I'm quite certain that some day, years from now, somewhere there's going to be an elevator packed with people, and somebody is going to come running up shouting, "Hold the door," and at least six people in that elevator are going to break down sobbing.

I did love the Braavosi Shakespearean company (led by Richard E. Grant, no less!), even though their play was putting poor Arya to the test.

HODOR. I just can't. It was too much. ::still sniffling::

Arya's storyline is the one that's irritating me right now, simply because it's so stalled. You are A Girl, you're not A Girl, you are One of Us, you'll never be One of Us, you can fight, you can't fight ... I want something to happen there, finally.

Arya's storyline is the one that's irritating me right now, simply because it's so stalled. You are A Girl, you're not A Girl, you are One of Us, you'll never be One of Us, you can fight, you can't fight ... I want something to happen there, finally.

SERIOUSLY. Hoping this mission of hers gives us something actually compelling to watch.

Yeah, it seems like there's always one storyline that stalls pretty badly each season. Like the showrunners can't figure how to really advance the story for that character in the season, but they don't want you to forget about them, so the character just kind of spins their wheels.

Also, a day later and still in shock, I feel like George R. R. Martin has completely blown Joss and Tim out of the water for Most Emotionally Traumatizing Character Death Ever.

I didn't care for this episode. Didn't ring true for me.

So, Not-Mel over in Mereen...bad idea, guys. Although it's nice that they're explicitly calling out the "No, THIS one is the Prince(ss) Who Was Promised" thing.

I think the Close! Up! Penis! Was to attempt for equity, but....meh?

I do find the spin on the staged story interesting, although I suppose it's basically the official version. I would have thought there would have been a little more "fuck alla y'all" overseas. For a second, I thought they were going to go to a "Cersei was fucking Joffrey" place.

I really hope that Littlefinger wasn't lying, for Brienne's sake.

I do not like the off-handed way they're killing the wolves.

The thing about going past the books (and there's a large part of me that instinctively thinks of the show as "unofficial" or less real) is getting support or confirmation of theories. Jon, obviously (on both the Not!Dead and R+L=J fronts), but also the origins of the White Walkers.

My boyfriend was very confused by basically all of Bran's stuff this episode.

The thing about going past the books (and there's a large part of me that instinctively thinks of the show as "unofficial" or less real) is getting support or confirmation of theories.

Yeah. With regards to Hodor, though, I have to agree with the AVC reviewer that I'm actually glad I got to experience it on the TV show first because it was able to handle it in a way the book wouldn't be able to, intercutting between past and present and actually being able to hear "Hold the door" become "Hodor," though I'm also very excited to see how GRRM writes that scene.

Using the "Law & Order" rule of star wattage, I assume Anya will spend a bit of time with the troupe, only because Richard Grant was the leader of it.