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Warning: that facebook page is now chock full of spoilers.

Slate wrote an article about GoT and its total lack of allegory to real world concepts or events, and someone on IO9 posted a link to this: The History Behind GoT. I don't know if I know enough history to judge, but I'm sure people around here groove on that sort of stuff.

I DO NOT KNOW IF THERE ARE SHOW SPOILERS, but given all the screenshots, so hopefully not.

There are history spoilers. Don't say I never did anything for you.

Yep. Never get cocky in a fight to the death.

Or that Klingon saying about a revenge dish.

Nooooooooooooooooo. Oh, Oberyn. Pride goeth before a fall, is that the phrase? I couldn't watch the end. That was too much.

I loved relieved Jaime looked when we thought Oberyn had won. He does love his little brother, despite his various other shittiness.

Also, the Oscar goes to Sansa Stark, no?

The first thing I want to say about the Slate article is, didn't we get past television being a lesser art form years and years ago now?

Yep. Never get cocky in a fight to the death.

Don't knock it, it worked for Inigo Montoya.

Poor Oberyn. Once the thumbs went into the eyes I watched the rest of that scene from behind my left arm.

OMGArya. I love you, girl.

Sansa is playing a very different game than the one in the book, but I'm curious to see where it goes and I really really really want that outfit she was wearing in the last scene. Also I would like to look like Sophie Turner please.

I'm not sure I get that Slate article. Is he saying that because GoT is cheerfully old-fashioned enough not to care that it's pretty racist a lot of the time...somehow makes it great television? Because I thought most of us were enjoying it in spite of that, not because of it. My uncritical fangirlish love for Daenerys is very very frequently at odds with ALL OF MY OTHER FEELINGS about Essos.

(I'm also not sure the counterpoint to that argument is "But look at all these historical references," as cool and interesting as that website is.)

Arya laughing was delightful, and very Arya.

Roose Bolton, rewarding madness and butchery since ... ever, I guess?

I like what's happening with Missandei and Grey Worm, mostly because I guess I didn't expect them to have an independent storyline. Part of me wants to root for them on the Iron Throne now.

Also wondering where Jorah is going to turn now, and if his loyalties will change.

I am dying to know what will happen now that people in the Vale know who Sansa is! Super interesting developments.

Poor Oberyn, could not quite climb over the Mountain to Tywin. Did get the confession, though.

Between the flayed man and the graphically crushed skull, that may have set some kind of record for me, gore wise.

Arya laughing was delightful, and very Arya.

I loved that scene.