It was on the “previously on” in the regular broadcast. And whenever a scene that’s not from the last few episodes is on the “previously on,” it’s guaranteed it’s going to be relevant in some way.
After re-watching last season, what I’m really hoping to see at some point these next two seasons, is a big battle between two somewhat evenly matched forces, where the victor is determined by a last minute arrival of a new army, or dragons, or some other magic force.
OK, thanks.
Most chilling moment for me; Cersei telling her brother how she really feels about Tommen.
Most anticipated moment hinted at for ep. 2: Joyful reunion.
Ser Jorah is now located with Sam. Here’s my guess as to what happens: Ser Jorah will become necessary to the plot, and Sam will figure out how to cure his greyscale, or at least arrest it like was done with Stannis’ daughter. Ser Jorah will then go on to play a pivotal role somehow. Perhaps the message about the Dragonglass doesn’t get through to John, so Jorah is dispatched to Dragonstone to tell Daeneris about it and enlist her aid. That reconnects them, but Ser Jorah will then have to lead a winter expedition to take the Dragonglass to Jon.
Don’t forget that the last Lord Commander of the Watch was a Mormont. I wouldn’t be surprised if the series ends with Ser Jorah being the Commander of the Night’s watch. If such a thing still exists by the end.
I mute the previously parts and look away, as I do for most shows. I prefer no hints as to what is coming.
However, I have to admit I did not realize the family that starved(or killed themselves) had previously appeared. Interesting.
Well, she did arrange a well-deserved demise for Ramsay Bolton.
Princess Shireen (RIP), it suddenly occurs to me, did grow up on… Dragonstone.
I dunno, there was talk of “the gang” from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia making group or individual appearances. D&D are big fans of the IASIP, and wrote an episode for the show: S09E08: Flowers for Charlie. They mentioned the possibility of cameos around then, but it’s a few years ago now… They cameo’d in another episode, S12E02, The Gang Goes to a Waterpark.
I do now think of “Sweet Cersei”…
It’s almost as if a place was named after a thing in that place. 
I did enjoy the zombie rape joke. “SHAME!”
That was Baelish. Because he lusts for Sansa.
I thought for a moment he might compromise and make the Umbers and Karstarks marry and join their houses and then take the lesser house’s lands and give it to one of the minor loyal families-or to the Mormonts as a great gift.
What I’d now really like to see are just glimpses of Jon mentoring both of those kids either directly or indirectly --not scenes mind you but if you have a scene of someone coming to talk to Jon, he’s seen already speaking to the two kids and then sends them away. And/or we see Brienne in the background training Alys Karstark.
Maybe how Jon learn something about his experience with Olly.
Jon was traumatized by Hardhome and he wants to do whatever he can to unite against the white walkers. Sansa was traumatized by Ramsay and she wants to do whatever she can to keep houses from rising up against them. Sansa is trying to protect them from Cersei and Jon is trying to protect them against the walkers.
One of the themes of the show seems to be people not knowing who their real enemies are.
The Hound stole the man’s bag of silver. Later on, after his fight with Brienne and as he lay dying, Arya took it from him coldly as he begged her to kill him. If that man would have still had that silver it might have bought him and his daughter more time.
As someone mentioned the Dragonstone map was plot critical. It will link up Jon and Danaerys and it will tie Jorah in as well, with Sam possibly finding a way to cure him. It could also mean that Jorah via Sam could facilitate the diplomacy between the queen of dragons and the king in the north, if Melisandre doesn’t.
I had no idea who that NKotB cameo was, so I’m old and out-of-touch enough for it not to matter. I’m one who liked Leather Tuskedero on Happy Days though.
I’m hoping that the Sam Tarley books give us some physical theory about the weird seasons, like an eccentric orbit with a binary star or something.
Sansa seems to really want to turn herself into the Cersei of the North, it remains to be seen whether she has any scheming chops to compete.
I’m hoping Nymeria comes out of the woods, now that Arya is back in the mainland. Do you think dire wolves could also wear the masks? Imagine a gift corgi showing up on Cersei’s doorstep…
The character or the actor?
I agree that the Dragonstone / dragonglass discovery was pivotal, and that it will likely lead to an alliance between Dany and Jon.
I just don’t understand why we have to suffer through scene after scene of nothing happening with Sam to get that one payoff.
It’s almost like the director has shot the entire episode, and then realizes after editing it’s only 50 minutes long. And Sam is the only guy still left on the lot, so he says, “Sam, we need 10 more minutes to fill the episode. Howsabout we film you pushing a cart and pretending to hurl while you empty chamberpots? That ought to pad the run-time.”
Now, to assuage my guilt over griping, I’ll echo **Elendil’s Heir **and praise the scene that made me laugh out loud:
Thoros: “Why are you always in such a foul mood?”
The Hound: “Experience.”
And I liked the scene between Jaime and Cersei, as he’s realizing her cheese is sliding off her cracker. Cersei seems to feel that everything will be put to rights just because she’s planted her heinie on the Iron Throne.
By contrast, you can see Jaime’s military mind working as he’s looking at the map and explaining how the Lannisters have precious little hope of surviving at this point.
Yeah, the chamberpot scene went on a little too long. But I did get a laugh when I realized that this was being viewed by quite a few people at dinnertime!
I’m in the no-cameo camp. One of the primary reasons I enjoyed The Tudors & Band of Brothers so much was that I knew hardly any of the actors. Seeing actors that I’m familiar with makes it harder to see them completely as the character that they are portraying.
My biggest gripe with the episode was that there was a little too much suspension of belief. I can understand Arya wearing a mask, but how does she change her voice to replicate Frey’s voice? And how do Dany & crew make it all the way from the beach, scale the cliff, and make it all the way inside (while looking fresh)?
And shouldn’t Dany be focusing on a way to get her dragons to reproduce?
That kind of sci-fi explanation would be a bit out of place, I think. The seasons in Westeros are just magic, same as how Daenerys can survive being burnt, or dragons can fly and breathe fire, or the white walkers can raise the dead. Plus I doubt anyone in Westeros is familiar with the whole “Earth goes around the sun” concept, so such an explanation would probably be lost on them.
If the winter is “explained” at all, I expect at most it would just be something like “The Night’s King brings it, with magic”. But it’s probably just “That’s how nature works here, because magic.”
This idea, on the other hand, is brilliant and definitely needs to happen. 
Obligatory Simpsons link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVgVB3qsySQ
This may have been mentioned, but is it possible Sansa is pregnant by Ramsey? She mentioned that he made sure not to hurt her face, and it is winter so maybe that’s why she’s all bundled up all the time, but I was wondering last season if she may be hiding a pregnancy.
Put me in the Brienne/Tormund camp, and I would give Jaime’s remaining hand to see Lady Lyanna Mormont meet up with Arya and go on a road trip.