Coupla things:

• Gendry and Jon Snow, THE best bromance of the year.
  
• Would totally watch a spinoff show following the duo of Davos and Bronn
  
• Prince "Ragger" - I love you Gilly. SO MUCH.
  
• Samwell "Mansplainer" Tarley - not so much.
  
• GHOST MENTION BUT NO GHOST WTF
  
• I do not like this Littlefinger getting the upper hand over *Arya. (But, come on, Arya, give your sister a break, after all she's been through, she gets to choose her own room.)
  
• Desperately want to see a reunion between Jorah and Lyanna Mormont (who I also want on the Davos and Bronn snark-a-palooza spinoff)
  
• TORMUND!!! "And you need to convince the one with the dragons, or the one who fucks her brother?"
  
• Clegane can't die before he kills his brother in single combat, right????
  
• That said... SUICIDE SQUAD! Fellowship of the Raven?

Seriously, a LOT of my favorite characters are going to face down the Army of the Dead and this concerns me. (thankfully, not Bronn or Davos though.)

Cereal: Cersei and Jamie, it would be impossible for me to be more bored with you both.

Would totally watch a spinoff show following the duo of Davos and Bronn

This is the only season I have watched. One big difference in the reading vs watching experience for me has been characters like Davos and Bronn who didn't jump out on the page so much for me, but they are treasures on the screen.

Lyanna needs to meet Jorah

Arya need to see Gendry

Brienne needs to see Jaime

Jon needs to ride a dragon

Sandor needs to meet Gregor -- AND KILL HIM.

My show has Lyanna and Davos and Bronn and Tormund and it used to have Sam but now it just has Gilly and I basically don't give any remote fractions of a shit any more about Lannisters or Targaeryens and I'm pretty much running out of fucks for Starks as well.

Basically, give me secondary characters and the rest of y'all can shut up with the kings and queens and such.

Bronn will always be one of my favorites. Davos is my ultimate hero, though. If anything happens to him, there will be hell to pay. ::shakes tiny fist::

Way to try to sneak in the whole "R+L were super secretly married so Jon is totes the legitimate heir to the kingdom!" bit.

I literally flailed like an anime character at that, when Sam cut her off and went on his rant.

Secondary characters are totally winning the show.

I was hoping somewhere Jorah would mention Sam as the one who cured him, but I suppose if they survive there's time for that.

I found book!Jorah super creepy in his devotion to Dany with a stench of Nice Guy entitlement, but the bastards cast Iain Glen in the role so I can't help but love him in the show for all his faults. Wahhh.

I've had the hots for Glen for over 20 years now. I think the first thing I saw him in was an adaptation of Elliot's Adam Bede, which was (goes off the IMDb to check) in 1992. Fuck, I'm old.

Re. the Jonah-meets-Jon scene, Glen Weldon from NPR cracked me up with this description: [link]

Dany returns to Dragonstone on Drogon's back, alighting near a spot where Jon stands brooding on a cliff, cape flapping dramatically behind him like he's Bat-Hamlet. Jon and Drogon share a nice moment, presumably because Targaryen game recognize Targaryen game, and Dany asks about Davos' "knife through the heart" comment. Jon plays it off, but the nice family outing is interrupted by the return of Jorah Mormont looking older, wiser and decidedly less like a frilled lizard.

Dany and Jorah hug, and Jorah shoots Jon a look that's nuanced, wary, appraising, resigned.

Jon shoots a look back at him that says, "It windy."