercontinental champ lose on tv every week before winning on ppv it risks going past the point of no return and being too little too late. Assuming they even pay it off and don't just want to keep doing comedy jobber skits because it amuses them

Dagger Girl (a.k.a. Bad Pussy Girl) and Indria Varma are still alive. Whip Girl and Spear Girl are dead. Euron beat them with their own finishers and left them hanging from/nailed to the prow.

And Cersei is totally the type of person to yell at him/blame him for leaving the smudges her footprints cause, too. Poor dude

Granted, it would've been nice to have either Jon or Sansa vocalize this to each other, but tension in the Stark Foundation is probably gonna be the angle for a while.

Umber and Karstark holdings are closest to the wall (hence their being anti-Jon and pro-Ramsay because of Jon letting the free folk in in the first place). This means Umber and Karstark lands are also first in the White Walkers' path. Those lands are a poison prize for anyone else, and the probationary sentence for the remaining Umbers and Karstarks. They'll either hold the line and deserve to keep their lands or they'll be overrun and fuck 'em, that's what you get. They'll fight on Jon's side against the army of the dead because they will have to.

I hope Arya sprung Uncle Edmure from the dungeon off camera, since she just murdered all his captors. Again.