They were excellent!!!

They were most definitely cool.

So, the answer of how we're going to deal with a character showing up under another name and not having his identity revealed for a while is...by not doing that.

I liked Margaery. She's like Cersei, only not screwing it up.

I guess Ghost stayed with the Watch when Jon went off. Was that addressed last season?

Did people who haven't read the books get the sense that Dany understood what the asshole slavemaster was saying?

I have not read the books, and it is a toss up whether I know what is going on from week to week, but what do you mean by that question? She seemed to get from tone of voice and body language that he was insulting her and that these troops were groomed to fight. Were we supposed to pick up more than that?

I loved how much Cersei clearly loathed Maergery.

I guess Ghost stayed with the Watch when Jon went off. Was that addressed last season?

Yeah, that surprised me.

I also had a really hard time understanding a lot of the dialogue Beyond the Wall, which was annoying. I think it was a combination of bad sound editing and dialogue spoken too quickly in too many different accents.

I'm not sure. I couldn't tell if they were going for "she speaks the language" or "she's using context clues to determine that he is even more of an asshole than is obvious from the information the translator is telling her." It seemed like it could go either way.

Ghost knew he'd have to stick around to save Sam?

So much happened, and yet we haven't seen like half of the cast yet!

Well, clearly someone needs to.

I know! Where is my Arya?

Debet, highlight if you've read the books: SPOILER. It's revealed in a future ep.

One main difference between Margery and Cercei is that Margery is in control of her life in a way Cercei never was. Cercei is ambitious in a vague sort of I-wish-I-were-my-brother/father way, but she doesn't really know what do with the power she has. Margery has actual goals and plans to achieve them.

Jessica, I thought that might be the case. I was imagining "bitch, you can't sell a dragon" in his own language. Book spoilers for speculation based on things that have not happened (yet).

I would agree with that, although I'd probably phrase it differently, as I see it as a difference in them, rather than their situations (which "in control of her life" connotes, at least in my head). Margaery didn't get dealt any better of a hand, really. She just knows how to play her cards better. Which...is pretty much what you said.

Thematic/family dynamics spoilers (including characters we haven't met yet): Tyrion is really the only one of Tywin's kids who has any aptitude for strategy, and Tywin sure wasn't going to help him figure out what to do with that aptitude. On the other hand, I'd bet that Margeary got a right proper education from her grandmother, who would have known in a way that Tywin wouldn't that honey is damn effective for a woman. Cersei wants to be her father, but that just leads to no one liking her OR respecting her (even if they're afraid of her)

Not speculation in my case, I've seen through ep 4.