To me that sounds like it all comes down to dragons vs white walkers in the end.

I never thought of that. That makes a lot of sense.

This episode, man. I love this series so much. I want to put the Dany scenes on a loop and watch them over and over. I want her to take the throne, although god knows nothing that wonderful could happen, given the series so far.

I love Maergery, and I think she would be a fair ruler, but she *wants* the throne for the power and the riches. Dany not only believes the throne is rightfully hers by blood, but I think she wants the responsibility of it, the chance to take care of the people of her kingdom.

I could be a little bit in love with her.

The scene at Craster's Keep was so shocking. But the weird thing is, I had been thinking earlier in the episode that Craster is really reckless -- it's him and an army of miserable, underfed daughter-wives, and the Night's Watch (or whoever) could totally seize it and kill Craster without much of a fight. Then it happened, I was still shocked! I didn't expect Mormont to go at all.

I loved the Dany scenes as someone who doesn't know what is to come. That was fucking awesome. I kind of knew some of what was to come because it was telegraphed, but hot damn.

Literally.

but she *wants* the throne for the power and the riches.

I would hesitate to opine on what Maergery wants and why. She's got dome deep waters that we haven't seen much of.

But I do love a righteous Danaerys Stormborn showing her dragon off.

The scene at Craster's Keep

BTW, my mouth was open the ENTIRE time. I'm serious.

The Craster's Keep sequence was surprising in the book too, and I didn't expect the Old Bear to go out like that either.

Okay, I've been waiting for this speech from Varys to Tyrion, as he actually shares this story in Book 2. I figured they wouldn't drop it completely, I'm glad it came around. However, the thing about him unpacking the very sorcerer who cut him while giving the speech is completely original to the show. Nice twist.

More green dreams! Poor Isaac Hempstead-Wright. At least he gets to stand up and walk and stuff in the green dreams.

Hi, my name is Margaery, and the instrument I'll be playing today is Joffrey Baratheon.

Okay, as much as I loved this episode, HBO is seriously torturing me with this whole splitting the trial of the Hound over two episodes. Bad mean taunty HBO.

See, I think Bran may do more running than any of the other actors.

Yeah, I thought about commenting on you FB post, "You keep saying that..."