Drogo

"You swore to obey my commands for the rest of your life. Well, I command you to find the cure wherever it is in this world. I command you to heal yourself and then return to me. When I take the Seven Kingdoms, I need you by my side." He's following orders. His question to Sam regarding her ETA was to see how much time he's got left to heal himself and get back to her. Like a dog with a bone, that guy.

Dragonstone is just across from Kings Landing, with only Blackwater Bay in between. It's very close (one day's sail per Davos in S2.)

Yes- he may be halfway made of stone now but his voice is still like sexy garlic butter.

Jon and Sansa "know" that Ned is his father. Bran only knows that Lyanna Stark is Jon's real mother and that Ned is not his father. No one knows who Jon's father is. Jon is not a true Stark, regardless.

Neither were Frey's sons and army, but "the party's over" for them! Who's left: Cersei, The Mountain, Melisandre, Beric and Thoros.

I think the encounter was meant to remind Arya that not all soldiers share the core beliefs of their Lord/Commander- an interesting follow-up to her having just executed every member of the Frey army. Walder Frey (w/ Roose Bolton's help) lured and executed her family; his soldiers were just, well, being soldiers. They all got eerily silent (disgusted?) when "Walder" started talking about the RW and how they'd butchered a pregnant woman and her baby, a mother of five, etc... probably none of them have seen a Faceless Man before, so their first instinct wouldn't be "That's not Frey" but rather they were put off by his speech as if the Red Wedding had been something they'd prefer to never speak of again. Soldiers don't necessarily "hate the enemy" but they need to do what their Commander needs done in order to maintain their positions and support themselves/their families. Some of them have wives and new babies, some enjoy making blackberry wine and fishing with their fathers, some sing merry melodies.. and many would share their not-enough food with a young person passing alone. With this reminder, I expect Arya to be much more targeted in any future assassinations. ex: "I'm going to kill The Queen" instead of "I'm going to kill the Lannisters"

Next up, Ed Sheeran continues his Meet The Starks tour with Bran!

Two minutes into the season, Arya's already on fire.

Just like dragons to run ahead of the group and claim the 3 best bedrooms.

Anthony seemed pretty lazy about filing out that one page credit application for the apartment. Also pretty ballsy of him to get mad at Ashley as if she was interrupting his filling it out, when we all saw him playing with his phone instead.

Keep it down, hoodlums! Some of us are trying to Rest In Peace.

She doesn't want to talk through the issue with him on camera... but she has no problem speaking directly to the camera about how terrible Nathan is after-the-fact. O, the hypocrisy knows no bounds. I'm hopeful that once she realizes Nate isn't planning to run away from her, she'll come off high alert and the crazy will subside.

I take back my previous statement from last week that Sheila is just feisty. Girl is batty, hypocritical and self-sabotaging.

"I promise to love and honor you... until I can leave your insufferable ass."

Agreed. The first 10 minutes of this show is a good time to pour yourself a drink and change into pajamas.

Sounds weird but I think Juan was getting really turned on by own Russ abuse. Pao loves Juan because Juan worships her. Careful he doesn't kill you and wear your skin around Miami, Pao. Obsessed.

Lennie/Lenore.

I got you, @Landlord. Episode # updated.

That's what I would think, but at the nominations ceremony the nominees' "Keys" are already "In the Block" and Paul just turns them to make them appear on the screen. Would they have let him go back to the HOH room to get a new second Key? (Useless Thing I Wonder About #22.) Your second point makes sense; he could be forced to hold onto it.

What if Paul had nominated Ramses and Alex instead of Alex and Josh? Would there just be the two nominees?

A reminder that no one here needs to provide receipts for their opinions, ex: no one needs to know Danielle/Cody personally to have an opinion about their story. And let's be careful about the tone - this is a nice friendly place to talk trash about this ridiculous show and we'd like it to remain that way.

Dad and son reunion, pre-axe discussion: Dad and son reunion, post-axe discussion: Heaven help me, I really like Brooke. I didn't think I would.

As Danielle would say, it's so fustrating.

Alexei, you are never allowed to have any feelings about anything.