I don't understand the Greyjoy thing.

If Greyjoy #1 is going to help advance the main plot, then what are Greyjoy #2 and #2a going to do with the plot? Just pirate around and try and kill #1, so they can take over the main plot advancement? Rat him out to the existing power structure in Westeros? I don't see that turning out well for them.

A couple of quick predictions....

We have not seen the last of Hodor. Think zombie Hodor...

Ben Stark will return. Perhaps as a rogue good zombie, (playing the part of book Cat?). Maybe that's how Meera and Bran get out of the great white north...


Unbelievable episode. So much to think about. Easily in my top 3 episodes of all time...

I'm thinking we might get

I wonder if she is really hundreds of years old since she had on the exact same power necklace as Melisandre.

According to the show creators, the Three-Eyed Raven was trying to hurry up and download all his knowledge to Bran so there is something in that past that is important. He ran out of time and said Bran was not ready.

I would hope so. I wanted to scream at them to get the hell out of there immediately, I have no idea what they were doing in the past.

Yeah me too. It seemed completely hopeless at one point with that horde almost right on top of them. I noticed Jack Bender directed this episode and that name sounded so familiar. I looked him up and he directed many of the great episodes of Lost! I could definitely see some Lost flavor in this episode. Probably a top 5 GOT episode for me. I still can't stop thinking about it and I remember Lost had that same effect on me.

Bender also directed some good Sopranos episodes and Directed episodes of Carnivale as well. They should definitely bring him back for next season.

Yeah, that was weird. 3ER was all "they're on their way here now, you have to leave!", then, instead of leaving, they're deep into some random, seemingly unimportant past. Hodor wouldn't need to hold the door if they had split the second Bran got touched.

FYI:

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/01/...s-in-a-song-of

Perhaps in the book, you know who reappears and helps Bran on the other end, so we may very well see an appearance of the character, but the link does imply that he is not who fans hope he is.

Not sloppy at all. Think from the viewpoint of the people back then who saw him flop down all of a sudden and start shaking and briefly saying "hold the door" before it morphed into "ho'dor". Why did that whole event happen? Nobody (who was there at the time) really knows. The brief Q&A you put forth is just a summary of the whole situation.

"How did he go from a normal person who can talk like anyone else to a lummox who just utters an abbreviated version of 'hold the door'?"
"Beats the fuck out of me."

Yessir!

Theon and his sister's chief concern was getting away from their uncle before he could kill them. Now they could Ally with Jon and Sansa. That would make the most sense.

Kudos to the young actor who babble-transitioned from "hold the door" to "Hodor." I didn't see it coming until it hit.

That annoyed me as well, but I'm not sure they would've been fast enough anyway considering how those wights move. And can the Night King find Bran anywhere now? Or does the marking ("Bran-ding"?) not allow tracking but just entry past the magical barrier when they already knew where Bran et al. were (sort of like a Buffy vampire being invited into a home)?

Well if they immediately left, Hodor would have never become Hodor. But since he's already Hodor, he has to become Hodor - unless they get into other time travel shit.

Completely agree. Sansa hasn't learned anything if she believes that Littlefinger wouldn't give her that information because it somehow benefited him.

Now, she foolishly has sent Brienne away from her side on the word of a guy who she obviously shouldn't trust. Then to lie to John about it? That's the kind of bad decision making that gets innocent people killed. I think Brienne isn't going to last much longer.

Also, I don't think Littlefinger was ever in any real danger. He wouldn't show up there if he had any belief Sansa would do him harm. He may have miscalculated that Brienne would be there, but he had to know she wouldn't show up without someone who could easily kill him. He's not a fighter. That was a very deliberate move on his part. He knows Sansa is blinded by getting an army to take back Winterfell from Ramsey. This won't end well.

I think this will be Sansa's downfall. I can't really figure out Littlefinger's play in all this. Does he want to marry Sansa and take over Winterfell? He has Harrenhall and the Vale. I guess maybe he wants to take the North and the Vale and take King's Landing?

I'm really interested in seeing how Bran and Meera are going to get out of the mess that they're in. Unfortunately, I won't be able to watch next week's episode until Monday afternoon....

White Walker Killers club:

Jon Snow
Samwell Tarly
Meera Reed

And the tree people with those firebombs.

they only killed the minions; none of the head honcho Walkers (unless i missed a kill)

I have a feeling Bran is going to decide it best to lose an arm.

i love how this show (at least for me) is so rewatchable. i must have seen each ep. this season twice and still found something new. i can't wait to rewatch it all, one day, again...

Oldboy, I was doing that passively with the show a few weeks ago. It helped me know from the beginning the relationships between characters, houses. Definitely picked up on more.

Meera killed a walker. She threw a spear presumably tipped with dragon glass, and the walker shattered.

she was already listed in the club