SeanC

Holy, Morello's insane. I'm glad Christufah doesn't have a dog, or else I'd be worried about it getting boiled in a pot.

James Carville's famous adage is that Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in between.

This episode basically covered her first two chapters, and rendered the rest probably irrelevant.

The writers of the show are really fond of zero-to-sixty character shifts. Sansa's is one of the more dramatic ones even by their standards (complete with vampy wardrobe change). I like seeing the character portrayed as competent, but they really could have stood to ease into this. One thing I will say (I noted this before somewhere else), but Sophie Turner is one of the only actors on this show (Conleth Hill, perhaps, being the other, though with Varys' murky motivations it's hard to tell) who plays her character acting as if she possesses all of the acting skills of Sophie Turner, without any actorly cues to convey that she's being dishonest (Natalie Dormer's Margaery, for instance, is so obviously dissembling whenever she's "playing the game" that it's a wonder anyone believes her; and I love Dormer, don't get me wrong; Aiden Gillen is another obvious example). I was impressed that they made Oberyn's death as gruesome as they did. Also, Indira Varma's reaction to his death was everything I was expecting from Cersei's reaction to the death of Joffrey; that's the only time Lena has really underwhelmed me).

I was contemplating possible scenarios for future seasons, just because I find it interesting to consider where they might take this show once the "faking it" premise is past (which seems imminent, one way or another; that title will very likely seem like a total artifact if this show has a future). One of the things that came to mind, going back to the original ruse that gave rise to all these events, was Amy and Karma being exposed as fake at the moment they become "real", which would put them in the position of being in a relationship, but nobody at the school believing them. I'm not really sure how this exposure would happen at this point, and it's probably an overly neat reversal of the premise of the first season, but whatever, worth spitballing.