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I can see her trusting him in a "devil you know" way. Like, she assumes the worst in about everyone she meets due to her experiences and Littlefinger seems like someone she can begin to understand. So, it is more of a trust Littlefinger to behave in a certain way rather than trust him to have her back unquestioningly. I think she would be wrong because one of Littlefinger's most brilliant stratagems is to sometimes do things irrationally or just to promote general chaos.

Who or what are Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke doing to get nominated so much? I think the quiet scenes in Essos are laughably bad, especially if you compare them to say what Kit Harrington and Sophie Turner are doing with some fairly low-key stuff. For example, they were able to make a discussion of who gets the bigger bedroom interesting and imbued with meaning. Neither Dinklage nor Clarke can handle subtle, or at least not recently. I also thought Melisandre's actress was surprisingly good this season. Something is clicking with the Northern cast because Alfie Allen, Kit Harrington, Sophie Turner, and Catrice van Houten got better at acting over the seasons. NCW is great but other than a few scenes in The Riverlands that were fairly showy, he had the worst part to play of any actor on the whole show. He was Gregorstein's hype man. There is cutthroat as hell competition there for awards and he didn't have the material.

I think Jon and Daenerys would create a huge succession crisis in The North. Jon's heirs would be heirs to the whole kingdom, so who would sit at Winterfell? It would really upset the status quo if the seat of the Starks was weeks away from even the most southern point of The North. I guess he could give it up to Sansa and her husband but that creates some potential problems down the line when the Targaryan line also has very strong claims to Winterfell. I can't see the Northern lords loving the King of the North being the Mother of Dragons plus one. And having the future Stark in Winterfell not setting foot in Winterfell for years.

I feel like it was such a grueling, awful fight and such an epic portrayal of homelessness that triumphant music would have felt out of place. Everything has to be so hard for the Starks, you know. Can't have them feeling good about anything for about twelve more episodes.

If there is one thing that is more gross to me than Jon and Sansa romantically involved (other than Arya and Jon) it is Sansa with Sandor Cleghane. First, what would she see in him? That one time when he didn't rape her when he wanted to? He seems, still, mainly interested in splitting people apart, literally. I read the early books quite before being exposed to online discussion and I was shocked that this was even a theory. I just don't see how anything in her book chapters since leaving Kings Landing nor her completely different TV storyline lead to some inevitable true love for that frequently drunk guy who didn't beat her. That somewhat offends me that Sansa, after considerable abuse, would end up with someone just because he wasn't a complete monster to her when he could have been. Arya seems likely to interact with him, the Brothers, Brienne, and maybe even Mel.

I never understood why Catelyn was never told. She was very ride or die Stark and, even more than that, very committed to Ned. It just was something that seemed more like a plot contrivance than something actually based on Ned and Catelyn's personalities and motives. Like the secret was something to give Jon a less than perfect childhood and something that kept the elder Starks' marriage not saccharine. There is no way she would tell Lysa. They rarely communicated even. That was why Catelyn didn't even know her sister was insane. Catelyn was far more invested in Winterfell, her husband, and her children than she was anything Tully. She was fairly estranged from them.

Might The Iron Bank and some Free Cities pitch in for Cersei. They established that there is at least some popular support for her abroad. She owes The Iron Bank a ton of money as a Lannister, Queen of Westeros, and heir to the Baratheons. The bank is going to want its money and if Daenerys conquers everything, she is going to tell them to go to hell she doesn't owe them anything. Cersei has to win for The Iron Bank to get paid. And those bankers are so not going to care about zombies. I am now at a point where I am not sure what will fill 13 episodes at the current pace, so there must be an Act III new wrinkle introduced.

Why does Missandei's actress get a solo title card? She is as exciting as the inside of a cereal box.

Who has Littlefinger screwed over that's smarter than Sansa and Jon? I feel like other characters' so called smarts are vastly overstated so people can feel like the Starks are dumb. Sansa and Jon are sitting relatively well vis a vis any other Lords Paramount. Maybe Ellaria is doing better, but no one could call her smart. Olenna throws one liners but hitched her ride to whatever man would make Margery queen a long time ago. not exactly a deep game there. Tyrion couldn't see what was in front of his face in Westeros, basically was kidnapped to get to Danerys, then messed it up there. Not the smartest guy and maybe more blind to threats than most. Smart characters like Blackfish and Ned and others often get screwed because people will do awful things when faced with crazy people like the Lannisters.

An old lady dying of natural causes as she slept would certainly be the most shocking death yet on Game of Thrones. It has to be the rarest cause of death in Westeros.

I thought Frey pie was like regular sausage with some toes and fingers thrown in for the big reveal. Because that is too much work. But maybe she is like Sansa and just super elite at chores. I do like Arya traveling with a bag of faces though. I wish they had gone with how it was in season 2 with Jaqen just shaking his face into a new one. Much better than the Scooby reveals.

How can Cersei last an episode against everyone in the whole world? Might Cersei not be around for very long? And Littlefinger has the Vale, maybe. How does he leverage anything with the white walkers around? So, they may team up but still, how do they fight off everyone? I am early wondering what the story is because right now there doesn't seem much to stop Danerys. So what will there be for thirteen episodes?

If the showrunners don't mention that Danerys is his aunt, I can imagine it not dawning on a lot of people. Daenerys hasn't mentioned Rhaegar in some time. I also think Daenerys is a chasm of excitement in one on one scenes, so I can't imagine the pairing translating well on screen. Kit Harrington does pretty well in those scenes, though, and has so much chemistry with female costars that people ship Jon and his sister. But even Peter Dinklage can't even get much from Emilia Clarke and he has charisma to spare. He has lost his mojo this season, though.

I didn't feel that the show was portraying what she did was badass. The music was haunting and melancholy and unlike anything else before. The emotional impact was centered on characters we care about - Tommen and Maergery. There were lingering shots of the crowd to show that Cersei killed innocent men, women, and children. Shots made it clear that a lot of people in neighboring areas were killed. Cersei after the explosion was surrounded by emptiness and quiet. I don't think the showrunners can be responsible for a knee jerk response against The High Sparrow and the Septa. I am just amazed at the difference between the concerned handwringing last episode and this episode's cheering on of Cersei, not to mention Frey Pie.

Do the Starks change their motto to I Told You So once winter begins? I thought Sansa's look was a little bit worried about Littlefinger and also realizing that no matter what she does she is going to beside a king. She did bring the troops that won the war; Jon admits that. She had to convince Jon to even start the process. But The North just forgets her as soon as possible because Jon can wield a sword. I think even though she appreciates Jon, that has to sting. Just because you are a woman and because you have been tossed around from abuser to abuser, you are completely forgotten even when you are sitting right there next to the king.