He should retire to spend time with his family and recovering. The man is THE American hero. I can't think of anyone who has sacrificed more and dedicated his life to this country. Hopefully this tumor is treatable, but can an 80 year old survive chemo?  My best friend was 31 when he underwent chemo and was in amazing shape. It took everything from him. I can't imagine what'd it do to McCain.

If you guys all moved on, drop it. Otherwise this is going to turn into the politics thread and you'll be at each other's throats.

Bono hasn't posted in over 4 years. Let it go

My favorite book snob reviews episode 1   

Jump to 1:55 if you're interested

Pretty good episode, wish they'd cut the filler even more since they're only doing 7 episodes.  3 minutes of Sam emptying chamber pots, barfing, and serving food was a waste of screen time in my opinion.  The previews showed Nymeria, so I'm guessing after the talk of family with the Lannister Soldiers and finding Nymeria, that will change her course from King's Landing to Winterfell.  Does she even know Jon and Sansa are there?

Really liked the scene with the Hound.  It showed how much his character has changed and evolved.  Kudos to the actor.  Contrasted with Sansa questioning her "king" (you should be more like Joffrey and punish innocents who had no part in the act! [And what families helped out that should get the Umber and Karstark lands?  The only family that helped outside of the wildlings were the Mormonts with their 62 men.  I thought the North Remembers, but apparently shit that happened last season is too long ago]  Yes, I expect everyone to forget that I'm the one who told Cersei Ned planned to send me and Arya back to Winterfell which allowed her to murder my father!), telling him he's both a good ruler and stupid at the same time (Why don't you ask me for advice.  It's not like you did last season and I responded "i don't know" and hid an army of 5k men from your brother that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of wildlings who owed me nothing).

Cersei is still clueless.  Euron's fleet is worthless when Dany has 3 dragons that can perform air raids and Dany has 50k Dothraki plus 8k Unsullied and whatever houses quickly join her side (I don't know how many soldiers the Martell's and Tyrell's have).  It's almost as if they forgot Aegon the Conquerer took westeros with a lot less troops than Dany has now because dragons are like nukes.  Her best best is to beg for peace and hope she can return to Castelry Rock.  We know Cersei is a royal cunt, but I'm sure Dany can relate to a woman who was relegated to expensive chattle her entire life because she was a woman and whose family saw her as an expensive pawn to be given away.  The ironborne have raped and pillaged hundreds if not thousands of families.  The Martell's murdered their own kin for no other reason than a desire to rule.  If Dany can ally with them, she can hardly find Cersei a bridge too far.   I don't know what "gift" Euron has for her.  Jorah called Tyrion a "gift" in season 5, but I don't see how Euron can storm Dragonstone and capture Tyrion with 8k unsullied guards and 3 dragons that would roast his fleet before he even made it to shore.  So I'm guessing the "gift" is going to be the Sandsnakes, since they killed Myrcella. 

Really excited to see Bran explain what is going on to everyone and how he's going to explain his newfound abilities.

Questions I have:

1.)  Did Arya free her uncle?  In the last episode of season 6, Walder tells Jamie he put Edmure back in the dungeons after re-taking Riverrun.  With the Freys dead, Edmure can reclaim the riverlands and ally himself to Jon/Sansa and Dany. 

2.) Where the fuck is Ghost?

3.) Stannis told Sam in season 5 Dragonstone has dragon glass everywhere.  Why was it such a big deal when he saw it in a book?

4.) Where is Robin Arryn?  The Vale lords seem allied to Jon now, but that's kind of fucked to ignore their oaths to House Arryn and their own castles.  I hope this is explained.