Flirting and teasing often go hand-in-hand. If you're not conventially attractive you're more likely to miss the flirtatious aspect because you're primed for humiliation, not propositions.

I wasn't really feeling it from her side. "If he touches my hair I'll call the police" doesn't sound promising.

Also, rather young. I'd like a couple where you can really assume that it's not gonna happen if it hasn't happened yet.

Cersei, pre-trauma-induced paranoia, but only if we have a common enemy.

Interesting analogy. The Hours had a gay BFF dying (suicide, I think, but he was terminally ill, IIRC) more or less in the service of a female character's storyline. I don't remember any repentance though.

Exactly. He goes with the flow, bidding his time, making it up as he goes. He's great at spotting opportunities, and he's bold enough to seize them, whenever they present themselves, but he's not necessarily preparing any contigency plans for all possible scenarios. Much of his mental agility is due to his willingless…

Agree very much about the tediousness of Floki''s sudden onset of jealousy - I get his resentments towards Athelstan, but he seemed to me above coveting Ragnar's social standing. What does Floki care about such wordly matters?

Well, multi-dimensionals characters with nuanced motivations on both sides of a conflict are a formula that never gets old for me, so my complaint in that case wouldn't be about a lack of novelty or something. But I'm not sure I'm quite understanding your comment, to be honest.

Someone else mentioned that a huge problem with Dany's storylines is that she often lacks well-developed foils to play off - we rarely get those charged stand-offs between larger than life characters that make King's Landing so much fun - so I really hope they'll continue to flesh out her entourage. I think this is…

Yeah, I love that song in all its corny, nakedly manipulative glory, mainly for the Mary Lambert vocals, and I'm glad to hear that some actually homosexual people can at least tolerate it too, because I was already starting to feel a bit bad about my fondness for it. I believe everyone who tells me that there are…

No risk no fun. Even greenlighting such a vast project, with all those expensive location shots, unprecedented need for CGI, an ever exploding ensemble, an ever exploding budget, based on a series of genre novels that aren't even finished yet, must have a been a huge gamble. I do wonder why it's always when it comes…

Yeah, I keep being baffled by people being baffled by female desire. I don't know why some people (not necessarily the OP, but others I have encountered in similar discussions) are so invested in this idea that women don't actually like sex/enjoy male bodies. (Of course I have my theories…). I keep getting told how…

Fine, Fox News might throw a tantrum, so what? (Although they would certainly make asses of themselves, after all the depictions of incest and torture and child abuse that apparently didn't merit explicit moral outrage). Do you think people would actually stop watching if we'd get Spartacus levels of man-ass? Some…

You mean the middle-aged female crowd that made fifty shades of grey a bestseller? If hubby can bear the embarrassment of oggling boobs next to his wife, why wouldn't she appreciate some well-framed butts and other… packages?

Jennifer Aniston. I'm serious. You'd have to pay me to watch most of her movies, but I really liked her in The Good Girl and Friends with Money.

Why would you think that discussions like this are about pity? For me it's a quite selfish disappointment about an artist's unrealized potential. I'm not worrying about anyone's financial future here, I just want to see everything the artist has to offer and I'm sad that they're holding back/no one has given them the…

I like Kirsten Dunst a lot, but I'm not sure I like her enough to stomach a Lars von Trier. Still, it's certainly a high profile role and suggests that she's doing quite well for herself.

It's quite quite possible that future generations in a post-patriarchal society will come to view these debates like we view pre-Nicaea Christians quarreling about the divinity of Christ and the date of Easter.

I can already see the gifsets of that scene with a "Surprise Bitch"-caption on tumblr.

That's because you're obviously not on livejournal and tumblr. Those gifsets of Hiddelston's showering scene in the Donmar Coriolanus production were inescapable for a while (not that I'd complain…..) And the obsession with paparazzi shots of Jon Hamm's often rather tight pants became so obnoxious that the actor…