You know what movie surprisingly shows it’s age? Fight Club. Watching it again recently, I was struck by how perfectly it captured a very brief period in time that just doesn’t exist anymore. It’s probably best summed up in the following line:

If the rape is used *only* in service to further Theon’s character development, then yes, that’s bad... but I’m saying I predict both of them will see character development, we just won’t see hers until the next episode. Of course if it turns out that the rape brings no development or regression in her character arc…

So by ‘poorly set up and shot’ are you seriously trying to argue that they should have shown Sansa being raped? Because what I think you’re actually trying to say is ‘this scene made me uncomfortable and I think it was unnecessary’... and those are two VERY different arguments.

-You’re insinuation that this scene…

Sure you can. It just makes you look like an overreacting blowhard when the purpose of that scene becomes glaringly obvious in the next four episodes.

Would you like me to explain it? Because that requires bringing up some book shit, which most likely points to spoilers in the rest of the season. Still with me? Here we go:

So Sansa this season has taken the place of a fake Arya that was sent to the Bolton’s by Tywin Lannister in the books. This character, like Sansa,…

Up until this point, Theon has been a broken man who has unwavering loyalty to Rhansey, and Sansa has quietly been biding her time in the hopes that either Littlefinger or Stannis would show up (and beyond a very awkward dinner convo, she’s had next to no real experience in how evil Rhamsey reaslly is). With one…

You need to at least wait until the end of the season before making judgments about a scene’s necessity to the overall story arc. Clearly there have been countless scenes previously this season that played major parts down the line (Loras’ birthmark shaped like Dorne comes to mind, or the several offhand comments…

I have absolutely zero fucks to give for this verdict... and the schadenfreude around the fact that Pharrell and Robin Thicke sued Marvin Gaye first, and had it blow up in their faces, is AMAZING. But really- the assertion that this is somehow going to change the music industry is incredibly laughable; Artists have…

When I was in second grade, during one particular arts and crafts time we got to use fabric and glitter paint to decorate some small stuffed bears. At the time I was very heavily into ninjas, and decided to make a ninja bear; to finish it off, I wanted to decorate his chest with some sort of gibberish Japanese…

One ball could have been left properly inflated on the off chance that the NFL required them to turn one in for inspection. If that's the case, the NFL should be looking for some sort of unique mark on that particular ball- which would have been placed there so someone could quickly tell it apart from the…

Sure, temperature could bring down the psi... But if that's the case, why wasn't every ball uniformly low by 2 psi? We know they were all blown up at the same time at the same temperature, so it seems rather odd that all but one ball went down.

Dammit! I literally bought that iOttie Easy Flex 3 car mount on Amazon last night for $19.99. Can I do anything about it now? Pretty sure return shipping would negate the savings of ordering it again at a cheaper price and returning the first one.

Dammit! I literally bought that iOttie Easy Flex 3 car mount on Amazon last night for $19.99. Can I do anything…

When I see something like this, I have to roll my eyes and think of my friend Jamie. Jamie worked at a corporate job and dated women until he was in his mid thirties... at which point he had a existential crisis, which lead to his coming out as gay, changing his career to counseling and public health, volunteering…

Wait, you skip the opening credits? Maybe it's just my viewing group, but we love watching for new fortress/town models that pop up depending on where that particular episode takes place. (I think one of my favorites is Braavos, because it sort of looks like that game Mouse Trap from when I was a kid.)

Buchanan would be a bit thrown by the use of the word 'gay' for anything other than happy, then would invariably cruise the guy in the bathroom later.

I had a friend in Seattle who lived in the "Capitol Hill Massacre" house, and it always felt a little odd and creepy to sit on the porch and smoke cigarettes right where so many people had been shot dead. (All of the inhabitants of the house knew about the backstory, and none seemed to mind, to my knowledge).

Ben Cohen, who used to play for the England national team. A quick google search shows that he enjoys taking pictures in his underwear.

And of course, who could hate on rugby shorts?

I think this disparity in her character springs from the fact that she has been purposefully fleshed out and made more sympathetic by the show because the writers wanted Sibel Kekilli to have a more prominent role. In the book she has no such devotion to Tyrion, and never declares her love for him at any time, nor…

"I don't mind them having the option to have a gay relationship, that's not the problem here."