Boy, in this thread it pays to not be part of the tl;dr crowd!
Funny thing is that I believe that the overwhelming majority of what has been posted so far is correct even from opposing views. It's causing my brain to hurt.
At the beginning, I was taken in by the cute interactions among Emilia, Puck and Subaru and now continue to crave an occasional fix. Starting to wonder if this is such a "meat grinder" of a story that getting any further cute fixes will even be possible. (Not forgetting Rem and Ram of course.) GoT, indeed!