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Illiterati

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  1. No logic in this episode, from beginning to end. Why did The Hound cut through the four guys who he had no quarrel with before finding the attackers? Did he learn nothing from Ray? What was the point of Joke and Wine Hour with Tyrion as the city came under attack? what was the dramatic point of having Dany wander in and....end scene? Why take the easier road with Arya and not give us a more intriguing twist how she exited? And KL. Okay, Boy King has betrayed his mother. and a minor militant was relieved of his head. There was a lot not to like in this episode.
  2. After all the pointless drivel about Arya with the FM, there is finally an important moment and they give the thread 3 minutes. I gave it a 3, the worst rating I've given. Yara/Theon was pointless, they are trying to hard to make sure Jonsa face insurmountable odds (unless they have LF, of course). I enjoyed the Lyanna Mormont scene for its entertainment value, but her character is painfully divergent from what we have seen of the other Mormonts.
  3. The Hound carrying a log by himself. Nice touch.
  4. I think the promise was that he will hide Jon's family tree from Baratheon. Lyanna had to know being a Targaryan would be a death sentence when Robert takes the throne.
  5. I don't understand what you are asking. When Bran is greenseeing, his eyes are never opaque and he can stand. In the litter Meera is dragging, Bran is clearly warging, the assumption being that he is warging Hodor. Like I wrote above, my take was that he was simultaneously warging and greenseeing, and he crossed the warging of the old Hodor into young Hodor to the point where young experienced the POV of old.
  6. I'm not sure he saw Bran. It seems to me like Bran was warged into Hodor, and at that WF scene simultaneously he was warged into soon-to-be young Hodor, and Bran acted as a conduit through which he saw himself being killed by walking dead while being commanded to hold the door. Imagine you're standing there by a cart, minding your own business, then suddenly, you are in ice and snow, trying to hold back a door while someone is screaming for you to hold it back,, and hatchets breaking through the door, held by arms with rotting flesh, and you slowly succumb, not in a dream state, but in a vision that is as real to you as that sunny courtyard had been moments ago. Talk about PTSD.....
  7. I respectfully disagree that the scene was exactly the same as 1-10. In 1-10, she joined the fire with the eggs by instinct. She didn't have a strategy, didn't know what was going to happen. This time, she plotted not only a way to escape the Khals, but to get the Dothraki behind her as well. I think she envisioned that walking through the flames would have the same effect on the entire settlement that it did on her small cohort in 1-10. This is why she burned it from inside instead of outside. She needed them to witness her power. I also appreciate that they fooled EVERYONE as to how she would get out of this. I just wonder if some of the angst toward the scene is just because it defied predictions. Unpredictable is good. The only thing that made me shake my head is how Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum march right into Vaes Dothrak, off a couple locals, and run straight into her. I did chuckle at the taste of khaleesi joke. The first frat joke among the Dothraki that I didn't cringe at. Ramsey is predictable. He needs to go. And I agree with most others that the HS revival sermons are unwatchable. If only he could be given over to Ramsey. Overall, this has been the most disappointing early season for me, but this episode stands as one of my favorites over the last 2-3 seasons. After 3 weeks of treading water, there is motion on several plotlines.
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