Game of Thrones 5.10 "Mother's Mercy" (spoiler alert)
Season finale tonight! Valar Morghulis!
Stannis marches. Dany is surrounded by strangers. Cersei (Lena Headey) seeks forgiveness. Jon is challenged.
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... a wooden water ladle upside the head!
Just like watching Ned die even when you know it is coming. 
I think we both can speculate why. I don't really want him to take over his wolf, though. I want them both to survive.
Which I know isn't the most popular of choices. 
When Melisandre rode back into camp I literally stood up and said, "Oh, hell yes! I see how this could play out now!" In a room of three other people who hadn't read the books. They were pretty sure I'd lost it then. Which I had, because I'm normally very quiet an reserved. 
I'll swallow hard.
I also want Jon to survive as Jon (whatever his last name will be or his new "title"
all these years and I'm still not over Ned's death....I can't take too many more Starks or half-Starks dying for good.
Arya is one of my personal favorites from the books, and by extension the HBO series. I want her to be strong, but not "no one" per the Faceless Men's religion. Which is interesting in that it seems to encompass most/all other religions. John Snow is one of the good ones and I suspect of a bloodline to be a leader once Winter comes. How can they kill him off? If only it were so easy in A Song of Ice and Fire, right?
I'm completely in camp Arya Stark and John *insert whatever last name he resolves to here* until there's no hope left for either one!
As to Ned...who is ever over his death completely? I almost stopped reading then, if not for the fact that I still felt so much emotional investment to several other characters. Again, damn you GRRM, this time for being so good at your craft!
I'm already trying to figure out when I can schedule a marathon re-watch of the entire season!
I'm also on another reading of the books. We're both hopeless.
You think Myrcella is dead? I think maybe, maybe not.
And rewatch before a new series launch. Yeah, I'm that bad.
I never count a character as dead unless their head is being shown severed from their body in this series. Having said that, I don't know what long term purpose her living or dying might serve in the plot. So, we may have lost her. Which would only be sad because we only just started to like her...which is a recipe for death in GoT.
How about the Reek and Sansa arc tonight? It made me smile to think he'd found a semblance of himself again, and that she (Sansa) was was the one who helped lead him back to it. After all, they were children who basically grew up as siblings, if we pretend the whole 'he tried to steal her heritage from her' thing never took place. It's not as if that worked out well for him in the end or anything.
Much as I dislike Theon, I don't hate Reek. I'd like to see him earn back some of his self respect by helping Sansa.
Maybe he'll take Trystane with him in an attempt to save him from Cersei's wrath? Not that that's likely in this series, we're more likely to see his head on a pike than see him be saved from Cersei.
A minor addiction issue, or so some said.
It's free for use, though. Help yourself!
What a horrible place to be.
On edit- do we know what happens to Arya's wolf, Nymeria? Did I miss it? Or will her wolf return and be her eyes?
I think Jon will survive. I remember in one of those after the episodes vignettes the producers said they got permission to do the series when they answered GRRM's question correctly:
Who Jon Snow's mother?
I think he plays a very important role. Or I could be wrong and he's as dead as
Ned.
I don't think I'm going to take this well. Really, I'm not even kidding. I'll make it a point to remove all heavy objects from the room and only view the season premier on an old TV, JIK.
Goodness knows he deserves it. As if killing off our most dear protagonist isn't bad enough, then he fails to deliver the product in a timely fashion! There really should be some form of legal remedy to this sort or dereliction of duty, right?
The hours I've spent speculating the outcome of this series should count for something!
I haven't read the books, so there's a lot I don't know!
For instance, the young girl on the boat who collapsed with the bleeding nostrils. What was that all about? 
No clue.
You've really absorbed this.
I remember the fight when Tyrion was accused. And I remember the Hound. It's so complicated.
Thank you.
I'm off to bed.........good night!
Well now, I underestimated how depressing that would be. I feel .... shitty.
This is going to sound like a strange thing to say but I thought Jon Snow never looked more beautiful than in tonight's episode. He (the actor) really is an angelic creature - like something Raphael would have painted.
Why, why, WHY????????? Oh, that's right...
The only substantial moment of satisfaction for me was Arya dispensing with Meryn Trant. That was as brutal as I'd hoped it would be.
I don't think I will watch the walk of shame again. I don't like scenes of extreme humiliation and that seemed to go on forever. Although being delivered into the hands of the new and improved Mountain was nice and ominous. I hope the Mountain's efforts will directed towards obliterating the religious freaks. I hope I can look forward to that.
Well shit, I have to digest all this. ::sigh::
I adore Arya. Even bloodthirsty Arya. I want her and Jon to be reunited - in a positive way.
Sometimes I worry she'll be sent to kill him (whatever he becomes), as one of the Faceless.
And she won't be in the show either. The blindness was both a punishment and a lesson. She learns to use her other senses and various other tricks that blind people use to get around, and she passes a test in the book and gets her vision back. That elevates her to a higher level in her training, and this time she's given a beautiful face and is sent to a mummer's troup to learn from them (probably how to act like different people). In the chapter in The Winds of Winter that Martin released about her she kills Raff the Sweetling at a theater. I think she was also learning to hide her killing activities from her teachers (in the books it's not Jaqen but a guy called "the kindly man" and the other girl is called "the waif" . During this time with the mummer's troupe she's also supposed to learn more languages.
In the books all the Stark kids can warg, but they don't realize it except for Arya who figures that out in her training though even from the time that she was traveling with Yoren, Gendry, Hot Pie and the others to the Wall she was having wolf dreams where she becomes Nymeria and hunts with her pack. It's also Nymeria that pulls the dead Lady Catlyn out of the river which is how Thoros (or I think Dondarian?) bring her back to life as Lady Stoneheart. When Arya wakes up from that dream as she's traveling with the Hound she's certain that her mother is dead.
Jon is still wishy-washy about that ability though he knows that when Ghost is near him he gets the same sort of higher senses that wolves have and also a craving for bloody meat. I think he knows more than he wants to admit to himself, and there was one instance during the long time that Ghost and he were separated when he had to climb the Wall that he senses Ghost's return because he starts getting those pre-warging feelings, and jumps up and starts calling for Ghost.
Sansa only occasionally felt Lady was near her or had a few dreams about her, but she's clueless about warging, and probably because Lady is dead. I expect Sansa to die since she lost her wolf permanently through Lady's death.
Rob was also a bit oblivious, and I can't remember if anything was ever said about him having "wolf deams" or anything like that. Doesn't matter since both him and Grey Wind are dead.
