I'm not sure I like these new Stannis developments. It looks to me that his daughter's face is more scaly than burnt, which means that either there is something about Dragonstone making some people like dragons, or there is experimentation going on there that we have yet to find out about. My guess is the latter, and that something involving Stannis and co is trying to create new dragons the way that Targaryens are dragons.

If that's a fire burn, it's a weird one.

This episode had two good examples of why so many characters is a problem. 1) Olenna assumed Tyrion is a drunkard and degenerate. This aspect of Tyrion has been suggested through the show, but it hasn't been demonstrated because there is too little time, so they end up only showing the good side of Tyrion. To us, Tyrion seems like a perfectly awesome dude, but according to the subtext of the show, everybody has a reason to think he's otherwise. 2) Along similar lines, the contrast between Kingslayer and Jaime is lacking. The show never actually explained why Jaime being the Kingslayer is a bad thing, and we're left to assume the label isn't derisive. But that clashes with how the show also has characters use it derisively. There has not been enough screen time with Jaime to demonstrate that even though what he did seemed like the most reasonably just thing ever, nobody else saw it that way.

Also, Meera Reed, Meeran Reed, Mojo Reed, or whatever her name is was introduced like three episodes ago yet only has had one line since. This shit is bananas and Hound needs to go on a rampage and kill half the characters so the show can finally dig into them appropriately. I am worried that a fundamental flaw of GoT will be a lack of character development. So far, none of the characters come remotely close to as great as the GOATs: Brother Justin, Lucius Vorenus, Omar, Bubbs, etc.

As an inveterate classifier of cinema, I don't know how bad my reaction will be if GoT ends up making awful decisions like not vastly expounding on Jaqen, much less just having him return in the first place. There were already too many characters by the time he showed up, but he is so fucking awesome that it's a sin to not spend a lot of time on him