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1. Agree this was a really weak episode.

2. possibly spoiled ian mcshane's casting last week, sorry for that. rather dissapointing debut though.

3. arya getting stabbed repeatedly in the lower abdomen by a professional assassin was pretty weak, on multiple levels.

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The waif was told not to let her suffer, she stabbed her in the stomach on purpose to make her suffer...I'm predicting the dude kills the waif for disobeying and saves arya

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Was Stansa writing to Little Finger for help?

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Was Stansa writing to Little Finger for help?

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Last night I was racking my brain about where that letter was going. All I could think of was Theon.

This actually makes more sense.

Although I would literally watch a full hour of Ramsay getting tortuted by Theon.

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I have a hard time thinking just those 3 guys killed all those people and hung the leader in a short period of time while the hound was chopping wood. They were unarmed, but they were spread out as if a larger force came through. I suppose it's possible, but I wonder if we're meant to believe they did it but maybe someone/something else is at work?

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I assume those 3 guys brought friends back with them to help with the slaughter. If they were actually part of the Brotherhood, that doesn't make sense, alt least not yet. The Brotherhood wouldn't slaughter unarmed innocents. I'm going to assume they were Brotherhood as the Hound claimed, but something has changed.

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Hopefully Dani is on ships with Yara and Theon to Westeros

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Yara would be eye-humping Dani the whole time.

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I can see the finale now: They're going to scissor so hard Yara is going to burst into flames (a la rubbing two sticks together) setting the ship on fire as it docks. Danny emerges on the shores of Westeros naked and glorious.

Credits.

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As discussed in the episode, Lyanna Mormont's uncle was Jeor Mormont, whom Jon Snow initially served under at Castle Black. But a reminder: Jeor's son was none other than Jorah Mormont, the same lovelorn knight currently wandering Essos in search of a cure for his greyscale.

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I thought it was a better episode than the one where honor died

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It wasn't Arya it was Jaqen wearing her face
1. Walked like Jaqen, wore hair parted down the middle, threw the coin with the right hand (Arya is left handed)
2. Was too obvious. Arya would have never asked for a cabin. The money was thrown around too casually, even if she was capable of stealing such a sum.
3. Lingering shot of statue on the bridge, maybe sorry to leave. Arya hasn't been there that long, doesn't have a particular fondness for the place. Could have stowed away as a cabin boy too easily
4. Jaqen's life belongs to her. He promised her 3 lives to take for the Red God. He took 2, then she named him as her 3rd. Instead of dying he bargained and agreed to help her escape but then when he left he gave her the coin and told her to come to Braavos. And he gave her the words Valar Morghulis, all men must die. Knowing what we know about their relationship with death there would have been no bargain really. He believes in death
His life is owed to the Red God. No bargain can change his fate and he knows it. He willingly dies in Arya's place, wearing her face, to fulfill the contract on his own life. He also was testing the Waif who did not fulfill the contract correctly by doing a belly wound instead of killing quickly. Waif is going to go out before he is gone officially. Scenes from next week show Waif running/ chasing possible real Arya

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I thought it was a better episode than the one where honor died

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How was he wearing Arya's face if she is still alive? We've been shown the actual face is removed from the dead.

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