A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

They mentioned after that lance was stopped by the mail. Or rather push the mail into the wound. He wasn't outright kebabied.

The real change in modern times is less infection risk because of antibiotics.

I was wondering where I'd seen the actress Chloe Lea who played Rafe before - she was one of the Bene Gesserit sisters in Dune Prophecy. Seems to be from Manchester, and her accent wandered around Ireland alright.

Not unlike opium derivatives were up to the early 20th century.

With a young Robert Baratheon when he was still a squire.

Are you talking about the books or the TV series? There were little or no graphic rape scenes in the GoT TV series despite all the hysterics about the levels of sexual violence in it. There was a lot suggested and talked about but nothing compared to some scenes we've seen in movies and other TV series like the Sopranos (Dr. Melfi's rape scene in the Sopranos was the most disturbing I've ever seen.) Sansa Stark's wedding night rape by Ramsay Bolton, for example, was all suggestion - the camera turns away and the scene fades out before anything really disturbing is seen. Daenery's wedding night rape by Cal Drogo was about as strong as it got.

Milk of the poppy is an opiate, as mentioned. They also have a form of antibiotics. Open wounds are packed with mouldy bread - our first antibiotics being derived from bread mould. It's obviously not explore in detail, and is basically science fiction, but it goes towards explaining the better medical treatment in ASOIAF vrs our medieval times.

This Dragon Throne show sounds very rough but House of the Dragon was even milder from what I remember. A bit of gore but the nudity and sexual violence is practically non existent.

House of the Dragon which has been famously criticised for its lack of action and being all talk and courtroom plot.

But I suppose when you are commenting on a show you barely watched and can't even remember the name of we shouldn't be expecting insightful analysis.

Good series overall. I think the absolut worst thing they could do is give it a bigger budget, the stories need to stay small.

Bravo. What a thoroughly enjoyable season of television.

The finale served as a great epilogue to last week's battle.

The whole show balances tone really well, with Dunk's earnestness suiting lighter more humorous conversations with Egg, Lyonel and Raymun as well as it does in more formal interactions with Baelor & Maekar throughout the season. All of Maekar's scenes in this episode were brilliant actually. The blink and you'll miss it post-credit scene being the perfect conclusion. Egg, you rascal!

And a fitting farewell to Ser Arlen.

If they can deliver six episode seasons of that quality each year, I'll mark my calendar and count down the days happily.