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If he were Dread Pirate Root Guy it would!

You weren't alone, Shimpy, I thought the exact same thing. "Who the F*** is Ferris?" It took me a couple of minutes before I realized he must have meant Varys. >.

First bold part - I can't help but think that Roose & Ramsay would be out of their element against the WW and The zombonies because, well, I'm pretty sure a flayed zomboni still has one hell of a lot of secrets. I don't see much skin on the WW either. ;-) As for the 2nd bold part, I thought the irony wasn't lost on Dany. She didn't take the steps needed regarding her first wayward babe - and Jorah had tried to warn her - so now she is doing what she can to protect "her" people before the other two follow suit. It clearly hurt her to do it, but she had to decide if she was to be a queen or just another person who only cared about her own power. Tywin let his Mountain "monster" loose to satisfy both their lusts. Dany has taken the harder choice. ETA. Llywela said pretty much what I was thinking. It took me longer. I'm fighting with my iPad about spelling. NO iPad, Roose is NOT Roosevelt!

Thanks for that quote WS. I couldn't make out what TG said Jon could never be again. A Kneeler. We Don't Kneel. Words of the Wilding Multi-"House" Conglomerate.

Hee! Great Minds and all that. I just looked it up. Arya arrives late. Ned takes her makeshift helmet off her and she takes her place by rudely shoving Bran over so she is standing beside her sister in the row. That suggests she is older than Bran - by a bit at least.

Well, she's got a few choices in Braavos I reckon. She could study to become a high ranking Financial Wheeler-Dealer. She acquired the heartlessness required already. ;-P

I think it was you, WS, who used this song lyric before (I've forgotten exactly where), but it is very apt for this GoT "Ode to Father": Shot through the heart And you're to blame You give love a bad name...

Yeah. I agree with this point. It seemed a natural reaction to me. Re: the CGI skeletons... They did feel a bit cliche-zombie-ish. But that's partly because I was forgetting that, in THIS story, those aren't run of the mill freaky/scary zombies... those were Zombonies! The part I forgot about was that in THIS story the dead only come to life at the behest of the WhiteWalkers (or so we have been led to believe). So that means that the "brains" behind the WhiteWalkers must have been aware of the Bran Muffins journey all along. And when they got to the very gates of <whatever that place was> the zombonies were deployed to try to prevent them entering. At least that I what I hope was going on because otherwise it was just a bit too horror-story-trope for me. My spitball is that Old Root Guy and the Children of the Forest are being set up in opposition to the WW Lord and Kraster's Kids in some ancient rift in the force - of Nature(?) in this case. (go away Luke). I'll forget I even thought this by the start of next season. >.<

Just catching up. I want to make sure that All you friendly White Cloaks know how much I appreciate the work you do keeping this habitat safe for us unsullied. I'm not usually an on time viewer - due to my work schedule - so by the time I start reading here you've usually got any spoilsport bookwalkers or misplaced "Unspoiled" cleared away. I especially appreciate the special effort you all made when TWoP shut down (sniff). Makes for a great forum experience, so thanks again.

Thanks so much for keeping this list up for us. I'm getting better at remembering many of the characters - at least ones that get some air time in the season - but there are so many others that I sometimes want to refer to that your list is invaluable. Next Wednesday would be too soon for me to notice if there is a character I don't remember, but I'm sure I'll survive until next season. Oh! does this mean you won't be carrying on with the list next season? I sincerely hope not. :-(

While I don't remember her, I'll bet that we could find a lot of other examples to refute comments like that made by the judges to auditioners. Just this season - I think it was even in the same episode - Nigel told one dancer that he had never seen anyone do a "reverse battment (?) en l'air with a drop to the ground" (sorry, not a real quote, just from my memory). I thought I had seen it before - that Caleb (bow tie/father died/auditioned twice) did the same move in his second audition (I think it was Caleb). And that was before they claimed they'd Never Seen That Move Before! ETA: Thanks for bringing both the point and the proof via clip, Mason

Re: 1st bolded part. That's how I saw it too. The 2 blast horn...the wilding camp looking up the hill with the red/orange glow behind it...the Thenn warg opening his/her eyes. What I remember thinking is "WoW! So that is what Mance meant with his Biggest!Bonfire!Ever! comment!" When we actually saw the fire from the NW point of view it was basically a huge forest fire, and given that it was at night, it would have literally "lit up the sky". That's what I think was being depicted by that shot. Not that they could see the actual fire, but that they could see the sky was lit up and knew it would be Mance's fire. Re: the second bold bit, I mentioned in one of my posts that the 1st time we see the owl it is a focused shot of it landing on top of the elevator scaffolding as Sam was leaving the top of the wall (after his chat about sex with Jon at the very beginning of the episode). The scene then cut away to the Wilding camp with the body-less Thenn with white eyes in the foreground and the rest sitting around the fire. So, yeah, that's where the owl was located. (and I know this not from memory but, of course, by going back and reviewing the start of the episode. :-P)

Always a reliable source of Show information, WhiteStumbler. I, too, didn't remember that, but the "lost your warg?" comment rings a bell. ETA: I remember seeing Bran's eyes rolling back into his head. I just can't recall seeing him with the completely white-eyed look. I agree, though, that it is the primary visual cue for "warning: condition!warging!"

"Honest, I was one my way back to the nest with a big, fat worm for Jr. and I just blacked out! I don't know how I got the smell of fermented berries on my breath!" - random bird Although we didn't see things through the eyes of the warg-ee this time, I found there was enough pointed scene cuts and pointed focus on the owl that it was clear it was warged. First, there is a close up of the owl landing on top of the NW elevator (at the end of the Sam/Jon sex-talk-redux scene) and looking around and the next scene was of the bodyless Thenn with white eyes. We've seen Orell with white eyes when he is warging as well. I don't remember if Bran has ever been shown with the tell-tale white eyes, but he is the one we usually see things from the warged animals POV. And second, we had the two blasts of the horn, then the scene cut to the body-less Thenn opening his eyes and announcing "it's time" and cut back to the Wall where the owl is seen taking off. That's what announced to me that the owl was being warged by the Thenn. ETA: Oops. Llywela kinda covered most of my points except the pointless joke. I'm a slow composer.

With a bit of distance, I remembered something from early in this episode: the scouting/provoking wilding party had a Thenn warg in their party (lucky for them 'cuz Jon got rid of Orell, so having the cannabal's join them had it's up-side). This one was an Owl. It's surprises me that someone in the NW (I'm looking at your Sam/Jon) didn't notice the presence of an owl in the middle of battle preparations. Initially I couldn't quite figure out who the warg was at the Wilding camp because the way they showed him looked (to me) like it was just the head of some poor Thenn on a stick (I thought perhaps he had pissed off the others BIGTIME and he became dinner). BUT the opaque white eyes kept me grounded and thankfully the Show allowed us to see him opening them. Which makes me wonder if there may be a lot more wargs north of the wall than I might have assumed. Although we didn't see another flying creature, it is not impossible that Mance has anointed a new warg and was also aware of the NW battle preparations. I don't know. The timing of the south-of the-wall Wilding attack seemed to hinge on knowing when the majority of the NW were on top of the Wall engaged with fighting the attack front from north-of-the-wall. So I guess only the Thenn warg was needed for that. But, now I wonder about how the Thenn's came to join up the Ygritte's party. It seemed clear that Mance had sent them, but did he do it without knowing they would need re-inforcements? I guess that is possible. Or, conversely, perhaps he used the Thenn warg to learn how the Ygritte advance party was doing and sent the Thenns - leaving himself warg-less. Not a good thing for his battle plans. So, we've got two wilding warg "daemons" (stealing from His Dark Materials books) at loose ends - due to the deaths of Orell and, this episode, the Thenn warg . Do they just revert to normal animals (birds in this case)? We never get to see what happens to them. They don't seem like the Stark Direwolves who act a lot more like the Pullman-defined "daemons" - as an integral part of the person they are associated with. And 'though Bran's direwolf occasionally gets warged, that is not his only connection with Bran. Sorry if this is not making much sense, it's following up on a forum discussion earlier about what happens if a warged creature is killed while inhabited by a warg. I'm leaning toward warged creatures just being a convenient tool/vessel and not having much of a connection with the warg-er. So, if the creature is killed, the warg-er would just come back into their own head.

This bolded part was a spitball I flung quite a few episodes back. I've kind of dropped it since but knowing what we know now (see quotes below) I am worried that it might be true and that the "Bran Muffins" (™ DirewolfPup) really are heading towards the Flayer Maester. Mmm-hummm. And of course IF the weirwood tree at Winterfell turns out to be THE weirwood tree, Bolton will be seen ordering it chopped down to make a stock-pile of Flaying crosses. There have not been enough obstacles to overcome for the Bran Muffins. And DirewolfPup is on a roll: #2 seems pretty much like how this Story rolls, and #4 would keep the continuity of Stannis' story at least. ;-) I've decided to not worry about what happens to Tyrion (much). What ever it will be (and they really DO have to bring some kind of ending to that cliffhanger - even if it's to provide ANOTHER cliffhanger!) all I want is for it to be interesting/unexpected and to have not seen it coming. Is that too much to ask for? I know it's going to get harder as the series progresses, but surely there must be a lot more stuff to introduce that both makes sense and that we haven't thought of? Hopefully? Edited to add: And after the story he announces (like a boss) to the remaining Boltons that he is going to Smash Their Heads Apart Like a Walnut! (Rickon: Smash! - for WS). Then, when he's in control of Winterfell again, he will add a stylized nutcracker to the family Sigil - yes! a Direwolf Nutcracker!

OK. That last bit may have been why I don't remember it. LIkely would have tuned the shit-when-you-die convo down to "mute".

WhiteStumbler will know! He knows everything (almost). But, as far as backstories go? A little thin on the ground I'd say. That is possibly the biggest weakness of the Wall plotline. The characters could be so much better. Hell, Edd-the- downer guy has a more fleshed out character than Pyp or Grenn because he got to say things as his own character, not necessarily to push the plot forward.

See? I knew you could do it. And even though you had to explain it? - it's still funny.

Hope this will do. It's a compilation of all of Danny's Solos in chronological order, so the Elliott Yamin one is 1st. I feel a bit hypocritical when I say this, but... I'm glad Danny was in the bottom so often because we got to witness so many incredible solos from this immensely talented dancer.

Yikes! No memory of that. Do your search magic, WS, and quote the Season and Episode so I can look it up. (or better yet? Magic up the transcription. You know you can. ;-P) And another one I can't recall. You two are making me feel lacking in the random-minor-factoids department. (And I used to think I ruled it. Guess not!) Who-What-Where was the Farm Girl mentioned? The "who's done IT?" convo at the Wall back in S01?

There is one up-side. We might get some scenes of Shareen teaching Davos the 'rithmatic part of Readin', Writin' and... I'd pay-per-view for that! (what? it'd only BE about 30 seconds, so... $0.43? Right? Well worth the fee.) Well, that would brighten up the Stannis plot. Make it so. But, to balance things out - Stannis would have to agree to have his wife burnt in Shareen's stead. Really. There is no body else and somebody has to die horribly and senselessly.

:D. :D. :DAnd on a completely different subject... I rather enjoyed the brief moment of positivity displayed by Edd-the-glass-half-empty guy. "If we're going to die tonight, we might as well enjoy it!" (Gives enthusiastic order to unleash the fire-tipped arrows.) I am glad The Story saved him, at least, because - of all of Jon's entourage - he's the one who had the funniest lines.

Or squished by a wooly mammoth with a slightly charred butt!And yeah. I heard that Thenn think the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if closed captioning didn't have that captured as a thought bubble!

Hee! Are we still talking re-animated corpses?