This is the Season Three finale.
- Big fat wrongness on the three weddings in the final three episodes. Joff and Margaery will have to wait until Season Four. Too many threads to wrap up or lead into next year to do a big production for the social event of Westeros, if Cersei's seventy seven courses are actually featured.
- O'er the ramparts watched Roose Bolton at the mayham and destruction continuing outside the castle upon the Northern army. His mere appearance is enough to make you grit your teeth.
- The conversation between Bolton and Walder Frey, as they discuss their new positions in the realms leads you to believe if it hadn't been one thing that led them to betray Robb, it'd be another. It wasn't for lack of want that would prevent it but the assurances of their betrayal's success and spoils afterward. Once they received those from Tywin, all bets were off.
- Bolton mentions Robb ignored his advice at every turn, but the best case shown where Bolton advised Robb was to allow Bolton's bastard to retake Winterfell, rather than Robb needing to do it himself. And Robb took that advice. So there's quite a bit of resentment there (no kidding) built of in Bolton
- It's amazing how, despite all that's happened to her in Kings Landing, Sansa can maintain any sense of innocence, conveyed when she earnestly explains the prank to Tyrion.
- Give a lot of credit to the actress playing Yara when she and her father receive a package postmarked from Lonley Island. She communicates much like one of the new characters in the brand new season of Arrested Development. Then, she takes a crew and voiceovers us into one of the most badass threads for next season
- Maybe it was just the pictures in my old CCD workbook, but the blue Dany wears looks a lot like Mary
- Arya goes from the statue of Baelor in "Baelor" where she's grabbed by gruff old Yoren from the Night's Watch as her father is beheaded among a spectacle, to finally finding her family, only to be mere feet from the new head of her family paraded around, headless, and taken away by gruff old Sandor Clegane
- She pulls out the coin Jaqen H'gar gave to her, which we saw first and last in the Season Two finale. Arya declined his invitation to come with her across the sea because she was still searching for her family. But now there's nothing keeping her there...
- Tywin took the words out of my mouth when he commented on Joffrey's need to state he "is the king". It's like when someone makes a claim about how they are to be respected. If you have to say it, you haven't earned it.
- Part of winning the game of thrones seems to be sitting out and biding your time. Twice that strategy was raised in this episode
- The "late" Walder Frey holding his army back from helping the Tullys at the Trident during the rebellion
- Tywin Lannister holding his army back at Casterly Rock while Robert Baratheon led the rebellion
- It seems a bit out of character for Tyrion to refer to Joff as "the most powerful man in Westeros" when he of all people should know power lies where men believe it lies. After all, he was Hand all of season two when they seemed to focus on that idea constantly. I like to think the Iron Throne represents authority in Westeros the same way the ceremonial mace does in England. Whoever holds it, holds authority. It's why if Stannis had taken the capital in and the physical throne in "Blackwater", he'd be king, and why the importance of holding it after Robert's death was so apparent to Renly and Cersei but sadly not Ned.
- Possession is nine tenths of the law in Westeros and the other tenth is Tywin Lanniser doing as he pleases
- For example, Tywin used the Kingsguard oaths however suit him best. With the Queen of Thorns he threatened to add Ser Loras to the Kingsguard, making it so he cannot inherit Highgarden. When Tyrion raised the issue of his inheritance of Casterly Rock (due to Jamie's Kingsguard oath) Tywin flatly refused him
- Melisandre would be a hipster in a contemporary version. She's SO over the War of Five Kings. It's not even cool anymore. The Wall is where it's at.
- The movement through The Wall between Sam and Gill and Bran, Hodor, Jojen and Meera had a bit of a Revenge of the Sith feel. They are defeated, for now, but seeking refuge in exile, hoping to regroup. So as they go into swamps of Dagobah, there's a surprising bit of hope despite all evidence stating there should be none.
- Bran also told a nice story about what happens to those who betray their guests. Hopefully Walder Frey doesn't die of old age before he can be repaid.
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