Ser Davos is simply the best character on this show. The man is a fing Saint
^ And he was finally on the winning side of a battle, although I guess he was also on the winning side when Stannis saved the NW from the wildlings.
That worried me when I put that together because Arya likely wants to kill Jaime even if he isn’t on her official hit list. Too bad since, given his story arch, Jaime is actually one of the better guys in Westeros.
^ I’m thinking that Jaime will kill Cersei right before Arya intends to and Arya will end up killing him.
I definitely noticed that Arya with her face on was the girl that Jamie and Bronn were talking about. What I didn’t connect until now was the idea that “she can’t stop looking at you [Jamie],” was her probably calculating whether she should try to kill him, too (just because at the time, I didn’t know it was Arya and hadn’t stopped to think about it until now).
I wonder if there’s a rule about “one face, one gift/kill.” Or maybe she just thought her cover would be blown if she killed Jamie before getting her shot at Walder, who was clearly the higher-priority target.
Three side points:
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Jamie sure got back to King’s Landing fast after leaving Riverrun – isn’t it supposed to be way far away?
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Lucky for Jamie he got back to KL AFTER Cersei blew up the great sept. Otherwise he’d likely be in there too (albeit rooting for his sister).
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I still love listinging to all the names of Walder Frey’s children when he lists them… He loves the sound of his own name so much…
Additional point: It does seem that the Red God is the only God with actual power. The Seven don’t seem to have done anything remotely close to what the Red God can do (or anything at all, really)
Final point: Season 6 had only one short scene with the hot new Red Priestess. I’m totally bummed. 
Any book readers got an insight on Gendry? Was he as an important a character in the books?
Gendry was not really that important in the books. He lives a quiet happy life smithing for someone. That, or he was hanged by the Brotherhood Without Banners for working with the Lannisters.
Travel time in the show is way out of whack, though it has to be to tell the storylines. The speed for which the Greyjoys made it to Meereen is astonishing. Thousands of leagues by way of ship. Months would have had past. Perhaps the time did actually pass, but the show did a poor job of acknowledging it. See link above.
Jaime may not be on her list. In the books he’s one of the architects of the RW while on the show he’s a bystander.
The show’s excecutives have acknowledged the time discrepencies and basically said that viewers should just look past them unless they enjoy watching people sitting on ships for several episodes in a row.
I read a blog the other day that made a pretty hysterical point about people flipping their lids over the time discrepancies. We’re cool with dragons, ice zombies, face changers, resurrections, etc. but god forbid Varys is in Dorne and then back in Mereen in subsequent scenes 
Well duh, all those other things are real.
Well, I can deal with time dialation up to a certain extent. But it’s hard to keep track of which stories are happening at the same time, and suddenly you have to reframe things and say “Ah, so that previous scene probably happened a week before this current scene,” which is more confusing than saying “Ah, ok, so there are dragons in this world, and Winter is many years.”
For example Jamie was shown in Riverrun after the scene with the explosion of the great sept, but happens to be back in King’s Landing by early evening when Cersei crowns herself on the Iron throne?? Heck, I’m not sure he can get from Philly to Cleveland by air that fast.
It’s less that I want to watch people on ships for episode after episode (I didn’t have too much of an issue with Yara’s travels), but that it becomes really confusing to figure out what is supposed to be happening at what time, and when people might know what, etc.
The travel time has bugged me a bit. Varys seems to travel at Mach 3 and I guess the Vale is now 300 and not 3000 miles away from Winterfell, but oh well.