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He's part man, part mule. Plus, apparently Whaley has been putting on a few pounds.

Too true. I think we'll all be dead before he finishes writing the books. I've heard he's trying real hard to get the next book out before season 6 starts, but I'm skeptical. If he dies, anything goes...

Alas...I think I'm done watching the show after this next episode. I thought I wouldn't mind too much if the show went past the books, but I find it unsatisfying, especially with how poor some of the writing for the show has been. It's been entertaining enough, but I think I'd rather wait to see if GRRM gets the next book out before next season, and if not, I'll pass.

Sansa is still married to Tyrion, but since they never consummated the marriage, it can be nullifed, or something like that. I believe Tywin said something to that effect during the show when he was still alive.

I don't disagree, but it's also not like all of that won't still be there if he stays in school another year to win the title.

I meant "brave" in a sarcastic way. But there were plenty, it seemed, who stuck around for awhile rather than immediately running away.

Not exactly, because the situations are almost entirely different. In the book, there is no Harpy attack. It is just a day at the fighting pits, when suddenly Drogon appears and causes mayhem, though he basically only just kills people in the pits. Dany jumped into the pits basically to both protect Drogon and to stop him from causing havoc. Although there was an obvious threat to the others there, it was basically from Drogon, so Dany was essentially helping by mounting Drogon and getting the hell out of there. Contrast that with the show, where there was an obvious threat to everyone, but here from a hoarde of murderous Harpies. Dany has retreated into the pit with her protectors and close advisors, huddling and holding hands while they realize their impending doom. Drogon appears and basically saves the day, but (presumably) since the Harpies start attacking Drogon, Dany mounts him to ride him away from danger...leaving all of her protectors and advisors to the remaining Harpies. The odd thing is that plenty of Harpies were brave enough to start attacking Drogon, but once he flew away, they all just...ran? Just weird. The further the show gets away from the books, the less they seem to be able to handle the complexity of the world they created.

Yeah, the way the Meereen scene ended, it just didn't add up. I too thought it was ridiculous that the Harpies sent one guy in at a time, when they had them so badly outnumbered. Then, when Dany mounted Drogon, I kept thinking, "Is she really just going to leave everyone else to their deaths?" At the time, there were still a crazy number of Harpies standing around, but by the time Drogon flew away, they just disappeared...

I have always loved John's unbridled offseason optimism.

Thanks everyone.

It's getting time for us to replace our water heater, and since it's just the wife and me in a small house, we were thinking of going with a tankless water heater. But I've heard different stories about them from people, and I wanted to see if anyone here has had experience with one. I started looking into information about them, but there are many different makes and models, and wide ranges of parts and installation costs.

Ha! That's what I was thinking.

That's not what I was talking about. I mean, messed up in terms of lousy writing, lousy acting, and lousy direction compared with the rest of the show. Man, you got that right.

Wow, look at that blue sky. Nice!

Yeah, I know they have different crews for the different sites, I suppose I should have used better words...perhaps how the same producers would put together those two vastly different fight scenes. I agree, they needed some way to get Jaime out of King's Landing to allow Cersei to be imprisoned and alone, and I'm sure the writers didn't want to get bogged down in the Riverrun/Blackfish/Edmure quagmire. It's just so strange how messed up the entire Dorne storyline is compared with the rest of the show.

I still find it hard to believe that the same production crew that put together that amazing battle scene in the last episode also put together that ridiculous fight scene in Dorne.

I agree.

Yeah, I'd say that Jordy's TD drop offset the play he made to prevent Gilmore from a pick-6. I'm not so sure our offense gets the job done in the final minutes against your D, though. By that point in the season, I think Orton had just about mailed it in, and I had little confidence in his last-minute heroics. That said, it was a great game, and it was good to see the special teams and defense account for the win against a really good team.

Link?? As far as I recall, Rickon didn't go beyond the Wall, did he?

Guess he must be moving pretty good... Sal Capaccio @SalSports Harvin, McKelvin, Darby. Kick returners working with number one unit.

I think they'll end up with a good coach one way or another, but I'm still wondering what the heck they're going to do at goalie.

Hell, maybe they could ask me to be a consultant to provide a fan's perspective on some of those decisions. I wouldn't charge much.

Rebounded fairly well from last week's horrible episode. More odd gratuitous nudity, though...can't really see the reason the Sand Snake needed to bare it all (not complaining, mind you), but I also can't really see why she had any interest in saving Bronn. The writers have done a pretty shabby job with the whole Sand Snake/Myrcella storyline, it's really cringe-worthy, but the rest of the episode was pretty entertaining. I was hoping the capture of Cersei would have been a bit more...exciting, like in the books, but overall I thought they did a pretty good job of it.

It's really odd. I'm such a proponent of seat belts, I basically never go without it. But something about being in the back seat of a cab makes things different for me. No idea why, but I find that I just don't do it for some reason. I've been better at it lately (though admittedly I don't ride in cabs very often), but this will certainly change that for me.

Orton?