“moderately severe body damage”

Sure. But it can also be both. I was looking forward to the Cersei and White Walkers threads being interwoven somehow, but it looks like the showrunners wanted to handle them piecemeal, which I don’t think is all that interesting. (At least the way it’s been done so far. I truly hope I’m mistaken.)

When I used to teach composition to (mostly) dopey college freshmen, one point I made frequently is that two people can come to the same conclusion in vastly different ways and for disparate reasons. (You know, so your writing needs to be a little more in-depth, kids.) Along those lines, I always enjoy it when I see…

Can you give a specific example of what you’re talking about? (I’m asking because I’m genuinely curious and giving you the benefit of the doubt.) Because the convention in writing of this sort—and of countless genres—is to write opinion as though it is fact. It’s tedious not to (think of undergrad papers whose every…

Talk about pretentious. Don’t start questions with prepositions. English is a germanic language, not a romance language, and even the wrong-headed 19th-century pedants who peddled the “put-prepositions-at-the-beginning” rule explicitly stated that the rule exists only for statements not questions. (btw, both Cambridge…

There isn’t a disconnect here; what’s really happening is akin to one high school being content with students receiving C grades and another, with perhaps higher standards, seeing that grade as rather disappointing.

FIVE STARS

I can understand where you’re coming from in questioning why such an apparent hater is writing recaps/reviews. (Such a dynamic seems necessary only when pretty much everyone hates the show and is along for the hatewatch ride; see “Dexter.”) However, your criticism about the child actor is off-base. McLevy is…