1. The second to last episode of each season never disappoints.

2. For the first time ever, Dany and Jon didn't feel like mother/son or something weird like that.

3. I've gotta think the dragon spits ice. Scared the crap out of me when his eyes opened, even though it was clear what was going on.

4. So was the only main character that died the red priest? Besides the dragon of course.

5. It isn't clear what Arya is doing. I kind of feel like she should be invincible by now based on what she's gone through. I don't get why she's threatening Sansa, why she didn't keep playing the game with her, why, if she can tell who's lying, she can't tell that Sansa is telling the truth about being forced to write that letter, etc. Kind of feels like that Avengers Civil War movie, where they just don't see eye-to-eye and all they need to do is talk it out or agree to disagree, but instead they act like immature little teenage girls to each other. This part only bugs me because I love Arya. Favorite character on the show when used properly. Right now, they aren't using her for crap.

6. So now what? They tie up loose ends, I'm guessing...Cersei sees a zombie, Dany has sex with her nephew on their dream boat, the white walkers get to the wall just as the season ends, the conflict with Arya/Sansa conflict comes to a climax, and a main character or two HAS to die (my bet is on Littlefinger/Arya/Sansa and at least one Greyjoy). It kind of feels like Sansa deserves to kill Littlefinger - they alluded to her not being a killer "yet," and it would kind of be the final transition for her into a ruler. And as Warden in the North, she's encharged with doing it. But it would also be cool to see Arya do it. I don't see Littlefinger killing anyone directly. I could see Brienne disobeying orders and staying behind secretly (not sure how she would do that, though) and killing Littlefinger to protect the Stark girls. I think the natural ending we're heading towards is Jon on the throne and Sansa as warden of the North. Kind of feels like Dany/Cersei won't make it out of all of this alive.

7. The season still has time lapse issues. Why not FLY the wharg to Kings Landing, or close to it? Why encharge the Hound? That will (*should) take a while. And why the crap did Sansa care to send anyone to King's Landing, let alone Brienne? She should be like "screw you, Cersei. Nobody from the North is coming to King's Landing." And on the flip side, I had no idea how to react when I saw the undead run like Olympians through the snow when asked to. Why in the world are they not running to the wall? It isn't like they're going to die or anything. They've been snailing for months/years/centuries, and they are able to sprint?!

8. It bugs me that they still really haven't explained what the NK and his people are or what they're doing. They were created to defend the Children of the Forest from men. But then they didn't protect the Children? Is their end goal to rule for the sake of ruling? How many are there? Can they procreate? Anyway, the NK is terrifying and they made him look very cool, but I could have gone for more of an explanation - even from the perspective of the legends by Westeros people or the Wildlings - about what they do and why it's taken them so long to make their way south of the wall (I mean, they were created eons ago, right?).

9. Tyrion doesn't want Dany to die, but it's clear that Dany just doesn't want to listen to him anymore. She's ignored him for two episodes now and it's turned out decent for her. The writers are either manufacturing fake conflict between those two or something bad is going to happen. It's kind of weird because Tyrion is keen enough that his strategies SHOULD work. To see him strike out so many times is really inconsistent and I don't like that the writers betrayed Tyrion's character like that.