My heart breaks for Viscerys. He doesn't deserve my empathy, but as an eldest child myself I can only imagine what he must've gone thru.

In a world like this that's such a shock. I wonder if "beggar king" has more than one meaning.

The beggar king is such an apt name for him. It's interesting that at this point in the story Dany says they have almost no money to their name...yet she remains a virgin for her wedding night.

He's a mean paranoid, unjust, delusional and vicious bully. I'd die for him.

The description of the helpless pups is a good allegory for how innocent and defenseless the Stark children start out themselves. All of them except Jon who as a bastard was born with his eyes open, like his albino wolf pup.

I love the scene with the pups tho. The antler in the wolf's throat. The albino wolf for Jon. Theon being such an ASS. Iconic stuff.

Alas it doesn't matter now...of course they all die. Wyll was so determined to get back to Commander Mormont and tell him what happened to. What would've happened if he had? Probably not much, but Wyll deserved better that a wrights fate.

There is no shame in running and living on to fight another day. Not in the Nights Watch!

But for the LOVE of the Old Gods this is the NORTH not the Arye. And this is not the time to be prideful.

Not to say that Royce's instincts weren't correct here. The death of the IS suspicious and it is his first ranging, he wouldn't want to return to the wall with no info

Of course no one listens to me. I forgot that they leave the old ranger behind and he is the only survivor of this encounter.

The anxiety I feel about the dead wildling is palpable, I want to shout through my headphones that theyre dead! Run away! Don't go near them!!